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  • "Below the thunders of the upper deep,

  • Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,

  • His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep

  • The Kraken sleepeth" - Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • That's right.

  • It's time to release the kraken!

  • This is the legendary sea monster.

  • It's massive,

  • terrifying,

  • and hungry.

  • Thankfully, it's just a myth

  • right?

  • What if this behemoth of the sea

  • actually existed?

  • It's time to dive in.

  • We're getting up close and personal

  • with the mythical cephalopod feared by

  • ocean dwellers and land lovers alike,

  • The Kraken!

  • First, we would categorize the kraken

  • as a cephalopod.

  • Like the octopus, squid and cuttlefish,

  • the kraken would be a highly advanced

  • and intelligent marine animal.

  • Cephalopods are soft-bodied,

  • so they have no bones to become fossils.

  • This would explain why we haven't found any

  • remains of a kraken,

  • but it also proposes a terrifying possibility.

  • If the kraken lived by the laws of science,

  • it wouldn't immortal.

  • Which means there's more than one,

  • and they're breeding.

  • Baby krakens!

  • As to where this is happening,

  • we assume it would remain

  • in the North Atlantic Ocean.

  • That being said,

  • the species of giant squids alive today

  • inhabit all of the world's oceans.

  • So we shouldn't consider ourselves

  • to be safe yet.

  • Your first hint that you may be

  • in the presence of a kraken

  • is that you catch lots of fish.

  • And I mean, A LOT of fish.

  • If it seems too good to be true,

  • that's because it is.

  • The kraken is scaring the fish

  • towards the surface.

  • And that's a harbinger of death

  • for unwary sailors.

  • Giant squids hunt by

  • keeping still in deep waters.

  • When a fish gets close enough

  • to the dangling tentacles,

  • it's pulled into the squid's grasp,

  • and is unable to escape the suction cups

  • that line the tentacles.

  • We can assume the kraken

  • hunts in a similar style,

  • but fish isn't on its menu.

  • It wants you,

  • your crew and your ship.

  • The Kraken is described in folklore

  • as being about the size of a few small islands,

  • and its back was 1,500 meters (4,921 feet) in circumference.

  • It's also said that the kraken

  • was able to pull massive ships

  • completely underwater with its tentacles.

  • How strong would it have to be to pull this off?

  • Well, Archimedes' principle states that

  • the buoyant force on an object,

  • submerged in a fluid,

  • equals the weight of the fluid

  • that the object displaces.

  • If you take the gross tonnage of your ship,

  • and multiply it by the density

  • of seawater and gravity,

  • then subtract the weight of the ship,

  • it will give you the force that the kraken needs

  • to use to pull your ship under the water.

  • For the kraken to pull a regular-sized ship

  • completely underwater,

  • it would need to exert a force

  • of just over 400,000 kg (900,000 lbs).

  • In non-mathematical terms,

  • the kraken is very, very strong.

  • And you?

  • Well, I'm sorry to break this to you.

  • But you're kraken food.

  • It's safe to say that if at least one

  • of these monsters dwelled beneath the ocean,

  • anything involving sea travel

  • would have happened very,

  • very differently.

  • Well, if this monster of the deep

  • is lurking in the Atlantic,

  • it would have changed history as we know it.

  • The Vikings wouldn't have been able

  • to sail overseas

  • if this sea monster was eating them.

  • Come to think of it,

  • Christopher Columbus and his crew may have

  • ended up in a watery grave,

  • and never made it to the New World.

  • In fact, North America might not have been

  • discovered at all

  • until the invention of air travel.

  • Now, we could assume that explorers

  • evaded the kraken on their voyage.

  • But with the kraken

  • being such a massive creature,

  • it would need a lot of food to sustain itself.

  • Meaning, it doesn't look good for anyone

  • who likes to go into the water.

  • Thankfully, the kraken isn't currently

  • devastating the ocean today.

  • If it ever existed in the first place,

  • it would have been gone long before

  • humans made their debut.

  • The myths and legends

  • attributed to the kraken

  • are more than likely encounters

  • with their very real,

  • and arguably very terrifying,

  • giant squid cousins.

  • But after all that,

  • we can't write the old kraken off for sure.

  • Human beings have only searched

  • 5% of the oceans.

  • Everything else down there is a mystery.

  • It may be a creature of myth,

  • but we can't imagine it would be fun

  • to be eaten by a kraken,

  • What if another, real nautical creature

  • decided to make you it's dinner?

  • What if you were swallowed by a whale?

"Below the thunders of the upper deep,

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クラーケンが本物だったら? (What If the Kraken Was Real?)

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    林宜悉 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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