What can beat a whale?

Prey4Me · Post by **Prey4Me** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:15 am

lol i can't tell by that picture

frizza · Post by **frizza** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:18 am

ok try this pic of an angler fish then

Speedracer · Post by **Speedracer** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:05 am

Isn't that the scary fish that tried to eat that orange clown fish and dumb blue fish... what were their names? whatever... That fish scared me silly.

locutus · Post by **locutus** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:16 am

looks like marrow in the morning...

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:18 am

nice ones, frizza. the deep-water freaks are beyond belief. my favorite might be that fish that is nothing much more than a swimming stomach. it has dislocatable jaws that let it swallow in one gulp fishes that are bigger than it. it's really rather gruesome and beyond belief...

another fish, perhaps the most ego-destroying one of all (speaking as a male), is a type of angler in which the male basically.... oh god, i'm eating some soup right now and feeling queesy. i'm not going to tell this story today, it's kind of sickening.

frizza · Post by **frizza** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:55 am

all the more reason to share it with the rest of us!!

Prey4Me · Post by **Prey4Me** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:03 am

lol i'll just make sure im not eating food when i read it

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:24 am

we'll get back to that when i'm feeling better.

don't forget:

12-foot humans! real!

Marrow · Post by **Marrow** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 12:41 pm

locutus wrote:looks like marrow in the morning...

It's approximately 6:39 a.m. and I just woke up. Believe me, not a pretty sight.

n54 · Post by **n54** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 12:47 pm

nicolas.b wrote:how sure are you of your facts?

that's a very nice question... let me answer in way of an example:
after reading "introduction to contemporary epistomology" (by jonathan dancy, blackwell publishers, ISBN 0-631-13622-3) i was sure enough about "facts" that i didn't bother taking the exam

btw epistomology is the philosophical branch on theory of knowledge and justification - i read philosophy for about a year a long time ago at university before i realised it was a complete waste of time (= no jobs, no money & no respect really - not even much knowledge)

anyway afaik they have found dead killer whales that seemed to have been killed by giant squid (as well as squid parts in their tummies), both orca orcanus and giant squid are carnivores and when you have a pretty big beak (like the giant squid likely have, considering they have eyes the size of dinner plates) you want something fairly big to use it on (cod doesn't really fit the bill if you get my point)

it's all pseudo-scientific speculation, maybe the giant squid feeds on something else, but what?

12-foot humans... where are the skeletons? there was a period of gigantism so i'm not being too sceptic, and you said 'proto-humans' so i'm silently translating that into 'simians' in my grey box + i'm feeling slightly epistomologic today: who knows?

Speedracer · Post by **Speedracer** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 3:35 pm

I have considered pyschology and philosophy as study points in my life, being that I have been exposed to that way of thinking, but epistomology sounds way better.

whatever.

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:47 pm

n54 wrote:
nicolas.b wrote:how sure are you of your facts?
that's a very nice question... let me answer in way of an example:
after reading "introduction to contemporary epistomology" (by jonathan dancy, blackwell publishers, ISBN 0-631-13622-3) i was sure enough about "facts" that i didn't bother taking the exam

node, your sense of humor is so... so... well, i don't know the right words, maybe. you should be published, certainly. a combination of wittiness, self-deprecation, frankness and let's say zen-ness. but it takes one to know one, IMO.

too bad you suck so badly playing tron... i would have been impressed.

BTW, you know who steve martin is? i read yesterday that he had the training to be a univeristy-level philosophy professor, is a professional-level banjo player, and was an emmy-winning writer for the old smothers brothers comedy show. apparantly he drew on his philosophy training to become one of the greatest standup performers of the 70's. and here's a couple quotes i like from him, thanks to IMDB:

"I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy."

"The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself."

"What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."

(While hosting 73rd Annual Academy Awards, The (2001) (TV)) "And now, I'm pleased to introduce the star of the film 'Gladiator,' and a man I like to call a close, personal friend, but he told me not to..."

"I wrote a novel this year called 'Shop Girl,' and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, "If you think you're going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending... that's going to cost you."

"All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work."

"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."

"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you are an idiot."

"It's very hard being one of the most beautiful people. Having this kind of beauty is actually a burden. Sometimes I go to a party and not one of the other 49 most beautiful people is there. That makes me feel very solitary and alone, because it means I am the most beautiful person in the room. If I'm going to a party where I know there will be 'less-beautiful people,' I try to 'dress down' in order to hide my beauty. But this seems to have a counter-effect of actually making me more beautiful. I guess me and dungarees are a pretty potent combination. I try not to lord my beauty over others. This is very hard. I try not to mention that I am one of the most beautiful people, but somehow it always comes out. I will usually only bring it up when I'm asked to do a task, like open a garage door. People seem to enjoy my beauty and are genuinely happy for me, because after I mention it they always say, 'How nice for you.'" -- From People Magazine, 20 May 2003, in which Martin was listed as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People.

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:49 pm

gigantopithecus:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~nathist/Site/giganto.html

was actually one of the great apes, not human, but did live alongside early humans. closest relative appears to be the orangutan. of course, that still means they had about 95% DNA compatibility with us. that ain't nothing to sneeze at...

Speedracer · Post by **Speedracer** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:56 pm

After reading about Steve Martin, whom I have always admired, I have concluded that life is based on soul and how it sucks everyone into being what they never wanted to be... dead.

Prey4Me · Post by **Prey4Me** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:11 pm

hey nic and n54 you write alot and i don't have the time and patience for that kind of reading so can i get the cliff notes version of that