From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 13:43:47 MST
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:13, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> 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...
### This brings to my mind haunting images of a ship, slowly sinking
through the abyss, the bodies of brave sailors still tangled in the
rigging, illuminated by flashes of cyan bioluminescence, vicious
tentacled shapes tearing at the flesh....
Brrrrr.....
Rafal
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