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Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin

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Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin

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Post by TeMPOraL »

hardlianotion wrote: post #31
jacquesm wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It feels in this case that a lot of fish were killed for no reason at all. I am surprised at how much this annoys me.

Interesting to think about. On the one hand, it's no different than any of the random stuff that happens to fish in the wild, or wildlife in general. Being killed for no reason at all is the default in nature; humans build societies and civilizations and develop technologies in large part to avoid it.

On the other hand, this feels especially sad for some reason.

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Post by usrusr »

feb wrote: post #33

According to a german news report [1], it could be due to material fatigue. [1] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2022/12/berlin-karl-li...

If it's due to material fatigue it's due to engineering failure. That in turn may or may not be due to the yes-men promotion mechanism.

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Post by slickrick216 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #37
defrost wrote: post #15

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…

> 14-metre-high tank > 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.

Yeah it was quite nice. They’d feed the fish too and they’d all scramble for it.

Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin

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Post by yreg »

jacquesm wrote: post #24
WhackyIdeas wrote: post #18

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.

For how much longer than his UPS could provide it?

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

feb wrote: post #33

According to a german news report [1], it could be due to material fatigue. [1] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2022/12/berlin-karl-li...

Fatigue from what? It's a stationary object housed indoors, not a car or plane that goes through several climatical, temperature and environmental changes to cause fatigue.

Unless they were subjecting the tank to draining and filling cycles often, it seems more like a design/build fault that was a ticking time bomb from the start.

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Post by blueflow »

passwordoops wrote: post #27
Fricken wrote: post #2

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)

You can chalk it up to selection bias, you never remember the predictions that were just garbage.

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Post by namero999 »

passwordoops wrote: post #27
Fricken wrote: post #2

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)

Interesting. I'm not sure chalking up an observation is the rational approach. I'd be looking into the Pauli-Jung conjecture before doing so.

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Post by tazjin »

rob74 wrote: post #38

Considering there was a hotel lobby under the aquarium, it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt. Too bad for the fish though. 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...

> it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt

It probably helped that it happened at 6AM ...

Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin

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Post by passwordoops »

pauletienney wrote: post #32
passwordoops wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

For pure curiosity, could you give us some examples of what happen with your wife? Thx

Case in point - yesterday morning she told me about a vivid dream of a major apartment fire she had. Look what just happened in Lyon [0].

You could dream about a fire for any reason, and fires are unfortunately common enough to at least make local news so unconsciously scanning a headline during the day may plant a "dream worm".

But this happens quite often, even for personal things, like details of the birth of our first kid a couple of weeks before the due date, down to the amount and color of hair, the precise time for a natural birth, and the mino complications right after.

It always gives me split second pause because I want to believe ("quantum entanglement" is weird or witchery is real - she's East European after all). But there's almost always a good explanation for the percieved prescience.

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63997158

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