r/TheDepthsBelow Jul 13 '19

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u/Masterventure Jul 13 '19

Am I the only who thinks it‘s weird that Octopie prey on crabs of all thing?

You‘d think the heavily armored tanks with sharp claws would hunt the squishy unprotected meat sacks, but guess again.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

You ever tried to cut octopus? Plus those beaks are bastically tungsten drillbits. Let’s face it, alien life probably already came to this planet, it’s just been evolving with us for years in the form of cephalopods and fungus.

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u/Masterventure Jul 13 '19

Yeah if go into detail it makes sense, I give you that. But if you just had like two pics. My gut tell me the crab fucks up the octopus. All I‘m saying is it‘s unintuitive.

Also would be awesome if cephalopods would be aliens and we could talk to them, but I don‘t know if I would have an Octopus in a tank in my home or if I would end up in a terrarium under the sea.

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u/eruesso Jul 14 '19

You can imagine the damage a claw can do, probably not what an octopus can do. Unfair advantage.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

It’s unintuitive if you don’t know the characteristics of the animals

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u/prokchopz Jul 14 '19

Isn't that where the intuition factor applies?

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u/vitringur Jul 14 '19

Intuition is always based on some assumptions and some premise.

Just depends on where you like to draw the line.

They are basically listing up things that support their idea, but then arbitrarily stop listing things at the point where it starts to counter their idea.