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