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Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | March 14, 2008 8:54 AM

That color--is it real? Artifact? Or magic?
Or just the result of being bathypelagic?

Posted by: Bob | March 14, 2008 8:56 AM

Looking lovely in lavender

Ah, yes, swinging by P.Z.'s site on a Friday, and getting your fill of that squid porn...

Posted by: LisaJ | March 14, 2008 9:17 AM

Oh, pretty!

Posted by: Lilly de Lure | March 14, 2008 10:27 AM

Rheinhard said:

Although in this case, we'd have to name this fellow Kosh or something, because he looks much more like a Vorlon than a Centauri.

As a fellow Babylon 5 fan I think it looks rather more like Kosh's ship than Kosh himself - did it ever have a name of it's own that we could give to this charming little creature (I seem to remember that it was a living creature but I can't remember if anyone ever got around to naming it)?

Posted by: Michael Woelfel | March 14, 2008 1:10 PM

The existence of crude oil, coal, and natural gas has in the past been presented as evidence of an old earth age. But what do the buried fossil fuels actually mean? In order for them to form, certain natural forces must be present. First, a rapid sedimentary overlay must occur, as from a flood, landslide, or volcanic aftermath (plants and animals dying on the surface quickly turn to soil not oil). Organic matter must be put under pressure with moderate temperature over time. Not too much pressure or time is needed however. The method used by CEO Brian Appel, of Changing World Technologies, needs only modest heat and pressure to convert poultry offal and municipal garbage into oil. The process does not take millions of years. Household garbage is changed daily into commercial grade crude oil, in a couple of hours!
Coal can be formed very rapidly in the lab. Experiments have included using wood chips compressed at 130 degrees Fahrenheit for a few hours, resulting in slivers of coal. Elsewhere, The Creation Evidence Museum, Glen Rose Texas, displays a skillfully handcrafted metal pouring cup half-embedded in a lump of coal. A miner chiseled it from a solid coal seam; evidence skilled humans were alive before coal formed.
The massive cavities of oil and coal buried worldwide, sometimes up to five miles down and often under what are now the oceans, actually confirm a cataclysmic flood has occurred in the past; a worldwide flood event that quickly buried surface organic matter and vastly changed the earth's crust. We see billions of dead things, buried in the rock layers, laid down by water, all over the earth. Today landfills are worldwide, what we don't see now are new, naturally occurring underground organic deposits and reservoirs being formed. Certainly our energy-reliant society today would be nowhere near as advanced without all transportation power and the many products that come from fossil fuels. The source of our current prosperity in everything from plastic products around our houses, to the fuel in our cars has come from the trapped remains of the judged civilizations of Noah's day.

Posted by: Kseniya | March 14, 2008 3:36 PM

How? It's just this easy:

"Anything and Everything, therefore Creation."

The source of our current prosperity in everything from plastic products around our houses, to the fuel in our cars has come from the trapped remains of the judged civilizations of Noah's day.

Ah! Well, that explains carbon monoxide!

Posted by: Bride of Shrek | March 14, 2008 10:19 PM

I read somewhere that purple is the colour of sexual frustration. I'm guessing that's one horny little squid.

Posted by: jaffacakes | March 16, 2008 4:35 PM

a program on cephalopods can be found here if your in the uk only i think http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer under factual and science .Wildlife on Two
Gadgets Galore - Cephalopods