It’s wild how much we don’t know about the ocean and it’s creatures.
Yup, Rice's Whale was discovered as recently as 2021 for example. And is not exactly a small animal living in a remote location. USA native
A whale that's known only by the sound of its voice
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#12It’s wild how much we don’t know about the ocean and it’s creatures.
I do love that there's still so much more to learn, especially when it's large animals that have avoided us successfully thus far.
These animals may be much more intelligent than we realize; many species could have avoided extinction if they had avoided contact with the evil and destructive humans.
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#13It’s wild how much we don’t know about the ocean and it’s creatures.
Yup, Rice's Whale was discovered as recently as 2021 for example. And is not exactly a small animal living in a remote location. USA native
It was discovered in 2021 that they were a separate species. The whales had been observed there since the 1960s.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/marine-mammal-prote...
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#14Given the elusiveness, I wonder if it's something else, military in nature, merely disguised as a harmless-sounding whale...
What would that even be? Sonar would be most likely, but there is very little reason for secrecy there, since all the innovation is in the signal analysis not the signal itself.
Could be communication but why would you use a medium as terrible and lossy as sound in water?
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#15Given the elusiveness, I wonder if it's something else, military in nature, merely disguised as a harmless-sounding whale...
Most probably not. If civilians heard it, you’d expect half a dozen of semi-competent militaries would have done so as well. And some of those militaries have objectives that don’t neatly align or have less than stellar opsec. Also, it’s very difficult to keep secret a project that involves more than 10 people, especially if it involves building things.
> Also, it’s very difficult to keep secret a project that involves more than 10 people, especially if it involves building things.
But not impossible, and there are a lot of examples of things being built (or destroyed for that matter) in perfect secrecy involving groups larger than 10 people.
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#16> A whale that's known only by the sound of its voice
I have a co-worker like this.
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#17Given the elusiveness, I wonder if it's something else, military in nature, merely disguised as a harmless-sounding whale...
What would that even be? Sonar would be most likely, but there is very little reason for secrecy there, since all the innovation is in the signal analysis not the signal itself. Could be communication but why would you use a medium as terrible and lossy as sound in water?
Applying the troll's razor: Maybe it's just large scale trolling, nothing less, nothing more.
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#18the name is kujira
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#19Given the elusiveness, I wonder if it's something else, military in nature, merely disguised as a harmless-sounding whale...
What would that even be? Sonar would be most likely, but there is very little reason for secrecy there, since all the innovation is in the signal analysis not the signal itself. Could be communication but why would you use a medium as terrible and lossy as sound in water?
Why couldn't there be innovation in the signal?
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#20It’s wild how much we don’t know about the ocean and it’s creatures.
Yeah especially a bit deeper it's wild & must be many animals we have yet to discover.