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....
"This is The Single Barrier that Interposes Itself between every Living
Thing and The Marvelous Delights of Heaven on Earth."
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God Poet Transmitting…….
It has begun to go sideways in all the right locations. I believe I
mentioned that this was going to become a trend, and it loo...
2 days ago
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