breakthrough in understanding octopus language

[pokerfan]

Education researchers at Oregon Sea Grant's Free-Choice Learning Lab, housed at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC), have discovered a way to translate octopus gestures to human speech. This project was unveiled on April 1, 2012.

[jberryhill]

1. Well, don't tell it what's in the calamari

[Ecumenist]

9. Squid, not octopi. Thank God.

[jberryhill]

10. Nope, not tonight

We ran out and had to substitute

[Warpy]

2. This is the first baby step toward communication

with off planet species. Once we can understand some of our own fellow species we might be on the way to understanding those who don't share a planetary reference point.

The downside is learning how they feel about the way they've been treated for all these millennia.

[jberryhill]

11. "Once we can understand some of our own fellow species "

I gather you haven't read much in the Help & Meta forum. It's not encouraging in that regard.

[Warpy]

15. Well, our own species has been particularly recalcitrant

in that regard. However, lacking the longstanding linguistic skills as we know them might be a help rather than an hindrance with interspecies communication.

[pokerfan]

17. dolphins

[eppur_se_muova]

3. LOL ! Well done !

British accents make anything sound credible to Americans.

[Sedona]

4. "I am a kitty"

[jakeXT]

5. Back to square one

They predict soccer results, taste good with garlic and are able to open jars.

[Th1onein]

6. Yeah, that's what I thought....

An April Fool's joke.

[pokerfan]

7. I like to think of it

as a day for calibrating everyone's BS meters.

[usrname]

8. April Fools

Gotta be April Fools. C'mon, it's gotta be.

[snagglepuss]

14. I doubt it's ajoke. Octopuses are extremely intelligent. I was blown

away watching a documentary about them several years ago.

[MNBrewer]

12. I hate April first.

[Diclotican]

13. pokerfan

pokerfan

That was a good one at 1 april . I almost got into it...

But even it is not true - it would be cool to know what some of our other beings on the planet really is talking about with each other.. Octopuses are not that "stupid", and should be able to communicate both internal, but also externally if we was just able to understand them...

Diclotican

[denbot]

16. LOL

Got me..

[ChazInAz]

18. April 1...Lon Chaney's birthday.

I should have known. "You have bought eight tickets to the gun show." Monty Python couldn't have done it better.

[Octohostage]

19. What the octopus is really saying...

"Please set me free!"