Japanese scientists have photographed a living giant squid taking some bait. It was injured by one of the bait hooks and they got one of its arms:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... squid.html
Giant Squid Caught on Film!
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Giant Squid Caught on Film!
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re: Giant Squid Caught on Film!
Amazing!
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re: Giant Squid Caught on Film!
Yes, I, too, saw the photos of the approximately 30 foot long, 1 ton squid. Actually, that is still on the small side because there are accounts in ships' logs of these creatures seen floating on the surface of the ocean that were estimated to have a length of almost 200 feet!
They have been know to surface and then attack surface vessels by wrapping their tentacles around the hull and trying to submerge them. Apparently, they are hungry and think the boat's hull is an injured prey.
There of several Norse legends concerning them. Whenever this annoying inconvenience would happen during a voyage, all of the crew members would have to grab axes and start chopping on those tentacles to save their ship. I guess the only plus in such an event is that the Norsemen would have some fresh tentacle stew to eat that night for dinner!
Anyway, I have an interesting article on my website titled "Our Forbidding Ocean World" that gives a more detail picture of what's going on down there in the deep. It's right out of a sci-fi movie!
ken
They have been know to surface and then attack surface vessels by wrapping their tentacles around the hull and trying to submerge them. Apparently, they are hungry and think the boat's hull is an injured prey.
There of several Norse legends concerning them. Whenever this annoying inconvenience would happen during a voyage, all of the crew members would have to grab axes and start chopping on those tentacles to save their ship. I guess the only plus in such an event is that the Norsemen would have some fresh tentacle stew to eat that night for dinner!
Anyway, I have an interesting article on my website titled "Our Forbidding Ocean World" that gives a more detail picture of what's going on down there in the deep. It's right out of a sci-fi movie!
ken
On 7/6/06, I found, in any overbalanced gravity wheel with rotation rate, ω, axle to CG distance d, and CG dip angle φ, the average vertical velocity of its drive weights is downward and given by:
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ