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Now that's alien intelligence:
The she-cephalopod was filmed by the Blue Planet II crew as they were exploring the inky depths in South Africa, focusing on the magical world of marine forests. As series producer Mark Brownlow explains, "We may think of our ocean's as blue but there is another surprising world of the Green Seas. From towering undersea forests of giant kelp to vast prairies of sea grass, this is an almost Brothers Grimm fairy tale of all the strange and magical creatures that live within these secret worlds. Here sea dragons lurk, bizarre giant cuttlefish breed, and an ingenious octopus outwits a forest full of sharks."
Our tale of clever derring-do begins when a hungry pyjama shark goes to attack the octopus, who quickly inserts its tentacles into the shark's gills in an effort to suffocate it. Shark lets go; octopus skedaddles.
But then she does something truly remarkable, and something never before seen (by humans, at least). As the show's narrator, Sir David Attenborough, says: "The octopus is far from finished."
Caught in the open, she scrambles to the seafloor, attaches shells to her body with her suckers, and rolls up into a beautiful mosaic ball. The shark is left confused and by the time it seems to figure out what is going on, the octopus darts away, leaving the shark looking for her in the scattered detritus of her ersatz armor.
Clever. Maybe we should try teaching octopi sign language, as as we have other species.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 29 2017, @10:50PM (6 children)
I have given up vegetables. jmorris has had to swear off of bags of hammers.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday November 30 2017, @05:43AM (5 children)
Flamebait? jmorris is dumber than a bag of hammers. So he no longer eats bags of hammers. I fail to see the flamebaitiness of this post. Please, oh anonymous Soylentil who deemed this post to be flamebait, justify your decision. Expose your reasoning to the light of public opinion. Make your insight available to all and sundry! We want to know! Inform us, oh enlightened one! How is this Flamebait?
Actually, I expect no response. I expect it was jmorris himself, in his mother's basement, although no one has actually seen his mother in nigh these nine years, but the tax bill is still in her name, and she still claims jmorris as a dependant on her tax returns. OMG, are you thinking what I am thinking? Bates Motel, vacancy, you firken bucket flamebaiter, you!
Here, here is a flaming bag of hammers. Bite it. You know you want to. Just go ahead. Bite. Worry about the consequences later, it is like a Trump tax cut plan: you don't have to be stupid to buy it, but it certainly helps. Bag'o'Hammers, the very best Hammers. These Hammers will make America Grate Again, in the hands of Mexican construction workers, who actually know what they are doing. So flame on, anonymous Soylentil. You have just made this site less than what it could be. You are making it TMB territory, right-wing nut-jobs, with no jobs, and seriously, no wings! So let's just invoke Paul MacCartney, and say, "Imagine".
Sincere apologies to John Lennon.
And, I think we need more posts demanding justifications for modding. I, for one, always down-mod Runaway, because he is a hillbilly. Of course, lately, he appears to be a rational human being, so this just goes to show, you should never pre-emptively down-mod someone, unless, or course, you find them trying to scarf down a bag of hammers. Bad jmorris!!! Bad! No hammers for you, jmorris! Back to making big rocks into little rocks (OMG, did I just intimate that jmorris is actually a guest of the US Department of Justice? No such implication was intended, but of course, that does not mean it is not true!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 01 2017, @03:27PM (4 children)
Moderated troll, because troll. Partisan sniping is troll work, done by trolls, who live under troll bridges, and seldom come out in the light of day.
(Score: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Friday December 01 2017, @04:19PM (3 children)
Partisan? I said nothing about Macron!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday December 02 2017, @06:21AM (2 children)
Partisan? But I said nothing about Merkel! (As, you less than intellectually gifted AC can tell, we can keep this up for quite some world leaders.) Give up, do you my young Paduwan?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 02 2017, @06:23AM (1 child)
Fucking Americans, they can never ever sort anything out except in relation to their own interests, or if Roy Moore is picking up on the "barely illegal?" pountang in the Malls of Alabama.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday December 02 2017, @06:40AM
And where are our "cuckservatives" on these topics? jmorris says nothing. khallow was busy beaning off on the Vienna Circle. And frojack, where was forjack? Is this even a question? So here we are, turns out octopodes are smarter than Republicans, which was no great surprise to anyone with half a brain. And yet the developmentally disabled Soylentils go all down modding? Think, before you mod! It is kind of an allegory to "think, before you grab pussy", although, I have to say, as someone who has actually grabbed jmorris's pussy: just, don't. Not worth it. Does not even validate him as a trans, and certainly not as just regular gay. Eight tentacles, and jmorris has nothing to attach is suckers to. Sad.