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Title: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 11:10:26 AM
Well this is fucking awesome. My apologies if someone has alreadly linked to it.

Footage of Giant Squid in its natural habitat, filmed for the first time:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/09/remarkable-new-giant-squid-footage-surprises-experts

What can one say other than  :cthulu: ? ;)
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: lustindarkness on January 10, 2013, 11:15:25 AM
Quote from: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 11:10:26 AM
Well this is fucking awesome. My apologies if someone has alreadly linked to it.

Footage of Giant Squid in its natural habitat, filmed for the first time:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/09/remarkable-new-giant-squid-footage-surprises-experts

What can one say other than  :cthulu: ? ;)

Very cool, but I thought they had filmed one some years ago? Anyway :cthulu:.
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 11:21:05 AM
Quote from: lustindarkness on January 10, 2013, 11:15:25 AM

Very cool, but I thought they had filmed one some years ago? Anyway :cthulu:.

I seem to recall they filmed another very large species of squid, but not the Giant Squid.
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: lustindarkness on January 10, 2013, 11:23:30 AM
I can't see video from work, but pics online seems it was a pretty big one. Big enough to make it hard to fry it up. :mmm:
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 11:42:13 AM
As reviewed in the scientific paper: "Giant Squid: Avatar of Cthulhu or Lifetime Supply of Calamari?"  :P
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: Tamas on January 10, 2013, 12:22:06 PM
Quote"Discoveries are difficult to make in a remote environment like this. It's the largest living space on Earth, but the things in it are pretty spread out," he says. Squid are also notoriously shy, and will bolt if exposed to unnatural light.

Maybe they remember:

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi0.kym-cdn.com%2Fphotos%2Fimages%2Foriginal%2F000%2F183%2F103%2Falens.jpg%3F1318992465&hash=b16d340809bab845562d3c8d9d362e3820169b96)
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: jimmy olsen on January 10, 2013, 12:26:36 PM
Looks pretty awesome, hopefully this documentary can live up to the famed documentaries Animal Planet did on Dragons and Mermaids.
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 10, 2013, 12:29:27 PM
Quote from: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 11:42:13 AM
Lifetime Supply of Calamari?"  :P

Sadly not.
Quotejust don't expect to be eating giant squid calamari: Widder says its body contains too much ammonia to be edible.
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 01:08:41 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 10, 2013, 12:26:36 PM
Looks pretty awesome, hopefully this documentary can live up to the famed documentaries Animal Planet did on Dragons and Mermaids.

Giant Squid are rather better documentary subjects, being real and all.  ;)
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: Viking on January 10, 2013, 02:34:51 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 10, 2013, 12:29:27 PM
Quote from: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 11:42:13 AM
Lifetime Supply of Calamari?"  :P

Sadly not.
Quotejust don't expect to be eating giant squid calamari: Widder says its body contains too much ammonia to be edible.

Like the greenland shark, have it rot for a few months and it will be edible.
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 02:40:06 PM
Quote from: Viking on January 10, 2013, 02:34:51 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 10, 2013, 12:29:27 PM
Quote from: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 11:42:13 AM
Lifetime Supply of Calamari?"  :P

Sadly not.
Quotejust don't expect to be eating giant squid calamari: Widder says its body contains too much ammonia to be edible.

Like the greenland shark, have it rot for a few months and it will be edible.

For certain values of "edible".  :yeahright:
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: viper37 on January 10, 2013, 02:43:50 PM
Quote from: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 11:10:26 AM
Well this is fucking awesome. My apologies if someone has alreadly linked to it.

Footage of Giant Squid in its natural habitat, filmed for the first time:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/09/remarkable-new-giant-squid-footage-surprises-experts

What can one say other than  :cthulu: ? ;)
that picture at the top makes it look like a Reaper from Mass Effect :)
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: jimmy olsen on January 10, 2013, 02:45:56 PM
Quote from: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 01:08:41 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 10, 2013, 12:26:36 PM
Looks pretty awesome, hopefully this documentary can live up to the famed documentaries Animal Planet did on Dragons and Mermaids.

Giant Squid are rather better documentary subjects, being real and all.  ;)
Animal Planet would never lie to me!

I hope they do a documentary on Griffins next.
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: lustindarkness on January 10, 2013, 03:21:11 PM
Dragons, Mermaids, Big Foot and the Turtle Man from KY are real.
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: jimmy olsen on January 10, 2013, 03:38:30 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on January 10, 2013, 03:21:11 PM
Dragons, Mermaids, Big Foot and the Turtle Man from KY are real.
I've never heard of this one.
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: Malthus on January 10, 2013, 03:40:08 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 10, 2013, 03:38:30 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on January 10, 2013, 03:21:11 PM
Dragons, Mermaids, Big Foot and the Turtle Man from KY are real.
I've never heard of this one.

Like the tooth fairy, only for anal sex.
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: lustindarkness on January 10, 2013, 04:20:47 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 10, 2013, 03:38:30 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on January 10, 2013, 03:21:11 PM
Dragons, Mermaids, Big Foot and the Turtle Man from KY are real.
I've never heard of this one.
Another animal planet show.
Title: Re: Giant Squid - Filmed Alive
Post by: FunkMonk on January 10, 2013, 04:27:44 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on January 10, 2013, 03:21:11 PM
Dragons, Mermaids, Big Foot and the Turtle Man from KY are real.

You forgot the Lizard Man from South Carolina.