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....
"Oh My! It’s Going to be Ozymandias... on Steroids… and In Real Time…
Coming to a Planet Near You... Real Soon. Book It!"
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God Poet Transmitting.......
Every time I am convinced he's completely compromised, he does something
like this. In defense of my opinion... he will the...
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