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In recent years, several fishing and
scientific vessels have caught a handful
of
examples of Giant and Collosal Squid.
In observation and dissection, they have
been proved to be incredibly strong.
Given
the depths at which they've been caught,
it's apparent that they can withstand
considerable
water pressures.
These characteristics make them ideal for
salvage.
Like other close relatives such as the
octopus and squid, it's likely that they
will
be reasonably intelligent and enjoy
learning through play.
Other squid species have been observed
in the wild
collaborating in hunts and
communicating using colours. Salvage
Squid Squads do not seem out of the
question.
Summary : Train squid to find buried
treasure. And save people. And boats.
And other stuff, possibly.
Cephalopod Intelligence
http://en.wikipedia...alopod_intelligence
[jonthegeologist, May 20 2007]
Remote Control Bird
http://www.theregis...controlled_pigeons/
Maybe applicable to squid. [Giblet, May 21 2007]
Squai
http://www.squai.com/
for [marklar] [discontinuuity, May 21 2007]
...octopus Grigori oozes sullenly in his tank...
http://www.themoder...n/zak_smith/113.htm
[calum, May 21 2007]
like summoning the Kraken...
http://www.n4g.com/News-39464.aspx
[xandram, May 21 2007]
Korean octopus discovers ancient Koryo Pottery
http://english.chos...6/200706050021.html
A South Korean fisherman has reportedly discovered a precious haul of ancient pottery - thanks to an octopus. [skinflaps, Jun 07 2007]
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If you wanted to, you could call them
The Salvagean Squidarmy, but that
might be going a bit too far. [+} |
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They could salvage sea chilli for later.+ |
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gawd, I had to read that three times to discover the idea. |
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dear reader, jtg wants to enslave squid to find sunken treasure. |
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If they were smart they'd avoid humans like the plague - hey, maybe that's why they are so hard to catch. |
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what do bees get out of it? |
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[Bees are the only creatures I can think of where a productive relationship with humans is continually beneficial plus voluntary] |
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What about dogs? And how are bees volunteering for anything? "Please, take some more of our honey?" |
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[+] for Squid Squads. However, although
these guys are fine under pressure, how
do they cope with coming to the surface?
Aren't they mostly caught in deep netty
things, or washed up dead on beaches? |
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And on the topic of animals that benefit
from being enslaved, how about chickens?
Sure, they aren't always happy, but in
Darwinian terms they have won the game.
Likewise any domesticated animal. |
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This is all assuming you can train squids in the first place. It might be easier to trick them into salvaging sunken treasure by placing flashing lights or special scents on a sunken ship. |
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<tries to imagine anything scarier than being being saved by collossal squid> |
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Make sure you don't lose the 'l' in 'salvage squid sqads'. |
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[MaxwellBuchanan], I've seen a news report of a giant squid being encountered alive and well, at the surface, by yachtsmen... who hid below decks until it went away. |
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Jam some electrodes in and remote control it. |
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[rasberry re-tart] the plural of squid is not squids, it's squai. |
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Really? I thought squai was a rock band (see link). |
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Most cephalopods would be poisoned by the copper used in boat construction. [-] |
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only 'most' huh, still scope for this to work... |
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//This is all assuming you can train squids in the first place. //
My admittedly very thin understanding of things cephalopodular is that they can be trained with relative ease to, for example, attack pretty girls on the beach and to desist said attack when offered crab. It shouldn't be too much of a stretch for a man with jonthegeologist's wherewithal and acumen to have a whole salvage team going in a short while. |
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Sounds like a recipe for tiger soup. |
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First catch your incredibly strong but oh-so-rare collossal giant squid monster.... |
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Really? How? Why? From what language? |
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The plural of squid is actually squid, but I've always thought that in the bakery, plurality and tensification should follow a somewhat more imaginitive path. |
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And the adjective describing something that expresses squid-like properties is squillious (the ll is pronounced a little like the ll in paella) |
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<curls up in shame at having failed to spot humour> |
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He squids, they squode, those squai, it's squillious, she's squiddled, squdd this / squdd off etc. Possible sentence: |
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Sid's squillious squad of squai,
Squode to squid squdded sailor Smy. |
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How do you train a giant squid? |
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I mean usually in circumstances with
animals, you train them with positive
reinfocement. What do Giant squids want?
Squidy bones... |
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They want love, attention, a comfy sofa ... nah, quick check suggests that you could reinforce positive behaviour with fish and crustaceans - their normal foodstuff. |
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Hey Jon, haven't checked into the 'bakery for a while so was glad to find you're still here and baking sweet, sweet dough. Love the idea, drop me a line if you want to commiserate over the inevitable finally happening. |
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What the bees do isn't voluntary, it's instinctive. We humans have found a way to provide bees with a good enough environment that they can overproduce and we get to steal the surplus. And if they decide they aren't thrilled with the situation, the bees try to up stakes and leave in a swarm, but an adept beekeeper will spot the swarming tendency and restrict their movements and alter their situation in such a way as to short circuit the swarming instinct. |
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I'm not an adept beekeeper. All my hives swarmed, so I've given up on bees. |
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I've read in Nat'l Geo that coming up from extreme ocean depths does funny things to animals that usually live there. The pressure comes off their systems and subtle but catastrophic physiological changes take place. In particular, certain fatty compounds change phase, and it's akin to having a part of the creature's body suddenly become liquid where it used to be a gelatinous solid. Some of those solids are in their brains. |
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Not saying that this would be the case with Squii, but it might explain why all the ones ever found on the surface were dead or nearly so. |
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roll on next season [MrPhase]... |
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Are their brains developed enough for
this? Well, if they can train bees to sniff
out explosives, who know's what's
possible. |
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If they rescue a boatload of people, and
the giant squid is hungry, will you train it
to eat the roudy ones first? |
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Queen bees have it pretty sweet. |
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Cephalosalvage...inkorporated. |
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