Comment on Bombs Awat

• _bcron_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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  • BanjoShepard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • turtlepower@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You always need a bigger aquarium

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      • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You could probably air drop one goldfish into a 100 gallon tank and it’d be fine (assuming it survived the fall).

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      • Tacoma@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And a bigger fish

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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”

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    • leisesprecher@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But it has rained, hasn’t it? Smug look

        This is why arguing with idiots is impossible to win.

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The 70s was a wild time.

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  • ziggurat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      in a frictionless vacuum

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      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        IMMA YEET THEM SO FAR

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    • WastingCommentSpace@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Apollo42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • _bcron_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 0.0025 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

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    • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It ain’t the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop…

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• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Who’s stopping you?

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  MAKE your DREAMS come TRUE

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• jared@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Technique I imagine.

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  • explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Skill issue

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would watch carp throwing as a competitive sport, they aren’t going to make it easy

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    • Tryasimightalright@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean, have you heard of the mullet toss competition?

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      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I definitely have not, and now I have. I’m unsure if I should thank you for this or not.

        I feel like it takes the sport out of it if the fish is dead though. The whole sport of the carp throwing is that a carp absolutely can kick a grown man’s ass and flop to freedom if he isn’t careful. You leave a carp alone long enough and those things turn into damn near coelacanths. They’ll eat your dog. Manhandling one of those suckers into a parabolic arc is going to take skill, strength, planning, and luck.

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    • Infomatics90@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      not the carp. they are my favourite fish to angle for :(

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• SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Have a pilots license?

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe 95% survive, but how many are injured in a way that might impact their quality of life?

  Since these are being dropped specifically for the purpose of being caught and killed asap, quality of life might not matter.

  For your sad little goldfish, please be gentle!

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  • subtext@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also, gotta think about whether 5% mortality rate is acceptable.

    For an airdrop number of pond fish? Sure!

    For your hobbyist number of expensive fish? Absolutely not

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My understanding is these are juvenile fish that will be caught as adults, so they will live for a while.

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One reason is because the hatcheries are in the same general area as the lakes, so conditions are pretty similar. The temperature will be about the same at the same depths as the hatchery, and the water comes from the same source.

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• Sonor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Try to fly higher above the tank and see if it helps

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• bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You certainly can!

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