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Giant squid filmed in Pacific depths, Japan scientists report
- ferrantim 14y agoWow. Giant squid are the coolest thing next aliens in my book. Read a 20 pg article about them in the New Yorker once. Thanks for sharing!
- sosuke 14y agoThis is a better link I think, it has the video of the film being aired in Japan. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/giant-squid-video-japan-photos_n_2426777.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/giant-squid-video-j...
- charonn0 14y agoThanks for that. I thought it was rather strange for an article about video footage to have only two stills from the video rather than the video itself.
- mistercow 14y agoYou want weird, search for it on YouTube. You'll find videos Ken Burnsing around on those same two still images, while people talk about how sweet it is.
- RobotCaleb 14y agoWhat does that mean?
- mtinkerhess 14y agoKen Burns is a historical documentarian known for using slow pans and zooms over still photographs accompanied by voice-over narration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect
- mistercow 14y agoThis link has a bit higher quality, but less footage and way more annoying news anchor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KN5N1QDaRQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KN5N1QDaRQ
- sharkweek 14y agoI remember when I was little, hearing that they had no real recorded evidence of the giant squid. It immediately created this massive sense of excitement and wonder as to what else could be swimming around in the ocean. I still to this day am in absolute fascination of random pictures that show up of creatures from places like the Mariana Trench. It just boggles my tiny brain that so much biological diversity exists. Here's a few that popped up on Reddit the other day -- http://imgur.com/a/xkfSv http://imgur.com/a/xkfSv "And lo on the seventh day, God slammed a bunch of shit He wasn't finished with down at the bottom of a trench and hoped that nobody would notice."
- yk 14y agoGreat gallery, unfortunately it will ruin Hollywood monsters for the remainder of the year.
- CodeCube 14y agoGood god man! between the anglers (http://i.imgur.com/zTHuT.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zTHuT.jpg), and the goblin sharks (http://i.imgur.com/40WP8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/40WP8.jpg) ... stuff of nightmares!
- tellarin 14y agoIndeed! Most of the pics show ugly aggressive-looking species, but the Hatchetfish (http://i.imgur.com/hd53Y.jpg http://i.imgur.com/hd53Y.jpg, http://i.imgur.com/lZuFS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/lZuFS.jpg) are the creepiest by themselves. Hatchetfish: ghost-dead-floating fish-heads from hell!
- progrock 14y agoThat's what people look like through 'Truth sunglasses.'
- wtracy 14y agoAt the risk of turning this into Reddit, here's a humorous anglerfish video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-BbpaNXbxg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-BbpaNXbxg
- DanBC 14y agoI know the ocean is huge, but why don't we (or are we?) send hundreds of micro-robot vehicles down? > After around 100 missions, during which they spent 400 hours in the cramped submarine, the three-man crew tracked the creature from a spot some 15 kilometres (nine miles) east of Chichi island in the north Pacific. Because that sounds sub-optimal. Do you really need humans for tracking?
- throwmeaway33 14y agoWell, how do you communicate with the robots? Radio waves don't penetrate water. So say you have a robot that's autonomously floating around look at stuff and then it goes by a giant squid. There is no one to tell it "Hey! Look, a giant squid! Stop and turn your camera at that!" so it just keeps going. Also, I have no idea how they would know where they're currently located (again, no GPS).. but I'm sure they have some solution. One huge advantage I could see is potentially you wouldn't need to pressurize anything. Optics can easily be made to work immersed in water, electronics can be slathered in epoxy so you don't get any short circuits. Then there shouldn't be any limit to how deep the thing can go.
- efnx 14y agoWhat about a fully autonomous submersible that surfaces periodically to get its bearings from GPS, upload data, recharge through solar, etc... It could be programmed with a certain number of goals and priorities and follow the goal with the highest priority given some parameters.
- efnx 14y agoOr, what about using low power radio to communicate relatively short distances to other submersibles scattered upward toward the surface, forming a mesh network that eventually has an endpoint connected to the ship or satellite?
- panacea 14y agoPoseidon Exploratory Advanced Research Laboratory. PEARL. A string of submersible robotic submarines linked by really long cables that are dangled into the ocean.
- sergiotapia 14y agoIf you love this sort of thing, I'd love to suggest you join: http://www.reddit.com/r/deepseacreatures/ http://www.reddit.com/r/deepseacreatures/ Amazing pictures from a brand new (day old) community. :)
- contingencies 14y agoCome in Tokyo. Giant squid spotted. We have it in our wholly Yakuza-run scientific and diplomatically supported squidding sights. Target confirmed. We have T minus five to wok... T minus four...
- lostlogin 14y agoI would have thought that a trip down to the Southern Ocean under the same guise as the whaling fleet. Killing on the name of science.
- btilly 14y agoYou laugh, but biologists who study squid often do like to eat them. I've heard that at least one species is only documented in one report that includes pictures, measurements, and a description of how it tasted.
- wtracy 14y agoArchiteuthis in particular actually has too much ammonia in its flesh to be edible (some researchers compare the taste to floor cleaner).
- contingencies 14y agoGood tip.
- johnohara 14y agoArchiteuthis, one of the "last mysteries of the ocean." I thought it was generally held that we know less about the world's oceans than we do about the space around us.
- soapdog 14y agoIts a viral for pacific rim!!!!
- jschuur 14y agoI can't wait for them to release the Kraken footage.
- morty16 14y agoWhen are they going to start hunting them to extinction for delicious, scientific reasons?
- coditor 14y agoIn the still it looks like Iron Squidman.
- bonchibuji 14y agoReminds me of the the giant squid from Michael Crichton's Sphere.
- visarga 14y agoJapanese researchers discover giant Takoyaki in unprepared form. Why is it always the Japanese researchers that study these yummy species like squid and whale? Is it that kind of research that ends with shipping the study probes to a high class restaurant at the end?