Sure, you suppose tentacles might be conceptually similar enough to arms for that to work. You kick the foul-smelling UNSPEAKABLE APPENDAGES over to the MULTI-USE BEAM STATION, input 413, and watch as they get zapped away to... wherever the hell DE-ARMIFIED ARMS go off to. You're too aggravated and pumped full of ADRENALINE to care all that much right now about the MYSTERIES OF SCIENCE or whatever.