Say it ain't so
Posted on 12/21/2008 3:44:04 PM PST by Clint Williams
Whiteox writes about an Australian researcher named Renata Pronk, who has discovered that octopuses prefer HDTV. She recruited 32 gloomy octopuses from the waters of Chowder Bay. Previously, researchers have reported little success when showing video to octopuses. Miss Pronk's insight was that the octopus eye is so refined that it might see standard PAL video, at 25 fps, as a series of stills. She tried HDTV (50 fps) and her subjects reacted to the videos of a crab, another octopus, or a swinging bottle on the end of a string. A further discovery is that octopuses show no trait of individual personalities, even though they exhibit a high level of intelligence. It would certainly be possible to quibble about the definition of "personality" employed, and whether Miss Pronk had successfully measured it.
Oh no, show 'em Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster instead.
Frame of reference: Prior to or after Brown v. Board of Education?
Say it ain't so
Say it ain't so
Question#2;What is the significance of selecting for gloomy over, say, happy?
POST OF THE DAY!
How will the octopuses feel about the change to digital-only TV in February?LOL!
What I was wondering is whose side they took in the format war. If they preferred HD-DVD, that would explain why they are so gloomy. I’m sure the octopi were quite outraged when WB decided to become blu-ray exclusive.
I wonder if they like to use McAfee or Norton on their PC’s?
I once read about an aquarium employee whose job was to enter the display tanks and collect any debris, such as rotting fish or trash from the tourists. She found going into the octopus tank creepy-especially since the octopus followed her around, watching her every move. (Let us hope she was not an H P Lovecraft fan.) After 2 weeks of being creeped out by the poor octopus, she entered his tank-to discover that he had already gone through and gathered together all the debris that she normally gathered, piling it for her right in the middle of the floor.Apparently he watched her till he knew exactly what it was she was looking for, and collected it for her. After that, his tank was the easiest to clean in the whole aquarium-what had been a 20 minute job had been reduced to less than 5, as the octopus continued his clean up chores. And she no longer found the sweet, helpful octopus at all creepy.
LOL!
Well they better hurry up and get their boxes if they don't have cable.
See my reply 32.
That presupposes a high degree of intelligence even if only mimicry. We’d best be looking at these creatures a little more closely, it appears they have a high degree of adaptability and seem to do well for brief minutes out of water as well. Their ten limbs are highly maneuvable.
“How will the octopuses feel about the change to digital-only TV in February?”
Undoubtedly, they will respond with a bloody but bland, many-armed rebellion.
That is cute. As long as the octopus wasn't real big....call me a vertabre-ist if you like but they are still something I wouldn't turn my back on. LOL
I like octopus but squid better and HDTV is okay when you can get it
“Previously, researchers have reported little success when showing video to octopuses.”
?! These researchers are wasting their time. They should get a Federal grant to study the effects of global warming on octopuses.
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