Holy shit! Another giant squid.

Where's that dude that was posting from a boat in the Marianas Straits area? He's gotta have some thoughts on this squidasourus.

Iceman, that's some foreskin, huh?

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Originally Posted by buckethead

a.) limit close encounters to visiting the thing in ITs home environment
b.) well, aren't we all?

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One of those, eh?

a) Meh. It's not like we haven't been trying. Bycatch happens.

b) We might be more interesting if there wasn't ready access to 6 billion of us.

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Originally Posted by buckethead

agreed. when i see a massive animal/tree/lake/mountain etc, the last thing i want to do is destroy it. it's horrible to see this massive and mysterious creature reduced to circus specimen (first made popular by museums of "natural history") i guess if it's natural - it's history!

no better than all the whales being killed in the antarctic...:(

what type of person has to kill something to marvel at it :nonono2:

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You're right, that was probably the last one.

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This *is* the padded room, isn't it?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl...8091/img/1.jpg

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...7&d=1172549717

Dude, come on, I know that's probably not technically NSFW, but bad form, anyway. Padded Room != poon in every post.

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Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas

I heard they hired Ted Williams to "talk it down" when it comes out of its frozen state.

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Yes it was.

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Originally Posted by Chainsaw_Willie

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This *is* the padded room, isn't it?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl...8091/img/1.jpg

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...7&d=1172549717

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Yes it was.

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Originally Posted by Free Range Lobster

Mr Anderton said the fishermen had been fishing for Patagonian toothfish in deep Antarctic waters when the squid - which was eating a toothfish - was caught.

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nobody should be fishing for toothfish--chilean seabass to US marketers. the big ones they used to catch were 50-60 years old, now we're just killing off the few that got away.

http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/SeafoodWatc...eet.aspx?gid=6

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Originally Posted by stayalert

why on earth wuld anyone want to land that thing. photos sure...then let it go.

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Because I like to windsurf and I don't want to worry about being eaten by an appetizer. (Though I doubt I'll ever sail near Antarctica...)