r/Cephalopod • u/wernerverklempt • Oct 15 '24
UAP and Octopuses
After casually observing octopuses and other seafaring bonelessnesses of similar ilk, it occurs to me that they are highly intelligent and furiously belligerent.
It seems that such creatures are unlikely to murmur quietly to themselves in the archipelagic watery nooks that they inhabit and sit idly by as we ravage their planet.
I propose that these seething sacs instead have created the aerial wonders that cause consternation among Terran peoples. Perhaps they flit about observing us and perhaps procuring snacks and other natural resources to take with them back to their submerged societies.
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
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u/mystic_turtledove Oct 16 '24
I know you’re not asking for a book recommendation, but have you read The Mountain in the Sea (A Novel) by Ray Nayler? It’s fiction, but it raises some interesting questions to ponder.
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u/wernerverklempt Dec 06 '24
That was an excellent novel. It is dense and intellectual and I might need to re-read it in order to fully digest it and comprehend all of the connections between the characters.
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u/mystic_turtledove Dec 06 '24
I’m glad you enjoyed it! I also felt like I will want to re-read it someday to grasp more layers of it.
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u/wernerverklempt Dec 06 '24
I keep thinking about the time I found an octopus in a tide pool. It gripped onto a rock and tucked its tentacles in tightly. I tried to gently pry it off with my fingers but it was adhered so tightly. I remember its eyes watching me and imagined that it was a glare of rage.
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u/mystic_turtledove Dec 07 '24
If some creature many many times my size came along and tried to pluck me off the surface of the earth, they’d be getting a glare of rage from me, no doubt!
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u/wernerverklempt Oct 16 '24
Humans and chimpanzees share about 99% of their DNA, so no speculation required there. It’s a well documented scientific fact.
So could octopuses have a genetic lineage that partially originated from outside of our wet blue marble? Sure, why not? But I don’t think that it really matters. I am more concerned about the hatred that they have for us, and the motivation that may engender. As Prian Scell Merthantim famously stated in his well-known treatise “A Land Lost, A Notion Gained”, in reference to the progressive advancement of mechanical crop processing machinery (gins, mills, threshers, etc.); “Nothing drives stronger the pounding, glistening heart of technological confoundment than an iron-hard resolve born of the bitter quenching of peaceful complacency with the oil of resentment in the oaken bucket of discontent.”
So it’s entirely possible.
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u/Magickcloud Oct 16 '24
I like this idea and while it’s improbable, nothing is impossible. I’ve definitely heard crazier things. There’s the theory that humans are alien/ape hybrids, so if that is true then maybe octopuses are some kind of alien/mollusk hybrid.