Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Always...

Well, it's 2am, and I'm sitting here in the dark with not a lot keeping me awake. At times like this, I always seem to turn to things that I really shouldn't, to entertain. Nothing like smut or violence or anything, but undersea creatures. I don't know what it is, but when it's late and I have nothing to keep me interested, my hands always end up typing "world's biggest" or "world's most dangerous" or "rarest" followed by some kind of sea monster noun. Tonight, it was jellyfish. Not sure why. Like I said, it always just happens, weather i want it to or not, I get sea monsters. Was reading, and apparentally the Nomura's jellyfish, and the Lion's Mane jellyfish are the 2 biggest in the world. The Nomura's jellyfish is apparentally a big problem in japan, not because it's dangerous to be around (it is, but it doesn't come up much), but the fact that it chokes the fishermen's nets! They can weigh over 200 kilos, and get very big across, over 5 meters. They also, whilst trapped in the nets, poison all the other things caught in them, making them unedible! Now, as far as undeasea beasties go, jellies are by far the easiest for me to look at on the internet; they have no spooky dead eyes, no fangs, gills or slippery fins, just a puffly body and some long stingers hanging out the bottom. Also, a big thing for me, is the whole no real brain thing. They just float, and puff, and float, and puff. They can't team up on you like a crazy pack of dolphins, or plan some horrendous surprise attack like a shark, they just puff, and float.




This thing is a fake picture, but damn was i spooked when i saw it.
A secret part of me wants it to be real. Monsters would be awesome...

2 comments:

lou said...

ick, spooky dead eyes or not, i think jellyfish are scary!

Notme2000 said...

Was this the night you were bored and kinda glum so I sent a link to the world's biggest squid cause I KNEW it'd cheer you up?