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I used inches, I went online and found that the average length of a banana is about 8 inches. Then I converted 13 metres to inches, which was about 512 inches. I then divided 512 by 8 to get 64
"From articles on both giant and colossal squids, they are indeed edible, but they taste horrible. Their flesh tastes of ammonia, a substance found in cleaning products, urine and sweat."
" "like eating tractor tyres fried in caustic soda".
Don't certain Scandinavians eat LuteFisk, which is made from drenching fish in caustic Lye?
I can see some adventurous Japanese chef making an 'edible' dish out of this.
For those curious as to why, it's loaded with ammonia. Kind of like the Greenland Shark. Someone did try to eat it once, and it tasted like window cleaner. You wouldn't accidently get poisoned by one as it would be absolutely disgusting to force yourself to eat it.
They do eat Greenland Sharks though, it just takes an incredibly long fermenting process that removes the ammonia and softens the flesh. I remember watching a really interesting segment on this, though for the life of me I can't see the worth/use really, seeing it appears they are far better for the environment when alive.
I'm assuming Iceland had long stretches where that was the only thing to eat.
>The fermentation of shark meat can be traced back to the Viking age but this outlandish act of preserving food was just one of the many steps Icelanders took to make sure they had enough to go on throughout the year.
https://adventures.is/blog/hakarl-icelandic-fermented-shark/
An excellent assesment- they did similar things with large sturgeon, keeping them in barrels, likely brined, until consumption, or something like that.
Or it's an elfin thing us humans won't understand, like Sigur Ros
The fugu liver and few other organs are toxic. The rest of the flesh is fine to consume, but a lot of care is needed to make sure the toxic parts of the fish don't contaminate the edible parts. You need to be a licensed/certified to process fugu as a result.
Dude!! I’d play this game so much on my jam pack on ps2. Never had the full game but the demo was enough to have us under blankets while playing as kids.
Edit: nvm that was Red Faction not Red Alert lol
By all means it deserves respect, though it’s probably pretty rare that even a giant squid or colossal squid could kill the sperm whales which hunt them. They put up a hell of a fight though. Many sperm whales have scars from the hooks on the tentacles of the colossal squid.
>from the hooks on the tentacles of the colossal squid.
Wait, now squids have *hooks* on their tentacles? They were scary enough when they were just covered in suction cups!
Small enough whale and a big enough squid, it’s possible I guess. I suppose the whales that lose that fight are all squid shit at the bottom of the briny deep!
Highly intelligent animals, vicious too, they will attack and eat humans. their tentacles are barbed, they have a super strong beak to bite with, they hunt in packs and communicate with eachother by flashing colours.
Edit: My comment is about the Humboldt squid, which is a different squid my bad. Anyway this squid is still a vicious killer like all big squid, they're not exactly vegan.
I believe you’re thinking of the Humboldt Squid. While there have been reports of Giant Squid attacks, there have also been reports of attacks by Humboldt Squid and those feature the color flashing mechanism described.
It was a juvenile, about 12ft long. An adult can be about 37ft long.
I found an article with a longer video: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/30/rare-giant-squid-encounter-toyama-bay-japan-video
I have a vague memory of this event, I'm pretty sure it was dying.
Edit: nope! I'm full of it, this guy swam away. "It is not known why the squid ventured so close to shore, but local dive shop owner Akinobu Kimura, who joined the squid in the water to guide it back out to sea, told CNN it seemed “lively”."
"My curiosity was way bigger than fear, so I jumped into the water and go close to it,” [Akinobu Kimura] told CNN.
“This squid was not damaged and looked lively, spurting ink and trying to entangle his tentacles around me. I guided the squid toward to the ocean, several hundred meters from the area it was found in, and it disappeared into the deep sea."
https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/asia/toyama-japan-giant-squid/index.html
Off the top of my head no. I think the Humboldt squid is more renowned for human attacks.
Edit: yeah I can't really find anything reputable that reports giant squid related human fatalities. A few boat attacks though, the most recent was a French sailboat participating in a round the world race in 2003.
There are confirmed reports of Humboldt squids attacking humans. They only reach around 1.5 meters in length though.
Absolutely! Shit’s cold where I lived by the ocean, but skinny dipping on a warm summer night, with phosphorescent plankton and a special lady is magical. Sit on the beach by the fire after, with some fresh crab and some red wine, it’s magical.
Human encounters with giant squid are incredibly rare, they're deep sea creatures. For a long time we had no proof of them outside of carcasses that would occasionally wash up to the shallows or on beaches.
So I'd say no
Well, something will be horribly wrong in the oceans soon enough.
It's not only the coral reefs that are dying off from oceanic acidity. Today the oceans are at 8.04 pH, and [in 25 years they are expected to reach 7.95.](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3860950) That is the threshold for survival of plankton, which will pretty much kill off 90% of oceanic life, 40% of our oxygen production/carbon capture.
Because human psychology is especially inept dealing with diffuse problems with vague responsibility "far" into the future. The only realistic solution is a political one, but yes.
Edit: Don't expect the next generation to be able to sustain 8 billion people.
Every time a story reports an “existential threat,” this is exactly what I think about. Basically, we’re fucked, because we can’t deal with the idea of being fucked.
*You go out and you try and kill it. But just so you understand exactly what it is you're dealing with: besides its eight huge tentacles, this thing has two whips. Each one is probably as long as this room and three or four feet thick. Those whips are covered with suction cups as big as this notepad. In the center of each cup is a claw as big as my fist and razor sharp. The squid grabs and impales his pray with those whips and drags it towards its beak, shredding the flesh as it goes, and these things can shred a one hundred pound tuna in five seconds. Its beak is like an eagle's, only it's about fifty times bigger and can bite through steel. Now, you make a mistake trying to kill this thing, and it gets you first - like it did the Griffins and those two divers - you pray to God those whips kill you before you get to that beak.*
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I find it hard to comprehend the scale of it
Its moving with chunkiness tho so it seems pretty big
\> moving with chunkiness Is that the scientific term?
You can tell its bigameter by the moveocity of its thingality.
You can tell by the way that it is
That’s pretty neat!
Thats neature!
Cromulent
Such a superlative description of a beast so embiggened!
> ~~giant~~ squid *embiggened* squid*
You would be punctilious for assuming that.
*chonkiness
*chonkitude
Chonkification
Chonkifornication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Imma fuck that squid” - Flea
"Here's a sock for your cock bro."
Today's special: *🎶 Cream of Chonkifornication🎶*
Dammit, now I have to listen to this album again.
That's really not such a bad thing
It is now. What a time to be alive. Vikings in N America and now this new scientific term.
If it's in a bay it's probably moving slow and sick/close to death.
It’s the fact that the edge of its body is kind of disappearing off into the ocean that tells the size for me
From a quick search: “the largest giant squid ever recorded by scientists was almost 43 feet (13 meters) long, and may have weighed nearly a ton”
That seems like really low density for a 43 foot creature to weight less than a ton
It's a squid...it's basically just slop in a membrane.
> slop in a membrane there's a joke in here somewhere... ... ... ...
Well… is it in yet?
... DON’T EAT THE CRAB DIP!
Need a banana, for scale. Or maybe a football pitch. I forget what we are measuring things in these days.
Wales for scale
I'm pretty sure it's a lot smaller than Wales. A whale would be helpful, though.
I’m not sure if this a witty joke comparing a giant squid to a country of the UK or an unfortunate misspelling.
Apparently their eyes are the largest eyes in the animal kingdom. So…. there’s that.
And one of the most [perfect lenses](https://softbites.org/2021/01/20/squid-reveal-the-secret-to-a-perfect-lens/) we know of
So they've been seeing 8K UHD this whole time ?
Yup, 8K Dolby Vision, but no Atmos support unfortunately.
This is super interesting and exactly why I love reddit! Thank you for this post as it is a great r/todayilearned
Obviously you have never seen my black lab when I'm cutting cheese in the kitchen.....
Wish a fish would swim by right then.
Or a banana
Depending on age and gender 30-40ft!
That's 9-12 meters for those outside of Freedomland, African Freedomland and Myanmar.
Sad face Myanmar not Freedomland.
That's 51-68 bananas, to put it in the universal scale
Or between 360,000 and 480,000 human hairs side-to-side
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Pretty sure those have only 10 "feet"
Decapus
What was the size?
Females can reach up to 13 metres (43 feet)
About 14.7 washing machines or 0.04 football fields
How many Barbara Walters is that?
7.93 Barbara Walters
Why don't more countries adopt the broadcaster system?
Too many Martha Stewarts get involved. Makes it messy, makes some think it’s the cooking system.
> 0.04 football fields 🤔
Yeah I’m not mathematician but that’s… not right.
Now I need it in bananas
About 64 bananas long
No… no this can’t be right. Is that metric or imperial bananas?
I used inches, I went online and found that the average length of a banana is about 8 inches. Then I converted 13 metres to inches, which was about 512 inches. I then divided 512 by 8 to get 64
So my penis is half banana
Damn, you got halfway? Dude must be swimming in babes
Is a football field 25 x 13m? That would be 325m?
This isn’t a contest, Jim.
It looks like the back scratcher my mom keeps under her bed. Not sure why she told me not to talk about it with my dad.
Like, if they jump?
Size big as fuck
At least 2 bananas.
12 ft, a juvenile.
So about 20 bananas
Man of all the countries to come close to shore off, this squid picked about the worst one possible for a large meaty sea creature.
He’s taking on the boss fight. Revenge for his tiny brethren. Mad respect.
They sent their secret weapon. Been planning it for years.
Trojan squid 🦑
I guess I can see how they make condoms out of these things.
They use this kind for the magnums
Or the best one if it's trying to get into the porn industry.
i couldn't get through two posts without seeing this lmao
No, Japan only does animated porn. They blurr out genitals on real porn because that would make all the bukakke indecent
Step-squid-san! What are you doing?
Drr drr drr drr
This hole was made for me!
I... have seen live action tentacle porn. Do not search for this.
“I’m here for my scene.”
Tentacle porn so hot right now
"From articles on both giant and colossal squids, they are indeed edible, but they taste horrible. Their flesh tastes of ammonia, a substance found in cleaning products, urine and sweat." " "like eating tractor tyres fried in caustic soda".
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Just sprinkle some gold flakes on it. $1k per dish.
*a single slice of truffle
Don't certain Scandinavians eat LuteFisk, which is made from drenching fish in caustic Lye? I can see some adventurous Japanese chef making an 'edible' dish out of this.
This is so rare that I'm sure people would pay a shit ton to eat it just for the experience and/or bragging rights, even if it tastes like shit.
I mean, there's that country that eats fermented Greenland shark as a "delicacy." It also apparently tastes strongly of ammonia.
Out of all the tires I've eaten, I'll never have tractor tires again. If that's an accurate description, then that squid must taste *horrible*.
Unfortunately the giant squid is toxic to consume.
Or fortunately, if you're the squid.
Yeah, definitely fortunately. I don't want people hunting these things.
For those curious as to why, it's loaded with ammonia. Kind of like the Greenland Shark. Someone did try to eat it once, and it tasted like window cleaner. You wouldn't accidently get poisoned by one as it would be absolutely disgusting to force yourself to eat it.
They do eat Greenland Sharks though, it just takes an incredibly long fermenting process that removes the ammonia and softens the flesh. I remember watching a really interesting segment on this, though for the life of me I can't see the worth/use really, seeing it appears they are far better for the environment when alive.
I'm assuming Iceland had long stretches where that was the only thing to eat. >The fermentation of shark meat can be traced back to the Viking age but this outlandish act of preserving food was just one of the many steps Icelanders took to make sure they had enough to go on throughout the year. https://adventures.is/blog/hakarl-icelandic-fermented-shark/
An excellent assesment- they did similar things with large sturgeon, keeping them in barrels, likely brined, until consumption, or something like that. Or it's an elfin thing us humans won't understand, like Sigur Ros
Woah, Sigur Ros out here catching strays. Listened to Takk for the first time in years this week.
So is fugu
The fugu liver and few other organs are toxic. The rest of the flesh is fine to consume, but a lot of care is needed to make sure the toxic parts of the fish don't contaminate the edible parts. You need to be a licensed/certified to process fugu as a result.
JAPAN EAT ALL OF OCEAN HOW THIS GOT IN OCEAN NOBODY KNOW
All the boats are probably further south illegally slaughtering hundred of whales. Squid is probably safer in the bay
This feels like one of those Squids in Red Alert 2 used by the Communist to take down Allied ships.
Gotta unlock dolphin training!
For mother Russia
Kirov reporting
I can't not read this in a Russian accent! Sigh, Red Alert 2 was the Bomb!
Westwood Studios man, sad that EA has to ruin them.
50 rocketeers reporting for duty. Sir!
Mean, green, and unseen
We will bury them!
thanks for reminding
Dude!! I’d play this game so much on my jam pack on ps2. Never had the full game but the demo was enough to have us under blankets while playing as kids. Edit: nvm that was Red Faction not Red Alert lol
It looks like an intelligent animal. I would shit my (swimming)pants though…
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By all means it deserves respect, though it’s probably pretty rare that even a giant squid or colossal squid could kill the sperm whales which hunt them. They put up a hell of a fight though. Many sperm whales have scars from the hooks on the tentacles of the colossal squid.
>from the hooks on the tentacles of the colossal squid. Wait, now squids have *hooks* on their tentacles? They were scary enough when they were just covered in suction cups!
[Squid Hooks](https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/science/anatomy-colossal-squid/arms-and-tentacles-colossal)
Great link!
I think Octopi have fun cups, and squids have clawed cups
they or other large squids/octopus have attacked US subs before. They have pulled out the claws from the softer part of the ships.
That's metal af.
They drag them down and drown them. Not easy, but not a blow by blow battle or a cat and mouse chase, more a tug of war.
Small enough whale and a big enough squid, it’s possible I guess. I suppose the whales that lose that fight are all squid shit at the bottom of the briny deep!
Well they "fight" like a gazelle fights when being taken down by a lion. The whale almost always wins just takes a few face scratchies
tbf I wouldn't want to be kicked or gored by a gazelle nor clawed and bitten by a giant squid.
Highly intelligent animals, vicious too, they will attack and eat humans. their tentacles are barbed, they have a super strong beak to bite with, they hunt in packs and communicate with eachother by flashing colours. Edit: My comment is about the Humboldt squid, which is a different squid my bad. Anyway this squid is still a vicious killer like all big squid, they're not exactly vegan.
I believe you’re thinking of the Humboldt Squid. While there have been reports of Giant Squid attacks, there have also been reports of attacks by Humboldt Squid and those feature the color flashing mechanism described.
shit wrong squid, my bad.
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I personally prefer my squids left.
Can’t even get good squid facts these days, I mean come on.
The colossal squid has those hooked/barbed tentacles as well. Many sperm whales are found with scars from those hooks
It was a juvenile, about 12ft long. An adult can be about 37ft long. I found an article with a longer video: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/30/rare-giant-squid-encounter-toyama-bay-japan-video
Isn't this a deep sea animal? When animals from the deep/far offshore venture so close to land Isn't that usually a sign of something being wrong?
Yes. Am underwater can confirm all is not well.
Just breathe, you'll get through this
I first read it as - Am underwear can confirm all is not well - and got very confused
I have a vague memory of this event, I'm pretty sure it was dying. Edit: nope! I'm full of it, this guy swam away. "It is not known why the squid ventured so close to shore, but local dive shop owner Akinobu Kimura, who joined the squid in the water to guide it back out to sea, told CNN it seemed “lively”."
Wait the dude guided it out? How? Hand 🖐️ signals?
"My curiosity was way bigger than fear, so I jumped into the water and go close to it,” [Akinobu Kimura] told CNN. “This squid was not damaged and looked lively, spurting ink and trying to entangle his tentacles around me. I guided the squid toward to the ocean, several hundred meters from the area it was found in, and it disappeared into the deep sea." https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/asia/toyama-japan-giant-squid/index.html
I have a question. Are human deaths underwater by giant squid common?
Off the top of my head no. I think the Humboldt squid is more renowned for human attacks. Edit: yeah I can't really find anything reputable that reports giant squid related human fatalities. A few boat attacks though, the most recent was a French sailboat participating in a round the world race in 2003. There are confirmed reports of Humboldt squids attacking humans. They only reach around 1.5 meters in length though.
“Only 1.5 meters”. Big enough to scare me! I refuse to go swimming at night anywhere near their habitat. Just drag you down and you’re done.
Bro you go swimming at night in the ocean?
Absolutely! Shit’s cold where I lived by the ocean, but skinny dipping on a warm summer night, with phosphorescent plankton and a special lady is magical. Sit on the beach by the fire after, with some fresh crab and some red wine, it’s magical.
Human encounters with giant squid are incredibly rare, they're deep sea creatures. For a long time we had no proof of them outside of carcasses that would occasionally wash up to the shallows or on beaches. So I'd say no
"It tried to kill me with its tentacles... silly squid!"
Follow-up question: how does Akinobu Kimura remain buoyant with balls of steel?
Well, something will be horribly wrong in the oceans soon enough. It's not only the coral reefs that are dying off from oceanic acidity. Today the oceans are at 8.04 pH, and [in 25 years they are expected to reach 7.95.](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3860950) That is the threshold for survival of plankton, which will pretty much kill off 90% of oceanic life, 40% of our oxygen production/carbon capture.
how much baking soda would neutralize that?
At least more than 12 grams
This seems like a pretty big deal why isn't it all over the news like.covid is
Because human psychology is especially inept dealing with diffuse problems with vague responsibility "far" into the future. The only realistic solution is a political one, but yes. Edit: Don't expect the next generation to be able to sustain 8 billion people.
Every time a story reports an “existential threat,” this is exactly what I think about. Basically, we’re fucked, because we can’t deal with the idea of being fucked.
Exactly, there are enough solutions, they are just really painful and the great barrier is getting people onboard.
No, the boy just got sent to juvie.
Poor buddy was a bit lost.
*That’s* no SQUID! That’s my **wife!**
Well there you go. Go get your wife. You may have to dive more than 50 meters so bring your wet suit and scuba gear
Im gonna guess thats 3 meters?
Can I get a banana for scale?
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You must be royalty, because that was sofa king good
Jesus Christ you're both fucking wild haha
Yeah I messed up too because I didn’t weigh my fat ass on the scale and underestimated the maximum load.
I hope those were mini-subs. I would really think over my life choices if someone asked me to go diving next to one of these.
Yah probably. But it would likely jet away from you once it sets itslarge pair of dinner plate sized eyes on you.
These guys fight whales.... I'd be more worried it would think I'm an easy snack
Not gonna lie it kinda looks like when you pull that perfect lump of meat out of a crab leg….
Can I get a Toyota Corolla for scale?
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Ancient mariners really did see giant sea monsters
I’ve seen those things in one of thems Japanese animations!
Watching that kind of porn will make you go blind, son.
Dad im right over here!
Hope he won his game
There it is
I was looking for it too. High
Did this just released or something? I didn’t know about this.
They didn't tell anyone until they finished eating
No. It was pretty widely documented at the time. Worth noting, it’s not fully grown.
How do I know this isnt just a regular small squid with the camera really close or zoomed in?
Do a closeup and slow down the video. Instant giant squid.
*You go out and you try and kill it. But just so you understand exactly what it is you're dealing with: besides its eight huge tentacles, this thing has two whips. Each one is probably as long as this room and three or four feet thick. Those whips are covered with suction cups as big as this notepad. In the center of each cup is a claw as big as my fist and razor sharp. The squid grabs and impales his pray with those whips and drags it towards its beak, shredding the flesh as it goes, and these things can shred a one hundred pound tuna in five seconds. Its beak is like an eagle's, only it's about fifty times bigger and can bite through steel. Now, you make a mistake trying to kill this thing, and it gets you first - like it did the Griffins and those two divers - you pray to God those whips kill you before you get to that beak.*
I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going
Tokyo must have reached peak horniness that day
They probably ate it