Remember the movie The Abyss, where deep-sea oil drillers fall so deep they encounter an alien civilization of bioluminescent invertebrates with a water-based technology?
I couldn't help but be reminded of that by this video at National Geographic (shot by an oil-rig ROV, no less! Just like in the movie!) Of course the Magnapinna squid featured there isn't thought to be an intelligent creature, so much as either a living bottom-dredger or a passive ambush predator (or both), neither of which is an ecological niche likely to earn a species intelligence.
So the search for the deep ocean squid cities continues....
"These Days, a Great Many People are Very Angry, and They are not Angry for
The Reasons They Think They are Angry."
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God Poet Transmitting…….
Doing what I do over the decades, I’ve had many comments. Most of them have
been positive, and then there is the rest of it, wh...
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