That’s a bit deep and cold for just a wetsuit eh? Looks like I’ll have to get dry suit certified….
maxdwolfsays
2000 meters? Wow! That’s like 20 Godzillas.
PatrickGsays
20 Godzillas indeed… I just can’t get over the concept of something as squishy (-seeming) as an octopus withstanding ~2×10^4 kPa*. It just boggles my mind.
I mean, was that really at 2km depth? Really? Brain. Struggling.
SQUISHY BUT STRONG.
*P_atm = 101.3 kPa.
mepmep09says
Beautiful thang, that was.
cactuswrensays
Wings. It has wings.
I DID NOT KNOW THERE WERE OCTOPI WITH WINGS.
otramesays
*sigh
Beautiful thing.
khmssays
withstanding ~2×10^4 kPa
Why would it need to?
No Onesays
Out-fucking-standing! I love this planet!
Olavsays
Khms, #9, exactly. Its internal pressure would of course be equal to the water pressure.
kaydensays
Nice video — funny how the deep sea looks like outer space: black and spooky. The music is soothing too. (I can kind of play Moonlight Sonata — very badly though).
Pyrasays
I love the wings. There’s so much about aquatic life I don’t know. This was a nice lesson for the day.
ChasCPetersonsays
grimpy.
Very, very grimpy.
other underwater flyers:
various birds, notably penguins
rays
sea turtles Carettochelys
…?
bad Jimsays
Dumbo with a multi-tentacular trunk. Those ears!
When you look into their eyes, cephalopods are completely copacetic, but when they smile and their tentacles writhe, you can either regard them with horror as avatars of Cthulhu, or instead reflect, huh, I wouldn’t have thought of that.
PatrickGsays
Yeah, I wrote that off in some haste. It was meant as sort of a ‘if you put me in that water suddenly, things would go badly’ metaphor that obviously failed. :)
Dumbo wafting gently through the current. It’s heaven in liquid form.
Glen Davidson
That was stunningly beautiful.
That’s a bit deep and cold for just a wetsuit eh? Looks like I’ll have to get dry suit certified….
2000 meters? Wow! That’s like 20 Godzillas.
20 Godzillas indeed… I just can’t get over the concept of something as squishy (-seeming) as an octopus withstanding ~2×10^4 kPa*. It just boggles my mind.
I mean, was that really at 2km depth? Really? Brain. Struggling.
SQUISHY BUT STRONG.
*P_atm = 101.3 kPa.
Beautiful thang, that was.
Wings. It has wings.
I DID NOT KNOW THERE WERE OCTOPI WITH WINGS.
*sigh
Beautiful thing.
Why would it need to?
Out-fucking-standing! I love this planet!
Khms, #9, exactly. Its internal pressure would of course be equal to the water pressure.
Nice video — funny how the deep sea looks like outer space: black and spooky. The music is soothing too. (I can kind of play Moonlight Sonata — very badly though).
I love the wings. There’s so much about aquatic life I don’t know. This was a nice lesson for the day.
grimpy.
Very, very grimpy.
other underwater flyers:
various birds, notably penguins
rays
sea turtles
Carettochelys
…?
Dumbo with a multi-tentacular trunk. Those ears!
When you look into their eyes, cephalopods are completely copacetic, but when they smile and their tentacles writhe, you can either regard them with horror as avatars of Cthulhu, or instead reflect, huh, I wouldn’t have thought of that.
Yeah, I wrote that off in some haste. It was meant as sort of a ‘if you put me in that water suddenly, things would go badly’ metaphor that obviously failed. :)