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Old 02-27-2007, 08:31 AM   #1
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February 27, 2007: Psychedelic octopus



You haven't seen this beast before -- it's new, or at least, new to us.

LiveScience has the full story and several other images. To sum up:

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica is breaking up, a result of global warming. Two years ago, a sector of it the size of Rhode Island collapsed. Ocean that had been covered with ice 220 metres thick, for 12000 years... was suddenly open sea.

This gave researchers the chance to investigate a huge area of the earth that they couldn't really look at before. First, they found crabs attached to methane gas vents... something you figure I must have made up, but no, there they are.

See, even if it's mind-boggling, nobody is going to drill through 220M of ice just to study methane-eating clams.

But now, without all that ice to contend with, they've found 1000 species there, 30 of which are previously unknown to us. This freaky octopus is one of the new creatures.

They figure most of the species had been there all along, with a few beasts moving in to take advantage of the new conditions.

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Old 02-27-2007, 08:37 AM   #2
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I guess this will at least give us a more complete list of all the animals we will be killing off thanks to global warming.
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Old 02-27-2007, 08:40 AM   #3
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I waited too long to be punny on the last few IOtDs...I won't make that mistake again.

This octopus has the right to bear arms. He's blind, and his octomologist has been unable to help, except to prescribe some medicinal coral reefer to help ease the pain. But don't let his disabilities fool you, he's a genus, that Octopus.

Aw crap, forget it...Sheldon? Help me out!
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Old 02-27-2007, 08:57 AM   #4
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Aw crap, forget it...Sheldon? Help me out!
I would but psychiatry is not my forte. hehehe
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Old 02-27-2007, 09:01 AM   #5
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Aw man, ya hurt me, Shel...after all those nice things I said about you.
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Old 02-27-2007, 09:13 AM   #6
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Aw man, ya hurt me, Shel...after all those nice things I said about you.

I'm Jewish and I grew up in NJ. I'm immune to guilt. :-D
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Old 02-27-2007, 09:19 AM   #7
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I'm with Sheldonrs. Sad and troubling that it took the destruction of something in order for us to discover something new that might just die because we discovered it.
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Old 02-27-2007, 09:32 AM   #8
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I'm Jewish and I grew up in NJ. I'm immune to guilt. :-D
I was raised Catholic...chock full of guilt with a smidgen of alcohol.

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Old 02-27-2007, 09:39 AM   #9
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lash it down with some seaweed on a lump of sticky rice and sell it for large amounts of Yen in Tokyo.
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Old 02-27-2007, 09:55 AM   #10
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I'm Jewish and I grew up in NJ.
Really? It's very possible I'm in love with you then.
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Old 02-27-2007, 09:58 AM   #11
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Oh,yeah. That octopus is gross.
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Old 02-27-2007, 10:38 AM   #12
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Really? It's very possible I'm in love with you then.
Marry me! It's difficult to find a woman who can love a gay man unless her name is Liza. :-)
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Old 02-27-2007, 10:42 AM   #13
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Looks like a Protoss, no?

Maybe I'm just a StarCraft geek.
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Old 02-27-2007, 11:19 AM   #14
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no jokes about the fart eating crabs!? i'm outta here!
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