Orcas sink another yacht: why killer whales are attacking boats
Orcas sink another yacht: why killer whales are attacking boats
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Orcas sink another yacht: why killer whales are attacking boats
Comrade Willy
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I'm still unironically on Team Orca here. Get sunk, scrubs.
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Last I heard, they're bored and rudders are fun to play with.
We need to give them some orca proof toys.
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"Cause it's fun."
- Signed, the orca community
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It’s unfortunate that the orcas can’t tell the difference between rich assholes with yachts, and normal assholes with yachts.
I guess maybe staying out of their tiny part of the ocean while they’re using it is the only thing a person with a yacht can do.
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For more context. This was a Oceanis 393. so about $100k boat. And it was in the Strait of Gibralter. Not the poorest area of the world.
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"your walk-in closet"
Lol your privilege is showing, tuck it back in
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Just wait until Orcas get opposable flippers.
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Yes Mr Sha, last name Moo, could you please sign on the dotted line? Next time you should think twice about swimming drunk.
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The ability to manipulate objects isn't really that useful underwater, I feel, apart from being an unprecedented adaptation on the flipper and almost definitely coming at the cost of efficiency while swimming. Everything you want to mess around with as an orca can be transported with your mouth.
Now, sonar loud enough to shatter human rib cages, that's what's going to be the next big step.
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Sounds like something octopi would say.
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I, for one, welcome our new orca overlords!
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Answer: because they are fucking based
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Did they eat the rich? 🤑 Otherwise the plan is going swimmingly.
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They're based
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saved a click
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Nature is healing.
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I think the answer to this question is in their name tbh. Should have named them Panda Whales instead.
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Tell me you know nothing about pandas
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pandas
Ugh those fucking fickle hostile, always pooping, weird extra thumb having, sexless weirdos.
I think I know too much about Pandas, and it makes me want nothing to do with their conservation.
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Another article...
https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/orcas-sink-yacht-in-strait-of-gibraltar
This one has useful comments, like...
Rudders certainly look like a fin...best way to disable prey is to maim a fin. The orcas have learned power vessels are of sterner stuff.
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These scientists have never heard that "revenge is a dish best served cold".
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The article is about orcas, but that video at the top is not an orca and just happened to sink a small fishing boat while it was feeding. Pretty sure that incident was an accident and the whale wasn't trying to sink it, it was just breaching and eating.
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I thought they settled on juveniles playing. There are more now and food supply is better, so they have more time and that's why it's increasing.
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Quarter stick of dynamite or 110 volts would do the trick.
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110 would not do the trick.
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Not with that attitude.
“Ohm's law says that the current is voltage divided by resistance, so 110 volts / 2500 ohms gives 0.044 amps. At first, one might say that the orca would survive since that's less than the fatal level of 0.1 amp. However, that level is easily enough to cause the muscles to contract violently, and if that condition persisted for more than a short time, it would kill by respiratory paralysis. (Again, assuming whale physiology is comparable to humans'.”
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SchnoodleDoodle wholesome vibes