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One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot
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Re: One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot
#32Mantis Shrimp can punch as hard as a bullet, can break aquarium glass and can create a cavitation bubble hotter than the sun.
Has NIF tried mantis shrimp?
This is the closest I found, searching for "acoustic confinement fusion". Short story: probably doesn't work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_fusion
Re: One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot
#33"produces sounds that exceed 140 decibels" is a nonsense statement. They probably meant dBSPL.
Pedantic nitpick: it's not nonsense if the common person understands the meaning. Your average english speaker uses "decibels" to mean "dBSPL" since most people aren't aware of the other ones.
Re: One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot
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#35It’s always disappointing to me when articles describing a sound don’t include an audio clip. Someone must have a hydrophone recording!
There was a video with audio.
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#36Re: One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is, someone vouched for that comment and then it was flag killed.
I wonder how many vouches I've fat-fingered on mobile.
It's hard to accidentally vouch a comment, just like it's hard to accidentally flag a comment (submitted articles are another matter, I have accidentally flagged a lot of submissions since that's an option on the main page itself). You have to first select the specific comment (reply or click on its time stamp). Then you have to press vouch (or flag). You cannot vouch for them directly from the general comments page.
So I'd wager close to 0.
Re: One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot
#38Mantis Shrimp can punch as hard as a bullet, can break aquarium glass and can create a cavitation bubble hotter than the sun.
I only knew that I had one in my tank because I would hear the loud "crack" at night. Luckily it was the shrimp making the noise, not the glass breaking. Months later when I drained the tank to move into a new house, and removed all the live rock I found it dead at the bottom. Amazing that such a tiny thing can make so much noise.
You sure that wasn't a tiger pistol shrimp?
Mantis shrimp are exotic terrors of the deep you don't exactly forget you have.
Re: One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only knew that I had one in my tank because I would hear the loud "crack" at night. Luckily it was the shrimp making the noise, not the glass breaking. Months later when I drained the tank to move into a new house, and removed all the live rock I found it dead at the bottom. Amazing that such a tiny thing can make so much noise.
You sure that wasn't a tiger pistol shrimp? Mantis shrimp are exotic terrors of the deep you don't exactly forget you have.
After doing a bit of research I think you're right. For some reason I got them confused.
Re: One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot
#40Mantis Shrimp can punch as hard as a bullet, can break aquarium glass and can create a cavitation bubble hotter than the sun.
Mantis shrimps are show-offs. They hog all the records.