Gasping in my own private world of consequences [Bad News Gone Right]

Hevach

Gabriel_Pitt wrote: »

Anatomically, the whale's throat is much too small to do anything but choke to death on something the size of a person, much less a kayak, given that their entire diet is baleen filtered small organisms and schooling fish. Anything that it scoops up that size will get spat out (a few years back, I think a diver had a go pro going or something when they were swimming near a school of small fish, and got snatched up then spat out).

This said a surprising number of divers and kayakers have still been killed in the process. Their jaws are strong enough to crush a person and once somethings in their mouth (an enclosed water filled space highly conducive to drowning) they squeeze it with a tongue the size of a small car.

Even more people get crushed under them or have their backs broken by their tails. They're amazingly gentle animals but have you ever seen a St. Bernard play "gently" with a pomeranian? Give them their space and then some.

Nova_C

I initially thought that video was fake because this part:


Looks just like when R2D2 was swallowed by the water creature on Dagobah in Empire Strikes Back.

VishNub

Tastyfish wrote: »

The Wolfman wrote: »

Gabriel_Pitt wrote: »

Anatomically, the whale's throat is much too small to do anything but choke to death on something the size of a person, much less a kayak, given that their entire diet is baleen filtered small organisms and schooling fish. Anything that it scoops up that size will get spat out (a few years back, I think a diver had a go pro going or something when they were swimming near a school of small fish, and got snatched up then spat out).

I'm assuming most whales are about the same. But roughly speaking they can't swallow anything larger than a grapefruit.

Sperm whales apparently can, just about. But they're the only ones.

:winky:

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BlackDragon480

Bad News:

Trump's EO on DEI shut down a concert the Marine Band was supposed to hold with teenagers that won performance competitions, due to them being black, brown, and Asian.


Gone right:

In response, one of the groups in charge of the original concert got retired members of various military bands together with the kids and had an impromptu performance anyway:

https://youtu.be/lhwS06U1SnA?si=VCsCiFDaL_ZOorDZ

And here's the whole performance:

https://youtu.be/E48GgDX2NCA?si=IBCTpO4Zhcq0RCcd[/quote]

Calica

1. That's incredible, and
2. I wonder how much lead time they had. Facial muscle endurance goes away fast once you're not playing a wind instrument regularly anymore. Then again, I suppose a lot of them probably were!

AngelHedgie

Today in collabs that make you shake your head:

knitdan

Hey i follow that guy too!

Corlis

Gone wrong: A teenager in Utah gets lost in a park and ends up stuck on a ledge.
Gone wrong 2: Although he is rescued, he drops his backpack onto a lower ledge and can't retrieve it.
Gone wrong 3: A month later, a father and his son get lost in the same park.
Gone right: The father and son end up stuck on the same ledge that the teenager dropped his backpack on and it's still there, complete with a first aid kit and emergency blankets, which keep them alive overnight until rescuers can retrieve them the next morning.

https://people.com/rescue-caught-on-camera-of-dad-and-son-who-survived-being-stranded-overnight-thanks-to-miracle-backpack-11685228

Skeith

Gone wrong: GameStop killed Game Informer last year.

Gone right: It's being resuscitated by Gunzilla games and the GI staff are making up for lost time with a bunch of reviews from when they were offline.