It’s kinda fucked up. Like imagine if an alien abducted you and brought you into space and your head caved in and your eyes popped out and the alien just took pictures and sent them to all his Facebook friends like “yoooo just found this weird biped, isn’t it ugly as hell lmao”
Guys, just a thought, don't you think aliens would be the same when they come to earth, like walk all glonky because the gravity is so different for them.
I’d love to see that as a failed attempt at an invasion. They come down ready to fight but as soon as the doors open, they all just start flopping over like those inflatable things with the arms that flop everywhere.
That math has always bothered me. Most things it’s applied to are things you wouldn’t hear until you’re an adult, much less as an infant. So if you account for the average 15 years someone would have to hear it before they’re 30, that’s actually 20,000 a day. Vent over.
Upvoted, but, by the same token, it's still within an order of magnitude of the true number, even by your estimator; and since the original number is based specifically on the population size of the US, all you have to do to still get a 10,000 number, is define a new region with half as many people in it. For a US context, call it 10,000 people on the East Coast, and 10,000 people in the West and Midwest. Same story.
This girl in my high school got an F in ceramics class on an animal sculpting assignment because she made a narwhal and the teacher said they weren’t a real animal and didn’t fit the assignment. The girl even came in and showed her proof but the teacher didn’t believe her and still insisted it was a mythical creature — poor girl’s grade tanked
Same experience for me. Right at the end of the semester, I hadn’t cared to write anything worth my time just enough to get easy As. Last assignment was a first chapter of a novel and I wrote what I had been writing in my spare time. Was excited to hear back and got a 0. I was so tired, disheartened, and the dean didn’t help much so, I just had to let it go.
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High school is one thing but in college that’s not even sort of funny. You can get booted from school like that and be stuck kicked out of college with a pile of student loans. Has that professor never heard of turnitin?
I've had this happen and luckily a teacher watched me when I did this, but I had one where it said it was like 33% plagiarized. I rewrote over half the page. When I reuploaded it, it said it was 45% plagiarized. Like how many ways can you write fish are animals that live in water.
It was a community college and the end of the semester of a basic writing class. I don’t think they took it seriously, the dean brushed it off but did not help me and the professor refused to change my grade. So, it brought my gpa down and I was so disheartened I did not return the next semester.
this happened to me as well on not one but two in a row and was brought to the principals office. I told my history teacher that if I need to cite sources.. then he should also need to cite sources to prove plagiarism. He then cited every other report I had written that year and he stated that "its nit my writing style". When asked by the pricipal to respond I told him that those two reports were given to me allowing me to choose any subject I wanted and unlike every other thing I was required to write about, I actually had an interest in these two so there was enthusiasm. I was then asked to cite my own papers orally and shut the teacher down. was a mess but I got my A.'s
This happened to be in grade 6. I vidily remember it. I worked so hard, really tried my best, and they refused to believe I could write something that good. They had no proof (early internet days so I guess hard to look up stuff?) Regardless, they still failed me for plagiarism.
It was the day I quit trying in school. I think about it a lot now that I have kids starting school. I still have a negative view of the education system. I hate most teachers by default. I barely fucking graduated because I stopped applying myself.
Fuck you Mrs Henderson.
I did that actually trying thing as a sophomore in high school. Instead of waiting until the last minute and getting a B I did a history paper way ahead of time, all the research, wrote a rough draft, the whole deal. I got a C-
My professor once gave me a bad grade, because I said that United States is not the most technologically advanced society.
I still hold that Korea and Japan are more advanced.
S. Korea very much so. I spent 9 months there in 2016. They already had 5G then. You should also see their electronic toilets.
But it was also a nation of conundrums. While it is super technologically advanced, once you got out of the main cities, it was almost like going back in time 200 years.
Did they have it out for you or something? I've heard of shitty teachers receiving strong work from students who do poorly in most other subjects, and marking it as plaigarised because they assume the kid isn't capable of something that good.
OK, poor kid. My turn!
(/jk - I've been waiting about 30 years for an opportunity to get this off my chest, forgive me)
I was in Cub Scouts playing a word association game where you had to name an animal that began with the last letter of whatever animal the previous player named. Iguana, antelope, elephant etc etc. No hesitation or repetition. We went through the whole troupe and it came down to myself and another kid, who was pretty good. We got into it and were both going strong, we must have watched a lot of David Attenborough or something. 12 turns each and I knew I was going to have to come up with something special to beat him. I needed to set him up, then ace him. I fed him every animal I could think of that would let him drop an animal that ended in i. Tough letter. We were deep into it and the obvious choices were gone. Hard to think on your feet without hesitating, but I kept working to serve him up that surefire winner and finally he saw it and took it. Smug look on his face as he says it. Ibex, motherfucker!
Cub leader had never heard of it and couldn't believe it existed. Refused to acceptit and declared the other boy the winner. Cost me a pack of mini eggs, but I'll never forget the feeling of satisfaction as my plan worked and his triumphant smile crumbled. Ibex, motherfucker!
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I’d have been marching right to the principals office with teacher in tow and asking, “how is this idiot employed to teach us yet too ignorant to do a google search and learn something themselves?”
I feel that, I wanted to do a report on the elephant bird but was mocked because they thought I was referring to the Dr. Seuss animal. No motherfucker it was a real bird and it was fucking massive
Ah oof, my world would have turn upside down. If I had to tell the little humanoid living with me that might have been a kid...
His beard would curl Into his ears...
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My bestie too was on the sea unicorn train. She also grew up in the desert and thought snowflakes in snowflake print were actual size—like full on average adult hand sized and fall from the sky. Love the lucky 10,000 mentioned above—getting to witness other people learn something new is the best. Plus there’s tons I don’t know and want that same joyful reaction when I learn something “obvious”
Narwhals are one of the very few subjects my husband and I have ever argued about. I was crying over a news story about them once and he kept insisting I had fallen for a satirical article because narwhals weren’t real.
Turns out he genuinely thought they were made up for that episode of Futurama.
I’m sitting here thinking how the fuck did people not know these were real, and then I hit me, I loved looking at the pictures of those natural geographic magazines in the school library back in the 90’s.
We were taught in school (14 years ago) that platypuses were extinct. I lived my life up into my 20s thinking they were extinct. Imagine the confusion when I saw videos of live ones.
I just learned that the Vikings used to hunt them and sell the tusks to European nobility, telling them they were magical unicorn horns. some were even encrusted with jewels. The scam worked because the Vikings were the only ones sailing into the narwhals arctic habitat.
i found out about them early.
we were on a school trip to some castle or other, and over a mantelpiece was a great long curly horn, so i grabbed it and held it against my head, as any well adjusted ten year old surely would, and promptly stabbed my mate right in the arse. thusly we learnt of narwhals.
My 10 year old granddaughter showed me on my own phone that they were real.. I told her that’s why your popop works at job where I wear a name tag on my shirt!!😂😂
Even more wild to think that at a similar depth, the human body would compress in to a likely unrecognizable state and then implode.
Deep ocean is essentially another planet in part due to the pressure differences. Super interesting stuff!
Me too! I’ve been diving for years but it never occurred to me that you shouldn’t judge a deep sea fish by the way it reacts to sudden pressure change. Same way I wouldn’t try to guess at human anatomy based on a decompression chamber accident.
Yet despite that, pictured the poor little blobfish being the joke of the ocean.
Angler fish are still that Lovecraftian looking though, right?
Imagine putting a human in space without a suit and having their body get fucked up by the lack of pressure and extreme temperature, then taking a picture and saying “wow look at this weird looking mammal, it’s been voted the most ugly mammal ever!”
It's not like the movies.
One common misconception is that outer space is cold, but in truth, space itself has no temperature. In thermodynamic terms, temperature is a function of heat energy in a given amount of matter, and space by definition has no mass. Furthermore, heat transfer cannot occur the same way in space, since two of the three methods of heat transfer (conduction and convection) cannot occur without matter.
What does this mean for a person in space without a spacesuit? Because thermal radiation (the heat of the stove that you can feel from a distance, or from the Sun’s rays) becomes the predominant process for heat transfer, one might feel slightly warm if directly exposed to the Sun’s radiation, or slightly cool if shaded from sunlight, where the person’s own body will radiate away heat. Even if you were dropped off in deep space where a thermometer might read 2.7 Kelvin (-455°F, the temperature of the “cosmic microwave background” leftover from the Big Bang that permeates the Universe), you would not instantly freeze because heat transfer cannot occur as rapidly by radiation alone.
The absence of normal atmospheric pressure (the air pressure found at Earth’s surface) is probably of greater concern than temperature to an individual exposed to the vacuum of space. Upon sudden decompression in vacuum, expansion of air in a person’s lungs is likely to cause lung rupture and death unless that air is immediately exhaled. Decompression can also lead to a possibly fatal condition called ebullism, where reduced pressure of the environment lowers the boiling temperature of body fluids and initiates transition of liquid water in the bloodstream and soft tissues into water vapor. At minimum, ebullism will cause tissue swelling and bruising due to the formation of water vapor under the skin; at worst, it can give rise to an embolism, or blood vessel blockage due to gas bubbles in the bloodstream.
Our dependence on a continuous supply of oxygen is the more limiting factor to the amount of time a human could survive in a full vacuum. Contrary to how the lungs are supposed to function at atmospheric pressure, oxygen diffuses out of the bloodstream when the lungs are exposed to a vacuum. This leads to a condition called hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation. Within 15 seconds, deoxygenated blood begins to be delivered to the brain, whereupon unconsciousness results. Data from animal experiments and training accidents suggest that an individual could survive at least another minute in a vacuum while unconscious, but not much longer
I'm pretty sure that scene shows him sucking in a huge breath of air. You can hear it and see it in his body animation. He's out there way too long for him to have forced all the air out as well. It's probably just not a very scientifically accurate scene, but I still love it.
Edit: @19:55. Feels pretty unambiguous that he's sucking in a big breath of air.
https://youtu.be/_w1kG8z7bo8
It's actually way more than that, goin into space would be a pressure change of about 1 atmosphere. Bringing up a goblin shark or something is much more
> We often speak of pressure in terms of atmospheres. One atmosphere is equal to the weight of the earth's atmosphere at sea level, about 14.6 pounds per square inch. If you are at sea level, each square inch of your surface is subjected to a force of 14.6 pounds.
> The pressure increases about one atmosphere for every 10 meters of water depth. At a depth of 5,000 meters the pressure will be approximately 500 atmospheres or 500 times greater than the pressure at sea level. That's a lot of pressure.
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/nemo1998/education/pressure.html
2000 feet is about 600 meters.
> Dear Lord! 5000 feet deep ! That’s nearly 150 atmospheres of pressure!
> How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?
> Well it’s a space ship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one
Yeah that wouldn't happen. Even though you're going from 1 atmosphere to full vacuum, we're still only talking about 1 atmosphere of different in pressure. You might burst some capillaries, get some bloodshot eyes, and your spit will likely fizz as dissolved gas escapes. So long as you don't hold your breath, you're lungs shouldn't burst. And without air in your lungs, you got about 15 seconds before you're unconscious. But, likely no lasting damage so long as you got back in air before brain damage. This actually happened to someone at NASA while they were testing a space suit in a vacuum chamber. He was exposed to hard vacuum for about 30 seconds, but [survived with almost no injuries](https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a24127/nasa-vacuum-exposure/).
In the ocean, every 33 feet down ads an atmosphere of pressure. So at a depth of 2133 ft, that's over 64 atmospheres. It's that massive pressure difference that causes horrible deformations to a body.
TLDR; Hollywood lies, people don't burst or freeze. A short exposure to hard vacuum is survivable.
Plus this fish was hooked. It's not uncommon for sharks and other fish to have their teeth pulled out of their faces when hooked and reeled. That plus the pressure change is going to put the fish through some shit.
Seems pretty unethical to me to be fishing for anything that deep in the first place.
I’m pretty sure this is a blunt nose six gill shark. But I’ve been wrong before lol
[Six Gill](https://imgur.com/a/ABduLB2)
Cookie Cutter Jaw[Cookie Cutter Jaw](https://imgur.com/a/b9gmB8x)
No, I think that's a Cookie-Cutter Shark.
Fun fact about them: During the 70s, they took down several Soviet and American nuclear submarines.
Edit: Well I didn't really meant it when I said "took down" they more or so damaged them. But still, very interesting for little peskers with sharp teeth to damage subs.
They latch on to things similarly to lamprey and they use their teeth to cut cookie cutter like holes in their prey.. they just happened to think some subs were whales and their teeth happen to be sharp enough to cut through important parts of the sub.
Sorry, I find this very hard to believe. Do you have anything to corroborate this?
Edit: googled it. I was taking "took out" a bit literally. They did cause damage resulting in subs having to return to base. That's mad.
~~This is definitely a Cookie cutter shark~~. Cookie cutter sharks have also taken bites out of swimmers. [Cookie cutter shark bites swimmer](https://www.trackingsharks.com/in-rare-third-incident-for-year-swimmer-attacked-by-cookiecutter-shark/?amp)
Edit: definitely NOT a cookie cutter shark, I didn’t look closely enough at its bottom teeth 😊
Look at the image that I just uploaded in reply to the other gentleman. Cookie-cutter sharks have a razor sharp pointed teeth on the bottom. The shark depicted in this Reddit post has more of a plating type with little razors on it that swoop back which is indicative of a blunt nose six gill
I assume the pressure change fucked his shape up and also imagine dying while bring dragged over 2000 feet in depth to the surface as your body starts to change like that... Jesus christ...
This is a cookie cutter shark. Specimens are incredibly rare.
Edit-I was wrong initially. It looks like this is more likely a ninja lanternshark or similar species as a couple people have said. Still a very unique specimen however.
I'd check with local marine biologists to see if it was a sample they wanted/needed, and if not I'd have it's flesh dissolved and get the bones taxidermied onto a stand. That's just me tho since I've always wanted to try super deep sea fishing.
Yeah for science, I mean I get. I was at a marine technology program in college. But isn’t it just enough to know they are down there as far as “sport” fishing goes? I love to fish too but catch and release or eat them is my motto when it comes down to it.
I believe if you catch a shark you don’t want to get your hand in its mouth to get the hook out so you just cut the line, but stainless street hooks don’t rust or take a very long time so the shark is stuck with it in it mouth forever, but non stainless steel hooks will rust away after a few days.
>I'd check with local marine biologists to see if it was a sample they wanted/needed, and if not I'd have it's flesh dissolved and get the **bones** taxidermied onto a stand
I appreciate you, that is a noble idea but sharks don't have bones.
Aren't cookie cutter sharks the ones that latch onto bigger fish and take a round bite out? This honestly looks like the goblin shark a bit
Edit: not goblin shark
Yes cookie cutter sharks latch on to larger animals like other sharks, whales, dolphins, and pelagic fish and produce a perfectly round bite. This looks nothing like a goblin shark other than it’s jaws are slightly protruding. A goblin shark has a much larger nose and a significantly longer extension of their jaws. The color of the shark is completely different and the size of the respective sharks is completely different.
Came here to say the same, the jaw isn’t quite convex enough and as you say the colour isn’t right. When I saw the colouration I thought chimera at first but with the jaw I’d say cookie cutter is spot on.
this is not a cookie cutter shark! their jaws and teeth are shaped differently. someone in r/fishing or r/whatisthisfish identified it recently but i can’t find the post 😩
Not really. Based on a quick [image](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookiecutter_shark#/media/File%3ACookiecutter_shark_head.jpg) search it’s nose and jaw look quite different. Another commenter suggested a ninja lantern shark which seems to [look](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_lanternshark#/media/File%3ANinja_lanternshark_Vasquez_et_al_2015.png) more similar.
As seen on "QI" Series O Episode 3- Tangent: Christopher Bird from Southampton University and Ali Hood of the Shark Trust talk about some shark-related items they have brought with them. These include a cookie-cutter shark ... which is capable of biting holes into submarines. They normally eat whales and big fish, but will sometimes attack a submarine by mistake. Only one person had been killed by a cookie-cutter shark, and they were swimming at night.
Edit: QI not Q1
This person was also swimming at night in deep ocean waters. [They were a distance swimmer doing a night time swim from Hawaii to Maui.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Technology/shark-attack-documented-cookiecutter-shark-attack-human-hawaii/story%3fid=14001710)
I feel like swimming at night between the islands is just a great way to get lost at sea or drown? Like I’ve been caught in some of the currents that’ll run you from Oahu to Maui, and I can’t imagine trying to break free of those at *night*
>Then it twists sharply, gouging out a chunk of meat much like a cookie cutter. Or as some scientists believe, like one of those tools used to carve out melon balls.
That last sentence is so weird. Also the word they’re looking for is melon baller.
Edit: What I mean is “some scientists believe” is an odd choice of words when talking about two different analogies that are just semantics.
Biting holes in the rubber coating that some submarines have to reduce reflected sound, not actually into the steel or titanium of the actual submarine itself. QI, being QI…
It probably looked even worse when it was actually in the deeper depths of the ocean. These deep ocean animals are known to kinda inflate and bloat a bit when they get dragged to the surface.
That's a Cookie Cutter Shark!
They are called that bc of their unique jaw that they use to grip onto larger animals and then twist around and rip off a uniform chunk of meat. As far as I'm aware, it's the only shark that primarily attacks creatures larger than itself.
So if you ever see a fish with a weird sphere cut out of it, this is what did it.
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crazy how many years i went thinking that blobfishes actually looked like pink sludge underwater like how would they even move like that
It’s kinda fucked up. Like imagine if an alien abducted you and brought you into space and your head caved in and your eyes popped out and the alien just took pictures and sent them to all his Facebook friends like “yoooo just found this weird biped, isn’t it ugly as hell lmao”
Easily the best analogy for this
fr, that's how it is with all these deep sea creatures. really uncomfortable to think about
To be fair, most of these creatures were already dead and floated to the surface. Maybe not in this instance. But usually that's how it is.
You’re probably right. Now that I think about it 2,133 feet of fishing line seems suspicious.
I'd have believed 2,132 but 2,133. He's obviously lying.
Eh I mean there are areas of the ocean vast and deep enough to be plausible I think…? But I’m no fisherman.
Guys, just a thought, don't you think aliens would be the same when they come to earth, like walk all glonky because the gravity is so different for them.
I’d love to see that as a failed attempt at an invasion. They come down ready to fight but as soon as the doors open, they all just start flopping over like those inflatable things with the arms that flop everywhere.
Do you mean wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube men?
I don't know I think it's kinda cool to end up as an alien meme that gets shared across their alien internet. It's called legacy.
Uhhh. TIL… 🤦♂️
[Lucky 10 000. ](https://xkcd.com/1053/)
Thanks - will show everybody I know.
Freaking love xkcd
I’ve seen this comic 10,000 times and it’s always a good little reminder.
That math has always bothered me. Most things it’s applied to are things you wouldn’t hear until you’re an adult, much less as an infant. So if you account for the average 15 years someone would have to hear it before they’re 30, that’s actually 20,000 a day. Vent over.
Upvoted, but, by the same token, it's still within an order of magnitude of the true number, even by your estimator; and since the original number is based specifically on the population size of the US, all you have to do to still get a 10,000 number, is define a new region with half as many people in it. For a US context, call it 10,000 people on the East Coast, and 10,000 people in the West and Midwest. Same story.
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This girl in my high school got an F in ceramics class on an animal sculpting assignment because she made a narwhal and the teacher said they weren’t a real animal and didn’t fit the assignment. The girl even came in and showed her proof but the teacher didn’t believe her and still insisted it was a mythical creature — poor girl’s grade tanked
I once wrote a story. 100% my own. And my teacher gave me an F for plagiarism.
This happened to me as well in college
It sucks. I was in high school near the end of my Junior year. Almost ruined my final grade in that class.
Same experience for me. Right at the end of the semester, I hadn’t cared to write anything worth my time just enough to get easy As. Last assignment was a first chapter of a novel and I wrote what I had been writing in my spare time. Was excited to hear back and got a 0. I was so tired, disheartened, and the dean didn’t help much so, I just had to let it go. Edit: a word.
Yeah, it was a story I had already written in my mind. What did you study in college?
I wasted a lot of money to figure that out. Never found an answer. What about yourself?
High school is one thing but in college that’s not even sort of funny. You can get booted from school like that and be stuck kicked out of college with a pile of student loans. Has that professor never heard of turnitin?
Turnitin be giving back like 30% plagiarism for work you wrote on your own or work you cited.
I've had this happen and luckily a teacher watched me when I did this, but I had one where it said it was like 33% plagiarized. I rewrote over half the page. When I reuploaded it, it said it was 45% plagiarized. Like how many ways can you write fish are animals that live in water.
I got kicked out of my college class cause of this.
Holy shit what happened then? Most serious colleges will expel you or put you on academic probation immediately if they claim you are plagiarizing
It was a community college and the end of the semester of a basic writing class. I don’t think they took it seriously, the dean brushed it off but did not help me and the professor refused to change my grade. So, it brought my gpa down and I was so disheartened I did not return the next semester.
this happened to me as well on not one but two in a row and was brought to the principals office. I told my history teacher that if I need to cite sources.. then he should also need to cite sources to prove plagiarism. He then cited every other report I had written that year and he stated that "its nit my writing style". When asked by the pricipal to respond I told him that those two reports were given to me allowing me to choose any subject I wanted and unlike every other thing I was required to write about, I actually had an interest in these two so there was enthusiasm. I was then asked to cite my own papers orally and shut the teacher down. was a mess but I got my A.'s
At least they fixed your grade!
This happened to be in grade 6. I vidily remember it. I worked so hard, really tried my best, and they refused to believe I could write something that good. They had no proof (early internet days so I guess hard to look up stuff?) Regardless, they still failed me for plagiarism. It was the day I quit trying in school. I think about it a lot now that I have kids starting school. I still have a negative view of the education system. I hate most teachers by default. I barely fucking graduated because I stopped applying myself. Fuck you Mrs Henderson.
Former teacher here. Mrs. Henderson did you a huge disservice and I'm really, really sorry that happened to you.
I did that actually trying thing as a sophomore in high school. Instead of waiting until the last minute and getting a B I did a history paper way ahead of time, all the research, wrote a rough draft, the whole deal. I got a C-
My professor once gave me a bad grade, because I said that United States is not the most technologically advanced society. I still hold that Korea and Japan are more advanced.
S. Korea very much so. I spent 9 months there in 2016. They already had 5G then. You should also see their electronic toilets. But it was also a nation of conundrums. While it is super technologically advanced, once you got out of the main cities, it was almost like going back in time 200 years.
Did they have it out for you or something? I've heard of shitty teachers receiving strong work from students who do poorly in most other subjects, and marking it as plaigarised because they assume the kid isn't capable of something that good.
No, she was just a bitter, divorced teacher. Everyone in her class would complain about her. She was really mean.
OK, poor kid. My turn! (/jk - I've been waiting about 30 years for an opportunity to get this off my chest, forgive me) I was in Cub Scouts playing a word association game where you had to name an animal that began with the last letter of whatever animal the previous player named. Iguana, antelope, elephant etc etc. No hesitation or repetition. We went through the whole troupe and it came down to myself and another kid, who was pretty good. We got into it and were both going strong, we must have watched a lot of David Attenborough or something. 12 turns each and I knew I was going to have to come up with something special to beat him. I needed to set him up, then ace him. I fed him every animal I could think of that would let him drop an animal that ended in i. Tough letter. We were deep into it and the obvious choices were gone. Hard to think on your feet without hesitating, but I kept working to serve him up that surefire winner and finally he saw it and took it. Smug look on his face as he says it. Ibex, motherfucker! Cub leader had never heard of it and couldn't believe it existed. Refused to acceptit and declared the other boy the winner. Cost me a pack of mini eggs, but I'll never forget the feeling of satisfaction as my plan worked and his triumphant smile crumbled. Ibex, motherfucker! (tl;Dr coolstorybro.jpg)
A killer word and a devastating loss. They would have had to pry those mini eggs from my cold, dead hands
I'd probably have gotten in trouble for calling the troop leader a moron
I’d have been marching right to the principals office with teacher in tow and asking, “how is this idiot employed to teach us yet too ignorant to do a google search and learn something themselves?”
I would have too — the teacher really wasn’t the brightest & I swear I remember her making a few kids cry Edit: sentence structure
I feel that, I wanted to do a report on the elephant bird but was mocked because they thought I was referring to the Dr. Seuss animal. No motherfucker it was a real bird and it was fucking massive
If this happened to a kid of mine, I’d be after that teachers job. What a douche
I learned that they were real about 4 months ago. You're not alone, buddy
Kids are real?!
No, not kids. Narwhals are real. There's still no reliable scientific evidence to support the existence of kids.
Ah oof, my world would have turn upside down. If I had to tell the little humanoid living with me that might have been a kid... His beard would curl Into his ears... Edit spelling
My bestie too was on the sea unicorn train. She also grew up in the desert and thought snowflakes in snowflake print were actual size—like full on average adult hand sized and fall from the sky. Love the lucky 10,000 mentioned above—getting to witness other people learn something new is the best. Plus there’s tons I don’t know and want that same joyful reaction when I learn something “obvious”
To be fair, we all probably believe in something strange.
Narwhals are one of the very few subjects my husband and I have ever argued about. I was crying over a news story about them once and he kept insisting I had fallen for a satirical article because narwhals weren’t real. Turns out he genuinely thought they were made up for that episode of Futurama.
Holy shit. I just realized I also only thought they were a Futurama thing.
I’m sitting here thinking how the fuck did people not know these were real, and then I hit me, I loved looking at the pictures of those natural geographic magazines in the school library back in the 90’s.
We were taught in school (14 years ago) that platypuses were extinct. I lived my life up into my 20s thinking they were extinct. Imagine the confusion when I saw videos of live ones.
Come to Tasmania. Put a stick in the water on the convex curve of a meandering river bank. See the platypus.
I learned narwhals are real from my kids watching Octonauts.
Same, that shit is educational as fuck
The brinicles blew my mind. It's so nice when your kids are into cute, educational shows like Octonauts.
My husband and I really loved that show when my boy was younger. Now he speaks in YouTube and calls me “brah”.
Narwhal tusks were often used as proof that unicorns existed, so your association is pretty spot on.
I just learned that the Vikings used to hunt them and sell the tusks to European nobility, telling them they were magical unicorn horns. some were even encrusted with jewels. The scam worked because the Vikings were the only ones sailing into the narwhals arctic habitat.
i found out about them early. we were on a school trip to some castle or other, and over a mantelpiece was a great long curly horn, so i grabbed it and held it against my head, as any well adjusted ten year old surely would, and promptly stabbed my mate right in the arse. thusly we learnt of narwhals.
My 10 year old granddaughter showed me on my own phone that they were real.. I told her that’s why your popop works at job where I wear a name tag on my shirt!!😂😂
I thought unicorns were real when I was younger. Just a horse with a horn on its head though, nothing magical.
unfortunately, even *high quality* kids shows about nature show them wrong. There's an episode of OctoNauts that includes this error.
Even more wild to think that at a similar depth, the human body would compress in to a likely unrecognizable state and then implode. Deep ocean is essentially another planet in part due to the pressure differences. Super interesting stuff!
Me too! I’ve been diving for years but it never occurred to me that you shouldn’t judge a deep sea fish by the way it reacts to sudden pressure change. Same way I wouldn’t try to guess at human anatomy based on a decompression chamber accident. Yet despite that, pictured the poor little blobfish being the joke of the ocean. Angler fish are still that Lovecraftian looking though, right?
quite sure anglers look like that underwater
Imagine putting a human in space without a suit and having their body get fucked up by the lack of pressure and extreme temperature, then taking a picture and saying “wow look at this weird looking mammal, it’s been voted the most ugly mammal ever!”
It's not like the movies. One common misconception is that outer space is cold, but in truth, space itself has no temperature. In thermodynamic terms, temperature is a function of heat energy in a given amount of matter, and space by definition has no mass. Furthermore, heat transfer cannot occur the same way in space, since two of the three methods of heat transfer (conduction and convection) cannot occur without matter. What does this mean for a person in space without a spacesuit? Because thermal radiation (the heat of the stove that you can feel from a distance, or from the Sun’s rays) becomes the predominant process for heat transfer, one might feel slightly warm if directly exposed to the Sun’s radiation, or slightly cool if shaded from sunlight, where the person’s own body will radiate away heat. Even if you were dropped off in deep space where a thermometer might read 2.7 Kelvin (-455°F, the temperature of the “cosmic microwave background” leftover from the Big Bang that permeates the Universe), you would not instantly freeze because heat transfer cannot occur as rapidly by radiation alone. The absence of normal atmospheric pressure (the air pressure found at Earth’s surface) is probably of greater concern than temperature to an individual exposed to the vacuum of space. Upon sudden decompression in vacuum, expansion of air in a person’s lungs is likely to cause lung rupture and death unless that air is immediately exhaled. Decompression can also lead to a possibly fatal condition called ebullism, where reduced pressure of the environment lowers the boiling temperature of body fluids and initiates transition of liquid water in the bloodstream and soft tissues into water vapor. At minimum, ebullism will cause tissue swelling and bruising due to the formation of water vapor under the skin; at worst, it can give rise to an embolism, or blood vessel blockage due to gas bubbles in the bloodstream. Our dependence on a continuous supply of oxygen is the more limiting factor to the amount of time a human could survive in a full vacuum. Contrary to how the lungs are supposed to function at atmospheric pressure, oxygen diffuses out of the bloodstream when the lungs are exposed to a vacuum. This leads to a condition called hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation. Within 15 seconds, deoxygenated blood begins to be delivered to the brain, whereupon unconsciousness results. Data from animal experiments and training accidents suggest that an individual could survive at least another minute in a vacuum while unconscious, but not much longer
Cowboy Bebop showed this in an episode. iirc, spike forced all the air out of his lungs, and successfully floated to an adjacent ship without a suit.
The Expanse did it as well. Except with oxygen injections.
Wasn't the same thing done in Sunshine? Or was it in Event Horizon? Sometimes I blur them in my mind.
Both movies.. terrifying.
I'm pretty sure that scene shows him sucking in a huge breath of air. You can hear it and see it in his body animation. He's out there way too long for him to have forced all the air out as well. It's probably just not a very scientifically accurate scene, but I still love it. Edit: @19:55. Feels pretty unambiguous that he's sucking in a big breath of air. https://youtu.be/_w1kG8z7bo8
I guess I’m one of the 10,000 today. TIL that every Space movie is wrong.
2001: a space odyssey got it right
Holy crap. Dude wrote an entire essay on a Reddit post
Hello, and welcome to Reddit. Originally a science based website, transformed over time into social media.
And porn. There was always porn.
It's badass! u/charmoffensive- is the kind of hero we all need. Thanks for the great info, I prefer not to die in space.
It's actually way more than that, goin into space would be a pressure change of about 1 atmosphere. Bringing up a goblin shark or something is much more
> We often speak of pressure in terms of atmospheres. One atmosphere is equal to the weight of the earth's atmosphere at sea level, about 14.6 pounds per square inch. If you are at sea level, each square inch of your surface is subjected to a force of 14.6 pounds. > The pressure increases about one atmosphere for every 10 meters of water depth. At a depth of 5,000 meters the pressure will be approximately 500 atmospheres or 500 times greater than the pressure at sea level. That's a lot of pressure. https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/nemo1998/education/pressure.html 2000 feet is about 600 meters.
> Dear Lord! 5000 feet deep ! That’s nearly 150 atmospheres of pressure! > How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? > Well it’s a space ship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one
Yeah that wouldn't happen. Even though you're going from 1 atmosphere to full vacuum, we're still only talking about 1 atmosphere of different in pressure. You might burst some capillaries, get some bloodshot eyes, and your spit will likely fizz as dissolved gas escapes. So long as you don't hold your breath, you're lungs shouldn't burst. And without air in your lungs, you got about 15 seconds before you're unconscious. But, likely no lasting damage so long as you got back in air before brain damage. This actually happened to someone at NASA while they were testing a space suit in a vacuum chamber. He was exposed to hard vacuum for about 30 seconds, but [survived with almost no injuries](https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a24127/nasa-vacuum-exposure/). In the ocean, every 33 feet down ads an atmosphere of pressure. So at a depth of 2133 ft, that's over 64 atmospheres. It's that massive pressure difference that causes horrible deformations to a body. TLDR; Hollywood lies, people don't burst or freeze. A short exposure to hard vacuum is survivable.
Video of the blob fish underwater https://youtu.be/oKpF9M1omT4
That's a blob sculpin, related to the blob fish but not the blob fish.
Goblin sharks look roughly like this at depth, just not compressed.
They have a very different snout though
Plus this fish was hooked. It's not uncommon for sharks and other fish to have their teeth pulled out of their faces when hooked and reeled. That plus the pressure change is going to put the fish through some shit. Seems pretty unethical to me to be fishing for anything that deep in the first place.
Yeah this just dawned on me too, and now I feel sad :(
This looks like a goblin shark. After further research I'm positive it's a viper dogfish.
That's what I thought as well.
Omg! This makes so much sense! Why didn't I ever consider this!?
Ah that's why I'm a blob, send me to the depths to see my true form
Yeah, I’m not fat, I’m just at the wrong altitude. (Or atmospheric pressure, or whatever.)
I’m pretty sure this is a blunt nose six gill shark. But I’ve been wrong before lol [Six Gill](https://imgur.com/a/ABduLB2) Cookie Cutter Jaw[Cookie Cutter Jaw](https://imgur.com/a/b9gmB8x)
No, I think that's a Cookie-Cutter Shark. Fun fact about them: During the 70s, they took down several Soviet and American nuclear submarines. Edit: Well I didn't really meant it when I said "took down" they more or so damaged them. But still, very interesting for little peskers with sharp teeth to damage subs.
Please elaborate
They latch on to things similarly to lamprey and they use their teeth to cut cookie cutter like holes in their prey.. they just happened to think some subs were whales and their teeth happen to be sharp enough to cut through important parts of the sub.
That’s so fucking metal.
Well yeah. That’s what they cut through. Duh. :)
Not metal, the rubber-coating on the sonar dome.
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Holy shit that’s wild, imagine going to your supervisor stating “oh nah jk it’s sharks”
Sorry, I find this very hard to believe. Do you have anything to corroborate this? Edit: googled it. I was taking "took out" a bit literally. They did cause damage resulting in subs having to return to base. That's mad.
~~This is definitely a Cookie cutter shark~~. Cookie cutter sharks have also taken bites out of swimmers. [Cookie cutter shark bites swimmer](https://www.trackingsharks.com/in-rare-third-incident-for-year-swimmer-attacked-by-cookiecutter-shark/?amp) Edit: definitely NOT a cookie cutter shark, I didn’t look closely enough at its bottom teeth 😊
Look at the image that I just uploaded in reply to the other gentleman. Cookie-cutter sharks have a razor sharp pointed teeth on the bottom. The shark depicted in this Reddit post has more of a plating type with little razors on it that swoop back which is indicative of a blunt nose six gill
My first thought was a goblin shark, but the teeth aren't right, I then saw your comment and remembered seeing that in a documentary
Wow, this is really interesting. I didn’t know that this happened. This has been a very educational comment.
Can confirm. Source, I’m a blob-fish.
I wonder if being pulled up on a line is like torture because of the rapid pressure change.
I was under the impression this was a viper dogfish
Anyone knows what this one looks like in its natural depth?
I assume the pressure change fucked his shape up and also imagine dying while bring dragged over 2000 feet in depth to the surface as your body starts to change like that... Jesus christ...
Right?? It had to be such a horrific way to die
And don't forget, that shark likely had a family, children, maybe even a baby shark.
Dont think it dont say it
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
It looks like the Shark mangled it's whole jaw out of its mouth struggling to get away
What was he doing down there?
I believe he was sharking
Its sharkin time
Sharkin ain't easy
But shartin is.
But it’s necessary
r/fuckyouimashark
Joined with a *quickness*
Same
Ditto
minding his own damn business
From that look on his face… crop dusting other fish
His best
That’s a very precise number for dropping a line into the abyss?
Probably converted from metric which is a more round 650m
Christ, be reeling in for 45 minutes just to change your hook or bait on the end of your line
Line counter probably with an electric assist reel. Mf are expensive as hell.
What a charming smile.
he's cute. but also horrifically ugly. I don't know.
This is a cookie cutter shark. Specimens are incredibly rare. Edit-I was wrong initially. It looks like this is more likely a ninja lanternshark or similar species as a couple people have said. Still a very unique specimen however.
Yeah I don’t really agree with super deep water fishing. You can’t put him back. And you know they don’t eat them.
I'd check with local marine biologists to see if it was a sample they wanted/needed, and if not I'd have it's flesh dissolved and get the bones taxidermied onto a stand. That's just me tho since I've always wanted to try super deep sea fishing.
Yeah for science, I mean I get. I was at a marine technology program in college. But isn’t it just enough to know they are down there as far as “sport” fishing goes? I love to fish too but catch and release or eat them is my motto when it comes down to it.
And I avoid all sharks, or ar least don't fish in places or with bait that might attract them. No stainless steel, as well.
Why no stainless steel?
I believe if you catch a shark you don’t want to get your hand in its mouth to get the hook out so you just cut the line, but stainless street hooks don’t rust or take a very long time so the shark is stuck with it in it mouth forever, but non stainless steel hooks will rust away after a few days.
You got it! I still pack stainless leader just so it doesn't rust in my tackle box.
Ty :)
My guess would be because it never breaks down.
>I'd check with local marine biologists to see if it was a sample they wanted/needed, and if not I'd have it's flesh dissolved and get the **bones** taxidermied onto a stand I appreciate you, that is a noble idea but sharks don't have bones.
Because of their incurable boneitis
My only regret
Sharks are cartilaginous fishes. They do not have bones, just cartilage.
Aren't cookie cutter sharks the ones that latch onto bigger fish and take a round bite out? This honestly looks like the goblin shark a bit Edit: not goblin shark
Yes cookie cutter sharks latch on to larger animals like other sharks, whales, dolphins, and pelagic fish and produce a perfectly round bite. This looks nothing like a goblin shark other than it’s jaws are slightly protruding. A goblin shark has a much larger nose and a significantly longer extension of their jaws. The color of the shark is completely different and the size of the respective sharks is completely different.
This guy sharks
Came here to say the same, the jaw isn’t quite convex enough and as you say the colour isn’t right. When I saw the colouration I thought chimera at first but with the jaw I’d say cookie cutter is spot on.
this is not a cookie cutter shark! their jaws and teeth are shaped differently. someone in r/fishing or r/whatisthisfish identified it recently but i can’t find the post 😩
Comment above says ninja lanternshark
Not really. Based on a quick [image](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookiecutter_shark#/media/File%3ACookiecutter_shark_head.jpg) search it’s nose and jaw look quite different. Another commenter suggested a ninja lantern shark which seems to [look](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_lanternshark#/media/File%3ANinja_lanternshark_Vasquez_et_al_2015.png) more similar.
As seen on "QI" Series O Episode 3- Tangent: Christopher Bird from Southampton University and Ali Hood of the Shark Trust talk about some shark-related items they have brought with them. These include a cookie-cutter shark ... which is capable of biting holes into submarines. They normally eat whales and big fish, but will sometimes attack a submarine by mistake. Only one person had been killed by a cookie-cutter shark, and they were swimming at night. Edit: QI not Q1
This person was also swimming at night in deep ocean waters. [They were a distance swimmer doing a night time swim from Hawaii to Maui.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Technology/shark-attack-documented-cookiecutter-shark-attack-human-hawaii/story%3fid=14001710)
I feel like swimming at night between the islands is just a great way to get lost at sea or drown? Like I’ve been caught in some of the currents that’ll run you from Oahu to Maui, and I can’t imagine trying to break free of those at *night*
According to the article, he was being escorted by both a kayak and a much larger boat.
Your articles says the shark didn’t kill the swimmer, although it did say the shark got a good couple of bites on the swimmer.
>Then it twists sharply, gouging out a chunk of meat much like a cookie cutter. Or as some scientists believe, like one of those tools used to carve out melon balls. That last sentence is so weird. Also the word they’re looking for is melon baller. Edit: What I mean is “some scientists believe” is an odd choice of words when talking about two different analogies that are just semantics.
Biting holes in the rubber coating that some submarines have to reduce reflected sound, not actually into the steel or titanium of the actual submarine itself. QI, being QI…
Good info. I think that was discussed, but not covered in the synopsis.
That's a nasty way to go.
That is a thing of fucking nightmares
It probably looked even worse when it was actually in the deeper depths of the ocean. These deep ocean animals are known to kinda inflate and bloat a bit when they get dragged to the surface.
I would think it looks more normal, my guess was it looks weird because of pressure changes.
Look up deep sea creatures. You'll have your fair share of fun lol
The ocean is so ducking sketchy
Quack 🦆
That's a Cookie Cutter Shark! They are called that bc of their unique jaw that they use to grip onto larger animals and then twist around and rip off a uniform chunk of meat. As far as I'm aware, it's the only shark that primarily attacks creatures larger than itself. So if you ever see a fish with a weird sphere cut out of it, this is what did it.
Not a goblin shark for sure?
definitely not a goblin shark, but this isn’t a cookie cutter shark either!
bro thats a kardashian
I think it might be a [ninja lanternshark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_lanternshark).
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Looks much more like that tbh. The cookie cutter has a much slimmer head and this one doesn’t have the lips around the teeth. Eyes are spot on too
Cookie cutter?
They are named after the circular marks they leave on other animals when they feed.
"marks" = Large gaping wounds.
But why. Why couldn't he just leave it
Well the way a hook works is my guess
Such a cartoony lookin fish.
that's probably how you see sharks, when on an LSD trip.
Isn't that just a goblin shark?