Blanket octopus

[Nevilledog]

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[Faux pas]

1. Whoa!

[Bayard]

2. Wowza!

Looks like the underwater aliens from, "The Abyss."

[slightlv]

6. I just said to my hubby

if aliens are among us here on Earth, they have to be octopi! (LOL)

[tblue37]

3. Wow.

[lark]

4. Dazzling display n.t.

[Different Drummer]

5. Wowsers!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

7. The most fascinating creatures on earth.

I just wished they lived longer.

[drmeow]

8. Wow

I'd have been tempted to call it a butterfly octopus!

[Not Heidi]

9. What an amazing piece of evolution.

I was going to say, what an amazing creature, but being an atheist . . . .

[DENVERPOPS]

10. Actually

it is just one of many weird mutations caused by the Gulf Oil Spill or Exxon Valdez mishap.........

The shrimp in the gulf have figured out a way to find and eat food, because most of them were blinded by the continuing oil in the water.

There is a continuing nightmare in the Gulf because of the BP? oil rig blowout..... and other wells leaking, but you never hear about them.

[Hekate]

20. Is this really one of those mutations? Any idea where the filming was done?

[Conjuay]

28. Exxon Valdez or Gulf oil spill?

They are found on coral reefs, certainly NOT Alaska and in some of the cleanest water on the planet.
And most shrimp feed by smell or by touch not by vision. Speaking of vision,

Mantis Shrimp can see in in twelve channels of color, UV spectrum, and polarized light.

Much wider range than mere humans.

So try for more realistic nonsense if you have to add comments like that

[DENVERPOPS]

35. Sorry

I will limit my sense of humor.

You seem to have a better grasp than most of us about oceans......Maybe you can tell me about:

Why did Jane Lubchenco, one of the worlds foremost experts on oceans, exit the Biden administration during the gulf blowout????

[Hekate]

21. You self-censor the word "creature" ? Because...it refers to something "created" ?

Okey-dokey, but this is a first for me.

[Not Heidi]

24. To me "created" implies "creator" - and that brings in the god of the bible

I grew up a fundamentalist Christian. I began questioning at age 23 and by 30 I was an atheist. I can't get over how ridiculous is the idea of an intelligent creator. It just brings to mind the biblical creation myth.

[Aussie105]

27. There you go again.

Instead of admiring the beauty of this creature, which is the point of this video, you have to translate everything into what is relevant to you.

You hate religion, I get it, but try not to be so easily triggered, ok?

(I am an atheist too. Don't feel a need to bring it up though.)

[Not Heidi]

36. You feeling ok, Aussie?

Because there's no need to get on me like that, ok? For the most part, I write where my mind goes. This doesn't keep me from appreciating what I see.

I apologize for nothing.

[Hekate]

29. In my middle years I realized polytheism worked better for me...

I never gave up on a sense of the divine, but finally couldn’t take the contortions of trying to verbally separate from the increasingly vile & intolerant Republican Supply-Side Jesus. I finally decided that they had indeed created a god in their own image, and he was a mean, nasty, intolerant, punitive god —

Whatever they wanted to call him, it didn’t comport with what I believed. Read their Book? Absolutely I did. Jesus didn’t come off as a bad person at all, in either the King James or Modern English versions. Seems to be a separate god entirely.

But by the time I sorted it all out, I was off in another direction anyway. Myth as metaphor, and I like the one about the Mother of All giving birth to all. I refrain from humorous bumper stickers like “My Goddess gave birth to your God” because I have just the one car and don’t want it trashed.

[Hekate]

11. Gorgeous creature!

[Mickju]

12. How beautiful!

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. Hey DU -can we all agree to stop ordering octopus at restaurants??

I’m in.

[3catwoman3]

15. Me, too.

[NoMoreRepugs]

31. TY.

[2naSalit]

16. I'm in.

I stopped eating seafood some time ago.

[NoMoreRepugs]

32. TY.

[Coventina]

18. Even before I was a full vegetarian, I quit eating cephalopods

due to their intelligence.

No octopi, cuttlefish, squid, or nautilidae for me!!

[NoMoreRepugs]

33. TY.

[Hekate]

19. Haven't eaten them since I learned how intelligent they are, quite a few years ago

[NoMoreRepugs]

34. TY.

[Fla Dem]

14. That is the most alien, but beautiful creture I have seen.

[DENVERPOPS]

37. And proven

to have a high intelligence.......

[Martin Eden]

17. Please Please Please, Save the Oceans!

The myriad beautiful exotic life of Earth is priceless.

[AmBlue]

22. What a magical creature!!

Mother Nature never ceases to amaze. Shame on us if we fail to save our oceans and planet from the crushing footprint of mankind.

[Aviation Pro]

23. Nope

….

[Nevilledog]

25. Blanket phobia?

[Aviation Pro]

30. Movie flashback

….

[burrowowl]

26. WOW!

[XanaDUer2]

38. Wow nt