• @Iheartcheese
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        621 month ago

        Then why can’t I yeet a bunch of goldfish

        • @_bcron_
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          1131 month ago

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          • @BanjoShepard
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            671 month ago

            And in a similar but completely different way, the fish are being added to massive bodies of water. Home aquariums are minute in comparison, so they can’t balance out chemical swings as easily and are much more prone to higher levels of nitrites and other toxic chemicals. The larger the body of water, the more stable the water quality.

          • @[email protected]
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            551 month ago

            something i love about Lemmy is that on the drop of a hat someone is willing to calculate the “surface area to fish ratio”

            • @[email protected]
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              351 month ago

              Problem is, you almost never know if that’s actually true or complete bullshit.

              It seems plausible, but killing virgins for rain also seemed plausible back then in the 70s.

              • @[email protected]
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                “But it has rained, hasn’t it?” Smug look

                An example of why arguing with idiots is impossible to win.

          • @ziggurat
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            481 month ago

            The math actually works, and is quite simple. Just assume the fish is a sphere

          • @dingus
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            21 month ago

            I’m confused though. Don’t people use this to talk about how small things like bugs can fall from a large height and be uninjured, but large things like a human or elephant will be injured if falling from a height? I feel like what you’re saying is backwards to what the internet has told me.

            • @Apollo42
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              71 month ago

              The person you replied to only spoke about sudden change in temperature, not falling from height.

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        • @FooBarrington
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          291 month ago

          Who’s stopping you?

          MAKE your DREAMS come TRUE

        • @shalafi
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          261 month ago

          You can yeet goldfish. Carp are stupid tough. It’s the tropical fish we often keep that are kinda wimpy. Also, they’re not coming from a super healthy environment (the store) to our tanks.

          • skulblaka
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            41 month ago

            I would watch carp throwing as a competitive sport, they aren’t going to make it easy

              • skulblaka
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                21 month ago

                I definitely have not, and now I have. I’m unsure if I should thank you for this or not.

                I feel like it takes the sport out of it if the fish is dead though. The whole sport of the carp throwing is that a carp absolutely can kick a grown man’s ass and flop to freedom if he isn’t careful. You leave a carp alone long enough and those things turn into damn near coelacanths. They’ll eat your dog. Manhandling one of those suckers into a parabolic arc is going to take skill, strength, planning, and luck.

        • @danc4498
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          101 month ago

          Maybe 95% survive, but how many are injured in a way that might impact their quality of life?

          Since these are being dropped specifically for the purpose of being caught and killed asap, quality of life might not matter.

          For your sad little goldfish, please be gentle!

          • @subtext
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            171 month ago

            Also, gotta think about whether 5% mortality rate is acceptable.

            For an airdrop number of pond fish? Sure!

            For your hobbyist number of expensive fish? Absolutely not

          • @[email protected]
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            21 month ago

            My understanding is these are juvenile fish that will be caught as adults, so they will live for a while.

        • @Sonor
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          41 month ago

          Try to fly higher above the tank and see if it helps

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          One reason is because the hatcheries are in the same general area as the lakes, so conditions are pretty similar. The temperature will be about the same at the same depths as the hatchery, and the water comes from the same source.

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        I wonder what the “fuck that hurt” rate is for these fishes