Comments on: Deep-sea squid can break off all its arms onto an enemy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/01/deep-sea-squid-can-break-off-all-its-arms-onto-an-enemy/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Ed Yong http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/01/deep-sea-squid-can-break-off-all-its-arms-onto-an-enemy/#comment-15638 Ed Yong Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:42:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7353#comment-15638 @MarkonGrad + James Sweet - heh. Amended. @Neuroskeptic - Sure, if it helps you to believe that. ;-) @MarkonGrad + James Sweet – heh. Amended.

@Neuroskeptic – Sure, if it helps you to believe that. ;-)

]]> By: Neuroskeptic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/01/deep-sea-squid-can-break-off-all-its-arms-onto-an-enemy/#comment-15637 Neuroskeptic Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:37:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7353#comment-15637 That's creepy, but it would be even creepier if the detached arms could go off on their own and eventually regrow a whole squid. They can't....right? ;) That’s creepy, but it would be even creepier if the detached arms could go off on their own and eventually regrow a whole squid.

They can’t….right? ;)

]]> By: James Sweet http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/01/deep-sea-squid-can-break-off-all-its-arms-onto-an-enemy/#comment-15636 James Sweet Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:25:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7353#comment-15636 <blockquote> She has filmed 84 of them using remotely operated underwater vehicles</blockquote> Not to tell you how to blog, but you may want to consider changing this to "She has used remotely operated underwater vehicles to film 84 of them." Maybe it's just me, but I think because you had planted the image of a squid using a robot rocket-punch just a few sentences prior, I parsed the phrase as if the squid were using the remote vehicles while Bush filmed them!

She has filmed 84 of them using remotely operated underwater vehicles

Not to tell you how to blog, but you may want to consider changing this to “She has used remotely operated underwater vehicles to film 84 of them.” Maybe it’s just me, but I think because you had planted the image of a squid using a robot rocket-punch just a few sentences prior, I parsed the phrase as if the squid were using the remote vehicles while Bush filmed them!

]]> By: MarkOnGrand http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/01/deep-sea-squid-can-break-off-all-its-arms-onto-an-enemy/#comment-15635 MarkOnGrand Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:10:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7353#comment-15635 > She has filmed 84 of them using remotely operated underwater vehicles How long did they train to operate the vehicles? :-) > She has filmed 84 of them using remotely operated underwater vehicles

How long did they train to operate the vehicles? :-)

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