From several anonymous 4chan users, 25/5/2020
No. 25056916
The Bloop was an ultra low frequency underwater sound recorded by NOAA in 1997. It was unlike any other sounds ever recorded underwater, due to it's frequency and the fact it was recorded by other sensors thousands of miles from its estimated source. It is consistent with other marine animal noises due to its rapidly changing frequency but it would be an animal many times larger than the Blue Whale, the largest animal to ever exist. The consensus by most scientists is that it was caused by geological activity.
what is your view /x/?
The Bloop was an ultra low frequency underwater sound recorded by NOAA in 1997. It was unlike any other sounds ever recorded underwater, due to it's frequency and the fact it was recorded by other sensors thousands of miles from its estimated source. It is consistent with other marine animal noises due to its rapidly changing frequency but it would be an animal many times larger than the Blue Whale, the largest animal to ever exist. The consensus by most scientists is that it was caused by geological activity.
what is your view /x/?
No. 25056967
Just an equipment malfunction like that recently declassified USN ufo video
Just an equipment malfunction like that recently declassified USN ufo video
No. 25057083
Oh, that's the black carpet. (Allegedly) A bit of an urban legend amongst deep sea divers. I'm that diver anon if anyone was in the last deep sea thread. I've heard about this thing a couple times from coworkers and buddies.
I don't remember the details of the full story right now to be honest, but I'll talk to my buddy sometime and see if he remembers and post em on here. But the basic gist that I can remember is that this thing is some sort of colony organism, like a giant moving coral. It's a giant black carpet of macrobiotic cells that crawls over the ocean floor, sifting though nutrients with millions of tiny feelers. Nobody has ever gotten a good estimate of the size other than "It's big" and apparently it makes a noise similar to this "bloop" thing. One guy apparently saw it swimming/riding the currents as well, so it does more than just crawl on the ocean floor. I suppose you could call it a one of a kind organism, but I'm not sure if that applies to colony organisms like this.
Oh, that's the black carpet. (Allegedly) A bit of an urban legend amongst deep sea divers. I'm that diver anon if anyone was in the last deep sea thread. I've heard about this thing a couple times from coworkers and buddies.
I don't remember the details of the full story right now to be honest, but I'll talk to my buddy sometime and see if he remembers and post em on here. But the basic gist that I can remember is that this thing is some sort of colony organism, like a giant moving coral. It's a giant black carpet of macrobiotic cells that crawls over the ocean floor, sifting though nutrients with millions of tiny feelers. Nobody has ever gotten a good estimate of the size other than "It's big" and apparently it makes a noise similar to this "bloop" thing. One guy apparently saw it swimming/riding the currents as well, so it does more than just crawl on the ocean floor. I suppose you could call it a one of a kind organism, but I'm not sure if that applies to colony organisms like this.
No. 25057327
>macrobiotic cells
So you're saying the ocean floor is covered by a giant jellyfish?
>macrobiotic cells
So you're saying the ocean floor is covered by a giant jellyfish?
No. 25057385
AAAAAAAARRGG!!!
What you just described sounds terrifying
AAAAAAAARRGG!!!
What you just described sounds terrifying
No. 25057409
That's actually pretty cool
That's actually pretty cool
No. 25057432
Essentially, yes. According to how the Black Carpet has been described to me, it shares many similarities to a jellyfish. One story I heard had a diver getting stung by some sort of large feeler strang that apparently hangs off the top, similar to a jellyfish. There was this really old retired diver I talked to who claimed to have seen it, he claimed to have seen an entire decomposing sperm whale being consumed by the carpet. I should really make a post compiling all the stories I've heard about this thing.
Essentially, yes. According to how the Black Carpet has been described to me, it shares many similarities to a jellyfish. One story I heard had a diver getting stung by some sort of large feeler strang that apparently hangs off the top, similar to a jellyfish. There was this really old retired diver I talked to who claimed to have seen it, he claimed to have seen an entire decomposing sperm whale being consumed by the carpet. I should really make a post compiling all the stories I've heard about this thing.
No. 25057542
So I talked to my buddy and I'm going to start writing up some of the stories I've heard about the black carpet.
This is the first story I heard of it, from some finnish bloke with a strong accent. He was doing a deep sea dive repairing some sort of cable. I assume it was probably fiber optic. As he told it, initially he thought he was in the wrong spot because he couldn't find the cable anywhere. He starts searching and eventually finds one end- just the one. Sheared clean through. He gets his dive buddy to stay with that end of the line while he goes looking for the other end, swimming in a straight line in the direction of the other line. In his estimation, he swam about half a mile before he found the other end of the line. He stressed to me that the entire half a mile middle section of the line was just completely gone. It was a huge deal and everyone thought it was the russians, but this guy was sure that this carpet thing hard done it. Said he heard the noise it apparently makes even though he never saw it.
So I talked to my buddy and I'm going to start writing up some of the stories I've heard about the black carpet.
This is the first story I heard of it, from some finnish bloke with a strong accent. He was doing a deep sea dive repairing some sort of cable. I assume it was probably fiber optic. As he told it, initially he thought he was in the wrong spot because he couldn't find the cable anywhere. He starts searching and eventually finds one end- just the one. Sheared clean through. He gets his dive buddy to stay with that end of the line while he goes looking for the other end, swimming in a straight line in the direction of the other line. In his estimation, he swam about half a mile before he found the other end of the line. He stressed to me that the entire half a mile middle section of the line was just completely gone. It was a huge deal and everyone thought it was the russians, but this guy was sure that this carpet thing hard done it. Said he heard the noise it apparently makes even though he never saw it.
No. 25057752
This next story is from my buddy, he heard it from a guy who heard it from another guy who heard it from another guy so take it with a heavy grain of salt.
This guy is doing a dive, depth, location, what he was doing never got specified. Just that he was "really deep". He starts hearing this off noise that gets associated with the carpet a lot. The way he described was similar to that video of the *bloop*. Ultra low pitch, sort of like a super creepy distorted whale song. As he gets closer he hears this almost static crackling noise as well. The way he described it was like "a million prawns getting cracked open at once" if that makes any difference. As he gets closer the the bottom, the noises are getting louder and louder. At this point he was thinking that he's hearing some sort of sonar from a submarine and that some jackass submarine crew is playing a joke on him.
When the guy gets to the bottom he shines his light around, trying to find whatever he's looking for. And what he saw was the sea floor had literally come to life and was crawling past him. This is probably the best description of the carpet you're going to get.
According to this guy:
>Carpet is at least a mile long/wide
>made mostly of these strange black feelers that apparently make the strange popping noise
>most of the top is covered in various sand, rocks, debris, with feelers poking through
>also a few long transparent "stalks" as he described them that float upwards
>apparently some of these were like 20ft long
>according to the guy it was "singing" which doesn't make any fucking sense to me, but whatever
Guy swam back up to the surface and claimed he had an equipment malfunction. Came back down a couple hours later and got there just in time to see the last of the thing disappear. Apparently it "stretched as far as the eye could see". Which isn't that far at the bottom of the ocean, but still.
This next story is from my buddy, he heard it from a guy who heard it from another guy who heard it from another guy so take it with a heavy grain of salt.
This guy is doing a dive, depth, location, what he was doing never got specified. Just that he was "really deep". He starts hearing this off noise that gets associated with the carpet a lot. The way he described was similar to that video of the *bloop*. Ultra low pitch, sort of like a super creepy distorted whale song. As he gets closer he hears this almost static crackling noise as well. The way he described it was like "a million prawns getting cracked open at once" if that makes any difference. As he gets closer the the bottom, the noises are getting louder and louder. At this point he was thinking that he's hearing some sort of sonar from a submarine and that some jackass submarine crew is playing a joke on him.
When the guy gets to the bottom he shines his light around, trying to find whatever he's looking for. And what he saw was the sea floor had literally come to life and was crawling past him. This is probably the best description of the carpet you're going to get.
According to this guy:
>Carpet is at least a mile long/wide
>made mostly of these strange black feelers that apparently make the strange popping noise
>most of the top is covered in various sand, rocks, debris, with feelers poking through
>also a few long transparent "stalks" as he described them that float upwards
>apparently some of these were like 20ft long
>according to the guy it was "singing" which doesn't make any fucking sense to me, but whatever
Guy swam back up to the surface and claimed he had an equipment malfunction. Came back down a couple hours later and got there just in time to see the last of the thing disappear. Apparently it "stretched as far as the eye could see". Which isn't that far at the bottom of the ocean, but still.
No. 25057901
This one is an old urban legend that's been floating around the diving community for years. Never heard a concrete source of it, so IMO it probably never happened. Especially since it involves a submarine crew, so I'm not sure how a diver would have hear about it, since as far as I know submarine crew usually stay inside their ship. Anyway, here goes.
Submarine is doing something, either wargames or patrolling for chinese/russian/north korean/bad guy submarines. The story isn't terribly consistent about this, I hear it different every single time.
For whatever reason, they are not using active sonar because they want to avoid detection, floating dead somewhere "a couple hundred meters off the sea floor"
They're just sitting there, chilling and listening with their sensors, trying to detect enemy submarines or whatever, when they start hearing "the noise". Their sensors can't make any sense of it, and it's getting louder at an alarming rate. Starts out as something only the sensors can hear, but before long the entire crew is hearing this strange, distorted humming/singing that people always associate with the carpet. Captain thinks the only explanation is that it's some sort of new sonar/jamming technology and order the sonar crew to send out a ping to locate the source of the noise. This is the part of the story that stays the most consistent, I assume because it's the most memorable. The sonar operator shouts out "New Sonar contact, bearing... Sir? what's our depth?"
The captain replies, "500m" or whatever depth the submarine is supposed to be at. The sonar operator replies. "But sir, the sonar says the sea floor is 10m melow us."
The captain says that's nonsense, then walks over to the sonar station. Checks the reading, then walks over to the helsman and checks the depth. Checks the nautical charts for where they are. Somehow apparently, the ocean has gotten about 200m shallower.
This one is an old urban legend that's been floating around the diving community for years. Never heard a concrete source of it, so IMO it probably never happened. Especially since it involves a submarine crew, so I'm not sure how a diver would have hear about it, since as far as I know submarine crew usually stay inside their ship. Anyway, here goes.
Submarine is doing something, either wargames or patrolling for chinese/russian/north korean/bad guy submarines. The story isn't terribly consistent about this, I hear it different every single time.
For whatever reason, they are not using active sonar because they want to avoid detection, floating dead somewhere "a couple hundred meters off the sea floor"
They're just sitting there, chilling and listening with their sensors, trying to detect enemy submarines or whatever, when they start hearing "the noise". Their sensors can't make any sense of it, and it's getting louder at an alarming rate. Starts out as something only the sensors can hear, but before long the entire crew is hearing this strange, distorted humming/singing that people always associate with the carpet. Captain thinks the only explanation is that it's some sort of new sonar/jamming technology and order the sonar crew to send out a ping to locate the source of the noise. This is the part of the story that stays the most consistent, I assume because it's the most memorable. The sonar operator shouts out "New Sonar contact, bearing... Sir? what's our depth?"
The captain replies, "500m" or whatever depth the submarine is supposed to be at. The sonar operator replies. "But sir, the sonar says the sea floor is 10m melow us."
The captain says that's nonsense, then walks over to the sonar station. Checks the reading, then walks over to the helsman and checks the depth. Checks the nautical charts for where they are. Somehow apparently, the ocean has gotten about 200m shallower.
No. 25057960
The captain orders another ping from the sonar to try and locate the source of the noise.
Sonar operator speaks up again, concerned. "Sir, the Ocean is getting deeper again."
Captain asks him to repeat himself.
"Ocean floor is once again at expected depth, sir."
Captain takes a look for himself and sure enough, the are no longer 10m above the ocean floor. There is also a very, very large "dot" on the screen behind the submarine.
Captain asks what the large contact is.
Sonar operator: "Equipment malfunction, sir."
Captain pings again, just out of curiosity. The "Equipment malfunction" has maintained it's shape and is continuing to move away from the submarine, and apparently taking the strange noise with it.
Again, this is basically an old wive's tale amongst deep sea divers so take it with a grain of salt. It's possible that a submarine detected the "carpet" or whatever on sonar and that's the origin of the story, but I highly doubt this actually happened. Still makes for a cool story though.
The captain orders another ping from the sonar to try and locate the source of the noise.
Sonar operator speaks up again, concerned. "Sir, the Ocean is getting deeper again."
Captain asks him to repeat himself.
"Ocean floor is once again at expected depth, sir."
Captain takes a look for himself and sure enough, the are no longer 10m above the ocean floor. There is also a very, very large "dot" on the screen behind the submarine.
Captain asks what the large contact is.
Sonar operator: "Equipment malfunction, sir."
Captain pings again, just out of curiosity. The "Equipment malfunction" has maintained it's shape and is continuing to move away from the submarine, and apparently taking the strange noise with it.
Again, this is basically an old wive's tale amongst deep sea divers so take it with a grain of salt. It's possible that a submarine detected the "carpet" or whatever on sonar and that's the origin of the story, but I highly doubt this actually happened. Still makes for a cool story though.
No. 25058096
Last story for now, I'll see if I can dig up some more later. This is from the old guy I talked about earlier. Nice guy, marine biologist who has done both deep sea welds and nature research/studies with ROVs.
According to him, it happened late one night while the rest of the crew was sleeping, he was pulling an all nighter studying the sea life around volcanic vents. He's moving the ROV from one vent area to the next when he sees what he described as "churning sediments" on the sea floor, a giant moving cloud of underwater dust essentially moving towards the ROV. He moves in closer and sees what he describes as a "colossal echinoderm" crawling along the sea floor, with "long, dextrous filament probing the sea floor ahead of it". He maneuverse the ROV in for a closer look and uses the arm to prod one of the filaments. In the blink of an eye he lost contact with the ROV. Apparently it happened so fast he didn't even see it happen. One second the thing was about 5m away from the vehicle, the next second it had swallowed the thing whole.
His excuse for not having footage was that the footage was all recorded and stored on the ROV rather than being recorded and stored on the operating station which seems... fishy to me. He was however, very confident in himself. To the extent he claims that he is the discoverer of this new species. He even gave it a name, which I completely forgot because it was so stupid and boring. Giant sea carpet sounds cooler anyway.
Last story for now, I'll see if I can dig up some more later. This is from the old guy I talked about earlier. Nice guy, marine biologist who has done both deep sea welds and nature research/studies with ROVs.
According to him, it happened late one night while the rest of the crew was sleeping, he was pulling an all nighter studying the sea life around volcanic vents. He's moving the ROV from one vent area to the next when he sees what he described as "churning sediments" on the sea floor, a giant moving cloud of underwater dust essentially moving towards the ROV. He moves in closer and sees what he describes as a "colossal echinoderm" crawling along the sea floor, with "long, dextrous filament probing the sea floor ahead of it". He maneuverse the ROV in for a closer look and uses the arm to prod one of the filaments. In the blink of an eye he lost contact with the ROV. Apparently it happened so fast he didn't even see it happen. One second the thing was about 5m away from the vehicle, the next second it had swallowed the thing whole.
His excuse for not having footage was that the footage was all recorded and stored on the ROV rather than being recorded and stored on the operating station which seems... fishy to me. He was however, very confident in himself. To the extent he claims that he is the discoverer of this new species. He even gave it a name, which I completely forgot because it was so stupid and boring. Giant sea carpet sounds cooler anyway.
No. 25058490
If it's similar to a jellyfish and is actually a colony of microorganisms, then it might be related to the Portuguese man o war
If it's similar to a jellyfish and is actually a colony of microorganisms, then it might be related to the Portuguese man o war
No. 25058548
The way I've heard it described, it shares more similarities with a starfish or sea anemone than a jellyfish. The marine biologist guy who said he'd seen it had some interesting thoughts on what it was.
His idea is that it's some sort of holdover/descendant from the very first invertebrate forms of life on earth. He did a whole long talk about how coral is one of the oldest forms of life on the planet, and the reason why the ocean is the only place teeming with large invertebrate creatures is because that's where all life first evolved. In his mind, jellyfish and all other sea invertebrates probably evolved from this thing rather than vice versa. This giant sea carpet or whatever would have been one of those very first life forms to ever exist on earth, technically making it one of our ancient ancestors. It's a pretty cool theory, all things considered.
The way I've heard it described, it shares more similarities with a starfish or sea anemone than a jellyfish. The marine biologist guy who said he'd seen it had some interesting thoughts on what it was.
His idea is that it's some sort of holdover/descendant from the very first invertebrate forms of life on earth. He did a whole long talk about how coral is one of the oldest forms of life on the planet, and the reason why the ocean is the only place teeming with large invertebrate creatures is because that's where all life first evolved. In his mind, jellyfish and all other sea invertebrates probably evolved from this thing rather than vice versa. This giant sea carpet or whatever would have been one of those very first life forms to ever exist on earth, technically making it one of our ancient ancestors. It's a pretty cool theory, all things considered.
No. 25060454
This is the closest thing I could find to what >>25058096 is decribing
https://youtu.be/EkVY2EvFSgo
This is the closest thing I could find to what >>25058096 is decribing
https://youtu.be/EkVY2EvFSgo
No. 25063351
the one at 4:09 looks almost exactly like a (very small) version of what I've heard the black carpet is described as. I'm going to try and get in contact with the old biologist guy who saw the carpet and ask him
the one at 4:09 looks almost exactly like a (very small) version of what I've heard the black carpet is described as. I'm going to try and get in contact with the old biologist guy who saw the carpet and ask him
No. 25063694
Way way back in the mid-1980's I read in a book on cryptids that there was something called "The Hide".
Apparently it was a flattish thing with eyes along the rim, about the size of a large cow hide (hence the name).
From what I recall, the one observation was of such a creature rising up of an underwater trench to absorb a shark who'd somehow become paralyzed by it.
It was observed at some distance by a diver.
Does any of that ring a bell to anyone?
Supposedly took place somewhere off the pacific coast of South America.
Way way back in the mid-1980's I read in a book on cryptids that there was something called "The Hide".
Apparently it was a flattish thing with eyes along the rim, about the size of a large cow hide (hence the name).
From what I recall, the one observation was of such a creature rising up of an underwater trench to absorb a shark who'd somehow become paralyzed by it.
It was observed at some distance by a diver.
Does any of that ring a bell to anyone?
Supposedly took place somewhere off the pacific coast of South America.
No. 25063784
>>25063694
I've heard some people claim to have seen that thing or other similar things. A lot of stuff I've heard from other divers seems like they could be attributed to very rare/large siphonophores that live in the deep sea.
What you're talking about was describe to me as a sort of pancake shaped creature that would hide under the sand with a single small near transparent tentacle floating upwards, a diver touched it, spasmed and immediately the creature rose out of the sand to devour him. Don't touch strange shit in the ocean, people.
May as well go on a tangent and talk about some other stories I've heard that might be attributed to siphonophores. There was this one cranky old retired diver who swore he'd seen a sea monster of "unfathomable size" on a dive once. I always assumed he was full of shit but the way he describe it sounds a lot like a siphonophore. The story went something like this, he was on a dive doing something that I've forgotten when he sees an absolutely giant tentacle stretching up from a nearby drop-off. The thing was so huge he couldn't see "no beginnin nor end to it" and so now he goes around constantly claiming to have come "within a hair breadth of devourment by a gargantuan sea leviathan of unfathomable proportion."
And yes, that is exactly how he talked. Looking into these siphonophores it makes total sense that something like this could exist, though it would be less of a sea monster than a giant serpentine jelly blob sifting through plankton and floating nutrients.
>>25063694
I've heard some people claim to have seen that thing or other similar things. A lot of stuff I've heard from other divers seems like they could be attributed to very rare/large siphonophores that live in the deep sea.
What you're talking about was describe to me as a sort of pancake shaped creature that would hide under the sand with a single small near transparent tentacle floating upwards, a diver touched it, spasmed and immediately the creature rose out of the sand to devour him. Don't touch strange shit in the ocean, people.
May as well go on a tangent and talk about some other stories I've heard that might be attributed to siphonophores. There was this one cranky old retired diver who swore he'd seen a sea monster of "unfathomable size" on a dive once. I always assumed he was full of shit but the way he describe it sounds a lot like a siphonophore. The story went something like this, he was on a dive doing something that I've forgotten when he sees an absolutely giant tentacle stretching up from a nearby drop-off. The thing was so huge he couldn't see "no beginnin nor end to it" and so now he goes around constantly claiming to have come "within a hair breadth of devourment by a gargantuan sea leviathan of unfathomable proportion."
And yes, that is exactly how he talked. Looking into these siphonophores it makes total sense that something like this could exist, though it would be less of a sea monster than a giant serpentine jelly blob sifting through plankton and floating nutrients.
No. 25063837
Another siphonophore related story I've heard is one about an absolutely gargantuan jellyfish type creature that was allegedly the size of a military submarine. The diver who saw it said the thing was so massive it had somehow developed it's own biosphere with various species of fish circling around and swimming inside it. He described it as having an appearance like a giant upsidedown orchid suspended underneath a massive sphere of translucent jelly. The coloration was very dull, but that might have just been due to the extreme depth.
Another siphonophore related story I've heard is one about an absolutely gargantuan jellyfish type creature that was allegedly the size of a military submarine. The diver who saw it said the thing was so massive it had somehow developed it's own biosphere with various species of fish circling around and swimming inside it. He described it as having an appearance like a giant upsidedown orchid suspended underneath a massive sphere of translucent jelly. The coloration was very dull, but that might have just been due to the extreme depth.
No. 25063844
>>25063784
Yeah, flat lifeforms can hide amazingly well. Just a regular skate or flounder is proof enough of that.
>a diver touched it, spasmed and immediately the creature rose out of the sand to devour him
I found the book on my shelf, and it does mention that the shark made a "convulsive spasm" as the creature rose up and sucked the shark in through some sort of orifice in the centre of the creature.
Source: "Living wonders, Mysteries and Curiosities of the Animal World"
Authors: John Mitchell and Robert J. M. Richard
ISBN: 91-37-08527-1 (Swedish edition, published in 1984)
>>25063784
Yeah, flat lifeforms can hide amazingly well. Just a regular skate or flounder is proof enough of that.
>a diver touched it, spasmed and immediately the creature rose out of the sand to devour him
I found the book on my shelf, and it does mention that the shark made a "convulsive spasm" as the creature rose up and sucked the shark in through some sort of orifice in the centre of the creature.
Source: "Living wonders, Mysteries and Curiosities of the Animal World"
Authors: John Mitchell and Robert J. M. Richard
ISBN: 91-37-08527-1 (Swedish edition, published in 1984)
No. 25065023
So I finally got a hold of the old biologist guy on the phone and talked to him about the sea carpet again.
According to him, it is not a Siphonophore. He qualified that by saying that Siphonophores are not fast or mobile. They survive by basically floating around expending very little energy and occasionally snagging a meal with the neurotoxin stinger tentacles. He talked for a while about what makes the carpet seemingly a biological impossibility.
According to him, something of that size wouldn't get enough food/energy to survive and keep up it's level of activity just from scavenging sediments on the sea bed. Siphonophores can get really, really huge because they sort of sit around and let food come to them without any energy expenditure. So the profile of the carpet fits more with an active predator/scavenger than a passive one. I mentioned to him that I'd heard stories about decomposing corpses of whales being seen by some people being digested by the carped, and he got really excited about that. His working theory is that the carpet is an entirely unknown form of life, in the sense that it is a colony organism similar to a siphonophore, but the individual "cells" are much more complex and capable than those of a siphonophore. Keep in mind this is purely theoretical stuff he's pulling out of his ass to try and explain why something that should be physically/biologically impossible might exist. He's studied Siphonophores quite extensively, and one thing that remains a mystery is how the cells communicate considering hey have no central nervous system or brain to speak of. They're basically just big bacteria. The key apparently, is high frequency vibrations. He hasn't been able to prove it yet because it's damn hard to get your hands on a siphonophore to study, but he thinks the individual cells vibrate to communicate with one another and pass a message along the entire organism.
So I finally got a hold of the old biologist guy on the phone and talked to him about the sea carpet again.
According to him, it is not a Siphonophore. He qualified that by saying that Siphonophores are not fast or mobile. They survive by basically floating around expending very little energy and occasionally snagging a meal with the neurotoxin stinger tentacles. He talked for a while about what makes the carpet seemingly a biological impossibility.
According to him, something of that size wouldn't get enough food/energy to survive and keep up it's level of activity just from scavenging sediments on the sea bed. Siphonophores can get really, really huge because they sort of sit around and let food come to them without any energy expenditure. So the profile of the carpet fits more with an active predator/scavenger than a passive one. I mentioned to him that I'd heard stories about decomposing corpses of whales being seen by some people being digested by the carped, and he got really excited about that. His working theory is that the carpet is an entirely unknown form of life, in the sense that it is a colony organism similar to a siphonophore, but the individual "cells" are much more complex and capable than those of a siphonophore. Keep in mind this is purely theoretical stuff he's pulling out of his ass to try and explain why something that should be physically/biologically impossible might exist. He's studied Siphonophores quite extensively, and one thing that remains a mystery is how the cells communicate considering hey have no central nervous system or brain to speak of. They're basically just big bacteria. The key apparently, is high frequency vibrations. He hasn't been able to prove it yet because it's damn hard to get your hands on a siphonophore to study, but he thinks the individual cells vibrate to communicate with one another and pass a message along the entire organism.
No. 25065118
His theory is that the carpet is basically the siphonophore equivalent of a russian nesting doll. Rather than being a colony of individual cells, it is a colony of individual multicellular siphonophores and is therefor the missing link between single celled life and complex multicellular life. The "bloop" noise which the carpet apparently makes is actually millions of these creatures communicating in their own primitive language. Since siphonophores can reproduce asexually, he envisions the carpet as constantly evolving in size and shape depending on the environment and amount of food it can consume. So perhaps after consuming the carcass of a very large creature like a whale or giant squid it would be extremely large and have a large amount of "cells" but would eventually shrink as it self consumed unneeded cells. The multicellular structure of the carpet serves a twofold purpose, both serving as a distraction from potential predators similar to a lizard losing it's tail while running away, and a long term storage of nutrients. Since big meals are few and far between at the bottom of the ocean, the carpet stores the energy it consumes by creating more cells and growing larger, which it will consume between meals whenever it needs energy.
Not just that, but he's convinced that the very first forms of life on earth evolved in the deep ocean near volcanic vents, making the carpet the oldest existing form of life on the planet by far.
He talked my ear off for a while but I dont have much more interesting to tell you guys than this for now. Though I feel that even though this is /x/ and people come here to hear about supernatural/weird stories and shit- this is just the hypothesis of one guy who apparently saw the carpet once. It's by no means the definitive truth and this guy hasn't ever actually been able to perform a real scientific study on it, he just saw it once and is drawing conclusions from what little knowledge he has.
His theory is that the carpet is basically the siphonophore equivalent of a russian nesting doll. Rather than being a colony of individual cells, it is a colony of individual multicellular siphonophores and is therefor the missing link between single celled life and complex multicellular life. The "bloop" noise which the carpet apparently makes is actually millions of these creatures communicating in their own primitive language. Since siphonophores can reproduce asexually, he envisions the carpet as constantly evolving in size and shape depending on the environment and amount of food it can consume. So perhaps after consuming the carcass of a very large creature like a whale or giant squid it would be extremely large and have a large amount of "cells" but would eventually shrink as it self consumed unneeded cells. The multicellular structure of the carpet serves a twofold purpose, both serving as a distraction from potential predators similar to a lizard losing it's tail while running away, and a long term storage of nutrients. Since big meals are few and far between at the bottom of the ocean, the carpet stores the energy it consumes by creating more cells and growing larger, which it will consume between meals whenever it needs energy.
Not just that, but he's convinced that the very first forms of life on earth evolved in the deep ocean near volcanic vents, making the carpet the oldest existing form of life on the planet by far.
He talked my ear off for a while but I dont have much more interesting to tell you guys than this for now. Though I feel that even though this is /x/ and people come here to hear about supernatural/weird stories and shit- this is just the hypothesis of one guy who apparently saw the carpet once. It's by no means the definitive truth and this guy hasn't ever actually been able to perform a real scientific study on it, he just saw it once and is drawing conclusions from what little knowledge he has.
Af flere anonyme 4chan-brugere, 25/5/2020
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