Bloody 'ell!

[Mad Doug Biker]

..... Would you look at this thing!:

http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/an-amazing-image-of-the-elusive-big-fin-squid/

 

[Biker Joe]

Very alien looking. I wonder what planet that came from

 

[Beebo]

Looks like an alien puppet on a string.

 

[hopless500]

Martian

 

[swee'pea99]

Basingstoke.

 

[hopless500]

Basingstoke.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

More here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnapinna

 

[Ganymede]

Thanks for posting it MDB. It is utterly marvellous.

 

[Davidc]

I wonder what it tastes like?

 

[Ganymede]

I wonder what it tastes like?

Whatever it tasted like, I'd be allergic to it

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

This is a post about the new Doctor Who series, right? The Planet of the Marionetters.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I wonder what it tastes like?

Quite honestly I don't care, I'd rather they learn more about the species than munching on them. With more being known about the surface of the moon than of the Oceans, I do wonder what else is down there, waiting to be discovered/caught on camera for the first time, etc etc.

Failing that, rubber probably (providing it is cooked wrongly like Squid almost always is ).

 

[Pale Rider]

Failing that, rubber probably (providing it is cooked wrongly like Squid almost always is ).

Hence the old joke:

Customer to Japanese waiter: "This squid is rubbery."

Waiter: "Flank you, I'll pass your compliments to the chef."

 

[Ganymede]

With more being known about the surface of the moon than of the Oceans, I do wonder what else is down there, waiting to be discovered/caught on camera for the first time, etc etc.

I went to the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum a few years ago - they used to do these free tours with only 6 people on them, though I believe it's changed a lot now. Anyway, rows and rows and rows and rows and rows and rows of little jars of formaldehyde with so many as-yet-unnamed species in them, all from the deep ocean. It really is like another planet's worth down there.

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific -

...only with more formaldehyde. They have to have a special ventilation system to prevent the staff getting drunk on the vapours.

I would love to have a go on one of them there deep-sea submersibles. A bit terrifying though.

 

[152l2]

& chips.