That isn’t a giant squid; it’s a bigfin squid! And that’s actually way, way cooler!Â
Because! Bigfin Squid are really rarely seen past the juvenile stage. And, because we’ve never actually sampled an adult and they look radically different from the juvenile stage, we don’t really have a definitive idea of what this thing even is. We only think it’s an adult bigfin. And that’s cool as hell ‘cause it looks like an alien.
But the juveniles look like this:
Look at its little tenta-nubbins!
And I’d never seen a gif of the video or the video itself; I’d only seen this still of it:
So you just made my freakin’ day.
Woooah
God fuck you fuck you fuck awful no shit god bag every time I see creepy marine life I have to make sure I still have toes and I will not let them leave my sight for the next 45 minutes fuck you fuck.
[The real answer is that diamonds are brittle. They can’t be scratched, and they can cut damn near anything, but if you hit them with a hammer they shatter. So a bullet hitting a diamond vest would turn the diamonds into tiny razor-edged shards and then propel those shards straight through the other layers of the vest into your flesh at high velocities, at which point they would become invisible while continuing to be razor sharp along all edges.]
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