Well, sort of. Ready for the new SETI blog here at Scienceblogs? They launched today.
I don't know if we have to look to the skies to find aliens. We've got some pretty strange terrestrial life around here:
(via @sfriedscientist of Southern Fried Science)
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For those of you following Twitter or watching the television in the university cafeteria, you'll know that the North Carolina port of Morehead City is being evacuated.
Above: Ferguson police spent the evening dropping tear gas containers on reporters to keep news of police repression from getting out.
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January.
When I see the patterns a cuttlefish can create and the shapes a mimic octopus can achieve, it makes me want to teach these animals stupid tricks.
Can a mimic octopus raised in a lab imitate a human face? I believe they're endangered and a bit hard to find (haha) so I don't think we'll be seeing that anytime soon.
But why hasn't anyone tried to trick a cuttlefish or octopus of some kind into showing artificial-looking patterns? I'm sure there's limitations - no convincing right angles to be had perhaps. But I can't be the only person that's thinking like this.
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