Giant Squid

September 28, 2005 @ 10:36 pm

Giant Squid AttackI read in the paper that they caught a live giant squid on film for the first time ever and it made me kind of sad. First, because the squid struggled for 4 hours against the hook it was caught on before escaping by ripping off one of it's limbs. I think they grow back, but it seems like a disproportionate amount of agony for a couple of pictures.

More importantly, I'm sad because while it was completely elusive the giant squid was the last real "sea monster," and now it's just another biological specimen. It's the romantic in me talking here, but sometimes the scientific urge to put everything in a box with a name and an explanation wears a little thin.

I wouldn't want to live in a world without sea monsters.

Replies: 6 Comments

Nessie remains, no? ummm...apostrophes.

Rutabaga J. Sanctimonious said on September 29, 2005 @ 12:50 pm

you rock! and remember, there's always the loch ness monster...a lake monster, yes, but still elusive (and totally real!!)

eliz said on September 29, 2005 @ 5:31 pm

i met a sea monster once. very nice fellow. he said to me, 'i wouldn't want to live in a world without nnnnicks'. seriously. you two should meet (i just hope you can try not to rip one of his tentacles off in the process. and i hope he isn't so excited to meet you that he gives you a fatally-big hug.)

jammies said on September 29, 2005 @ 8:54 pm

This sounds like a sea monster I'd like to meet, so long as he's on the left of the Muppet-Predator spectrum of monsters. Damn the dad blame apostrophe consarnit!!! I know better, but I keep doing it. As for Nessie, if Leonard Nimoy couldn't find him he doesn't exist.

Nick Baker said on September 30, 2005 @ 3:39 pm

Even though the squid is now on film, it certainly still is a monster. My mom would put things like this in perspective by saying "thats longer than the barn!". So if you still consider the giant squid a monster, it is one, a massive, fascinating monster. Scary as hell, not just because it can kill me, but because it represents how small I am by its size and that it remained elusive for so long.

Urs said on October 3, 2005 @ 12:21 am

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eliz said on November 6, 2005 @ 6:16 pm