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Photo in the News: Giant Squid Captured, Filmed for First Time
National Geographic News ^
| 22 Dec 2006
| Blake de Pastino
Posted on 12/22/2006 5:50:07 PM PST by jimtorr
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See the link for a picture of the elusive creature.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:50:08 PM PST
by
jimtorr
To: jimtorr
Old news:
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:52:54 PM PST
by
fat city
(What part of cognitive dissonance don't you understand?)
To: jimtorr
I think Chichijima was the island where the Japanese slaughtered our prisoners of war. George HW Bush was trying to bomb that island, if I recall.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:53:35 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
To: jimtorr
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:54:54 PM PST
by
FreePaul
To: jimtorr
This 24 foot giant squid wouldn't pose a threat to a human swimmer. All you have to do is kick them in the nose.
To: jimtorr
I wonder how they taste deep fried with some marinara sauce. :)
Cool find.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:55:49 PM PST
by
Thoro
(Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.)
To: jimtorr
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:55:56 PM PST
by
JCEccles
To: JCEccles
Kind of cute, nice of them to kill it. I hope they at least ate it.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:58:08 PM PST
by
Williams
To: fat city
That eye is on the large size!
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:59:40 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: jimtorr
Why didn't they just video the poor creature in the ocean? Killed it for no reason. Cruel.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:59:51 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Only those who thirst for truth can know truth.)
To: JCEccles
The initial photographing of a Giant Squid started a fascinating thread on FR a couple of years ago. It mutated into a discussion of the Humboldt Squid- which is apparently no fun to run in to in the water.
They put on a pretty pre-attack bioluminescent light show, though.
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:00:54 PM PST
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: jimtorr
You call that a giant squid?
![](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/images/061222-giant-squid.jpg)
This is a giant squid!
To: Thoro
I wonder how they taste deep fried with some marinara sauce. :)"
Just like Calamari would be my bet.
To: jimtorr
I just recently saw a documentary by this same researcher where he filmed a live giant squid and actually caught one of its tentacles on a hook, but the whole squid escaped.
While the GS is certainly fascinating, I would not want to run into one of them. Yuck!
To: jimtorr
Didn't I see this on Doctor Who? Should have even at any rate.
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:05:59 PM PST
by
kcar
To: little jeremiah
Killed it for no reason.That's called fishing.
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:06:27 PM PST
by
gotribe
(There's still time to begin a war in Iraq.)
To: Thoro
![](http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/4849/homercalamariza6.jpg)
Hmmm, fried calamari . . . .
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:07:42 PM PST
by
King of Florida
(A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
To: billhilly
I wonder how they taste deep fried with some marinara sauce. :)" I'm given to understand that the flesh of the Giant Squid reeks of ammonia.
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:07:58 PM PST
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: little jeremiah
Why didn't they just video the poor creature in the ocean? Killed it for no reason. Cruel. Life is cruel. Build a bridge already.
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:09:32 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Gov't: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it)
To: Paladin2
"That eye is on the large size!" Odd, because the Japanese are usually so precise in their portrayal of mutant organisms.
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:12:01 PM PST
by
fat city
(What part of cognitive dissonance don't you understand?)
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