Friday Cephalopod: Sleek

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Octopus kagoshimensis

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.

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One down, two to go.

I think the best thing about octopodes is their Rorschach test qualities. I know it's his body, but it's so much more fun to think of it as a nose.

Sili,
Yes, and the "smirk" it makes with his tentacles is smug enough to belong to a "libertarian"!

By Nick Gotts (not verified) on 26 Sep 2008 #permalink

Reminds me of a retrofuturistic train concept I've seen before.

When our cephalopod overlords assume public mastery of politics, their human flunkies will wear egg-shaped or arrow-shaped floppy hats.

This one looks especially zippy.

Seeing this, in my head I am hearing that auto commercial tag line:

Zoom Zoom!

By Rheinhard (not verified) on 26 Sep 2008 #permalink

This is clearly a photo in need of an:

"Iä! Iä! Cthulhu f'htagn!"

We now return you to your regularly scheduled ichthyo-batrachian transformation. "Where has the Dagon(tm)?"

No kings,

Robert

By Desert Son (not verified) on 26 Sep 2008 #permalink

Friday Cephalopods! YAY!

George Lucas needs to make a new Star Wars movie, just so he can design a spaceship based on this.