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[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 22 points 1 day ago

How do they stop the little parachutes from sliding off?

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Just make sure the strap between the legs is tight enough.

[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago
[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

fluggelgleckheimlen

The fish are hardcore. None have used it yet

[-] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

From another similar post, introducing fish to a large body of water has to be done like this or else the fish don't understand or acclimate properly and die. It's a slap to the noggin like "hey wakey wakey, go find some algae to nibble on"

[-] atyaz@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

I'm guessing only a few need to survive

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 day ago

People ITT must've forgotten about the salmon cannon.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 18 points 1 day ago

I have never seen this and thank you for sharing it because good god I needed it.

[-] cybermass@lemmy.ca 110 points 1 day ago

I wonder what the survival rate is for these fishes

[-] jared@mander.xyz 173 points 1 day ago

According to the links in this post It's 95%-99% survival.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wonder what the "fuck that hurt" rate is for these fishes

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago

Then why can't I yeet a bunch of goldfish

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago

One of the bigger reasons has to do with the square cube law - as the size of something increases, surface area increases by a factor of 2 but mass increases by a factor of 3, so little fishes have a surface area-to-mass ratio that is quite a bit higher than a larger fish, and they're more susceptible to abrupt changes in temperature.

Kinda like how an ice cube will melt a lot faster than a big slab of ice, the core temperature of some small fish like a goldfish is gonna change more rapidly than the core temperature of a big fish like a trout so they tend to be a lot more finnicky in regard to significant and instantaneous changes to temperature and stuff. A larger fish might shrug off a significant change because it affects them more slowly, but that might be a totally wild an overwhelming experience for a little fish to go through

[-] BanjoShepard@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago

And in a similar but completely different way, the fish are being added to massive bodies of water. Home aquariums are minute in comparison, so they can't balance out chemical swings as easily and are much more prone to higher levels of nitrites and other toxic chemicals. The larger the body of water, the more stable the water quality.

[-] turtlepower@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago

So what I hear you saying is I need a bigger aquarium...

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago

You always need a bigger aquarium

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[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

The math actually works, and is quite simple. Just assume the fish is a sphere

I can only assume the fish goes in the square hole.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 28 points 1 day ago
[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

As opposed to the high friction vacuums we are used to.

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[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 day ago

something i love about Lemmy is that on the drop of a hat someone is willing to calculate the "surface area to fish ratio"

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 32 points 1 day ago

Problem is, you almost never know if that's actually true or complete bullshit.

It seems plausible, but killing virgins for rain also seemed plausible back then in the 70s.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"But it has rained, hasn't it?" Smug look

An example of why arguing with idiots is impossible to win.

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[-] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm confused though. Don't people use this to talk about how small things like bugs can fall from a large height and be uninjured, but large things like a human or elephant will be injured if falling from a height? I feel like what you're saying is backwards to what the internet has told me.

[-] Apollo42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The person you replied to only spoke about sudden change in temperature, not falling from height.

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

No, it's all the same in that regard - a ladybug will have a far higher surface area to volume/mass, and that affects terminal velocity.

Ladybug might have 10 square millimeters and weigh .05 grams, 200 square millimeters per gram

Elephant might have 15 square meters and weigh 5000 kilograms. 15 million square millimeters and 5 million grams, so 3 square millimeters per gram

But the elephant in the room (slaps knee) is momentum.

Let's say, hypothetically, we shove a ladybug and an elephant off a 125m cliff and pretend they both have a ridiculously high terminal velocity. That's enough for them to reach 50 meters per second or 180kph. .05 gram ladybug's momentum would be an infinitessimally small 2.5 kg·m/s, meanwhile the elephant is at 250000 kg·m/s, and the elephant explodes.

The thing that makes the ladybug survive the fall (ridiculously low mass relative to surface area) is the same thing that would make a ladybug freeze in minutes if you tossed it in a freezer. Conversely, elephant wouldn't really be bothered by a couple minutes in a freezer.

It's that rapid change in internal body temperature that stresses smaller fish out, dumping them in water that is much colder or warmer than them

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

It ain't the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop........

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Who's stopping you?

MAKE your DREAMS come TRUE

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

You certainly can!

[-] jared@mander.xyz 31 points 1 day ago
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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

You can yeet goldfish. Carp are stupid tough. It's the tropical fish we often keep that are kinda wimpy. Also, they're not coming from a super healthy environment (the store) to our tanks.

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[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Have a pilots license?

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[-] Didros@beehaw.org 16 points 1 day ago

...that sounds to me like "survive the fall" more than "survive the week"

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 16 points 1 day ago

Gotta weed out the weak ones with the fall.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 44 points 1 day ago

I'm gonna keep that typo. 😈

[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Not sure I can let you get awat with that.

[-] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I did a bombs awat last night after taco bell.

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Honestly it fits. It reads like "bombs awWAT"

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

Carpet bombing

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[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

The famous flying fish.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Fishmonger bros be down there with a net

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