Avago Earo
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Would clicking be a good way to catch dolphins?
General / Off-Topic Click Bait
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"Yes."
I guess it would depend on what you click about. I can imagine dolphins are too busy for an empty chit-chat.
Avago Earo
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I think they use one of their types of click as a stun weapon too. Architeuthis Dux apparently gets knocked out by certain frequencies. It has never been observed, however. The colossal squid may have a better chance against a toothed whale as it is much bulkier, more like what we imagine when we think of sea monsters.
You started me off now as I'm fascinated by the 'giants'of the squids. Not much data about them though. Filmed in the deep a few years back (Architeuthis), and a handful of questionable old fisherman/sailor tales (although some may be true, we just don't know)
Sure. But you'd have to right-click to catch an Orca, and doubleclick for the Beluga.
Avago Earo
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Apparently so. I've heard Windows 10 has screwed it up though, so I'd be careful about trying it, you know, when your in the sea wondering who to click. If you centre click, it makes Orcas perform a choreographed Benny Hill chase scene so I've heard, and they get aggressive if there's no music to provide cues. Of course, this could just be the ramblings of someone who's medication is a bit strong this month, but I say keep an open mind.
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What about river dolphins?
For some reason this randomly made me imagine overly-medicated whales...
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Avago Earo
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Google it.
They made me dance to music I usually hate.
I'd like to see what you imagined.
And once again I find myself lamenting that I can't draw worth a hill o' beans...
Avago Earo
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I bet Minky Whales get a bit frisky after dropping a few E's on a Techno track.
Avago Earo
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Just draw on oval and put some fins on it and a face. Give it an obscure name and sell it for millions at the Tate. Be sure that it doesn't look like anything that you'd want on your wall, as that would be too obvious and negate it's value as true art. Go to the gallery in disguise and enjoy the conversations of people trying to out crap each other. Go to the bank, not forgetting to laugh all the way.
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Oh no, I'm off topicing my own thread. Art! This medication is strong, I'm trying to hold back, but I feel another rant coming on aaaaaaaaaaaah here it is, I can fight it no more, the cynicism is too strong, too embedded in my bitter regretful middle age...
Some paintings and sculptures really move me. Especially paintings of fruit in a bowl. I love the attention to detail. From afar you can see the texture of the peach and the shininess of the silver. Up close you can see the brush strokes and imagine what the artist may have been thinking.
Then I see a coke can atop a satellite dish (just made that one up), and people circling around it, discussing the woes of the lower classes, and the subtleties of African tribal language in the context of consumerism versus natural instinct (any crap will do) whilst drinking free wine (one of the reasons I went to exhibitions during 'the Punk days'), and fondling their breast pockets for their cheque books.
I'm a man of simple tastes, or so it would seem.
Sarcasm aside. Most people are okay, I think.
Some paintings and sculptures really move me. Especially paintings of fruit in a bowl. I love the attention to detail. From afar you can see the texture of the peach and the shininess of the silver. Up close you can see the brush strokes and imagine what the artist may have been thinking.
Then I see a coke can atop a satellite dish (just made that one up), and people circling around it, discussing the woes of the lower classes, and the subtleties of African tribal language in the context of consumerism versus natural instinct (any crap will do) whilst drinking free wine (one of the reasons I went to exhibitions during 'the Punk days'), and fondling their breast pockets for their cheque books.
I'm a man of simple tastes, or so it would seem.
Sarcasm aside. Most people are okay, I think.
If you go off-topic in the off-topic subforum, does it mean you came all the way around on topic? Or are you off-topic2 ? My head hurts.
Yeah fascinating creatures.
There's a really good documentary about them where they film one from a submersible http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0377t15
I've seen humanity at it's very best and it's very worst, the worst seems to come far more easily to most.
Bob Lighthouse
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This lab is right by my house and I was at this dissertation defense.
Fascinating material.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17460618
Some of the stuff that came out during the q&a session was really cool.
One analogy they used was that data wise, the US Navy's best sonar is equivalent to AM radio, whereas Kina's echolocation is like broadband internet.
They insisted this was not hyperbole.
It was a Navy research animal after all, they should know.
This is her "retirement" job.
Being that the bay is very noisy (we have these super-noisy, clicking shrimp here) her (Kina, the whale) hearing deteriorated over the years.
What they found was she somehow accounted for this by lowering the pitch for the entire range she used.
As the hearing loss was all in the upper register, she maintained the same amount of range/data capability.
Some of the aluminum test cylinders they used cannot be distinguished by human eye or hand.
They use a micrometer!
Acoustics of clicking shrimp here:
http://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.415805
Dr Kloepper's work:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IFXytWsAAAAJ&hl=en