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Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent
(futurism.com)
Star trek 4 was a documentary
Hello computer!
How quaint.
or the earth stood still.
Not surprising when you've got stories like this ...
The 2025 krill season in Antarctica has ended with a record-breaking haul: 518,000 tonnes of krill pulled from the Southern Ocean. That’s over ONE BILLION POUNDS of sea life, removed in a single season.
https://seashepherd.org/2025/08/01/antarctic-krill-harvest-surges/
WTF
What Sea Shepard strategically omitted is that there's like 400 million tonnes in the water, and the natural turnover is pretty fast.
There's dummy amounts of krill and not a lot of human uses for them. The fishing industry in general is problematic, but I'd expect literally every other fishery is more heavily exploited.
Antarctic krill isn’t just important for marine life—it’s becoming a key ingredient in human supplements, animal feed, and even skincare products. Rich in Omega-3s, protein, and antioxidants, krill is being used to support heart health, reduce inflammation, and improve overall wellness. In fact, studies show krill oil is easier for the body to absorb than other fish oils, making it a preferred choice for many.
https://krillarcticfoods.com/blog/what-is-antarctic-krill-used-for/
It takes processing to do that, though, and straight out of the water they're poisonous to humans. I'm guessing this site is literally advertising (although it won't load for me), so they my gloss over that.
Like, sure, there's lots of things you could use them for, and that might be huge applications in the future, but for now IIRC it's mostly used as fish food.
We are so screwed
Keep an eye out for a giant space cylinder my friends.
Wompwompwompwompwomp eeeuuu! Eeeuuu!
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Only it ends badly because the whales don’t want to talk about it any more. Or can’t talk about it because they’ve been cooked to death.
too much noise from ships.
We are the extinction event
"Well if the whales don't like that the water's killing them and their food supply, maybe they shouldn't have devolved their legs!"
...That's probably assuming way too much about the average climate denier's scientific knowledge or just overall general intelligence, isn't it?
That would mean they believe in evolution
~~They did. Then they decided to go back to the water.~~
Devolved. Gotcha.
I dont think whales ever had legs. the lungs were a neofunctionalization of digestive tissue like swim bladders
They have a pelvis, a rather odd feature if there were never legs
They used to say that our tonsils and appendix were useless. Biologists are very eager to proclaim things are useless when they don't understand what it does.
What does that have to do with a pelvis? It might have some value now or maybe not, just like our vestigial tailbones which have no real use. The question here is did whales ever in the past have legs? The answer is yes: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031659020/four-legged-whale-legs-discovered-43-million-years
The evidence is that a dog like creature found in the sea has similar ear structure to whales?
More or less if you dog deeper into the study instead of just reading the easy article they are an antecedent to modern whales.
Everyone should be alarmed, Jesus Christ
While this does seem very important, this headline is pretty terrible. A 40% reduction over a decade is not "suddenly going silent".
A decade is a really short time in animal scale. They sing for hundreds of millions of years, but half stop in a decade?
It is considering how long whales have been around and singing
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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