{"id":5939,"date":"2008-12-05T05:53:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T11:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2008-12-05T05:54:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T11:54:24","slug":"the-cephalopods-are-rallying-not-even-the-robots-can-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/the-cephalopods-are-rallying-not-even-the-robots-can-save-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cephalopods are Rallying. Not Even the Robots can Save Us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been <a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5896\">mentioned before<\/a>, that the 8-legs(actually, tentacles) of the sea may have it in for us.  They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5896\">attacking light fixtures<\/a> in captivity. And now they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=517_1228303564\" class=\"external external_icon\">attacking ROVs<\/a> in the deep blue sea.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <object width=\"450\" height=\"370\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/e\/517_1228303564\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/e\/517_1228303564\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"450\" height=\"370\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Did you see that? Not even a push from the robotic arm could make the creature give up its prey. When an animal doesn&#8217;t have a healthy fear of our technology in action, I worry. Seriously, if our future robot oppressors can&#8217;t save us, who will?<\/p>\n<p>Considering the <a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=85\">size potential of these aquatic beasts<\/a>, I&#8217;m drawing up plans for a shark suit lined exo-armor. It will be complete with laser sighting, super clamps, and electrified hull capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t take any chances, people. They&#8217;re beginning to figure things out.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ectomo.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/04\/theyre-mad-as-hell-and-theyre-not-gonna-take-it-anymore\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">ectomo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=517_1228303564\" class=\"external external_icon\">live leak<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been mentioned before, that the 8-legs(actually, tentacles) of the sea may have it in for us. They&#8217;re attacking light fixtures in captivity. And now they&#8217;re attacking ROVs in the deep blue sea. Did you see that? Not even a push from the robotic arm could make the creature give up its prey. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,15,7],"tags":[627,300,126,667,464,116,668,147,120,4927,225],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-robots","category-video","tag-briney-deep","tag-crazy","tag-horrible-8-legs","tag-humboldt-squid","tag-possible-left-over-old-one","tag-proof-of-evolution","tag-rov","tag-save-the-humans","tag-the-end-times","tag-video","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}