Jellyfish ATTACK!

[ebenizer]

Billions of jellyfish wipe out Northern Ireland's only salmon farm

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- More than 100,000 fish are dead following a spectacular jellyfish attack at a Northern Ireland salmon farm.

The farm's owners say billions of jellyfish were in a dense pack that spanned 10 square miles when they overwhelmed the fish last week.

The attack took

Comments

[knoxedamia]

I DON'T LIKE HORROR STORIES

[beerdiablo]

Interesting. I wonder if swarm theory applies here?

[ebenizer]

Swarm intelligence (SI) refers to artificial intelligence based on the collective behavior in decentralized, self-organized systems. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in the context of cellular robotic systems[1

[nosyparker]

I initially read that as "pushing them in him" and was like D:

[ginasketch]

me too! I'm a sick fuck.

[hugelaurie]

lol salmon are tasty

[georgiarepublic]

i didn't know that jelly fish did sneak attacks

Always a sneak attack. They never announce it.

Though it is usually incidental, and quite painful, when a person gets tangled up in one.

[blasphemusfish]

My mum got stung by a portuguese man'o'war once when she was in spain. That must of sucked. (Though technically, they're not jellyfish)

[georgiarepublic]

Ouch!
I heard that those hurt pretty bad.
I had a run-in with a box jelly at Tybee Island, Ga. several years back.
I liken it to being attacked with a hot curling iron. Not that I have ever been attacked with a hot curling iron, that is just what I imagine to be a comparison.
Fortunately it wasn't a sea wasp.