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....
"One Day, Sooner or Later, You Hear these Words of Wisdom; as They were
Once Spoken, Yadda-yadda... Yadda-yadda."
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God Poet Transmitting…….
The War goes on. It seems to have been the product of bad intelligence and
ruthless agenda, a sort of might makes right, and pe...
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