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from the touched-by-his-noodly-appendage dept.
Actually, "it" (the bizarre-looking creature) is Bathyphysa conifer, a deep-sea critter that was recently seen swimming off the coast of Angola. Workers at the oil and gas company BP videotaped this strange-looking animal while collecting video footage some 4,000 feet (1,220 meters) under the sea with a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV). Not knowing what the noodle-armed creature was, the BP crewmembers named it after what they thought it most resembled: the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Similar to corals, the spaghettilike B. conifer is made up of many different multicellular organisms known as zooids. These organisms are a lot like regular, solitary animals, except that they're attached to other zooids, forming a more complex organism. One zooid, developed from a fertilized egg, starts the process, and then other zooids bud from the original zooid until a whole animal is formed, according to the siphonophore website.
The implications for Pastafarianism are staggering.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by davester666 on Sunday August 16 2015, @06:46AM
Proof that god exists and doesn't want to hang around with us.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2015, @08:00AM
Nobody wants to hang around with God except God. How else do you explain the Trinity? The Big Guy was so lonely He had to split Himself in three because nobody would talk to Him. Makes sense too because He was always judging people and smiting them and banishing His own Angels to Hell and generally being a Huge Dick.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2015, @04:49PM
technically speaking noone could ever be near enough to hang out with god, because being close enough to hear meant that the thing has consumed you and integrated your data in its systems... Thats why God has an interface, called Metatron. It allowed to hang out with god without merging with it, according to jewish mystical/verrry early christian doctrine, at least. Sadly no holy book defines the API specification for calling Metatron... Personally, i believe its because God licensed it from some other deity and the license is non-transferrable?