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Friday Cephalopod: Blackwater hang
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: July 17, 2009 8:19 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | July 17, 2009 8:31 AM
I just saw this on my google homepage where I have the NG photo feed embedded.
Striking image. Very cool.
Posted by: mescalito | July 17, 2009 8:36 AM
I love cephalopods!
Posted by: Andyman | July 17, 2009 8:46 AM
wow
Posted by: Ian | July 17, 2009 8:49 AM
I want one.
Posted by: KatieA | July 17, 2009 9:43 AM
Beautiful!
Posted by: KatieA | July 17, 2009 9:46 AM
Beautiful!
Posted by: Brock | July 17, 2009 9:47 AM
That thing lives on the same planet as me? Whoa. I feel dull by comparison, with just my two non-blue arms...
Posted by: KatieA | July 17, 2009 9:51 AM
Argh! - I didn't repost, honest!
Posted by: Somnolent Aphid | July 17, 2009 9:58 AM
can't be real. it's too purdy. reminds me of my second wife.
Posted by: Cathal | July 17, 2009 10:02 AM
Wowee zowee
Posted by: Rhonda | July 17, 2009 10:38 AM
What an amazing photograph. Wonder if the little guy knows what a big star he has become
Posted by: daveau
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July 17, 2009 11:02 AM
Gorgeous. Unless it's 90 feet long and coming after us.
Posted by: John | July 17, 2009 11:07 AM
Looks like a I have a new desktop image!
Posted by: Happy Tentacles
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July 17, 2009 11:49 AM
So beautiful! So seductive! Oh those electric blue tentacles!
Posted by: Pekka Pekuri | July 17, 2009 12:37 PM
That's not black water in the background - that's space!
Posted by: jdac | July 17, 2009 1:12 PM
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!
That's a pretty one, indeed.
Posted by: Roy Hilbinger | July 17, 2009 5:18 PM
I have an Automator script on my Mac that downloads the National Geographic Picture of the Day when I run it, and I had this beauty on my desktop the other day (maybe yesterday?).
Posted by: Desert Son
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July 18, 2009 11:09 AM
Spectacular!
No kings,
Robert