#i for one welcome our brain worm overlords

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Guys I think Robert f Kennedy Jr is gonna turn into a mindflayer.

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Hello! Bonjour! Guten tag! Happy Friday, and welcome back to Friday Sea Creatures. We're doing something a little different this week - I was just informed that it's Cephalopod Week, so instead of focusing on a single creature we're going to celebrate the joy that is the entire Cephalopod class! There's so much to choose from, so much to know... put on those Friday Sea Creatures tunes and check out the 

Cephalopoda (Cephalopoda)

Pod Facts:

Let's resolve your most burning questions first: what happens when you give an octopus molly? Well, some scientists wondered that too, and being scientists, they tried it out. The results? The octopuses got a lot more cuddly, and "slid up to the edge of their tanks and even reached out to interact with neighboring octopuses."

BP often focuses on power resiliency, but so far we have not designed any systems to address octopus-induced outages.

If I were a cephalopod, I would be writing this roughly 3 times as fast, assuming two arms were reserved for drinking rose (check my math on that one folks).

They use a form of jet propulsion that's more efficient than any other in the ocean.

Much like their human counterparts, squid sex is aggressive and often ends poorly. 

Just last week scientists captured the first ever video of a giant squid!

Some squids communicate with each other using Morse code.

I cannot do any better than to repeat the title of this journal article here: “Octopus Arms Are Capable of Making Decisions Without Input From Their Brains”. 

Here is a poem about a very large cephalopod, by Alfred Lord Tennyson:

Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumbered and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green. There hath he lain for ages, and will lie Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep, Until the latter fire shall heat the deep; Then once by man and angels to be seen, In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

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All hail our cephalopod overlords,

Mike

Director of Sea Creatures