very true

Fr 🤣

Ikr That mf was just talking shit without knowing

that clap back xDD

Things are heating up in the sunfish fandom

Trepanning: a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or made into the skull. Previously it was done to "release evil spirits" but now it is used to alleviate built up pressure or swelling in the brain or skull cavity.

@@deathsyth8888 weird how that bullshit just so happend to work

@@lewisbaitup6352 they kept doing it because it worked. It takes a lot of skill to drill to the end of the bone and not break the meninges that protects the brain from the outside

I've seen the video where a guy does that with a cow before. Manual farts, man...

A doctor who got the bubonic plague treated himself with the same philosophy And it worked

Was about to post this. He loves those fish.

You can clearly see he cares, the criticism is all good natured 🤍

Idk maybe a year ago when this video was made, but that guy knows a ton about goldfish, it’s pretty impressive if the guy making this video knows more

⁠I think the main issue people take with Luke nowadays is that he breeds his goldfish, thus contributing to the inbreeding/weird genetics problem. Take this with a grain of salt, however.

​@@subyouwont the kid is full of shit, the fuck are you on?

“Pancreas sounds important.”

Diabetes moment.

Also, stealing talking points from a copypasta. Like not only being obnoxious but also not even being original. Edit: Found the copypasta "So someone in a group asked me to tell them why I hate the ocean sunfish so much, and apparently it was ~too mean~ and was deleted. To perpetuate the truth and stand up for ethical journalism, I'm posting it here. [Rated NC-17 for language.] Disclaimer, I care about marine life more than I care about anything else, for real. Except this big dumb idiot. And it's not like an ~ironic~ thing, I mean it IS hilarious to me and they ARE THE BIGGEST JOKE PLAYED ON EARTH but I seriously fucking hate them. THE MOLA MOLA FISH (OR OCEAN SUNFISH) They are the world's largest boney fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds. And since they have very little girth, that just makes them these absolutely giant fucking dinner plates that God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen. AND WITH NO PURPOSE. EVERY POUND OF THAT IS A WASTED POUND AND EVERY FOOT OF IT (10 FT BY 14 FT) IS WASTED SPACE. They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. Some say they must just push water out of their mouths for direction (?????). They COULD use their back fin EXCEPT GUESS WHAT IT DOESNT FUCKING GROW. It just continually folds in on itself, so the freaking cells are being made, this piece of floating garbage just doesn't put them where they need to fucking go. So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fucking sink. EXCEPT. EXCEPT. When they get stuck on top of the water! Which happens frequently! Because without the whole swim bladder thing, if the ocean pushes over THE THINNEST BUT LARGEST MOST TOPPLE-ABLE FISH ON THE PLANET, shit outta luck! There is no creature on this earth that needs a swim bladder more than this spit in the face of nature, AND YET. Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. But good news, when they end up stuck like that, it gives birds a chance to land on their goddamn island of a body and eat the bugs and parasites out of its skin because it's basically a slowly migrating cesspool. Pros and cons. "If they are so huge, they must at least be decent predators." No. No. The most dangerous thing about them is, as you may have guessed, their stupidity. They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat. On a human. And in 2005 it decided to relive its mighty glory days and do it again, this time landing on a four-year-old boy. Luckily Byron sustained no injuries. Way to go, fish. Great job. They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb. See that ridiculous open mouth? (This is actually why this is my favorite picture of one, and I have had it saved to my phone for three years) "Oh no! What could have happened! How could this be!" Do not let that expression fool you, they just don't have the goddamn ability to close their mouths because their teeth are fused together, and ya know what, it is good it floats around with such a clueless expression on its face, because it is in fact clueless as all fuck. They do SOMETIMES get eaten though. BUT HARDLY. No animal truly uses them as a food source, but instead (which has lead us to said photo) will usually just maim the fuck out of them for kicks. Seals have been seen playing with their fins like frisbees. Probably the most useful thing to ever come from them. "Wow, you raise some good points here, this fish truly is proof that God has abandoned us." Yes, thank you. "But if they're so bad at literally everything, why haven't they gone extinct." Great question. BECAUSE THIS THING IS SO WORTHLESS IT DOESNT REALIZE IT SHOULD NOT EXIST. IT IS SO UNAWARE OF LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYTHING THAT IT DOESNT REALIZE THAT IT'S DOING MAYBE THE WORST FUCKING JOB OF BEING A FISH, OR DEBATABLY THE WORST JOB OF BEING A CLUSTER OF CELLS THAN ANY OTHER CLUSTER OF CELLS. SO WHAT DOES IT DO? IT LAYS THE MOST EGGS OUT OF EVERYTHING. Besides some bugs, there are some ants and stuff that'll lay more. IT WILL LAY 300 MILLION EGGS AT ONE TIME. 300,000,000. IT SURVIVES BECAUSE IT WOULD BE STATISTICALLY IMPROBABLE, DARE I SAY IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE WOULDNT BE AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE 300,000,000 (that is EACH time they lay eggs) LEFT SURVIVING AT THE END OF THE DAY. And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it."

I see what you did there.

that whole thing he was saying was not even his original thoughts. literally a copy paste. look up "why i hate the ocean sun fish" and you will see like 5 videos with different people saying the exact same thing lol

@@chrisrivera3961 and I'm pretty sure it all spawned from that one tumblr post a few years ago

Well humans aren't pretty, baddas or I can't eat them. They should go extinct--NOW!

chewbacca is a farm animal. george lucas has a chewbacca ranch in texas, he shears them every summer for wookie wool

wasnt it literally the “EEEEGGGGG!” seal video?

@@kindawarm8624 yes it was

@@dracodracarys2339 beat me to it

I know I‘m late af but this had me in stitches. I‘m a biologist of the ecology/evolution kind, so I knew what he meant immediately. Watching him struggle was hilarious. (research from the last 20 years or so suggests the appendix might not be purely vestigial, as it has been theorised to accelerate recovery after harmful changes to the gut microbiome, e.g. exposure to a pathogen or antibiotics. I like to imagine it like a bomb shelter for beneficial/symbiotic bacteria lol)

plus the casual "sometimes there's crocodiles in these" like. what was your plan if there was one

FLORIDA MAN

Alligator territory, Alligators are a lot more docile than crocodiles and the crocodiles we do have here are very rare and shy. Still a bad idea for underequipped idiots to dive in the Everglades

@@miguelguzman2456 Yeah alligators are more docile, but I imagine if an alligator was sleeping at the end of that pipe and the dude swims right into it's home it will get defensive. Sure Alligators aren't as actively aggressive as Crocs, but they will still attack in defense, and some dude swimming into it's hiding spot would make it feel very defensive and cornered.

@@iminumst7827 The alligator would most likely run away but yeah you shouldn't go into tunnels in the Everglades

I ruined your 69 likes

As a Florida person I wouldn't go in those waters without checking for alligators first.

"why would you go in an underwater tunnel without a tank, without knowing what's on the other end, and while a current pulls you in" he's in florida. there are no laws there.

@@Mistymustycritters12231 i ruined his 420 likes

In the future their will be movies about florida, they will be like westerns but with alligators

Well the Empire would disagree about that.

It is so sad how people can just abuse animals like that for clout and no consequences :c

Ok I completely agree it is terrible and unjust but in the video they only keep it like that for less than a day

this is the video if anyone was wandering kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7F5la6DsLKsfWg.html

@@nightwhisperer8640 enough time to kill them.

@@nightwhisperer8640 wait, what’d they do with the fish after the day?

I swear a sunfish killed that guys parents

Tierzoo PTSD

or you could get stucked, you won't see if the tunnel has the same diameter the whole length, let alone in unclear water.

Or like the guy in the video mentioned a fcking alligator inside or right on the end

and in THE FREAKING EVERGLADES, that blockage could be an alligator OR a crocodile.

@@Crow0567 Or a green anaconda or an invasive reticulated python. Regardless, the shot was obviously taken with a drone. Shot was too flawless to be taken by hand.

Exactly what I was thinking

Tiktok- cringe and animal abuse are just chilling in there

They did explain that they did return all the fish the same day, but yeah, it was disgusting.

@@barbscale even if they returned the fish the same day all of them have died due to chlorine poisoning or stress- whichever got to them first. Personally I think it’s even *more* cruel that everything was returned. That’s a MASSIVE loss, not only of life but of money for what was no doubt a higher-end store. Chain stores just don’t carry exotic stock like that. I absolutely detest idiots like the dangiebros.

The saddest part is I think the idea itself if executed properly could be really cool. Properly maintainng everything, Having cover and shade from the sun as needed (Obviously I'm speaking in broad non-species specific terms here) And of course the biggest thing have a pool purpose built for the job. Don't use your old chlorine soaked pit of ooze, Actually have a pool installed properly with no chlorine ever added and have it purpose built for the job! As for diving with the fish, I'll assume thats a bad idea as I have no research knowledge on it, and it's better safe than sorry

@@pricelesssword4559 I agree completely. I’ve seen people build massive ponds- and for saltwater even! The biggest difference is that they’re indoors and *heavily* maintained and NOTHING aside from food and other fish goes in there. Swimming in an outdoor fishpond is a horrible idea because not only does it stress the fish out but there are so many things that can leech off your clothes into the water- the biggest being natural human body oil, detergent and the coating left over from dryer sheets, which can severely damage any fish’s slime coat. I really wish idiots like the dangiebros would stop messing around with animals. If they wanna goof around and spend absurd amounts of money on stupid things that’s on them, but leave literal living, breathing creatures the hell out of it.

People are to, so fuck the sunfish, we win.

Honestly, it's one of the coolest fish out there. The whole body design and how they act are really awesome. Some people just look at them like an ugly being instead of a successful fish species.

@@efu2046 I dunno man, they act pretty derpy.

Just...a funny thing....In Germany, the sunfish is called moonfish :D

one of my favs

To add to this comment, I think she might be a breeder and sells the offspring. Knowing a headcount would be useful in that case.

Exactly, she called them "babies", not "food".

It is very likely that manmade water tunnels end up in some kind of infrastructure.

I think I heard that story, or one very similar, told by Mr Ballen. IIRC it was actually connected to a nuclear plant, not hydro, that used sea water. He was super lucky he didn't get killed for sure!

@@Listrynne Yes I heard the story from Mr Ballen as well! thank you for correcting me, as I simply remembered wrong

'It can literally kill you, in horrible gruesome ways' fantastic

When it's got ya, it's got ya!

I mean I hate the Mola Mola but if I was going to roast it I would at least have actual facts about it I just don't like it

that whole thing he was saying was not even his original thoughts. literally a copy paste. look up "why i hate the ocean sun fish" and you will see like 5 videos with different people saying the exact same thing lol

@@AerCloud Why do you hate a fish?

Its is ideend a negative quality Only if you are a dictator

@@chrisrivera3961 yeah I remember seeing a rant almost identical about sunfish on Tumblr maybe legit a decade ago

Think she also had cysts in her kidneys, right? Decorative goldfish scare me man...

did she live?

Or remind the teacher about homework

@@needstherapy649 exactly

He looks like he calls the cops on people loitering in their own front yards.

@@Ninetails2000 yes

Our atavistic wrist tendons would have been a better example.

@@nitro9173 thank you I was gonna mention that but forgot the name

Well R.I.P. cause mine is gone lmao. My intestines were twisted when I was born and when they went in to fix it they put it on the wrong side and went “yeah that might not be good if it ever ruptures” so they took it out.

@@spyguy888 I mean it isn't THAT important. It has an effect but not a huge one, imo not worth the risk of having it in 😂

@@WoodlandFops it actually holds enough good bacteria to essentially replace what's lost in the gut after you have gotten sick. Just because you think it's not that important doesnt mean its useless.

Well, they didn't evolve in thanks, they spected open ocean, so turning isn't necesary for them.

@@hanniaedithmartinezadame794 yeah, i hope they give the sunfish there a better tank. They have a gigantic tank for their whale shark, so i hope they do the same for the sunfish eventually

That might be becuase they are used to being in the wide open ocean with no walls.

I mean this is also why great white sharks have never been kept in tanks, they also do the exact same thing because they're adapted for swimming fast in one direction not making constant turns. They probably also struggle to see the walls of the tanks since fish rarely have good eyesight.

I mean something similar to the megalodon might possibly exist in the deep-sea, because everything's bigger down there

They don't believe. It's a grift. They prey on the curiosity of children who eat that shit up. Nothing else to it.

yeah. im pretty sad about the fact that we'll never see land animals as big as blue whales with necks that could rival a crane

Megalodid a long time ago, but Megalodon’t anymore.

@@archerymidnight3422 Megalodon lived in warm water so I highly doubt it moved down to the cold ocean floor.

Weelll, many of our worst pathogens jumped ship from other (earth) species. All the big names like influenza, plague, smallpox, cholera, anthrax, etc, are zoonotic. But you're right that the more distant an animal is to us, the less likely transmission is. That's not really the biggest predictor of zoonosis, however; extensive exposure between two species makes it much more likely that a disease will jump ship. A lot of our diseases can be traced back to various farm animals, which we've had extensive contact with throughout history. Parasites specifically can get a little bit more complicated, as there are some parasites that we can get from fish and insects. But I do agree with you about alien diseases being a little overused in sci-fi. If some sort of alien plague actually occurred, it would likely be only after prolonged exposure; if you have a place where a lot of different alien species interact all the time, then you have reservoir species interacting with potential new, completely immunologically naive hosts. Hence. interspecies space stations would probably have thorough infectious disease protocols; anywhere else, it's just not that much of a concern. Honestly, world governments' main concern in this field would probably be engineered diseases produced by their enemies; after all, with such different biologies, the main problem with biowarfare is almost eliminated. Your own soldiers are not at any risk of getting infected by your bioweapons. Anyways, sorry for rambling on at you, it's just such an interesting thing to think about.

Imagine a scientifically accurate movie about an Alien parasite. _looks thru microscope_ “Hm, remember those bacteria we found in that dead animal on this planet?” “The one shaped like a tuning fork? Yeah, why” “Looks like there are some in your mouth swab sample.” “Ahhh shit! Am I gonna… get sick and die?!” “Whu- um, no? Most of them are dead, possibly from the amylase in your saliva degrading their starch-rich walls.” “…Oh. Cool. But, don’t tell the Commander, okay? I don’t want another pep talk.” “You know I have to write everything in my report, right?” “Aw, c’mon, it was just a slip-up. Just this once, pleeeeeease?” *siiiiigh* “Just… be careful in your next expedition, aight?” “Yey, thanks man! I owe ya.” “Yeah yeah, whatever.” END CREDITS

@@comradewindowsill4253 nah but that was a really cool explanation!

All living things share the same genetic code, so "rely on their host to correctly interpret their instructions to replicate them" is really not the hard part. I believe what locks viruses to specific animals are more environmental factors: biochemistry, body temperature, things like that.

@@MD-vs9ff Sure, but we were talking about alien pathogens here. What's to say that aliens don't use an entirely different molecule for their genetic code? that'd certainly rule out any of their viruses, at least, from being transmissible to us.

Nah... she just got dazzled by a light flash for a moment. Mama knows not to pass up a good feed. 🐻🍽️

Bear buffet.

Gastric illnesses and poor diets damage your gut biome. And both were far more common prior to the development of modern food preservation methods, not to mention access to better quality food in general. And, just the immune system, sometimes it can bug out and become a threat.

I don't think that is true. Plenty of people have gastric issues and working appendixes. So it's not doing it's job. That is just a current theory anyway. Scientists still don't know for sure.

@@SohiHien Well, I didn't say that the appendix fixes all gastric issues, did I? And 'plenty of people' still have poor diets.

Lukes Goldie's is awesome, I was glad to see some of his videos made it in

Love Luke's goldies

Same with the squeezing the water out (of the ball shape goldfish) I’m pretty sure that was his video too. It had something wrong but he was able to fix it by draining it a bunch

Florida Man is built different, don't worry.

I rescue alligators and venomous reptiles 👀 I would definitely go in there.

Funner fact: Other scientists dispute that and think there's far too much uncertainty in how the age of Saturn's rings were calculated.

@@MD-vs9ff This too is true, and a good point to bring up. Thanks for adding to it man :)

Nerd heaven right here. 😌

I find them similar to seahorses, where they’re weird, yes, but they do have a niche. (Also seahorses have a cool square skeleton armor that should made of 4 L bones)

People who hate ocean sunfish are projecting their own insecurities onto a literal fish.

Because on TikTok you can say Albert Einstein farted on Hitler and that's why he left Germany and somehow people will believe it.

Serpa Design made one for his parents it's pretty awesome

👍 I've been interested in the things since an issue of a magazine had like five of them in the mid 1990's. I buy a book on them every so often.

It is the largest bony fish, not largest fish overall.

Tallest fish, at least.

What he meant was "scientists don't know what purpose they serve", ignoring that fact that nothing in nature exists for a greater purpose, especially in evolution. Nothing evolves "for the purpose" of being a good prey animal, they evolve to survive for their own sake. Other things might evolve to take advantage of them as prey, but that doesn't mean they exist for that purpose. It's the religious way of looking at the world, thinking that nature was designed by some overarching guiding order, instead of the chaotic result of literally millions of individual conflicting forces existing in a fragile balance that is constantly shifting on evolutionary time scales.

@@MD-vs9ff Bro I was literally riffing on the video implying that it has no idea why the fish survived ("Scientists have no idea why they exist") when they partially answered their own quandary right before in the same video ("They're inedible"). I know what he meant, you don't need to climb on a soapbox to explain to me what I already know.

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. Bladders evovled into lungs.

@@dr.cheeze5382 Nope. Fish with lungs are really old, and there's lots of extant air-gulping fish still around. They gulp air because they live in water too poorly oxygenated to survive on their gills alone. Swim bladders derived from lungs.

@@dr.cheeze5382 Swim bladders are modified lungs.

Lowkey kinda wholesome

Did it die?

@@lewisbaitup6352 i dropped it unfortunately, so yes

@@woodedledger3997 rip fish

According to my parents as a baby I pointed to an aquarium and said "fish", and that made "fish" my first ever spoken word. Then later when I was like 10 I had a pet cat fish named Ralphie, he died of old age and I was so sad :(

There are notorious Sun Fish haters on Reddit?

I think not, I think the paint on the tiles or the floor would still fuck with the fish (but given that I don't live in the US, I am not an expert on pools in any way, so correct me if I'm wrong)