Houston i think we have a problem

[sanctuary 19]

From some days ago

It is big isnt it ?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm....ture_dc

[Milkman 1]

They say it is either a Giant Octopus or Wale blubber. Thats a bit of an over-generalization if you ask me...

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

I think they said its part of a whale.

[FSPilot 0]

People are finding new things in the ocean all the time.

I know this girl who wanted to blame the famous "big red" on French atomic testing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly a fan of the French government, but that's just too far.

[Grey Fox 0]

I think I speak for most of us here saying:

"WTF is that!"

[Jester983 0]

Well put grey fox. well put.

Anyone think it could be ET?

[ralphwiggum 6]

Anyone think it could be ET?    

surely not. after all, there is no such thing as X-Files in FBI archives.

my guess is that it could be a giant squid, but i also would not reject idea that it could be a part of a whale. Hopefully DNA testing can find out what it is.

[blackdog~ 0]

I bet it smells like shit, or something similar to that... or worse.

Tuna + shit + dead rotting fish + rotten eggs = it's most likely smell.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

Probably just a bunch of blubber that got thrown off a whaler.

[Major Fubar 0]

I've always wondered, would whales (and other marine mammals like dolphins) taste like fish because they live in salt water, or more like cow, sheep or other mammals?

[hellfish6 7]

Oooh - marine biology. Probably too OT for this forum, but I guess it can be kept open a little while longer.

It could be an octopus, but I wouldn't say it's likely. If you think about it, a Giant Pacific Octopus doesn't really have a size limit - it's got no kind of endo- or exoskeleton. Standard GPOs get to be 10-15m alone, so it's not inconceivable that a particularly well-fed GPO could get to 20-25m/400+kg easy. But I bet it's a giant squid or some other squid species. When those things decompose, they break down really fast and look a lot like that.

Edit: I wouldn't have thought it to be whale blubber, because most sharks that survive in those temperate waters (Great Whites especially) tend to devour most whales in a matter of hours. I find it highly unlikely that so much whale could go uneaten, but then I remembered that shark populations are near 90% lower than they were 10 years ago. There might not have been enough sharks to eat all that blubber.

I will note for the record, though, that in 1976 the world's third largest shark species, the Megamouth, was discovered when it attempted to swallow the anchor of a Navy research vessel off Hawaii. Imagine a 10m surface-swimming shark going undiscovered in well travelled waters and you can imagine how a huge deep-water squid can go unnoticed in the relatively sparsely travelled South Pacific.

Strange things lurk in the deep.

I'm such a fish geek.

[Warin 0]

Oooh - marine biology. Probably too OT for this forum, but I guess it can be kept open a little while longer.

It could be an octopus, but I wouldn't say it's likely. If you think about it, a Giant Pacific Octopus doesn't really have a size limit - it's got no kind of endo- or exoskeleton. Standard GPOs get to be 10-15m alone, so it's not inconceivable that a particularly well-fed GPO could get to 20-25m/400+kg easy. But I bet it's a giant squid or some other squid species. When those things decompose, they break down really fast and look a lot like that.

I will note for the record, though, that in 1976 the world's third largest shark species, the Megamouth, was discovered when it attempted to swallow the anchor of a Navy research vessel off Hawaii. Imagine a 10m surface-swimming shark going undiscovered in well travelled waters and you can imagine how a huge deep-water squid can go unnoticed in the relatively sparsely travelled South Pacific.

Strange things lurk in the deep.

I'm such a fish geek.

*looks up elasmophile*

Ooooh..and here I thought you were into some sort of kinky sex thing ;)

Hopefully they figure out what it is.  The oceans of the world are full of really cool things that we are just starting to understand.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

Hey, you are our resident elasmophile.

[cam0flage 0]

Yarrrr, a monster ... I guess this is just some promo for the Pirates of the Caribbean ;)

[theavonlady 2]

I've always wondered, would whales (and other marine mammals like dolphins) taste like fish because they live in salt water, or more like cow, sheep or other mammals?

Join the club!

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

Quote[/b] ]I've always wondered, would whales (and other marine mammals like dolphins) taste like fish because they live in salt water, or more like cow, sheep or other mammals?

That brings up another interesting question. Would the whale eat a cow if you gave it a swimsuit and dropped it in the water?

[theavonlady 2]

That brings up another interesting question. Would the whale eat a cow if you gave it a swimsuit and dropped it in the water?

Most whales wouldn't touch a cow. Killer whales might eat a calf but maybe not a large full size cow.

Whales are not sharks.

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

Yea but you know whales are so huge. If the cow would float around it might slip inside the mouth of the whale. (?)

[Tamme 0]

Yea but you know whales are so huge. If the cow would float around it might slip inside the mouth of the whale. (?)

lol, what would the cow think? You're swimming and then suddenly you slip inside a whale. MOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[Tamme 0]

Oh yes I forgot. About that big mutant thingy. It can't be an alien cause the cigar smoking man said that they'd be coming 22.12.2012. It's too early.

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

Quote[/b] ]cause the cigar smoking man

Who? Fidel castro?

[RAF_Maverick 0]

Dunno about you, but on the first pic it looked kinda like a big sheep...

But then again, in the second picture it looks like a squashed giant sheep!!!

[Jinef 2]

Ok marine biology is cool, from a distance.

[hellfish6 7]

...and we've gone way too off topic now. But for the record, you probably won't find a whale that eats cow. Beef isn't high enough in fat for them.