Scientists Agree: Octopuses Are Intelligent, and Might Think Like Us

iblis666

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Silentpony said:
They certainly think like the Japanese! HEYO!
yup turns out they are intelligent and based on the vast amount of hentai ive seen they are also gentle lovers
 

Sonicron

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You know what? If they ever, by some miracle, manage to massively outgrow us, we're done for. I just learned they're able to hunt on land.


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Algernon said:
This makes the second species with a really novel neurobiology to support higher cognition. Corvids are the others. I wonder how many of the animals we've spent millennia torturing and slaughtering will turn out to be highly intelligent.
Doesn't matter. We'll have killed them all *shrugs*. None of this matters. Great Octopi are intelligent. Doesn't change the fact that fisheries are going to get more and more aggressive and people are going to keep shoving them down their throats with them wrapped around sticks. They won't be around much longer and all of this data will have been useless because they will never get the chance to progress (granted that would take a looooooooong time)
 

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Shaidz said:
Octopi!!! 'Octopuses' aint engresh!
No, but it is English. "Octopi" ain't English (neither is "octopodes", for that matter), it's Latin. And English ain't Latin. It's an entirely separate language, called "English". We call them "octopuses", split our infinitives, and use prepositions as things to end our sentences with. As impressive as you time travel is, mister centurion, the rules all changed when the Germans took over.

That said, why do people all seem to think these critters are a danger? Sure, they're smart, resourceful, cunning and adaptable, same as we are, and they've been known to prey on animals that routinely prey on them, same as we did. Hawaiian creation myth (or so I was told in Hawaii by a supposed expert; I suppose it could've been a simple "prank the tourist" thing, but I doubt it) holds that this universe is just the latest in a series, and that each universe is built from the remains of the last. Last time, a creature managed to flee the destroyed universe and escape into this one. That creature was the octopus. I think we'd be a lot better off working together. Think about it- we formed a practical alliance with the wolves (we throw the spears, you run down the gazelles), that worked out wonderfully for our species. Neither we nor wolves are aquatic, so our dominance ended at the oceans- here may be a chance to change that. And if they won't play ball, well...

We, as a species, have been engaged in scores of genocidal conflicts for hundreds or thousands of years. We poison our own air, food, and water to weed out the weak. We set off nuclear weapons inside our only biosphere. Our highest-ranked god descended from the heavens and said "Knock it off with the violence" and we nailed him to a stick as a warning to others- then turned around and dismissed the efforts of those who killed said god and apparently developed time travel, as you can see at the beginning of this post.
We can handle a bunch of uppity mollusks.
 

MASTACHIEFPWN

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THEY COULD BE AMOUNG US RIGHT NOW

This looks like any loving American family, right? But what if I told you that any one of them could be an octopus! ANY ONE OF THEM, AND WE WOULDN'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE
I'm telling you, they've infiltrated our societies.
 

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Algernon said:
Recusant said:
Shaidz said:
Octopi!!! 'Octopuses' aint engresh!
No, but it is English. "Octopi" ain't English (neither is "octopodes", for that matter), it's Latin. And English ain't Latin. It's an entirely separate language, called "English". We call them "octopuses", split our infinitives, and use prepositions as things to end our sentences with. As impressive as you time travel is, mister centurion, the rules all changed when the Germans took over.

That said, why do people all seem to think these critters are a danger? Sure, they're smart, resourceful, cunning and adaptable, same as we are, and they've been known to prey on animals that routinely prey on them, same as we did. Hawaiian creation myth (or so I was told in Hawaii by a supposed expert; I suppose it could've been a simple "prank the tourist" thing, but I doubt it) holds that this universe is just the latest in a series, and that each universe is built from the remains of the last. Last time, a creature managed to flee the destroyed universe and escape into this one. That creature was the octopus. I think we'd be a lot better off working together. Think about it- we formed a practical alliance with the wolves (we throw the spears, you run down the gazelles), that worked out wonderfully for our species. Neither we nor wolves are aquatic, so our dominance ended at the oceans- here may be a chance to change that. And if they won't play ball, well...

We, as a species, have been engaged in scores of genocidal conflicts for hundreds or thousands of years. We poison our own air, food, and water to weed out the weak. We set off nuclear weapons inside our only biosphere. Our highest-ranked god descended from the heavens and said "Knock it off with the violence" and we nailed him to a stick as a warning to others- then turned around and dismissed the efforts of those who killed said god and apparently developed time travel, as you can see at the beginning of this post.
We can handle a bunch of uppity mollusks.
We can't even handle bacteria and viruses.
Really now? Ask smallpox. Or rinderpest.