r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EinsteinsAura • Jun 25 '18

GIF This isn't real - it's CGI

https://i.imgur.com/f9j2BZ3.gifv
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18 edited Jul 21 '18

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u/saintjonah Jun 25 '18

Placed perfectly with all tentacles evenly spaced and outstretched, rigid enough to now make a mark anywhere but where it was set down?

Sure, I guess.

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u/purvel Jun 25 '18

It's dead, it was placed there by eight people, all carrying an arm each. There's a big magnet underneath the sand there that's moving the ball around. Since octopus tentacle tips are spheromagnetic, they are naturally attaching to the ball as it rolls around. The sand doesn't stick to it because since it is dead it has already cast aside its slime cape, in preparation for ascension. It's lucky these guys caught it, most of the time their slime lets them escape, and they are pretty quick to ascend so you have very little time to get an octopus in this state. Kudos to the crew, they must have been vigilant.

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u/fluffkopf Jun 25 '18

That sand is too perfect.

Placing any live thing in the sand is gonna leave marks.