Science Tuesday!

[Squid]

Okay, so this is not about my brethren, and it's not about battles for animal supremacy so I figured I'd just start an actual Science Tuesday Topic.

(And I sort of can't believe I beat Grant to this, which can only mean that it's a hoax or he's found something cooler.)

Octopus snatches coconut and runs

An octopus and its coconut-carrying antics have surprised scientists.

I realize now that what this board needs (aside from a wonderful new redesign, of course) is COCONUT-CARRYING ANTICS. This is what we have been missing the entire time. I don't know about you, but I'm planning on rectifying this immediately.

[grant]

It is NOT a hoax.

It is an octopus carrying coconuts.

They are very clever.

And I am fighting an urge to allude to Monty Python *right now*.

[No You Are]

Did it grip it by the husk?

[Squid]

Well, it's already Tuesday in EMEA...

How can you tell when a telescope is big?

When it earns the title "EXTREMELY LARGE".

[grant]

Of course they put it in the Atacama dreamscape.

Of course.

[Squid]

Dudes it's totally Thursday but I don't even, like, CARE. You know why??

MONSTER STAR SIGHTING, THAT'S WHY.

That's all. Thanking you in advance.

[Squid]

Once again, I am slammed at work, but it is Science Tuesday so I must take a moment to present:

PRE-HISTORIC BALLOON-HEADED DOLPHINS.

You heard me.

[grant]

I bet they were psychic.

[No You Are]

I think it is the vestigial remains of frickin laser beams. Sometimes evolution takes away awesome.

[Squid]

Hot rock! Good luck Kepler-10b - you might wanna talk to Pluto about this...

NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

[No You Are]

Wow. Did the guy from Welcome Back Kotter discover it?