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Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:14 pm
by LarsMac
Have you guys seen this?
Weird sea creature caught on film by an ROV.
A not-seen-before creature capture by undersea rover.
Well, I never saw one before. I think it is pretty freakin' awesome.
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:31 pm
by Accountable
Weird! I wish there was some information attached to the vid.
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:40 pm
by rajakrsna
That`s a Mega Plankton
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 5:26 am
by Accountable
According to this link mega plankton is over 2mm. Since this is thousands of times that size, and has some kind of fleshy innards (was that the brain? digestive system? Both?) I'm pretty sure it's some kind of precursor to a cephalopod.
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 5:33 am
by Snooz
Accountable;1393451 wrote: Weird! I wish there was some information attached to the vid.
Popular opinion says it's a Deepstaria enigmatica.
Alien or Jellyfreak? Deep-sea monster vid whips up storm (VIDEO, PHOTOS) — RT
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 4:31 pm
by Accountable
Coooool. I hadn't thought about a jellyfish, but I guess that's a better fit.
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 4:32 pm
by Oscar Namechange
I thought gmc had dropped his bagpipes
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 5:30 pm
by Bruv
Its a duvet
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 5:31 pm
by Snooz
oscar;1393479 wrote: I thought gmc had dropped his bagpipes
Is that an upskirt joke?
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 8:22 pm
by Lady J
made me think it is a cross between a octopus and jelly fish....the scale pattern is that of an octopus and the movement like a jelly fish.
Whatever it is I would not like to encounter it on a dive!
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 8:31 pm
by rajakrsna
Lady J;1393485 wrote: made me thing it is a cross between a octopus and jelly fish....the scale pattern is that of an octopus and the movement like a jelly fish.
Whatever it is I would not like to encounter it on a dive!
Maybe it`s a combination of an octopus & jelly fish. A mutant-an OCTOJELL
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 8:42 pm
by Snooz
Jellypus.
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 8:44 pm
by rajakrsna
SnoozeAgain;1393488 wrote: Jellypus.
I thought about that but I refrained from posting it ( smiling ).
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 5:23 am
by Accountable
Rejected by both parents' families. Outcast from society. Dooomed to wander the deepest waters alone. Not even tempting as a food source.
Poor kid.
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 6:18 am
by rajakrsna
Accountable;1393500 wrote: Rejected by both parents' families. Outcast from society. Dooomed to wander the deepest waters alone. Not even tempting as a food source.
Poor kid.
I can provide shelter to this poor kid ( The Parable of the Lost Sheep ).
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 3:13 pm
by tazzy
Some type of jelly fish
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 3:41 pm
by Oscar Namechange
tazzy;1393527 wrote: Some type of jelly fish That's no way to talk about Raj
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:25 am
by fuzzywuzzy
Accountable;1393500 wrote: Rejected by both parents' families. Outcast from society. Dooomed to wander the deepest waters alone. Not even tempting as a food source.
Poor kid.
I'm depressed now .
I want a water bear.... they're cuter.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:07 pm
by Wandrin
It looks like a syphomedusa to me.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 6:12 pm
by Accountable
syphomedusa
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:17 pm
by Wandrin
Accountable;1393619 wrote:
syphomedusa
That's a very elaborate (and beautiful) example. Not all of them are that elaborate. Some just look like amorphous blobs.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:37 pm
by Accountable
I dunno. It looks like a mold-laden duvet to me.
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:03 am
by Snooz
Accountable;1393619 wrote:
syphomedusa
That looks like a Victorian jellyfish all dolled to meet the queen.
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:21 am
by Wandrin
SnoozeAgain;1393626 wrote: That looks like a Victorian jellyfish all dolled to meet the queen.
I was thinking that it looked like an elegant jellyfish with its own satellite dish. :-3
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:12 am
by Ahso!
I wonder if it's a hoax. It's funny that the camera which appeared to be checking the integrity of the thing it was filming suddenly decided to switch to this Whateveritis.
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:20 am
by Oscar Namechange
Ahso!;1393651 wrote: I wonder if it's a hoax. It's funny that the camera which appeared to be checking the integrity of the thing it was filming suddenly decided to switch to this Whateveritis.
That's no way to talk about Raj
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:21 am
by Oscar Namechange
SnoozeAgain;1393626 wrote: That looks like a Victorian jellyfish all dolled to meet the queen. Looks like Duchess to me
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 3:27 pm
by LarsMac
So, I've looked at this several times.
It appears , IMHO, to more of a mollusk-type critter. The movement and behavior are not unlike an octopus.
It almost seems to show some curiosity toward the light.
Perhaps more likely, it discovered that there was food near the light, and we were watching it feed.
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 4:20 pm
by Snooz
Oscar was right, it is an upskirt view.
Another expert, Craig McClain from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, explains that the confusing whitish lumps seen in the video are the jellyfish’s testicles.
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 6:45 pm
by Accountable
Wouldn't that make it "up-kilt"?
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 6:47 pm
by LarsMac
Interesting, indeed.
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 7:29 pm
by LarsMac
So, I reckon I was misinterpreting random effects of the currents caused by the propulsion system on the ROV for behavior.
Hmm.
Hafta look at it again.
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 2:38 pm
by Bryn Mawr
Accountable;1394280 wrote: Wouldn't that make it "up-kilt"?
Only if it was gmc in disguise
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:04 pm
by Oscar Namechange
Bryn Mawr;1394649 wrote: Only if it was gmc in disguise
ummmm I'm telling