Saturday 17 May 2008

Camouflaged controversy

I've had this wonderful invisible octopus in my YouTube favourites for a while.



That has to be one of the best camouflage jobs possible, wonderful!

Today I found that the images come from a talk by David Gallo at Ted.com. From the title of the talk, it seems he is making a point about "intelligent design", a theory I've always thought has more to do with our lack of imagination than anything else.

As Sir Arthur Eddington said, "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."