Comments on: Alien octopus?

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:42:25 +0000

Ediacaran fauna, Precambrian 600 million years “truly alien amimals” starting out in England then to Australia, before the Cambrian Explosion

om:

The Cambrian Explosion was a marvelous vintage too. Here’s “Hallucigenia,” a weird spiky-looking creature, whose name warms my ex-hippie heart:

–“The Cambrian Explosion’s Strange-Looking Poster Child”
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/science/hallucigenia-cambrian-explosions-strange-looking-poster-child.html

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:08:35 +0000

Michael Crichton used the blue ringed octopus as a murder weapon in his book State of Fear. We lost a lot when he died.

Mr. Bill:

Agreed.

I believe Crichton near-singlehandedly turned the tide on Climate Change in the last high-stakes public debate, which took place in 2007. The majority of the audience was pro-Climate Change going in and skeptic-Climate Change going out.

Since then the Climate Change mob has refused to debate their cause in a public forum and has moved to censoring, canceling, deplatforming and “denier” name-calling instead.

–IQ2, “Global Warming Debate – Michael Crichton”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzTPPl05Wok

–IQ2 debate web page
https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debate/global-warming-not-crisis/#/

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:42:59 +0000

PBS had a series, I think it was PBS, about what happens if the H. Sap line goes extinct about this time–technologically speaking and such.
A number of pieces. Turns out the next intelligent taking over H. Sap’s place will be evolved octopi.
Didn’t guy some of their intervening steps, but it was interesting.

By: Mr Bill

Mr Bill — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 02:29:29 +0000

Huxley: Michael Crichton used the blue ringed octopus as a murder weapon in his book State of Fear. We lost a lot when he died.

By: TR

TR — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 19:17:02 +0000

*Like

By: Cappy

Cappy — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:37:23 +0000

Like if you knew this all along.

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:54:27 +0000

I suppose Wells is excusing his lack of comments with the old ” I’ve been dead for 76 years ” ploy.

How like him.

By: om

om — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:16:40 +0000

huxley:

Ediacaran fauna, Precambrian 600 million years “truly alien amimals” starting out in England then to Australia, before the Cambrian Explosion.

Were These The First Animals? – History of the Earth

https://youtu.be/Spk0edEuNbQ

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:36:23 +0000

I saw the title of this post and thought “I bet the comments jumped to Cthulhu right away.” But y’all surprised me.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cthulhu&iax=images&ia=images

If that link doesn’t work just do an image search for Cthulhu with your tool of choice.

By: TR

TR — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:09:46 +0000

Here’s a song that mentions the blue ringed octopus:

It is, “Deadly Animals (Come to Australia)” by The Scared Weird Little Guys.

( ***Warnings***- there are pictures of snake bites/snake bite-type infections in this video, + a video clip of a killer-whale fighting a seal(?) in this video. Please don’t view this video, if those images are upsetting to you.)

Here is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_TB6onHVE