Re: Fierce man-eating squids (really!)

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 12:13:28 MST

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    Now, now now Amara just because you live in Italy and
    things like Squid and Octopi are big on the menu there
    doesn't mean you have to go promoting a "colossal" story
    about a colossal squid. I thought the BBC story was a
    little more balanced:
      http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2910849.stm

    They at least didn't inflate it into "man-eating" --
    the squid would probably not survive the decompression
    to surface pressures and men certainly wouldn't survive
    compression to the depths it is likely to live at.
    So it seems to be a remote risk unless you happen to
    be reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea...

    But it does bring up some interesting possibilities for
    Extro13 -- you can (a) be teleported; (b) have your arm
    broken 10 times; or (c) climb into the tank with a live
    Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni and see how it goes...

    Its becoming clear to me that future Extro conferences are
    going to get a *lot* more entertaining.

    :-;
    R.

    On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Amara Graps wrote:

    > Now this will set your imagination on fire....
    >
    > Fierce man-eating squid discovered
    > http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2375953a11,00.html



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