Credit to Stephen Wright.
Just think how much deeper the ocean would be if sponges didn't live there.
Submitted 1 year ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 1 year ago
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also a !dadjokes@lemmy.world
Bonus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?
Rokin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Bonus Stephen Wright!
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m going a tattoo over my entire body. Of me, only six inches shorter.
Rokin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s a joke, not really a shower thought. But thank you for a Stephen Wright one-liner, they are always wellcome.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah! Thought it was Jack Handey.
“I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.”
Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
And I would say that almost everything Stephen Wright did was a shower thought. But you and I may disagree and still be friends.
Rokin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Fair point, friend.
sga@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Sorry did not get this one, is it because if there would more leaching on ocean floor, and possibly increasing depth (i dont think that would have any realistic impact) or is it in a joke-y sense saying that sponges have soaked up water and if they were not there, then sea level would be higher? If that is the one, then actually if sponges were to be removed, then the total sea level would technically decrease (not going into any biology here) purely because sponges in non expanded form will have some volume, and that is a non zero amout, going in water, they just have absorbed it - or to be more precise - swollen, so the original volume is still there, and if no sponges, that miniscule amount would be removed. And maybe if no sponges, then lots of fauna would die, and now i need a biologist (the marine kind) to confirm that for most aquatic stuff, they tend to have densities close to water itself (so they can be gravitationally neutral, and some puff up/release air from stomach to change densities slighlty so as to adjust to water density) and remove that much amount of fish would just remove there volume, and assuming same density, sea level would decrease. But maybe no fauna means huge algae bloom, and floor fauna to die, and reduced co2 capture levels by seas, and due to then possible increase in co2 levels would cause accelerated glacial melting and higher sea levels so more depth, but maybe in that case humans would not survive, and possible our emmissions gone would mean on land co2 capture would be more feasible, and maybe further decrease.
Recursion depth reeached NaN. Halting.
sga@lemmings.world 1 year ago
can i just ask why all the downvotes, did i get something wrong?
Deebster@programming.dev 1 year ago
I think it’s probably a mix of criticising a joke for its accuracy, and the fact that it’s in a single paragraph so it’s a huge wall of text.
Rokin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You did not. It’s just jealousy of your incredible verbosity, sir.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
attempts to read comment
…nope, sorry. There are pizza rolls in the oven and life is too short to try to force myself to read all that.
sga@lemmings.world 1 year ago
I too was waiting for my cold coffee to warm up a bit while typing
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
sys.setrecursionlimit(1500)
(I have no idea what I’m doing)
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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