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Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Bobboau on April 04, 2003, 12:05:41 am: sushi! (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/04/03/colossal.squid.reut/index.html)
Title: lord of the Squid Rings
Post by: Turnsky on April 04, 2003, 12:36:54 am: calamari actually, :p but i can see what you're getting at ;)
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Fetty on April 04, 2003, 12:56:53 am: meh the only fish i like is err english word "lachs" (redish meat likes to swim up waterfalls to lay eggs then die)

i think the giant squid is much cooler cuz its bigger :D
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Bobboau on April 04, 2003, 01:07:14 am: the fish you are refering to is the Salmon I beleve

and yes large moluscs that could kill you shred you to bits andcut you in half with there beaks before you even knew they were there are indeed cool, especaly the giant squid as due to there blood chemistry the can only survive in salt water that is below 0C (salt water frezes at a lower temperature)
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: FreeTerran on April 04, 2003, 01:21:25 am: :lol: That can many peole eat.
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Kamikaze on April 04, 2003, 01:26:27 am: *drool*

yummy... surume! (http://www.kitanosakanaya.co.jp/Surume.jpg) ;7 :p
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Nico on April 04, 2003, 01:27:38 am: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
the fish you are refering to is the Salmon I beleve

and yes large moluscs that could kill you shred you to bits andcut you in half with there beaks before you even knew they were there are indeed cool, especaly the giant squid as due to there blood chemistry the can only survive in salt water that is below 0C (salt water frezes at a lower temperature)

well, this one seems to live very well in water over 0C
since it was in shallow waters around New Zealand.
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Bobboau on April 04, 2003, 01:38:08 am: "The species, whose scientific name is mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, was previously thought to have lurked at least 800 meters down in the freezing waters near Antarctica, but the specimen found a fortnight ago was near the surface"

it was probly dead or dieing, there (giant squid at least, a diferent speciese so I may be wrong) blood can't hold oxygen much above freizeing, and even near NZ the waters 800m down is quite cold
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Nico on April 04, 2003, 02:18:21 am: "The squid was eating Patagonian Toothfish, which grow to two meters in length, when it was caught."

nope, actually, it was having lunch :D
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Post by: karajorma on April 04, 2003, 02:45:57 am: The kraken shall rise and demand vengence for people catching his kids in fishing nets :D
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: J.F.K. on April 04, 2003, 04:32:17 am: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
"The squid was eating Patagonian Toothfish, which grow to two meters in length, when it was caught."

nope, actually, it was having lunch :D

Animals will go to enormous lengths for their food. Have you heard about the bats that go up a couple of kilometres into the atmosphere to catch moths? The swarms of bats consume 5 or 6 tonnes of moths each night.
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Nico on April 04, 2003, 04:39:42 am: Quote
Originally posted by J.F.K.

Animals will go to enormous lengths for their food. Have you heard about the bats that go up a couple of kilometres into the atmosphere to catch moths? The swarms of bats consume 5 or 6 tonnes of moths each night.

they go to enormous lenghts, but not if that would threaten their lives ;)
Survival instinct is the first thing that comes for animals, like those foxes who will eat their limb to get away from a trap.
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Post by: Gortef on April 04, 2003, 04:55:15 am: Ooh yea *drools * :D
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 04, 2003, 05:43:29 am: It's Admiral Ackbar!
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Fetty on April 04, 2003, 06:42:29 am: :lol:
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Post by: diamondgeezer on April 04, 2003, 06:59:23 am: Got tentacle?
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: beatspete on April 04, 2003, 09:01:38 am: "A trawler caught the 150 kg, 330-pound squid in the sub-Antarctic Ross Sea about 3540 kilometers (2,200 miles) south of Wellington."

Not quite near New Zealand, then.
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Nico on April 04, 2003, 11:31:56 am: and so? water is not at 0C even there either.
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Falcon X on April 04, 2003, 12:38:59 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
"The species, whose scientific name is mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, was previously thought to have lurked at least 800 meters down in the freezing waters near Antarctica, but the specimen found a fortnight ago was near the surface"

it was probly dead or dieing, there (giant squid at least, a diferent speciese so I may be wrong) blood can't hold oxygen much above freizeing, and even near NZ the waters 800m down is quite cold

Assuming the creature has a complex system like we do... and they don't. It's a Mollusca-Cephalopoda. You only start getting a complex circulatory system in fishes. (annelids do have one, but it's crappy)
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 04, 2003, 12:48:57 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Falcon X

(annelids do have one, but it's crappy)

Psi Reavers, eh?
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Razor on April 06, 2003, 09:26:06 am: Quote
Originally posted by Fetty
meh the only fish i like is err english word "lachs" (redish meat likes to swim up waterfalls to lay eggs then die)

That's the best fish meat that exists. And the fish is called salmon. :p
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: diamondgeezer on April 06, 2003, 10:45:20 am: I don't see why you're using :p, since Bob's already made the Salmon point and you've made a spelling mistake.
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: Zeronet on April 07, 2003, 12:20:54 pm: They reckon they grow to around 25m long. Which is almost 3 london buses(8m) end to end.
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: ZylonBane on April 07, 2003, 05:13:51 pm: A picture of the critter they caught--

(http://www.starshipmodeler.com/b5/vc_rs.jpg)
Title: colossal squid captured
Post by: SKYNET-011 on April 07, 2003, 05:42:32 pm: :wtf: That looks like a B5 starship.

Oh, it is. :rolleyes: