There must have been so much unseen behavior when there were millions more whales in the ocean. Here's hoping that we can see more
Super Groups usually don't turn out as good as they sound like they should. One or two good songs over the course of multiple albums at best.
I hope we create whalegemma (similar to dolphingemma) so we can explain to them how to co-exist better with humans (e.g. avoid this area during their whale hunting season, travel to this area if you get sick or tangled in rope).
There is a group that is attempting to communicate with whales by training a transformer based model on whale sounds.<p><a href="https://www.projectceti.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.projectceti.org/</a>
It's just a pity we couldn't figure out how to better coexist with whales.
We know how, but we choose not to.<p>The same goes for most of our ecological problems, really.
…while not changing anything about our behavior, you mean. Because we were never ignorant of how to do better; we just couldn’t accept even <i>any</i> inconvenience, any obstacle to our “growth”.
Erm, it's illegal to talk to dolphins: <a href="https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2026/04/02/is-it-legal-to-talk-to-dolphins/89424571007/" rel="nofollow">https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2026/04/02/is-it...</a>
It’s going to be prog rock, isn’t it?
no, i think they're just going to start a podcast.
Not necessarily. Look at the Gorillaz.
Migaloo is joining Humphrey the Whale's team in SF forming a super team
The water goes all the way up to 11
their music's making waves
Alright, who pissed off Aquaman this time?
holy units batman<p>> Bursting from their enormous lungs at over 300mph (483km/h), a humpback whale's blow can rise up to 7m (23ft) into the air.<p>Pick a lane BBC.<p>But this is great news. Also the fact that whales "transport huge amounts of nutrients across the globe" (linking to [1]) is fascinating. The role of whales in sucking up critters in one place and pooping them out elsewhere being a fundamental dynamic that drives global ocean ecosystems... just <i>chefs kiss</i><p>[1] <a href="https://www.nature.com/research-intelligence/nri-topic-summaries/humpback-whale-ecology-and-population-dynamics-micro-104525" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/research-intelligence/nri-topic-summa...</a>)
How we measure things in the UK has been dragged into political debates (Boris floated the idea of forcing supermarkets to list weights in pounds and ounces "again"). So critical thinking or sane decisions are out the window on this front.<p>Although there is some logic to keeping miles per hour for road speed limits as there is a big cost associated with updating all the signs and associated "documentation".<p>An organisation like the BBC have to make sure to use imperial measures (as well the one most people actually interact with), otherwise Reform voters have a meltdown.
It's not just the BBC, it's the UK as a whole. Miles per hour or deeply entrenched for speeds but for measurements we use meters. The same for weight, we weigh people in stone but we weigh everything else with grams.
I remember reading about whales returning to an area they hadn't been in for decades and people were worried about them eating all the local fish, but in fact their faeces enriched the local ecosystem from the ground up, leading to <i>more</i> fish. It's a bit like the counter-arguments to the lump of labour fallacy.
I think the BBC policy is to provide every measurement in both types of unit.
Apparently they also measurably affect the vertical water mixing. Fish need dissolved oxygen to breathe, so they don't normally venture past the thermocline. And their fins are also vertical, so they don't cause a lot of vertical water movement.<p>But whales routinely dive deep, and their tail fin is _horizontal_ and it creates powerful updrafts.<p>Another organism that affects mixing is apparently jellyfish.
Animals do these things. Bears eat berries and then poop out the seeds, complete with fertilizer. It happens up and down the food chain.
What do the dolphins think about it?
It's the Entmoot of the sea.
It was in the heat of the moment.<p>Sorry. I couldn’t resist.<p>For the uninitiated: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_progressive_rock_supergroups" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_progressive_rock_super...</a>
They may gather up for a protest. See the whale north of Germany who seems unable to swim away.
They are going to save us from that XXIII century probe, right
Perhaps they're forming a delegation to decide what to answer to that thing coming from space? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_IV%3A_The_Voyage_Home" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_IV%3A_The_Voyage_Hom...</a>
Seriously though, we have Star Trek IV to thank in no small part for this amazing humpback comeback success story. Live long and prosper!
So long and thanks for all the fish, perhaps.
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Hopefully they are building an army to conquer the planet.