http://www.physorg.com/news90666689.html

Again, even when the article states it has pictorial evidence from the deep, PhysOrg cant seem to come up with a meaningful picture..
So, i devalue the appearance of the article on PhysOrg, but not the significance of the artice to the world of science, where its a "4" for me.

Hi tkjtkj,

I don't think physorg.com has an underwater photography department. There is a least a picture of Tsunemi Kubodera with a squid behind him to give a sense of scale. I'd guess he'd be about 5m tall if we had the whole picture.

A while back Physorg did post a picture of a killer whale alongside of an article about dolphins and got a bit of flak about it.



I thought water was pretty much incompressible .. does the viscosity increase or is it just an effect brought about by slow motion photography? I can see the problem .. if you've got to talk for an hour about a film lasting a few seconds ..

I see giant squid are available on ebay now .

Also films of giant squid from starsomething.com but you had to agree to let them take over your desktop which didn't seem like a good idea so I didn't bother .

-C2.

Water does have a bulk modulus of elasticity :-}) so there is incompressible and there is 'incompressible.' I suspect "speeds of up to nine kilometers (5.5 miles) per hour, which is extraordinarily fast given the pressure of water at that depth. " is a translation problem.

I don't know what the big deal is? A number of underwater creatures from the mesopelagic zone do exactly the same thing (use photophores) so the squid doing it too is no suprprise:

http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/Se...aCreatures/2/en