Octopods Rule
 

<p><img src="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/images/octopus_camo_1.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="225" /></p><p>Can you see the Octopus?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.thebiglist.com/index.php?module=s4w&amp;page=http://www.thebiglist.com/html/2006.06/20831113130448.html" target="_blank">You can find it here.</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I remember seeing this at a special movie at the Museum Of Natural History.<br /><br />It blew me away. The scientists during the special said that if humans were to die off the next species that would most likely take over would be the Octopus. With the threat of humans, they would thrive and being extremely intelligent and adaptable, wherein in a millennia, they&nbsp;could be the dominate species of the planet.</p>

<p>What the hell?!?!?!</p><p>How do they do that?</p>

<p>i ate octupus on tuesday night.</p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial"><font size="1">Churrascaria in tribeca really fucking good food.</font></span>

<font size="2">That just scared the ever living crap out of me.</font>

<p>That's pretty cool. I think they turn white when they are scared, then shoot out their ink.</p><p>It reminds me of the Klingons who have to de-cloak before they fire a weapon.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by DJEvelEd on 1-4-07 @ 3:41 PM</span>

<p>Blending in with your surroundings, until the perfect moment to strike.&nbsp; Gee, I wonder where he got that idea???</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/crb1/rambo.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="267" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

THat was amazing! I love Furtherman's Threads!

<p>im getting errors on the page. just green in the player window. ???</p><p>found it on utube and it is neat.</p><p>check this one out. these eight armed things are scary</p><p><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4007016107763801953&amp;q=octopus& amp;hl=en">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4007016107763801953&amp;q=octopus& amp;hl=en</a></p><p>or this one:</p><p><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202&amp;q=octopus&amp;hl=en">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202&amp;q=octopus&amp;hl=en</a></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by betidont on 1-4-07 @ 3:49 PM</span>

<p>i like the octopie</p>

Am i the only one that saw the octopus and knew where it was? That was still fucking incredible to see, it really is truly beautiful to watch a species do that.

<p>Years ago I either read or heard a story about an octopus that may or may not be true.&nbsp; I guess it is sort of my own urban myth.&nbsp; </p><p>I was just about to write it but I did a google search and found the story... it's more commonly known than I had thought:</p><p><strong>I saw a documentary not long ago, where the researchers couldn't understand why some of the specimens were disappearing. They set up a video camera then left for the night. The culprit was their octopus, which left its tank, crawled along to the tank of the missing creatures, climbed in, ate its supper then crawled out again, and made its way back to its own tank. The fact that it was already well-fed, and it waited until the researchers had gone for the night, proves that it wasn't driven by hunger, and it knew when to go on the hunt...</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The way I heard it was a guy in an apartment had two tanks - one with fish, one with an octopus - and couldn't understand why his fish was disappearing.&nbsp; Thinking the cleaning lady was stealing fish, he set up a video camera...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>True or not, I bet it is possible.</p>

<p>did you watch the shark one i posted above?&nbsp; that looks real to me, but i wouldn't be able to photoshop myself out of a paper bag.</p><p>octopus eats jeff corwin, news at 11</p>

that's insane

<p>I'd be sleeping with a fucking speargun if I was that guy.&nbsp; If that Octopus tried that with me I'd cut of 2 of his tentacles and put him back in the tank just to send him a message.&nbsp; </p><p>Yakuza that 8-armed motherfucker!&nbsp; Henry the Octopus must die!</p>

<p>I did - that's a great one too!&nbsp; Totally real.&nbsp; </p><p>If you think about it - without a human threat - these octopuses could evolve to grow huge and be able to take on Great Whites!&nbsp; </p>

That's crazy.&nbsp; The only thing I've ever seen about the Octopus is that they are shy and timid.&nbsp; I&nbsp;never knew that they&nbsp;were that agressive. I dig sharks but those&nbsp;Octopi are badazz...&nbsp;

<p>i heard a song about the garden of an octopus once. the name escapes me</p>

I dont need the discovery channel any more I have Futherman..Awsome Have you seen on y tube&nbsp; octapus goes through 1 inch hole.....????That thread start is one of my favs....Good job FM

<p>Beatles- Octopus's Garden... tomorrow's opening song???&nbsp; HHMMmmm....</p>

Have you ever noticed that when i post everyone splits....

<p><img src="http://www.dreamweaver.mb.ca/splits.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="227" /></p>

If Octopi are so fierce, how come the Detroit Red Wings always score when they hit the ice? They're the Washington Generals of the deep.

<p>and they have been around even longer than sharks (and sharks have been around forever) and neither have&nbsp;had to change/adapt to survive.</p><font size="1"><p>Among&nbsp;the&nbsp;most&nbsp;ancient vertebrates in the sea, ancestors of modern <strong>sharks</strong> originated almost&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>400</strong>&nbsp;million years ago. Today sharks live in essentially the same way they did more than 200 million years ago, before the rise of the dinosaurs. Scientists have identified nearly 375 species of sharks living today, ranging in size from the dwarf dogfish, less than 20 cm (8 in) in length, to the massive <span>whale shark</span>, which reaches lengths of more than 15 m (50 ft) . </p><p><span class="inline_title">Cephalopod</span>, common name for any of a class of actively predatory marine <span>mollusks</span>, including the <span>squid</span>, <span><strong>octopus</strong></span>, and <span>nautilus</span>.&nbsp; The class is an ancient one, first appearing in the fossil record during the Cambrian period, about <strong>600</strong> million years ago. </p><p><strong>Microsoft &reg; Encarta &reg; 2006. &copy; 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</strong><!--EndFragment--> </p><p>-- sorry to post text rather than link, but i don't know how to link encarta.</p></font>

My chick and I ate calamari at Pacific Resturaunt that was in the shape of a baby octopii randomly.&nbsp; It was delicious.

<p>a few times in this thread it was said that if not for the human threat the octopus would or could become the most dominant species on the planet</p><p>what threat excatly are we posing to them ??? other than polluting the ocean i got nothing</p>