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Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives

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Really interesting, feels reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopolis_and_Octlantis (my favorite non-human settlements, if they can be called that).

This reminds me of the seeded octopus population in the science fiction novel Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Yeah. Tchaikovsky's works do an amazing job of exploring and imagining the potential evolution of different kinds of intelligence based on non-human biology... entertaining and compelling stuff, highly recommended.

The idea for the song came about when Starr was on a boat belonging to comedian Peter Sellers in Sardinia in 1968. He ordered fish and chips for lunch, but instead of fish he got squid (it was the first time he'd eaten squid, and he said, "It was OK. A bit rubbery. Tasted like chicken.") The boat's captain then told Starr about how octopuses travel along the sea bed picking up stones and shiny objects with which to build gardens. Starr's songwriting was further inspired by his desire to escape mounting hostility among the Beatles; he would later admit that he had "just wanted to be under the sea, too".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus%27s_Garden

https://archive.is/cItqk

These biologists seem impossibly naive. By putting this kind of information in the public domain, they are putting these creatures at risk of being commercially exploited in various ways. At the very least, the precise locations should not be divulged.

I actually think you're completely right.

The sea is too big, and existing international fisheries laws, not to mention simple national border laws have been unable to prevent massively irresponsible over-exploitation (to the point of extinction) of the creatures of the ocean.

It happened with Soviet Whaling fleets. It's happening with Chinese fishery fleets.

Don’t worry, there will be AI fisherman in a few years , I’m sure they will work it out.

> Female pearl octopuses nesting at the “Octopus Garden,” located near the Davidson Seamount off the coast of central California at a depth of approximately 3,200 meters.

I'd ask my friends to come and see an octopus' garden with me

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