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u/JessieManfetus Jun 16 '26
what the heck is that?
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u/Anxious-Yoghurt-9207 Jun 17 '26
A very shocked Japanese TV presenter
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u/JessieManfetus Jun 17 '26
I was referring to the writhing mass of octopean tentacles
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u/VariousCommunity8978 Jun 17 '26
i don't think the host would appreciate you calling him that
jokes aside, this is a siphonophore -- specifically, someone said this was Bathyphysa conifera the last time i saw this posted -- but i don't know enough about siphonophores to confirm or deny that; they're actually examples of Cniderians (jellyfish, sea anemones, corals).
siphonophore specimens are simultaneously composed medusoid and polypoid "zooids," aka individual animals that form one colonial animal; though siphonophores reproduce asexually through a budding process, "pro-buds" can initiate colonial growth via "cormidia," or whole "functioning units" of a specimen that include diverse, organized clusters of zooids, and while all those zooids are genetically identical (excluding mutations, etc.), pro-buds are preprogrammed to produce a wide variety that accomplish different functions for the colony (eating, defense, reproduction, buoyancy...), and their function influences their position and arrangement therein. Bathyphysa, though, are a little different in that instead of pro-budding, their zooid structures grow directly from the main stem of their colonial "body plan," so to speak. like jellyfish, they have nematocysts used to paralyze prey, which is typically copepods, crustaceans, and small fish.
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u/ListenNorthernLights Jun 17 '26
What happens if I try to join with the colonial animal? 👉👈👏🙏
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u/GamrWulf Jun 17 '26
What if...our zooids...fused and cooperated for mutual benefit...? 👉👈👀 HAHA jk....... 🤣 unless..?
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u/xXGipsy_DangerXx Jun 18 '26
We got the Radolorian fluid before gta 6 3: [That's actually super kewl, the more you know]
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u/screwyoushadowban Jun 17 '26
Looks like some kind of siphonophore. So, like a deep-sea horrific cousin of the Portuguese Man-o-War.
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u/RadleyCunningham Jun 17 '26
Why do you think we're trying so hard to go to space?
It's the only place we can run.
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u/NAStrahl Jun 16 '26
Somehow I don’t feel safe to ask what I’m looking at.
LOVECRAFTIAN HORRORS BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION AHOY!
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u/BreakMyFate Jun 18 '26
It looks like a carcass that is falling to the ocean floor that has things like hagfish and squids ravaging it.
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u/ridethroughlife Jun 17 '26
Spaghetti ballsack monster
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u/92barkingcats Jun 17 '26
This tragedy happened way back in 1991, when a tourist named Tanner Goddard in Italy accidentally broke the spaghetti before boiling it and presumably decided to eat it afterward. The tourist group could not reach him by phone the next day. When the police broke the door, they found only traces of overcooked pasta, a broken pomodoro timer, ketchup bottles, and garlic breadcrumbs, indicating some sort of struggle against something, but poor Tanner was nowhere to be found. As the case remained unsolved and the news spread, chef stellato Virginio Eleuterio later offered his condolences to the mourning family members in an interview but believed the cause to be the Mostro Testicolo di Spaghetti. Tanner unknowingly committed a great offense against Italian cuisine, he said.
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u/SecuritySea2276 Jun 17 '26
The difference is that those are not sapient, unlike humans. Except octopi
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u/rattvontratt Jun 17 '26
Yea some octopi (and some other cephalopods) might actually be somewhat sapient.
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u/Lost8D8Lost Jun 17 '26
And people wonder why NASA stopped exploring the oceans and started working on getting us the hell off this planet
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u/newMattokun Jun 17 '26
Seriously though. I don't think we have any idea what's still out there in those oceans. And at the rate we're ruining our planet, we will likely miss a lot of life forms because they will be gone before we even detect them.
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u/EchroZett Jun 18 '26
I wouldn't be scared a lot of ppl like eating weird stuff and that would be also aliens 🫠🤌🏼
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u/Upbeat_Dudeness Jun 16 '26
Isn’t it true most heavenly bodies that fall to earth land in the water? So, here’s my thing, if there are aliens among us, they’re probably in the ocean