FAO Yanpa

[yanpa]

the minions do Our bidding.

[Taro Toporific]

Warning. Turn down the sound to avoid the inane reactions of the robo-submersible's crew: "It's so cute!" "They look like googly-eyes... like they painted them on!" "It looks so fake... it's like some little kid dropped their toy."

Details at: http://laist.com/2016/08/15/stubby_squid.php

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[Russell]

I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords ... but what are they?

With the apparent rise in the numbers of some cephalopod species and perhaps with a disdain for human governance systems, many people are expressing their enthusiasm for welcoming our new cephalopod overlords. If we are to toil under our new suckered rulers, it may be prudent to examine where they came from, especially the octopuses who will likely make up the ruling class in the new mantled hierarchy.

Living cephalopods include roughly 1000 species of octopuses, cuttlefish, nautiluses and various distinct groups of “squid”; ram’s horn squid, bobtail squid, bottletail squid, teuthidian squid and the not-even-a-squid vampire squid.

Cephalopods are molluscs, and weird ones at that when compared to the other mollusc groups: chitons, solenogastres, caudofoveatans, bivalves, scaphopods, gastropods and monoplacophorans. With the exception of nautiluses, living cephalopods lack an external shell. They are free-living active hunters, possess a well-developed brain and nervous system in addition to a famed reputation for predicting the outcome of sporting events. Their intelligence has earned them a level of protection under EU law as “honorary vertebrates”.

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The second oldest species is Proteroctopus ribeti a single specimen from the Jurassic of France was published in 1982. This specimen does not possess tentacles but does have clear fins leading to speculation that it may be related to deep sea species such as today’s dumbo octopuses or alternatively, this is a member of the vampire squid group, Vampyromorphida.



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With eight arms, they certainly have the potential to develop the ability to handle tools.

Hell, they would make for great pianists, now I think about it.

[wagyl]

I bet somebody's getting excited!

Yes, I realise that these are heptopods. But that does qualify them for the octopus paralympics.

[yanpa]

Alien scum trying to cash in on the cephalopod boom.

[Taro Toporific]

Alien scum trying to cash in on the cephalopod boom.

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Beyond Terminator: squishy 'octobot' heralds new era of soft robotics
Ditching conventional electronics and power sources, the pliable robot operates without rigid parts.
NATURE.com | 24 August 2016
The octobot is powered by a pneumatic network embedded within its body and arms. A squishy octopus-shaped machine less than 2 centimetres tall is making waves in the field of soft robotics. The ‘octobot’ described today in Nature1 is the first self-contained robot made exclusively of soft, flexible parts...
...the robot isn’t the metallic, costly machine you’d expect: It’s squishy like Silly Putty, wireless, battery-less and made for pennies by a 3-D printer. A team at Harvard University has created a robot — actually about 300 of them, since they are so cheap to make....
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[Coligny]

Just think at all the potential for dildo's evolution...
After the fiasco of the smart dildo bunker buster lineup it could be an industry saviour...

[matsuki]

Just think at all the potential for dildo's evolution...
After the fiasco of the smart dildo bunker buster lineup it could be an industry saviour...

Who needs a dildo? TIJ, wait til the larger ones come out and they come out with 8 on 1 tentacle bang.

[Taro Toporific]

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@nippon_en

[yanpa]

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[Coligny]

Yellow cab #3 ?

could we put the fucking FAO in their own subfolders ?

[wagyl]

could we put the fucking FAO in their own subfolders ?

To what benefit?

search.php?keywords=fao&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sr=posts&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search is pretty effective.

[Russell]

could we put the fucking FAO in their own subfolders ?

To what benefit?

search.php?keywords=fao&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sr=posts&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search is pretty effective.

This one is even more effective...

search.php?keywords=FAO&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=titleonly&sr=topics&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=100&t=0&submit=Search

[wagyl]

If you want to highlight the fact that you rank equal with Takechanpoo in having multiple FAO treads rather than hide it, don't let me stand in your way.

(Nice pointers in search technique there!)

[Russell]

If you want to highlight the fact that you rank equal with Takechanpoo in having multiple FAO treads rather than hide it, don't let me stand in your way.

(Nice pointers in search technique there!)

I feared that someone would recognize the resemblance, so I decided to keep silent about my two FAO threads. But alas, there is one guy on this forum who notices these things...

[wagyl]

There are worse situations to be in. Your two threads were started by different people. The two Takechan threads were both started by the same person. I wouldn't want to be him!

[Russell]

There are worse situations to be in. Your two threads were started by different people. The two Takechan threads were both started by the same person. I wouldn't want to be him!

Wagyl, you need a good night of sleep, because Takechan's threads were created by different people. The last posts on both threads are by the same guy, though...

[wagyl]

Good night then

[Coligny]

Yea... Why organize stuff when you can work around the shitfest...

[wagyl]

What is the organisational objective? Is it to put all the in-jokes in one corner? What is the benefit? Or is it that you think that they do not fit at all in the categories they are in? You need to state your reasons. So far all I can see that they share is they all have the same abbreviation in the title, in which case, Russell presents a neat solution.

The Fao for Yanpa does not need to be next to the Fao for Coligny. Felines and cephalopods do not mix.

As a practical matter, no one looks for all the Fao together. If they are looking to post, they search for the name of the member. What problem are you trying to solve here?

[Russell]

What is the organisational objective? Is it to put all the in-jokes in one corner? What is the benefit? Or is it that you think that they do not fit at all in the categories they are in? You need to state your reasons. So far all I can see that they share is they all have the same abbreviation in the title, in which case, Russell presents a neat solution.

The Fao for Yanpa does not need to be next to the Fao for Coligny. Felines and cephalopods do not mix.

As a practical matter, no one looks for all the Fao together. If they are looking to post, they search for the name of the member. What problem are you trying to solve here?

And that even leaves out the problem that one of our members has his FAO thread in "Premium Members Only", which would be a different category altogether.

[yanpa]

New York monument honors victims of giant octopus attack that never occurred

[Taro Toporific]

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[Grumpy Gramps]

Mystery of octopuses found crawling along Welsh beach

Dozens of octopus have been spotted emerging from the ocean and crawling along the Welsh coast in a nightly pilgrimage that has perplexed people at a seaside town.

Up to 25 curled octopuses, which grow to a length of 50cm, were seen three nights in a row at New Quay beach in Ceredigion in west Wales. Some of the wayward cephalopods were later found dead, washed up on the beach.

Brett Jones, who runs SeaMôr dolphin-watching boat trips, said he first witnessed the phenomenon when he was returning from a sunset trip.

“It was a bit like an End Of Days scenario,” he told the BBC. “There were probably about 20 or 25 on the beach. I have never seen them out of the water like that.”

He said it was “really rare” for the creatures to end up on dry land, adding: “Maybe they are getting confused by the bright lights in New Quay harbour and maybe they are dying off after summer or getting knackered after the recent storms.”

He said he had tried to return the crawling creatures back to the sea where possible. “We collected the ones that were totally out of the water, and plopped them back in at the end of the pier, hopefully saving them from getting stranded,” he said.

However it wasn’t enough to save them all. He encouraged anyone who saw land-hugging octopus to return them to the water, but warned: “Wear gloves, they bite like mad.”

The curator at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, James Wright, told the Telegraph that while he was aware of two other incidents of curled octopuses roaming in north Devon and Wales in the past week, the number witnessed in Ceredigion was “quite odd ... and suggests there is something wrong with them”.

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Yanpa, you're OK?

[wagyl]

https://www.snorkersimaginarium.com/shop/

[Mike Oxlong]

[matsuki]

So you're saying....that perv with his hand down that girls pants on the train this morning was just doing Octo-cosplay?

[wagyl]

Was he rummaging around in her syphon? Did she release her ink?

[Mike Oxlong]

Science news: Octopuses came to Earth from space as frozen eggs millions of years ago
OCTOPUSES are “aliens” which evolved on another planet before arriving on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago as “cryopreserved” eggs via a process known as panspermia, radical new research has suggested.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/ ... -explosion

***beware the dread autoplay video

Better alternate link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scie ... 58631.html

[Taro Toporific]

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Muppets / Celebrity: Jake Gyllenhaal vs octopus.