Okay, so they’ve found a thirteen ton bit of...er, organic matter 700 miles from the Chilean capital.
The newscasters say it is being DNA checked to find out what it is...potentially a new species, maybe a giant octopus (no one mentioning giant squid at this point. Notice that?), maybe...and this is the bit that gets me...maybe it’s a bit of a whale.
Now, I don’t want to sound alarmist, and yes, it is sad that this particular whale has ended its days and had its intestines washed up on a Chilean beach, but that isn’t the fact we should be concerning ourselves with. The really worrying thing is:
What the hell is down there that could do that to a whale?
And, more to the point, to a whale so big that his/her intestines weigh thirteen tons?
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