A Cosmopolitan species in fact that can be found from Naples to Florida, Alaska to Santiago de Chile, Sidney to Madagascar and from Norway to South-Africa. Conquered every single ocean except the poles and the Eastern part of the Mediterranean.
And yes, is a truly spectacular big predator. A little like the invertebrate version of a big cat, specially with that claws.
All that their preys see is two big oblique glowing cat-eyes before to be snared by lines of sharp hooks and killed by a bite. "Night at the African Savannah" style, but without all the roaring.
A favoured snack for sperm whales! However the sharp squid beaks sometimes get lodged in the whale's intestines, which is suspected to lead to the production of ambergris.
I had found it in several species of pelagic dolphins and beaked whales. Is not uncommon in some cetaceans but the beaks are very plain, square. Lacking distinctive features aren't really easy to identify, except after discarding all the other species.
A curious fact of the species is that the lights are enclosed into skin folders shaped as eyelids, so the animal can hide it, show it partially, or blink at will. Those are among the biggest light producing organs evolved by a life-being (if not the biggest known).
Arthur C Clarke's 2061 (sequel to 2001 and 2010) was also about about a troubled mission that finds life in Europa's oceans. Europa Report sounds like it might have been a little inspired by that novel?
It was an enjoyable enough movie night! Think I watched it during COVID with some beer and Thai food, and it was satisfying enough to make me want to play some sci-fi games afterward :)
Nothing as thought-provoking as that other space squid movie, Arrival, but it wasn't trying to be. I had a good time.
Dont forget mercurius. Recent new studies show that the planet is probably from a different further orbit and used to be a much different place. It got promoted as an uninteresting dead planet to a top candidate for (former) life planet.
I've played enough video games to know that you're supposed to hit those when they flash. Half a dozen hits or so destroys the arms and triggers Phase 2 of the boss battle.
In unrelated note, it's funny to be greeted with a 20 secs Ad video before seeing the 50 secs squid video you land on the site to watch! Ah.. Ads are ruining the entire web these days, and the experience keeps worsening.
I couple of days ago I clicked a video on youtube, it was 48 minutes long, the "ad" preceding the video was 58 minutes long... at least I could skip it.
Brave works great on both desktop and mobile. I have to add an exception to the ad blocker roughly once a month. I guess DNS blocking may be needed if you use spyware programs outside the browser, which I don't.
Doesn't work at all for the most dominant browsers -- mobile, unless you're one of those folks who never leaves the borders of home base and pups their own custom router (like opnsense, I do this but its a pain to set up and maintain, quite niche).
If only there were a popular browser that makes uBlock Origin brain dead simple.. it ain't Firefox, Safari, or Brave, of this you can be certain.
I don't find that to be the case with wg - have actually tested this and found a ~1-2% difference in battery consumption over a full charge, all on lte (pixel 8, graphene). Openvpn, though - yeah.
Definitely possible. Now I want to dig out a stock Android phone and retest. Aiui tailscale shouldn't introduce much if any load over wg, but I also wonder if you'd have different results with standalone wg.
And yes, is a truly spectacular big predator. A little like the invertebrate version of a big cat, specially with that claws.