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Yeah but everyone thinks that lions are badass but they fail like 77% of their hunts so they're more like huge failures.
To be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat, but I fail much more than 77% of the time. Probably most men do.
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Yeah but everyone thinks that lions are badass but they fail like 77% of their hunts so they're more like huge failures.
To be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat, but I fail much more than 77% of the time. Probably most men do.
Well, you don't know what you're missing, and it might be part of your problem. Just say'n.
I wonder what the whale felt. Would it be swimming around telling its disgusted friends a cetacean equivalent of: "So I was just picking up strawberries in the backyard and all of a sudden this giant winged cockroach appears out of nowhere and before I know it that goddamn thing is in my mouth !!! Dammit I can still taste it. It's something you can't forget..."
So I suspect the conversation was more about "I almost killed a human! Oh noes!"
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You call diving in the ocean and swimming near whales "basically anything"? Diving itself is pretty high risk and the fatality rate isn't as low as you might think. You comparing essential daily activity to recreational diving in whale infested waters as equals is a quite mind boggling.
If you think this stuff is bad wait till you hear about driving...
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In the ocean, the whales stick within the designated Whale Zones, marked by vast rings of starfish holding hands (??). When you cross the starfish, as Packard must have, then you’re clearly in the Zone. At that point you have no one to blame but yourself when you get accidentally swallowed.
Naah, that is the old way/conception of confinement, in modern, eco-zoo-friendly, countries whales are allowed to roam freely in the ocean, it is the swimmers that must wear high visibility vests with a sign "I am not a snack!" written in whalish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgHxFNFWlZc&ab_channel=mathy...
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> Swimming near whales isn’t unsafe at all Ha! "I was completely inside" What else needs to happen for you to think there might be an element of being unsafe? The man was swallowed by a whale, I don't care if whales are aggressive or not, if anything can swallow me whole I consider that a bit unsafe. > This was more akin to getting stepped on by a giraffe that didn’t see you there. So you also consider hanging out ne…
> Ha! "I was completely inside" What else needs to happen for you to think there might be an element of being unsafe? If a thing happens once, you decide it's categorically unsafe? Not a freak accident? Must be rough for you to actually do anything, given the how many possibilities there are to accidentally die doing basically anything.
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It’s not the “swallowed” part. It’s the “bound to happen” part. He didn’t even know the whale was around.
June apparently is the whale watching season in Cape Cod [0]. At least I hope from now on after this "freak accident" people pay a bit more attention and don't confuse things that can swallow them whole with harmless little pets they can cuddle and respect nature and the wild life for what they are. A whale in San Diego Seaworld injures several trainers [1]. A whale kills its trainer [2]. [0] https://candleberryinn.c…
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The guy was diving, so it’s possible he had an oxygen tank. My guess is that in that case you’re even less likely to go through the animal though.
He had a scuba tank. Most likely filled with air, maybe oxygen enriched air. Pure oxygen is dangerous below about 5 meters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpxOLhuNXfM&ab_channel=Movie...
I wonder what the whale felt. Would it be swimming around telling its disgusted friends a cetacean equivalent of: "So I was just picking up strawberries in the backyard and all of a sudden this giant winged cockroach appears out of nowhere and before I know it that goddamn thing is in my mouth !!! Dammit I can still taste it. It's something you can't forget..."
Another article I read said that the whale deliberately surfaced, and that these whales typically get along with humans, so it's possible it was very aware of what was happening and was trying to save his life after it accidentally swallowed him. So I suspect the conversation was more about "I almost killed a human! Oh noes!"
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I’ve liked the interpretation that high luck isn’t necessarily good. It just means highly improbable events happen to you more likely...
Teela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the "failures" who did _not_ get recruited for an impossibly dangerous mission.