I have no idea what the cephalopods flying over the city have to do with the ecological message in the small print, but heck, it's a cool picture anyway.
Maybe it has something to do with octopuses swimming over flooded cities, but they look airborn to me.
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Well, I for one welcome our new airborn octopus overlords.
Ok, sorry.
Looks like L.A. on an unhealthy air day.
i think they're swimming in water covering a city
with.. cloud boats.
I, for one, welcome our new tentacled overlords.
I don't think there would be clouds underneath the water. Unless it's squid ink?
Agh! Missed the first comment up there. OKay, have to make amends.
Caption: "The new Boeing 888 offers business class passengers extra leg room!"
The poor things don't look comfortable, either. More like they've been shot from a catapult than like swimming... why global warming will cause people to do THAT, I don't know.
Ia Ia Cthulhu! Ia Ia Azathoth! Ia Ia Yog Sothoth! Ia Ia Nyarlathotep! Ia Ia, Shub Niggurath! Ia Ia Odhra-guoa! Ia Ia Tasthogguoa! Ia Ia Hastur! Ia Ia Zoth Omog!
Photographically, they're airborne. The point of the ad is that, should the city be submerged, this whole place will be flooded: "Right *now*, there's air here."
That's a beautiful pic. Must be a vision of that glorious day when the Great Old Ones return, and teach us new ways of revelling in joy...
Cool! Found my new wallpaper for the week.
This is what happens when you combine environmentalism, abstract thinking and graphic design all into one.
This is what happens when you combine environmentalism and bongs.
It's not the heat that's causing them to fly. The city is very, very humid.
Flying octopii are the new unicorns. I love this.
Dateline, 2009. Disgruntled science blogger PZ Myers hijacks a planeload of trained Army cephalopods and commences carpet bombing of the capital.
I'm surprised that WWF would say "nature is revolting". I thought they were pretty much contractually obliged to approve of nature...
That sounds like... Squids On a Plane!
I think we need Samuel L. Jackson to star in THAT movie.
So global warming is gonna be like the Beatle's song Octopus's garden?
That doesn't sound so bad.
Anything to do with the fact that global warming might cause an increase in number and size of giant squids? http://www.abc.net.au/news/scitech/2002/08/item20020801155009_1.htm
Oooh, they've got to give me a walk-on role in that movie. I could happily be the science nerd sitting in coach when the tentacle descends and strangles him. There's a lot of potential there: a scene with tentacles rising out of the toilet would be good, or with the cephalopods using their suckers to cling to the side of the plane and crawl forward towards the cockpit...
I was thinking that Detroit Red Wings fans were celebrating by flinging octopodes/octopi/octopuses in the air. Except that Steve Yzerman is retiring, and I can't think why they would be happy about that.
a scene with tentacles rising out of the toilet would be good
How about if the cabin loses pressure and the oxygen masks drop down, but in your case down come some tentacles to wrap around your face instead?
Those octopuses look as if they've been launched from giant catapults and are just starting to get their bearings. Does global warming entail cephalopod warfare?
I'm just sure that flying octupi has something to do with pirates and the FSM, but I'm too sleep-deprived to suss it out right now ...
I think the idea is that the smog in LA is getting so thick you can swim in it. Or something.
Since I didn't see the birth, at the moment I think they're airborne . . . ;)
Catherine - who believes scientists can also spell.