Fweethawt Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 This is very cool!!! http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/science-world/dont-freak-out-but-scientists-think-octopuses-might-be-aliens-after-dna-study-347880.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yunea Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Amazing. I love molluscs and I've always thought the octopus is an incredible animal, and this only adds to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Pretty wild! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherJosh Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Release the kraken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daffodil Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 The freakiest thing I ever saw was a story about an aquarium that kept losing fish out of one of its storage tanks. They couldn't figure out what was happening until they installed a camera in the room. What they saw on the footage was incredible! An octopus in a tank several feet from the fish tank would climb out of the tank after all the people had left the room, travel across the floor to the fish tank, help himself to whatever he was hungry for, then return to his tank as if nothing had happened! Truly freaky creatures! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest immoralchristian Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 This is very cool!!! http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/science-world/dont-freak-out-but-scientists-think-octopuses-might-be-aliens-after-dna-study-347880.html Is that the truth is it, hmmm feels like deception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fweethawt Posted August 14, 2015 Author Share Posted August 14, 2015 This is very cool!!! http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/science-world/dont-freak-out-but-scientists-think-octopuses-might-be-aliens-after-dna-study-347880.html Is that the truth is it, hmmm feels like deception. You're a christian. If you think something is deceptive, there's a pretty good chance that it's factual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deidre Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 This is very cool!!! http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/science-world/dont-freak-out-but-scientists-think-octopuses-might-be-aliens-after-dna-study-347880.html Is that the truth is it, hmmm feels like deception.You're a christian. If you think something is deceptive, there's a pretty good chance that it's factual. lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarflungWanderer Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Disregard, double post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarflungWanderer Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Honestly, I'm a bit skeptical... I doubt it's an "alien". More likely that we don't have a fossil record showing the evolution of octopi from an ancestor. Admittedly I know very little about octopi (including what their plural name is), I assume that they lack a skeleton that would allow for easy fossilization, if not at all. I feel like octopi being the result of a generic experiment by hyper-intelligent beings is a bit of a stretch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurisaz Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Finally got around to read that article. Interesting stuff for sure, but the labeling as "aliens" of course provokes all kinds of wrong associations. Granted that we couldn't rule out the option that they are / descended from "aliens" as in " stepped out of a UFO", that's far from a given thing. It's typical clickbait titling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yunea Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 The freakiest thing I ever saw was a story about an aquarium that kept losing fish out of one of its storage tanks. They couldn't figure out what was happening until they installed a camera in the room. What they saw on the footage was incredible! An octopus in a tank several feet from the fish tank would climb out of the tank after all the people had left the room, travel across the floor to the fish tank, help himself to whatever he was hungry for, then return to his tank as if nothing had happened! Truly freaky creatures! Hahahah, go octopus, go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duderonomy Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Sure they're aliens. The bigger question is are they here legally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sexton Blake Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 It was just seperate evolution. They broke off from every other species long ago and have developed on their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurisaz Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Yup that would be the most likely explanation, as far as I can tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thought2Much Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Octopuses are amazing, freaky creatures. Here's a video of one that can open up a jar — from the inside. All I can say is that it's a good thing that octopuses have such short lifespans, or they would find a way to unite, then develop technology to come up on land to destroy us all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenstar Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 ^^^^ seriously, if cephalopods didn't die after reproduction (including the VERY smart cuttlefish, of course) we'd be screwed. Their kind of intelligence and biological set-up is incredible. Their nervous system is superior to ours, their eyesight... they can regenerate limbs, or abandon them altogether to escape. They communicate through colour, light and pattern. They have marvellous dexterity... and insane coping, camouflage and problem-solving skills - for invertebrates, (and even for vertebrates - some cuttlefish males pretend to be females to deek out the other males so they can mate with the females,) Brilliant creatures... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvP0TD-Cr3o 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurisaz Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Isn't there also that factoid that they don't stop growing, like, ever? Now imagine a mutant with an extremely long lifespan and I guess you get... Him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fweethawt Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 Yeah, we're fucked... We're so fucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fweethawt Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 http://youtu.be/5oaNS3v1j74 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disillusioned Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 It was just seperate evolution. They broke off from every other species long ago and have developed on their own. I don't know about that. I think it's fairly clear that they are made in God's image. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurisaz Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 So where are their meatballs then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disillusioned Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 They must have lost them in the fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fweethawt Posted September 9, 2015 Author Share Posted September 9, 2015 Does this come as a surprise to anyone here? Sheesh! Creationists are now actively propagating the claim that octopuses are aliens -- http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/09/09/creationists-are-now-actively-propagating-the-claim-that-octopuses-are-aliens/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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