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Those fish must have taken a battering
Any fish that got flushed out will be lost, they need things to be 'just so'. I once helped clean up at a friends place who had 30 aquariums with thousands of fish after the power went out longer than his UPS could provide it. The mess was sickening. He never had another tank after that and it was his life's passion.
Weird. Earlier today I awoke from a nap after strange dreams and attempted to produce images in midjourney of a giant aquarium breaking. I must psychic or something.
Shit happens with my wife All. The. Time. We're rational enough to mostly chalk it up to coincidence or selection bias, but not calculating enough to take advantage of gullible people (Edited to mention selection bias)
[1] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2022/12/berlin-karl-li...
From the guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. HN really needs a European mod to maintain the quality of this board.
From the guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. HN really needs a European mod to maintain the quality of this board.
Link to English article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/16/huge-cylindric... > A freestanding cylindrical aquarium housing about 1,500 exotic fish has burst in Berlin, causing a wave of devastation in and around the Sea Life tourist attraction, police have said. > Glass and other debris were swept out of the DomAquarée complex, which houses a Radisson hotel, a museum, shops and restaurants, as 1m litres o…
> 10-minute elevator ride through the tank
That's 1.4 meters per minute, or ~2.3 centimeters per second. The aquarium and the fish in it must have been marvelous to watch, because otherwise even imagining being stuck in an elevator moving at this pace feels terrifyingly boring to think about.
Also, there's a sentiment of "how could this happen, it was only upgraded two years ago?!" in all the articles I have read so far - maybe it happened precisely because of that? But let's see what the investigation will reveal...
Wow, how do you make pieces of glass that size?
(side note: what a weird name for an aquarium manufacturing and design company)