Huge squid, caught!!!!! 39 foot long!!!!

fusion · Post by **fusion** » 2007-02-22 03:17pm

Yes it is a squid that can make "Calamari the Size of a Tractor Tire"

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Now that would make a cool pet.
Of course now we have a squid bigger than any other being caught.
Ideas?

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2007-02-22 03:20pm

Now, it's not a giant squid, it is a colossal squid. The article is very diligent about pointing that out. Colossal squid can grow to be 46 feet long, but giant squid peter out at a mere 39 feet. Wimps.

As for your question, well, I think it's obvious. Stick a mind control device on it and send it to attack enemy shipping.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-02-22 04:04pm

Losonti Tokash wrote:Now, it's not a giant squid, it is a colossal squid. The article is very diligent about pointing that out. Colossal squid can grow to be 46 feet long, but giant squid peter out at a mere 39 feet. Wimps.

As for your question, well, I think it's obvious. Stick a mind control device on it and send it to attack enemy shipping.

It's just get killed by the mind-controlled dolphins

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-02-22 05:08pm

Damn you, I was hoping we'd gotten a live Colossal Squid for captivity... I could see the different aquariums taking out loans just to have that...

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2007-02-22 05:22pm

I take it that "39 feet long" refers to the top of its head to the tip of its longest tentacle.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2007-02-22 05:23pm

Bow down to human conquest, slimy oversized sushi!

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2007-02-22 05:53pm

Sashimi actually. There's no rice or nori.

Regardless, that is friggin' awesome.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2007-02-22 07:17pm

Darth Yoshi wrote:Sashimi actually. There's no rice or nori.

Regardless, that is friggin' awesome.

You have never had tako? Eh, I guess that's octopus...

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2007-02-22 08:26pm

He's referring to the fact that sushi implies the presence of sushi rice; sashimi is the slab of raw seafood without additional interference of kelp paper and rice.

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Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2007-02-22 09:30pm

Man, that would make for some good eating! Fried calamrai.

squidman001 · Post by **squidman001** » 2007-02-22 10:25pm

Trytostaydead wrote:Man, that would make for some good eating! Fried calamrai.

Correct me if I'm wrong but, aren't the bigger squids flesh full of ammonium ions, making them inedible?

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2007-02-22 10:44pm

squidman001 wrote:
Trytostaydead wrote:Man, that would make for some good eating! Fried calamrai.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, aren't the bigger squids flesh full of ammonium ions, making them inedible?

But that would defeat their reason to exist in the first place!

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2007-02-22 10:52pm

squidman001 wrote:
Trytostaydead wrote:Man, that would make for some good eating! Fried calamrai.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, aren't the bigger squids flesh full of ammonium ions, making them inedible?

Yeah, you're correct, sir.

I wonder how Spermies do it.

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-02-23 12:03am

squidman001 wrote:
Trytostaydead wrote:Man, that would make for some good eating! Fried calamrai.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, aren't the bigger squids flesh full of ammonium ions, making them inedible?

Lies... it's more of your lies to keep us from eating your evil non-mammalian allies!

squidman001 · Post by **squidman001** » 2007-02-23 05:18pm

General Schatten wrote: Lies... it's more of your lies to keep us from eating your evil non-mammalian allies!

Shhh, lets keep that quiet. We aren't prepared to assault yet...

Superman wrote:I wonder how Spermies do it.

Thats a very good question. I've heard all about how Sperm Whales eat the squid, but never how they actually manage to stomach it. Do they have some exotic process going on to allow them to eat them that cetologists aren't telling us about?

TithonusSyndrome · Post by **TithonusSyndrome** » 2007-02-26 11:13am

Maybe they're just so massive that large squid don't pack enough ammonium to reach harmful toxicity levels.

ray245 · Post by **ray245** » 2007-02-26 11:42am

Wait...we have FINALLY caught a adult colossal squid and the first thing you guys talk about is EATING it?

What happens to research in name of science?

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2007-02-26 05:20pm

We can research whether or not colossal squid digests like regular squid. In the name of science, of course.

Look on the bright side, no one's mentioned tentacle hentai yet.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2007-02-26 10:15pm

TithonusSyndrome wrote:Maybe they're just so massive that large squid don't pack enough ammonium to reach harmful toxicity levels.

Good call. That might indeed be what's happening there... I'll see if I can look that one up.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2007-02-27 09:40am

ray245 wrote:Wait...we have FINALLY caught a adult colossal squid and the first thing you guys talk about is EATING it?

What happens to research in name of science?

No, the first thing we talked about was sticking a mind control device and employing it as a BOW.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2007-02-27 02:30pm

ray245 wrote:Wait...we have FINALLY caught a adult colossal squid and the first thing you guys talk about is EATING it?

What happens to research in name of science?

Quiet you! I'm far too busy working on my plan to exploit the giant squids for their ammonia content, so I can synthesize an industrial solvent, to listen to your shinnaniganry.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2007-02-27 04:46pm

You people suck. Collossal squids are fascinating creatures, and should be investigated with the proper mindset, damn ye all.

ray245 · Post by **ray245** » 2007-02-27 11:19pm

Agreed. We don't even know much about the way the live...anyway, I'm still hoping more 'giant' size sea creatures can be discovered.

Lord Relvenous · Post by **Lord Relvenous** » 2007-02-28 12:30am

Like the giant Sea Snail? Its out there, I know it is. It will be the size of a house when we find it.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2007-02-28 01:29am

Lord Relvenous wrote:Like the giant Sea Snail? Its out there, I know it is. It will be the size of a house when we find it.

I'm still hoping we find that elusive pegasus so I can ride around on it and crap on people's houses. It could be in the sea... it could be...