It's the dawn of the day of the tentacle...
Lots of frightening news reports are coming in that shows that mankind's days are numbered. The octopus, once a source for amusement in children's books and delcious food has been rapidly evolving hyper-intelligence comparable to the human species. Not conviced? One article claims that "The octopus is a highly intelligent creature" and that the octopus has "joined a small and elite but growing number of mollusks that have learned to open jar lids with their tentacles". Another article says that "Not only do these animals learn quickly to avoid hazards like mild electric shocks, but other specimens watching the training process, learn even faster than the individuals which are learning by doing". The document gets more chilling as it states, "The ability to learn by watching is so impressive that the authors call it the first step toward forming abstract ideas (concepts)". Frightening! It's now that I believe that the imagry of the squid-like robots were a chilling look into the future of our mollusk over-lords rather than a piece of entertaining fiction. Lets make peace with them, before they harvest mankind for their food, just like we harvested them.