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(Date Posted:04/02/2003 09:06:42)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2910849.stm

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(Date Posted:04/03/2003 03:08:12)

WOW...that's a big squid. 

thanks for the article.  i'm a geek who's been facinated by giant squids ever since i was a kid...they're just damn cool. 

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(Date Posted:04/03/2003 09:28:12)

See, and all I can think about is how much sushi the thing would make!

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(Date Posted:04/03/2003 11:51:59)

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(Date Posted:04/04/2003 02:19:57)

what amazes me is the idea that something THAT SIZE actually is swimming around out there somewhere in the depths of the ocean. to actually encounter one full grown, alive and in the wild would just be fantastic.
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(Date Posted:04/04/2003 03:01:13)

Yes, but if you were in the water with it, it might well be the last thing you ever saw.

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(Date Posted:04/04/2003 03:35:01)

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Yes, but if you were in the water with it, it might well be the last thing you ever saw.




hahaha...yes, i can just see it now:

"hey, dude, check out that cool looking..."

*CHOMP*

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(Date Posted:04/04/2003 07:10:07)

As a kid I remember reading that sperm whales eat these things.  Back then the only proof they had of their existence were the scars of the sucker wounds on the sperm whale.

I also remember the scene in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but I don't think the Nautilus ever made it into cold enough water.

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Student to Harvey Pekar: "It"s hard enough trying to convince people that socialism is a good thing without basing your argument on some abstract theory of human nature. Plato tried and failed. Fourier tried and failed. Marx tried and failed. Sartre tried and failed."

Harvey Pekar: "Well maybe I c"n learn from their mistakes."
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(Date Posted:04/04/2003 07:20:39)

I bet they're scary-ass critters when in their own element.  The ones you see lying on the dissecting tables are not being buoyed or inflated by water.  I bet they look awesome all blown up and alive, their tentacles waving in the water.  Too cool.

Interestingly, cephalopods like squid and octopi--especially octopi--are rather intelligent and have excellent color eyesight.

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And they may not want it to end
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I've lived long enough to have learned
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It's hard when you're always afraid
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