Vincent writes:

Recently, some fishermen hauled in a gigantic sea creature described in the following snippet from a Reuters wire article:

 " A rare and dangerous squid with eyes the size of dinner plates and scores of razor-sharp hooks to snag its prey has been caught by fishermen off Antarctica, New Zealand scientists said on Thursday."

 It went on to say...

 "This is a very aggressive animal and moves quickly. If you fell in the water next to it you would be in big trouble," said Bolstad.

 The colossal squid finds food by literally glowing in the dark, deep waters to light up prey for its massive eyes -- the biggest of any animal.

 But it is the colossal squid's weaponry that marks it out from its giant cousin.

 Its eight arms and two tentacles have up to 25 teeth-like hooks -- deeply rooted into muscle and able to rotate 360 degrees -- as well as the usual suckers to ensure fish do not escape.

 The hooks not only hold fish for the squid's two parrot-like beaks, but also are used to fend off attacks from hungry sperm whales, O'Shea said.

 The species, whose scientific name is mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, was previously thought to have lurked at least half a mile down in the freezing waters near Antarctica, but the specimen found a fortnight ago was near the surface.

O'Shea said the discovery raised questions about what else was down deep in the ocean.

 "We know so little about the marine environment in general. If animals like this are turning up, what's going to be at 3,000-meters (10,000-foot) depth. We don't know," O'Shea said.

My thoughts:

First of all, if this thing has brothers and sisters, we are in big fuckin' trouble.  Forget Iraq, Al-Qaeda, the French, all that shit because these things are going to eat us all and gnaw on our bones.  Also, the discovery of this "squid" proves to the entire adult world that little kids are right, monsters are REAL and do exist...very much fucking so.  "Squid."  What bullshit. This thing is a fucking MONSTER.  There is no other logical way to describe it.  The scientist fuckers just should have said, "yeah, look, don't be alarmed, but we found this big motherfucking monster and it likely will kill us all."  I also like that donkey O'Shea who says the "discovery raised questions about what else was down deep in the ocean."  What the fuck?!  This guy is a scientist.  he better damn well find out what else is down there.  Better yet, we could just have the navy drain the ocean and dry the fuckers out.  although they would probably spontaneously mutate and sprout wings and eat us all anyway.

Bottom line, we need as many friends in the world as we can get because these MONSTERS are swimming around waiting to eat us.

Also, O'Shea's comment, "We know so little about the marine environment in general. If animals like this are turning up, what's going to be at 3,000-meters (10,000-foot) depth. We don't know." is terrifying.  It is also telling.  If we don't even know what's at the bottom of the goddamn ocean, how the fuck did we get to the moon in '68 or 69 or whenever the fuck it was?  We can't even get to the bottom of our own swimming pool.

Jesus.