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Post by paulette on Nov 28, 2011 22:23:56 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2011 22:42:13 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Nov 29, 2011 19:23:34 GMT -6
It reminds me of the way they described the aliens in The War of the Worlds. They had bodies similar to octopususes (I know that's not spelled right ) and they crawled around on tentacles. That video is pretty much how I imagined the Martians while reading that book.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2011 20:15:47 GMT -6
1. Pray tell, did it only get back in the water because it was being watched?? (I generally don't "listen"/keep it on mute for short videos; if the guy already explained). 2. At least I can't see its mouth. Great. Another creature that can "get me" in water OR on land.....
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Post by skywalker on Nov 29, 2011 20:27:32 GMT -6
I don't know why it even got out of the water. It didn't have any reason to. I doubt that I would ever be able to put myself in its tentacles and think like an octopus to understand it either.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2011 20:48:07 GMT -6
I saw that the other day on Yahoo..amazing. They're the odd bit of a critter anyway..copper based blood instead of iron.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2011 21:35:06 GMT -6
"I doubt that I would ever be able to put myself in its tentacles and think like an octopus to understand it either."
Wait. Are You telling me that you can think like a crocodile (the other creature that lives in water and forays onto land) ?
Oh yeah. Their reason for leaving the water. Steak.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2011 10:53:58 GMT -6
It's pretty hard to think like something that is motivated by it's need to survive..oh wait..that's US
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Post by paulette on Nov 30, 2011 11:22:37 GMT -6
I've seen other films of octopuses (and I've heard that the correct spelling is NOT octopi) and they seen to allow themselves to be stranded in tidal pools where they can corral prey more easily and then hike (or slither or whatever) back to the ocean. They seem to know where "back to the ocean" is. If you recall, the octopus dropped a crab half-way back to the pool . It may have been freaked out by the human vibes and sounds but it also may have dropped it because it had sucked all the good stuff out of it. Which is what they do. A crab would be easy to catch on land or in a small pool.
Octopuses in labs have confounded the experimenters by traveling out of their aquarium, ACROSS THE FLOOR and into a tank nearby that had delicious live crabs in it. Sometimes they left the crab tank and returned to their own aquarium. Hence the scientists couldn't figure out what was happening to the crabs. Until they ran a camera at night. (These were quite a big larger octopuses than the little guy in the Utube film).
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Post by skywalker on Nov 30, 2011 19:04:57 GMT -6
Even if the correct spelling were "octopi" I still wouldn't spell it like that. I refuse to say "cacti" either. It's against my principles.
Octopuses and squids are some of the most intelligent critters on the planet...possibly even more so than humans. They learn very quickly and easily, so whatever that little tentacled-dude was doing it was probably on purpose.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2011 10:59:36 GMT -6
~nods like a well rehearsed Trigger~ The 'grey's are probably a construct of the Octopuddies and they're the REAL aliens
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Post by skywalker on Dec 1, 2011 12:44:12 GMT -6
That's possible. Maybe the octopusususes are finally getting ready to invade the land and take us all over.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2011 14:24:56 GMT -6
Paulette, that's interesting. My automatic guess was Octopi but the forum spell checker says that's wrong too. I'm looking it up on dictionary.com just to see... From Dictionary.com: reference.dictionary.com======= noun, plural -pus·es, -pi [-pahy] Show IPA.
1. any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
2. something likened to an octopus, as an organization with many forms of far-reaching influence or control.
======= So... you can do it either way. Octopi, or Octopuses... with only one s. Interesting... English is fascinating. Sometimes we follow Latin/French rules, sometimes German ones... We use German suffixes all the time, suffixes like "er" and "en" with words like "Teacher", "Cashier" and "Driver". We pluralize only TWO of our nouns with an "en"... (that I know of...) "Oxen" and "Children". We also end our past perfect tense verbs with an "en" "Fallen" and "Spoken" and thinks of that sort... Hmmm... ~sips coffee~ I asked my boss at work while she was explaining the benefits of working for my company if they would pay for me to go to school to become a linguist. She said, "No." ~sigh~ ;D
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Post by skywalker on Dec 1, 2011 21:00:25 GMT -6
I think you would make a good language teacher, Lorelei. You could teach people English, German and the correct spelling of octopususususes. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2011 22:33:15 GMT -6
" . . . if they would pay for me to go to school to become a linguist. "
(more weirdness. Would you believe I have studied a linguistic text the last 3 days? Considering going back to school for that......also, lorelei, do you remember that picture you posted on my exp thread with the broken clocks? Today I saw a new dr for my neck. In his therapy room was that exact picture.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2011 22:37:25 GMT -6
" . . . if they would pay for me to go to school to become a linguist. " (more weirdness. Would you believe I have studied a linguistic text the last 3 days? Considering going back to school for that......also, lorelei, do you remember that picture you posted on my exp thread with the broken clocks? Today I saw a new dr for my neck. In his therapy room was that exact picture.) :0 Woah. The weirdness continues..
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Post by Steve on Dec 2, 2011 2:43:40 GMT -6
WARNING: Images contained in the link below are gross. If you flip out about praying mantis aliens, or just bugs, do not click on this link! Fortunately the creature is reportedly gentle and does not attack, and eats carrots. Weighs 71 grams. Someone sent me this, and I click out after about two seconds. Worlds largest BUG! Raid? Try shotguns! Grrrrrrross! Link only - no photo posted. Cover your eyes before clicking. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2068547/Meet-worlds-heaviest-insect-weighs-times-mouse.htmlSteve
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Post by skywalker on Dec 2, 2011 8:23:39 GMT -6
It's a good thing I didn't find it I would have had to go out and buy a bigger shoe.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2011 10:42:54 GMT -6
Awwwwwww.... it's so cuuuuuuuuute!!!
My friend posted that on facebook Steve I just saw the article... lol... ~really thinks it's cute because it's a grass hopper and grass hoppers are cute~
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2011 13:13:21 GMT -6
Our English language is an abomination. Nearly every day some schmuck creates a new word adding to the weighty words that twist and turn tongues into tortured twiddles. We have duplicates (just spelled with an extra 'o' or two) we have same word different spelling different meaning..we have medical words that defy proper pronunciation because they have none...and trust me...there may be no more than a handful of people who know every word in the dictionary. There is a very good science fiction writer..not the best but very good..named Robert Heinlein...I've read about every thing he ever penned..but did that entitle him to invent a word for one of his books that ended up in the dictionary? ? The word 'grok' was invented because when Martians die..the rest of the Martians drink him..gobble up his essence (and his residual juices) so that they may thoroughly and completely understand their dead comrade. So now this invented word becomes a part of our ever increasing vocabulary.. grok [grok] Slang . verb (used with object) 1. to understand thoroughly and intuitively. If the plural of octopuddies is wrong..who's to say it is? Maybe I'm just inventing another word like a writer did. I am good with the language because I need to be in my field..but I detest it..in fact..I think we should all speak igpay atinlay It's much more creative and limited. Um...nice grasshopper..
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2011 13:25:21 GMT -6
I agree. English is an abomination.
Nice grasshopper indeed. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2011 12:27:51 GMT -6
"It's a good thing I didn't find it I would have had to go out and buy a bigger shoe." I hope you are joking . Are you a "bug-killer" sky? It amazes me still all the different reactions to bugs. Of course if I hear someone go ewwwwwwww first, then I'm prepared to see what all the fuss is about. I thought "grasshopper" also. ;D
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Post by skywalker on Dec 3, 2011 20:26:40 GMT -6
I have an agreement with the insect world...as long as bugs stay far away from me they won't get squashed. If they start creepy-crawling all over me then the shoes fly! I am definitely not a bug-lover. There are some that I can get along with better than others. I like butterflies and ladybugs, and I have learned to communicate with bees. On the other hand, flies get swatted, scorpions get anhialated, incinerated and obliviated, and roaches make me want to take target practice. Grasshoppers I'm kind of ambivelant about...they don't "bug" me. I certainly would not have messed with that gimongous grasshopper...it looks about the size of a doberman and he probably knows Kung Fu!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2011 21:05:02 GMT -6
What about spiders sky?
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Post by skywalker on Dec 3, 2011 22:04:11 GMT -6
If they get with shoe range...Splat!
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Post by lois on Dec 4, 2011 1:36:31 GMT -6
No these photos did not bother me in the least. See it did not have the face of a mantis. I played with grasshoppers and spiders as a kid. but I hate to look at a mantis face. I know they can't hurt me. As they are only a insect. It is the face that gives me a panic attach since I was four or five. You tell me why?
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Post by ufo4peace on Dec 4, 2011 5:25:42 GMT -6
No these photos did not bother me in the least. See it did not have the face of a mantis. I played with grasshoppers and spiders as a kid. but I hate to look at a mantis face. I know they can't hurt me. As they are only a insect. It is the face that gives me a panic attach since I was four or five. You tell me why? Some people get freaked out by insects but insect are high in protein like a worm. If you watch a show like Man vs Wild there are a lot of living creatures that are edible. But what about aliens? Would eating other intellectual life be considered cannibalism? It would probably make you sick.
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Post by Steve on Dec 4, 2011 14:16:09 GMT -6
Another "well...and this one lives on the planet with us..." This one hopefully will illicit a different emotional response...from the same planet btw. Steve
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Post by lois on Dec 4, 2011 14:34:33 GMT -6
Another "well...and this one lives on the planet with us..." This one hopefully will illicit a different emotional response...from the same planet btw. Steve
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2011 15:54:33 GMT -6
Awwwwwwwww look at da fuzzy wittle babies!!!
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