Japanese scientists explain how flying squid jet out of sea and glide for over 30 meters

Tuesday, February 12th 2013 - 17:02 UTC

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Looks like Olympic Gold medalist Usain Bolt may finally have some competition. Japanese researchers published a study in German magazine ‘Marine Biology’ about the ocean squid that can fly more than 30 meters through the air at a speed of 11.2 meters per second. Read full article

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golfcronie
Argentinas secret weapon? Apparently they have been trained to search for our sub surface vessels.
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HB_BB
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HH_Bb
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golfcronie
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Hello darling Sussie
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Elenaeleainb
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Anglotino
@4 Golfcronie

Reply and commenting feeds the trolls so they keep posting. I've come to the point of ignoring them except for clicking on the Report Abuse button.

They do it to drive everyone out of the forum. It nearly worked with me. I was about to give up on this site but now just scroll past them. Continually commenting on Suzie's antics just make Suzie realise she is having an impact.
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Rufus
@6 Anglotino

I'm always a bit dissapointed when I get to a story too late and the editors have beaten me to it and all I get is “Comment removed by the editor.”, makes me wonder what pearls of wisdom I'm missing out on from our resident trolls.

It must be tempting for the editors to start changing their blocking messages to things like “I share an IP address with six other commenters, so please ignore me” or the like.

Anyway, flying squid... I always thought that squid were the boring cousins of octopi, but flying? That's got to add some street cred to them...
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Anglotino
@7 Rufus

I wish they were funny enough for me to remember but they are all posted by Suzie and I think the word “arse” appeared probably more than once.

As the the squid, I see synchronised swimming at the Olympics for them!

But for which country?
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Rufus
So pearls as in small irritating particles that molluscs deposit stuff on then. Ah well, there was me thinking I was missing out...

I'd say that given the squid were 600 km east of Tokyo, and there's nothing else remotely close, I'd say Japan would be the logical country for the synchronised squid swimming. The only problem is that they'd have to train them to jump in a controlled way, otherwise with a flight radius of 30m they could probably be landing on the spectators...
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Anglotino
Row82

Piss off. Trolls everywhere.
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