Friday Cephalopod: that gentle touch

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   Cuttlefish

   15 June 2012 at 2:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   The stuff of nightmares.

   Well, mine, anyway.

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   scottruplin

   15 June 2012 at 3:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Wow – very HP Lovecraft indeed!!

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   upagainsttheropes

   15 June 2012 at 4:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   thanks for naming my new indie band

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   Kamaka

   15 June 2012 at 5:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   You’re gonna call your band “the Johnsen Lab”?

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   carpenterman

   15 June 2012 at 6:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   My rational mind never ceases to be amazed by the incredible diversity of life on our planet, and to feel thrilled to be a small part of it. It is awe-inspiring.
   The other 97% of me is screaming “AAAHHHHHH!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT??!! KILL IT!!! DON’T LET IT ON LAND!!! AAAHHH!!!”
   I’m going to go look at Greta Christina’s kittens.

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   Nerdette

   15 June 2012 at 7:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I’m a little confused about what I am seeing here… Is that one limb of many? Is that greater bulbous shadow in the background the greater body? What is going on?!

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   Kamaka

   15 June 2012 at 8:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Is that one limb of many?

   Yup. One of eight.

   Here’s a pic of a whole one.

   http://www.tonmo.com/science/public/vampyroteuthis.php

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   Artor

   15 June 2012 at 8:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That looks like the tentacle of a vampire squid. I didn’t realize they had suckers too, I thought they just had the fingers on their tentacles. Maybe they’re spawn of Cthulhu or something.

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   Dubravko J.

   15 June 2012 at 11:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   When have the aliens landed and why did no one tell me? :O

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    Zeno

    16 June 2012 at 12:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    The right-wing loonies at Free Republic are “freeping” a Washington Post poll on the president’s conditional anti-deportation order for non-citizens who were brought to this country as children. The opposition vote is currently beating the support vote 66% to 34%, but the total raw vote is still below 3500. Should we help out a little and cast votes of our own? A few more Yes votes would be nice.

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    someclone

    16 June 2012 at 1:16 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Anyone remember a recent article about a study on the differences between how and why atheists and theists get angry in debates? I can’t seem to find it, and I need it to shut up a smug theist. Basically what I remember is that theists get angry in debates because their beliefs and their basic intelligence are being challenged, while atheists tend to react with frustration over explaining the same basic arguments over and over again to people not interested in learning. Or am I just lost in my own little delusional world?

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    Gnumann

    16 June 2012 at 5:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    What? No spines on the suckers?

    It’s just a little softie really…

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    CompulsoryAccount7746, Sky Captain

    16 June 2012 at 7:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    @someclone #11:

    Anyone remember a recent article about a study on the differences between how and why atheists and theists get angry in debates?

    That does sound interesting.
     
    Maybe on Epiphenom?
    http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/

    I can’t vouch for quality, but it aggregates those sorts of studies.

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    Zeno

    16 June 2012 at 8:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Nice! The Washington Post poll has already narrowed to 41% versus 59%. Depending on how long the poll stays on-line, perhaps the Yes vote will overtake No today. [Poll]

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    Trebuchet

    16 June 2012 at 10:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    The stuff of nightmares.

    Well, mine, anyway.

    And that’s one of the milder ones on the Johnsen Labs page! If you haven’t yet clicked on that link, I recommend you do so. But not at bedtime.

    A thousand years ago, people thought monsters lived in the deep sea. Now, in the twenty-first century, we’ve proven it!

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    WMDKitty

    16 June 2012 at 6:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I don’t know what that is, but DO NOT WANT.