A big blue whale is about 190t 16t is 8.4% of your body weight. That’s a 200lbs person eating 16lbs of food. Is that impossible? I’d love to see a breakdown of macros of humans and whales. I think 16t wouldn’t seem so crazy.
Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day
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#22That’s a lot of living creatures.
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#23Update: Effective immediately, all whales are banned from Red Lobster's all you can eat buffet.
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#24I am not only awed by the size and bulk of whales, but also the sheer meatiness of shrimp. It seems like these organisms are > 90% meat. Why do they have so much meat? What do they need all that meat for?
> It seems like these organisms are > 90% meat. Why do they have so much meat? What do they need all that meat for?
Whales cultivated them for consumption.
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#25A big blue whale is about 190t 16t is 8.4% of your body weight. That’s a 200lbs person eating 16lbs of food. Is that impossible? I’d love to see a breakdown of macros of humans and whales. I think 16t wouldn’t seem so crazy.
Joey Chestnut eats about that much weight in just a few minutes each year.
It's not impossible, but I'd say pretty rare to find someone who can do so.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a population of shrimp that have been breeding in my aquarium for quite some time now. They spend most of their time picking through detritus and otherwise managing the cleanliness of the rocks and sandbed. I'm curious if their 'meatiness' has something to do with how rapidly they grow and reproduce and the size of the clutches involved. A single female can have around 100 eggs or more attached to the undersid…
Caton in Overshoot called humans a detritus species. Your very descriptive paragraph might be mined for metaphors. For example, in place of a brain, does humanity have going a peristaltic action connecting mines to landfills?
Your username and comment make me think GPT3 wrote this. What do you mean?
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#27A big blue whale is about 190t 16t is 8.4% of your body weight. That’s a 200lbs person eating 16lbs of food. Is that impossible? I’d love to see a breakdown of macros of humans and whales. I think 16t wouldn’t seem so crazy.
Hmm, being in the ocean means they have to burn a lot more calories relative to their mass, I imagine.
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#28You eat 16 tons, whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
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#29You eat 16 tons, whattaya get?
a plastic bag and a harpoon in the neck
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#30A related article has an amazing fact: in the 1800s, humans killed as much whale biomass as all mammalian biomass alive today. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/whaling-...
All wild mammal biomass. Domesticated mammal biomass is massive. In fact, humans + our livestock comprise 96% of mammal biomass: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/17788/how-muc...
This was a shock for me when I learned of this. It's a great way to show people who think humanity somehow doesn't have the capability to have an effect on greenhouse gas emissions for example. We have totally and completely reshaped the earth in a matter of centuries in what should normally take thousands or tens of thousands of years.