Deep Sea Monster Baffles Scientists 138
sbszine writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has a report of a bizarre sea creature that has washed up on the coast of Chile. The creature is grey, lumpy, and the size of a school bus. Scientists have ruled out the possibility that it may be a whale -- the creature is an invertebrate, and perhaps even a new species."
Also found nearby... (Score:5, Funny)
ref [umich.edu]
Re:Also found nearby... (Score:2)
Can't find pics of it (Score:1)
Many eyes make all oceans shallow.
Re:Can't find pics of it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can't find pics of it (Score:1)
pic of it... (Score:3, Informative)
photos (Score:4, Informative)
Reuters photo [reuters.com]
Re:Can't find pics of it (Score:2)
So what's the point.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So what's the point.. (Score:2)
It's an ill-tempered sea monster...
CowboyNeal!! (Score:5, Funny)
They finally found him!
Re:CowboyNeal!! (Score:1)
CUT IT UP!! (Score:1)
Maybe my keys are in it! I have looked everywhere for them. :-/
Re:CUT IT UP!! (Score:1)
It's the last place I look sometimes..
Re:CUT IT UP!! (Score:2)
Re:CUT IT UP!! (Score:2)
Not for me. I found em and I just kept on lookin, you know, just in case.
Fine journalism (Score:5, Insightful)
Photographs showed a round leathery substance like a mammoth jelly fish, about as long as a school bus.
So show us the above mentioned photographs already! What the fuck kind of tease is this?
GMD
Re:Fine journalism (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Fine journalism (Score:1)
Last I checked, ads don't count.
parent is a troll (Score:2)
Re:parent is a troll (Score:2)
Huh? I see a photo [cnn.net].
parent is a troll
Pot,kettle,black.
Re:parent is a troll (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:parent is a troll (Score:1)
Re:Fine journalism (Score:2)
Caption from one of the CNN photos: The remains continue to be bantered by the tide in the Chilean coast, a week after being discovered.
Bantered [reference.com]? The remains and the tide exchanged mildly teasing remarks? The tide spoke to the remains in a playful or teasing way? They engaged in Good-humored, playful conversation?
Hello, CNN - I think the word is 'battered'.
Re:Fine journalism (Score:2)
If that link dosen't work, goto the BBC site and you'll find it in the News -> Science bit.
Re:Fine journalism (Score:2)
CNN has photos (Score:2)
Re:Fine journalism (Score:2)
direct link to photo (Score:2)
now i can't imagine why any newspaper would be hesitant to post that picture. goate.cx part 2?...
I posted two photos (Score:2)
Enjoy.
Re:Fine journalism (Score:2)
pictures? (Score:1)
Move along, nothing to see here.
Similar Event: Picture included (Score:1)
http://www.mysterymag.com/html/tasmanian_blobst
Re:Similar Event: Picture included (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTV
Re:Similar Event: Picture included (Score:2)
Sept. 2002 != June 2003
Whale shark != gelatinous invertebrate blob
Climate change causing this? (Score:5, Interesting)
I wonder how many new species we will see before and after the earth slides into an ice age [discover.com]?
Re:Climate change causing this? (Score:2)
Re:Climate change causing this? (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Climate change causing this? (Score:2)
That's just natural selection in action. The human race doesn't need people who move at geological speeds (or, as they're more commonly called, civil servants).
Re:Climate change causing this? (Score:1)
not many (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't think you, me or we are going to see many new species before or after.
What others will see are your, mine and our dead corpses.
And they will see it long before the end of any ice age.
Southpark? (Score:2, Funny)
Mr Garrison:
Rosie O'Donnell: Hello, kids!
Maybe she went swimming and drown?
Re:Southpark? (Score:1)
Re:Southpark? (Score:1)
I've seen her walk upright, but I've yet to see proof she's a vertebrate.
So how many invertebrates have you seen walk upright?
Think Bugs... (Score:1)
They FINALLY... (Score:1)
No Pictures? (Score:2)
Maybe... (Score:2, Funny)
(biological division of course)
From the CCC website (Score:3, Informative)
-Sean
Re:From the CCC website (Score:2, Informative)
Re:From the CCC website (Score:3, Informative)
The bottom of the referenced page [ccc-chile.org] mechanically translates to:
STRANGE FINDING
CCC also it was alerted of a second varamiento of whale in the Pinuno beach, 3.9 kilometers to the north of the place where the unit of jorobada whale is located, reason why Sunday attended the place in hours in the morning.
When acceding to the zone, the inspection equipment could verify that it would not be a cetacean, but of an invertebrate of great dimensions. To grief that other declarations affirm that it would be the lea
It's been identified (Score:1, Troll)
A slashtroll (Score:5, Funny)
Consider: Large. Smelly. Spineless. Gray.
A slashtroll ventured away from his keyboard under the bridge, and went to the beach, perhaps in search of a mate. It was caught by the sunlight (which it was completely unprepared for) and killed.
So, all we need is for some sick^Wstupid^Wbrave person to volunteer to visit the depths of -1 and see what trolls have stopped posting.
I'd volunteer, but I just don't care.
Re:A slashtroll (Score:2)
Consider: Large. Smelly. Spineless. Gray.
Except that one defining feature of Slashtrolls is that THEY NEVER SEEM TO DIE!
Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! (Score:5, Funny)
"Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes - viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells -- rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinately plastic and ductile -- slaves of suggestion, builders of cities -- more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative! Great God! What madness made even those blasphemous Old Ones willing to use [...] such things?
"At the Mountains of Madness", by H. P. Lovecraft
I'm waiting for the next slashdot story: "Decapitated, Slime-Covered Body of Researcher Found!"
CTHULU (Score:3, Insightful)
CTHULU
Cthulu
Cthulu
Cthulu
Cthulu
Chileans - smarter than the Oregon Highway Patrol (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Chileans - smarter than the Oregon Highway Patr (Score:3, Informative)
Yep, the Oregon State Highway Division already tried that [airbubble.com], and it didn't work [gloop.org]!
Re:Chileans - smarter than the Oregon Highway Patr (Score:1)
Re:Chileans - smarter than the Oregon Highway Patr (Score:2)
time running out? (Score:1)
Whatever it is (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, Darl McBride doesn't know what it is either, but has confirmed that SCO will sue it.
McBride alleged that being an "[nvertebrate] mass of decomposing lumpy grey flesh" is a business process patent owned exclusively by, and licensed exclusively to, SCO, and that therefore the sea monster is infringing SCO's IP.
Re:The new Slashjoke! Guaranteed to hit 5, Funny! (Score:2)
humpback whale found nearby (Score:3, Interesting)
I thought it was well known that humpback whales and giant squid were mortal enemies... I'd say these two had an all out battle and both died as a result.
Well that's my theory, I'm stickin' to it.
Re:humpback whale found nearby (Score:1, Informative)
Re:humpback whale found nearby (Score:2)
colossal squid? (Score:2, Informative)
sounds like a squid allright (Score:2)
Nope. That's sperm. (Score:1, Informative)
Who is naming these whales anyway, Ron Jeremy?
I've got it!! (Score:3, Funny)
Jimmy Hoffa! I knew he'd be found!
Photos of Sea Lump (Score:2, Informative)
"Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists"
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/07/02/chil
Unless someone has already posted
Re:Photos of Sea Lump (Score:2)
mod parent down? (Score:2)
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It's.... (Score:2)
Read Me (Funny) (Score:2)
Well.. they're back!
Identity Known (Score:3, Funny)
texture and smell (Score:3, Funny)
The thing that intrigues me is that there are people who have expertise in the area of texture and smell of decomposing whale skin. Is there a professional society for these people?
Anyway, sounds neat, and I'm sure they can figure out if it is a whale by doing a little PCR and sequencing. (I think this is my answer to most science questions these days)
Re:texture and smell (Score:1)
Wow, drugs sure have changed since I was in college...
contextualize (Score:1)
I don't think drugs have changed all that much since I was in college. In the 60s my college was the acid distributor for the East Coast. I was there in the early 90s and there were still a suspiciously large number of chemistry majors.
another story about deep sea monsters (Score:2, Interesting)
Picture on CNN (Score:1)
looks like a jellyfish
I wonder (Score:1)
Pictures finally posted (Score:3, Informative)
You've all been waiting for this, but of course in a photo it just looks like a big gray blob.
Residue (Score:1)
Photo of it here (Score:1)
So... (Score:2)
Re:Amazing (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Amazing (Score:2)
giant squid and whales are known to attack each other. (evidenced by sucker marks found on dead whales, etc.)
Re:Amazing (Score:2)
Re:Amazing (Score:3, Insightful)
Not to say that it's not an interesting find.
=Smidge=
Squiddy pics (Score:1)
Link to some good pics of giant squid. mmm sushi..
Re:Amazing (Score:1)
SANTIAGO, Chile, July 2 -- A huge, gelatinous sea creature found washed up on Chile's coast has stumped scientists, who have sent samples to a specialist in France for help in identifying the mystery specimen. The dead creature was mistaken for a beached whale when first reported last week, but experts who went to see it said the 40-foot-long mass of decomposing lumpy gray flesh apparently was an invertebrate.
"WE'D NEVER before seen such a strange
Re:Amazing (Score:1)
Re:Possibly... (Score:1)
Re:Possibly... (Score:4, Informative)
Do invertebrates have ears? I don't know the answer, but I do know quite a good deal about the U.S. Navy's sonar program (called SURTASS or sometimes SURTASS LFA) as I just spent the past week researching it for a debate tournament.
SURTASS LFA (Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System, Low Frequency Active) sends out sonar pings to search for mines, submarines, and the like at around 180 dB, though it can get louder or quieter than that. It does indeed cause severe damage to marine life, particularly whales and dolphins, who communicate with sonar and therefore are susceptible to this type of sonar. It causes severe acoustic trauma and sometimes bleeding around the ears and even death. It is also known to cause strandings of whales...
The reason I bring this up is that if any sea creature doesn't have ears/can't hear sound/whatever, they are immune to this type of sonar. However, if they do have ears, they can be quite vulnerable to it. Do any invertebrates have ears? Do squid? This could be related.
Re:Possibly... (Score:1)
I have no idea wether these systems would be impacted by this sonar.
Re:Possibly... (Score:1)
Re:Possibly... (Score:1)
How high of a decibel does it have to be to cause damage? Furthermore, animals with ears are more susceptible to this type of sonar. I didn't mean to say that animals without ears are necessarily immune to it.