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Okay, so the media's wrong about there being "hooks to snag the squid" on the camera apparatus. The hooks were to spear the little tiny bait squid that they were using to attract the big squid, and the big squid got snagged on one by mistake.
I have also heard, anecdotally, that these scientists were in the passive squid camp (so, no, Dan, you wouldn't know them) and were surprised at how aggressive the giant squid was (did you see this squid at camp, Dan?)
Anyway, the original article, written by the scientists, is here , it's not much longer than the news stories (only 4 pages), and yet the media still managed to screw it up...
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What gets me, and this doesn't have much to do with the squid exactly, is how non-excited people seem to be over this. People have been looking for this thing in its live environment for more than 100 years and it gets a blurb. I was super excited it was finally caught on camera, and everyone I mentioned this to were who cares?
I have actually noticed that this isn't the first time such a huge discovery was poo-pooed lately. Sure, it doesn't have much to do with our lives, and I can understand that. But, the amount of almost contempt for such information is becoming mind-boggling.
Maybe I am just imagining this reaction from the circles I run, but have we truely as a society lost our sense of discovery? Tom Cruis, new girl gets lots of news and this gets almost nothing.
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There have been hoaxes that purport to show live giant squid. I sometimes wonder if the hoaxes sort of toughen everyone up, so they don't get excited about the real deal.
Also, the scientists went to a science journal, rather than going to a place like "Nature" or some other magazine with wide circulation and big colorful cover shots.
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