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Friday Cephalopod: Placid and serene
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: March 13, 2009 6:08 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: echidna | March 13, 2009 6:39 AM
Is it a cat?
Is it a moomintroll?
No, it's super-cephalopod!
Posted by: Sherpa19072 | March 13, 2009 6:51 AM
All it needs is a tiny blanket and a teddy.
Posted by: Kate | March 13, 2009 7:01 AM
**honk-shu**
*bubble*
**honk-shu**
*bubble*
Posted by: llewelly | March 13, 2009 7:16 AM
'Placid and serene'?
More like 'Lurking and Plotting' .
Posted by: fairyhedgehog
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March 13, 2009 7:17 AM
You're sure it's not a Moomintroll? Nice one, echidna :)
Posted by: Rjaye | March 13, 2009 7:17 AM
Oh, my, isn't she cute. She even looks like she's purring...: )
Posted by: c-law | March 13, 2009 7:23 AM
"He waits and dreams in the deep, and one day the cities of man shall fall before him!"
Posted by: Boudica | March 13, 2009 7:30 AM
It looks like an orange hippo.......
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | March 13, 2009 7:42 AM
I love my cute deadly!
Posted by: Miss Gonzo | March 13, 2009 7:42 AM
I don't care what it is, my question is:
Does this creature throw stuff?
I love those rebellious animals.
:)
Posted by: Rahul | March 13, 2009 7:47 AM
Am I the only one, or did it remind anyone else of PZ?
Posted by: Moggie | March 13, 2009 8:17 AM
Fhtagn!
Posted by: Jeanette | March 13, 2009 8:24 AM
Hippopodamus.
Posted by: Eidolon
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March 13, 2009 8:39 AM
Kate:
Good 'un.
Posted by: Anne Hedonia | March 13, 2009 8:48 AM
It is simply exhibiting natrual behaviour. To anthropomorphise this creature serves no purpose and is an example of why emotion is redundant and must be removed to further human evolution.
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | March 13, 2009 8:54 AM
If Garfield were an cephalopod,
I think he'd look like that;
A bug-eyed, lazy, orange-coated
Tabby octocat!
Posted by: mud_rake | March 13, 2009 8:56 AM
At first glance, it looks like a baby hippo that ate too much orange sherbet.
Posted by: Kate | March 13, 2009 8:57 AM
@Eidolon:
Why thank you! I hadn't had coffee yet, and all I wanted to do was crawl into that pic and curl up with the little cutie for a nap! (Once I'd put on some diving gear and a rebreather, that is.)
Posted by: Ridge Soffit | March 13, 2009 9:00 AM
Weeze anthropomorphaizin?
Oh Noes!
Posted by: Masks of Eris | March 13, 2009 9:07 AM
Cute?
No.
Dead but dreaming, in the ancient sands of the deep sea.
And if you get too close, up for a midnight snack from the easily opened fridge of your cranium.
Posted by: SEF | March 13, 2009 9:09 AM
Are its tentacles stuffed into the sand to anchor it, or is it up to something nefarious down there ...
Posted by: Personal Failure | March 13, 2009 9:26 AM
He looks like I wish I felt.
Posted by: KI | March 13, 2009 10:14 AM
Anne Hedonia, I have noticed many spelling errors in your posts, you should return to Processing Central to have your nanoprobes restored to proper working order. Perfection is the goal. The rest of you will be assimilated shortly, resistance is futile.
Posted by: Deacon Barry | March 13, 2009 10:19 AM
"And when Bagpuss falls asleep...."
Posted by: mikespeir | March 13, 2009 10:40 AM
A calico octopus?
Posted by: SEF | March 13, 2009 11:16 AM
Bagpuss was apparently intended to be orange striped, but he came back from the dyers pink instead and the programme makers just went with it.
Posted by: Allytude | March 13, 2009 11:52 AM
HE is uncannily like my cat! I second the Garfield idea
Posted by: Mozglubov | March 13, 2009 11:53 AM
My reading of Pharyngula motivated me to mention cephalopods in my most recent blog post... so PZ Myers has accomplished something in educating the world about the wonders of the squishy sea creatures. Does anyone know of any good references on the nervous system of cephalopods?
Posted by: SASnSA | March 13, 2009 12:56 PM
Wait, don't most octopi change color to orange when they're aggravated? (as opposed to matching surrounding colors normally)
Posted by: itwasntme | March 13, 2009 1:15 PM
I'd like to be
Under the sea
In an octopus' garden
In the shade...
Posted by: Mark A. Siefert | March 13, 2009 1:28 PM
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Posted by: Hillary Rettig/The Lifelong Activist | March 13, 2009 1:30 PM
he appears to have achieved Buddha-nature.
Posted by: Dave The Drummer | March 13, 2009 1:32 PM
This is the first cute octopus I've seen. It almost looks furry because of the image compression artifacts. Wow.
Posted by: Anne Hedonia | March 13, 2009 1:57 PM
'ki' your use of humour displays a flawed reliance upon emotion.
Posted by: Sili | March 13, 2009 2:19 PM
I think he's just dropped his keys.Posted by: D'oh! | March 13, 2009 2:51 PM
Maybe, but I found it to be funny.
On the other hand, your attempts to skewer what you imagine to be the atheist's disdain for emotion miss their target entirely.
Posted by: Kate | March 13, 2009 3:01 PM
Anne, your concern has been noted and filed under "t" for "Troll".
Posted by: Notagod | March 13, 2009 3:17 PM
She looks awfully full, must have eaten the whole christian!
Good girl!!
Posted by: TJ Longshore | March 13, 2009 5:38 PM
If only our life was so serene.
One of the reasons I am a certified scuba diver. It is another world down there.
Good picture for the week!
Posted by: Katkinkate | March 13, 2009 5:38 PM
It's looking for food in the sand.
Posted by: Brownian
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March 13, 2009 5:40 PM
Is Anne Hedonian attempting an antiPoe? If so, she'd do well to remember Brownian's Corollary to Poe's Law: "A fundamentalist theist/creationist is generally incapable of producing a convincing parody of an atheist/evolutionist."
One needs to understand a thing before one can lampoon a thing. The naive lack of rigour which characterises the fundie and creationist positions makes them easily satirised, but by their very nature they render their victims unable to appreciate another's way of thinking enough to replicate it.
Posted by: Eidolon
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March 13, 2009 6:29 PM
From another her posts on another thread, my hypothesis is that Anne is doing her Vulcan imitation.
Posted by: felgi chromowane | March 14, 2009 6:54 AM
In my opinion the largest threat for California are cataclysms and ecological catastrophes. Not important is how many money we have because one tragedy can us take all.
Posted by: Thunderbird5 | March 14, 2009 2:45 PM
Notagod #38
NomNomNice one
BIG girl arencha babe?
Posted by: astrounit | March 15, 2009 4:37 PM
That image simply exudes serenity and comfort, well being and even cephalopod happiness.
There ain't a cushioned couch on Earth that can deliver anywhere near that level of physical tranquility to us bony landlubbers.