Comments on: Current Geek 24: “Someone’s gotta take care of this garden”

By: soniablue

soniablue — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:25:13 +0000

I’d love to see a picture of a dolphin wearing an octopus helmet.

By: notlefthanded

notlefthanded — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:56:19 +0000

It was fun listening to octopus talk on a podcast again. The first true octopus-centered podcast was Diggnation Episode 6. The Rose Man and Actor Boy discussed a Canadian TV clip showing an octopus in an aquarium attacking and killing sharks. Here’s a link to the original video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202#
Just as an aside, I read a translation of Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” many years ago which described a famous episode in the journey of the “Nautilus” as an attack on the ship by a giant “cuttlefish”. You wonder whether the translator actually spoke English.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:06:36 +0000

is it wrong that I wanted this one to end with “tentacles” instead of “testicles”? (Yes it is).

By: DoggySpew

DoggySpew — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:48:06 +0000

Oftopic: Will every episode end with the testicle quote ?

By: Blair in West HollyWeird

Blair in West HollyWeird — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:03:43 +0000

Actually octopusses are one of the, if not the smartest creature of the sea. They have eight brain hemispheres (eight tenticles as well)
years ago I remeber how scientist would intorduce favorite foods into the octopusses tank, but the food would be inside jars with screw top lids. Having never seen such a thing the octopusses in all cases were able to figure out how to unscrew the jars in 15 minutes or less. Plus remeber that large sea aquarium that was losing sharks left and right. Video cameras eventually discovered the octopus was waiting for a shark to pass by and would then grab the shark and keep it from swimming forward, thereby making it impossible for the shark to force water through it’s gills and cause it to suffrocate.