Everyone is worried about aliens coming from outer space, meanwhile we’ve got alien-esque creatures like octopuses (octopi?) that we already know live on planet Earth.
I’m sure you’ve heard this quote before, but just in case you haven’t, I’ll still include it in the story. It’s actually mind-blowing when you think about it, and definitely deserves its own paragraph (for maximum effect).
NASA Oceanographer Dr. Gene Feldman once said:
“We have better maps of the surface of Mars and the moon than we do of the bottom of the ocean.”
Translation: we know more about space than we do about the oceans that make up more than 70 percent of our planet. That’s why the theory (some might call it a conspiracy) of octopuses being aliens can somewhat make sense.
One of the reasons octopuses seem to be “from another world” is because of their unrivaled intelligence and their many other unique features, such as:
-They have color changing cells, which allows them to camouflage
-They have the largest brain-to body ratio of any invertebrate
-They are all venomous
-They have blue blood
-They have three hearts
-They have neurons in their tentacles, which allows its arms to act as “minds of their own”
-They don’t have any bones
Are you coming around on the idea that they might be aliens? Hopefully you are…
And if you need proof that these things are some of the smartest on the planet, may I direct you to the video below of an octopus escaping like Houdini from a closed jar.
Why is the octopus being pushed and sealed into a jar? That I don’t know for sure, but one could assume that it was for an experiment to test the creatures intelligence and abilities.
The octopus is placed into the jar under the water, and then the jar is quickly sealed shut. Arrows on the front allow the camera to see where the jar initially got to a “full close,” and helped provide context when the octopus started spinning the thing open from the inside.
Within a minute, the octopus has freed itself from the jar, utilizing its suction cup tentacles to lock on to the top and spin it around. Once it gets it all the way off, the sea creature bursts the thing off, but then goes back down into the jar, seemingly saying either 1) “is that all you got?” or 2) “let’s run it back.”
Take a look:
