What the....? Sea monster?

[Elixir]

Again. I didn't know whether to put this here or in pseudoscience...

Massive Fukushima Mutant Sea Monster Captured on Oil-Rig Cam

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=193_1379475235

you can see the massive creature is nearly 780 meters long and has the form of an amorphous, jelly-like blob.

Suddenly, halfway through the video, tentacle-like appendages morph from within the creature’s body. The appendages are nearly 540 feet (165 m) long and are round and pale in appearance. Scientists who have viewed the video say the appendages appear to have a coated membrane, similar to see creatures that produce poisonous toxins that eat away the flesh of their prey as their body’s wrap around it, much like a phagocyte does a bacteria in the human body.

Uh... okay.

 

[Thomas II]

 

[dystopian]

780 meters long? What? Were they looking at the same video? Do they mean centimeters?

 

[Underseer]

Is that an April Fool's joke?

 

[braces_for_impact]

They've been watching to many Godzilla movies.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Oh, no, not like 'see' creatures....!

 

[crazyfingers]

A Nimitz class aircraft carrier is 333 meters long. So they claim that this blob thing said to have been photographed by an oil rig surveillance/maintenance camera took that movie of something nearly 2 and a half times larger than a supercarrier. Right.... Does it have a floodlight the size of 10 houses? That's what it would need in the deep dark water.

And I notice the video starts out with the thing between the pylon and the camera. So they keep the camera and a light 10 times the size of a house on a boom at least 300 meters way from the rig. Right.

And I presume it's able to slosh away at something like 150 miles and hour.

 

[crazyfingers]

So they say US navy has sent a sub. Hmm. A Seawolf class attack sub is 107 meters long compared to the supposed 780 meter blob. And at maybe 45 miles an hour submerged speed, the blob can swim 3 times faster than a sub that's 13% it's length.

This is all pretty silly.

 

[crazyfingers]

I would like to know how many Fukushima type power plants it would take to accelerate a thing at least 6 times larger than a Nimitz class supercarrier, and probably more than 16 times it's mass from Zero to 150 miles an hour in 5 seconds not even counting the resistance of the water that the blob would have to push out of the way.

 

[Elixir]

I think we know what ate flight 370...

 

[Bronzeage]

Is that an April Fool's joke?

The internet makes it possible for April fool jokes to live forever.

This is the part I think gives it away:

The crew of the oil-mariner said they first turned on their camera after they saw a litter of spent shark carcasses in the water. ”It looked apocalyptic,” oil-rigger Nori Montamoya reported in an interview. ”The shark bodies looked as if they had been eaten away by acid.”

In the video, the giant creature thought to be the culprit gave the oil-crew a good look at its body, before diving deep within the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Due to the creature’s massive size, armed US Naval units — including one nuclear submarine — are helping patrol the waters. Japanese researchers hope to capture the creature and study it.

 

[aeebee50]

I will have to be sure not to dive around oil rigs. A person cannot trusty jellyfish.

 

[Elixir]

"Japanese researchers hope to capture the creature and study it. "

Yeah well, aren't they still trying to capture and study Godzilla too?

 

[Jokodo]

Sunlight only really penetrates to a depth of 200 metres in the sea. So in order to illuminate anything that's several hundred metres long, you'd have to put up massive equipment not only in one place but in several places just to have the whole thing illuminated.

And even then, this wouldn't be enough to capture the thing on screen: The light reflected on its surface would be absorbed on the way back to your lens.