Octopus Portrait Underwater portraiture is a tricky endeavor. Animals often end up looking greenish or blueish, thanks to the tint of the water--but some of these animals are emphatically not greenish/blueish. Pictured above is the North Pacific giant octopus, arguably the largest octopus in the world, photographed by Mark Laita using studio strobe lighting. Read more at New Scientist. Mark Laita, from Sea

It's been a great week in science and tech, and what better way to relive it--or, unless you're as obsessive as us, discovering new stories--than with pictures? This week: an electric DeLorean, the world's biggest balloon animal, a robot that scoops "POOP," and the amazing portrait of a North Pacific giant octopus you see above.


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I have seen the pictures and read the captions. Here is my summation.

I enjoyed seeing the Red Giant Octopus photograph. So then venturing from the depths of the oceans, next we go to the depths of the skies and find a Bubble Nebula. How fascinating the cosmos brings to us. It is in this variation of things we need to Hammer Down and search the varieties of associations with a search engine called WIREDoo. Then we travel about and hit the rails on the new GOOGLE express mapping. How fun, I love a good Choo Choo ride. Though some of us cannot venture about and so we use a giant crystal ball of sorts to experience the world virtually, via Barco's R-360. So what is a person to do, if you can't venture about, well play ping pong with a robot of course or at least what a good game with two robots. I am betting on the one on the left. Robots are fun and a way of the future, but illustrating a robot capability by picking up poop is just run amuck. Now, I feel the need to leave the house and jump into my all electric Delorean. I can't say Zooom, the electric engine is all so quiet. Keeping in touch with friends is the way to go with Motorola new RAZR. Yes it’s thin, like a great shave! To end the last picture in fun for the holidays, giant balloon spiders. Now that is festive!

"Tint" is, at best, ambiguous here and at the very least is imprecise. The reason for the apparent color change is that water absorbs red light more readily than green or blue.

dtwilliamson,
Hello, did you venture to notice the rest of the article and all the other pictures? There is more than 1 picture you know. Technology gives you a simple mouse and yet you cannot click? Is obesity so bad that even a second mouse click is too much? Oh my God!!

Should I tell him, there are 10 pictures?
Do you think he is breathing? Maybe a person in the room needs to put a stick in his side and to remind him to breathe too?

Maybe I need to call emergency, but what is his address?
Oh, me or my, I do not know, I feel sad.
I oh my, sigh.

Let us hope for tomorrow he finds his way to the bathroom
and not pee in the bed and still alive too, of course.

Perhaps in your haste to post an ad hominem attack, you failed to notice my use of the word "here".

dtwilliamson,
Your right! Your right, head hang down, sigh... I will go sit in my box for while. He did type 'here'.

dtwilliamson,
In fairness to you sir, Monday morning I am checking myself in the Betty Ford Electronic Diagnostic Center and have some of my internal circuits scrutinized. Some parsecs ago, I did have some lower brain electronic augmentation enhancements done for better Borg hunting. Until then, I will wait for Monday in my box. I hope you enjoy your weekend. Be careful of the Borg, they are close, I feel it!



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