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I for one can no longer eat an octopus. Perhaps a 100 million years from now our ancestors will be food on the future planet of the Octopi.

Sothis 11y ago
There is a special place in R'lyeh reserved for all those baby Cthulhu eating barbarians.
kjs3 11y ago
On the other hand, octopus live only long enough to mature and breed (2-3 years for most of them). Octopus aren't thinking deep thoughts with that fascinating nervous system. There will be no Octopi poems or symphonies. They're pretty much just trying to get laid before they die.
- modoc 11y ago
  Pretty much like the rest of us...
  - unfamiliar 11y ago
    Yes but we like to be all pretentious about death and sex before we go.
- coldcode 11y ago
  Our ancestors didn't either. Look at us now.
  - kjs3 11y ago
    Our ancestors (at least going back a few million years or so) could hope to live a dozen or three years and fuck more than once. Octopus has a long way to go to catch up, evolution-wise.
  - zardo 11y ago
    With such short lifespans, we can breed them for cooperation and kickstart an undersea agricultural revolution.
welshrats 11y ago
I worked as a crab fishermanin Alaska and we fished for other things sometimes in the off season such as cod or halibut. On time the company we worked for decided to try fishing for octopus using similar methods to how we harvested other fisheries. After about a week or two we all pretty much mutinied and refused to do it anymore. Don't get me wrong we were cold blodded killers of much marine life, I'm sure we massacred millions of fish and such in our time, but there was something about Ocupus we just couldn't do it. It didn't help that the money was shit for octopus at the time, but it didn't matter really for some reason most of us were deeply affected and uncomfortable with killing octupus in exchange for money.
tsotha 11y ago
Our ancestors will be a bit ripe by then. Did you mean "descendants"?

Sothis 11y ago

There is a special place in R'lyeh reserved for all those baby Cthulhu eating barbarians.

kjs3 11y ago

On the other hand, octopus live only long enough to mature and breed (2-3 years for most of them). Octopus aren't thinking deep thoughts with that fascinating nervous system. There will be no Octopi poems or symphonies. They're pretty much just trying to get laid before they die.

modoc 11y ago
Pretty much like the rest of us...
- unfamiliar 11y ago
  Yes but we like to be all pretentious about death and sex before we go.
coldcode 11y ago
Our ancestors didn't either. Look at us now.
- kjs3 11y ago
  Our ancestors (at least going back a few million years or so) could hope to live a dozen or three years and fuck more than once. Octopus has a long way to go to catch up, evolution-wise.
- zardo 11y ago
  With such short lifespans, we can breed them for cooperation and kickstart an undersea agricultural revolution.

welshrats 11y ago

I worked as a crab fishermanin Alaska and we fished for other things sometimes in the off season such as cod or halibut. On time the company we worked for decided to try fishing for octopus using similar methods to how we harvested other fisheries. After about a week or two we all pretty much mutinied and refused to do it anymore. Don't get me wrong we were cold blodded killers of much marine life, I'm sure we massacred millions of fish and such in our time, but there was something about Ocupus we just couldn't do it. It didn't help that the money was shit for octopus at the time, but it didn't matter really for some reason most of us were deeply affected and uncomfortable with killing octupus in exchange for money.

tsotha 11y ago

Our ancestors will be a bit ripe by then. Did you mean "descendants"?