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07-27-2009, 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted by tgill  messed up priorities eh? apparently humans are mammals just like whales.
when did I say that humans did not take precedence over whales? I'm not saying that the fucking cruise ship should have done something to risk humans or anything like that.
Just because humans are more important doesn't make the death of another living being laughable or insignificant. after all what kind of world would we be living in without such amazing creatures around us? dumbfuck |  
I have a perfect suggestion for you. Grab a 6ft rope and hang yourself so we'll divert our attention towards your rotting corspe instead of the whale.
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07-27-2009, 05:51 AM
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#52 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by ilvtofu whale had it coming, you can spot a cruise ship from a mile away... | up until the mid 19th century the oceans were pretty noise free. commincation with other creatures, location of hazards, familiar routes, and preditors came easy and was possible for perhaps hundreds of miles. ships and other man-made noise in the oceans can easily drown out their abilities and cause confusion. also, ships can travel at much faster speeds and in an unfamiliar manor to which a whale might be able to judge.
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07-27-2009, 08:05 AM
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there trying to figure out if the whale was dead already, or if it died after being hit by the ship. Apparently if the cruise ship hit it and that ended up killing the whale, then the company that owns the cruise ship gets a hefty fine. Poor whale though.
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07-27-2009, 08:26 AM
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07-27-2009, 08:58 AM
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Thats sad..........
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07-27-2009, 10:14 AM
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#56 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul What's funny about it?  | 1. because i highly doubt that the ship actually hit it.....
2. everyone is so sad about a dead mammal on a the bow of a ship.
you guys make me laugh. therefore i laugh. 
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07-27-2009, 10:22 AM
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so sad : (
did i tell you about i caught a lingcod and its in my fridge now ? It is dead for 2 days  | |
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07-27-2009, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Blaupunkt69 up until the mid 19th century the oceans were pretty noise free. commincation with other creatures, location of hazards, familiar routes, and preditors came easy and was possible for perhaps hundreds of miles. ships and other man-made noise in the oceans can easily drown out their abilities and cause confusion. also, ships can travel at much faster speeds and in an unfamiliar manor to which a whale might be able to judge. | Boats have been around for many many centuries. You'd think that by now they'd adapt and know how to avoid them
Then again you can argue how big our oceans are and the chance of a whale seeing a boat out in the open sea may be fairly small.
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07-27-2009, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by tgill messed up priorities eh? apparently humans are mammals just like whales.
when did I say that humans did not take precedence over whales? I'm not saying that the fucking cruise ship should have done something to risk humans or anything like that.
Just because humans are more important doesn't make the death of another living being laughable or insignificant. after all what kind of world would we be living in without such amazing creatures around us? dumbfuck | wow, when did kids get so pussy? too much skinny jeans and emo music these days. do you cry when you see coons/skunks/rabbits on the side of the highway, after being obliterated by a vehicle? do you get on you knees and start crying?
If you're going to cry over the death of a mammal, why don't you look at farmed animals who are abused in their life, or any animal that is killed for sport. Why get upset over a dumbfuck animal that is stupid enough to get run over? Natural selection.
Go back to the kitchen, I hear your pie burning. vagina.
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07-27-2009, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Supafly 1. because i highly doubt that the ship actually hit it..... | How's that funny? Quote: |
2. everyone is so sad about a dead mammal on a the bow of a ship.
| I'm not sad about it.
I just fail to see where the lulz come from.
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07-27-2009, 10:59 AM
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#61 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul How's that funny?
I'm not sad about it.
I just fail to see where the lulz come from. |
because i already knew that tree-huggers and animal activists will chime into this thread with their whiney-sobbing sadness. I find that funny. 
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07-27-2009, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by BlackV62K2 /gg |
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07-27-2009, 12:17 PM
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#63 | | Orgasm Donor & Alatar owned my ass twice!
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Originally Posted by Supafly because i already knew that tree-huggers and animal activists will chime into this thread with their whiney-sobbing sadness. I find that funny. | I say the same thing every time someone gets run over by a car.
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07-27-2009, 12:50 PM
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in reply to all the internet thugs that felt the need to throw down insultzzzz Quote:
Originally Posted by Supafly because i already knew that tree-huggers and animal activists will chime into this thread with their whiney-sobbing sadness. I find that funny. | lulz i drive a suv with the largest engine available for this model, i eat meat everyday and love KFC so i am definitely not a treehugger or peta activist
i could say half the people on this forum are treehuggers driving low displacement shitty civics and corolla, maybe you need a bigger engine yo. Quote:
Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul How's that funny?
I'm not sad about it.
I just fail to see where the lulz come from. | QFT
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07-27-2009, 03:03 PM
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RIP whale, at least its brain didnt get eaten bu his mom
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07-27-2009, 03:20 PM
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LOL, Port of Vancouver "owns" the whale now.........
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07-27-2009, 03:25 PM
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guess whale aint the biggest creature in the sea  | |
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07-27-2009, 04:22 PM
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07-27-2009, 08:07 PM
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Japanese Sushi restaurants will be pleased....lol
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07-27-2009, 11:09 PM
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clearly what this proves to us all is that a cruise ship can own something that's smaller than it.
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07-28-2009, 10:37 AM
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#71 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by tgill in reply to all the internet thugs that felt the need to throw down insultzzzz
lulz i drive a suv with the largest engine available for this model, i eat meat everyday and love KFC so i am definitely not a treehugger or peta activist
i could say half the people on this forum are treehuggers driving low displacement shitty civics and corolla, maybe you need a bigger engine yo.
QFT | wow what a bunch of cry babies.....its just a whale...and it probably died long before the ship hooked it....so, stop the whine....or continue because i find it pretty funny. 
- bigger engine?...im content with a 6.3L thanks.
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07-28-2009, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by tgill messed up priorities eh? apparently humans are mammals just like whales.
when did I say that humans did not take precedence over whales? I'm not saying that the fucking cruise ship should have done something to risk humans or anything like that.
Just because humans are more important doesn't make the death of another living being laughable or insignificant. after all what kind of world would we be living in without such amazing creatures around us? dumbfuck | Think Darwin, "survival of the fittest", this whale should've sense the approaching ship and dodge it. It is a sad news, but probably it was slow to react/blindness/ or impaired mobility to begin with
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07-28-2009, 02:20 PM
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#73 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero Boats have been around for many many centuries. You'd think that by now they'd adapt and know how to avoid them
Then again you can argue how big our oceans are and the chance of a whale seeing a boat out in the open sea may be fairly small. | boats have been around for thousands of years, powered by wind or muscle which make virtually no noise. only in the last 150 years or so have they utilized engine technology, a byproduct of which is high amounts of noise pollution. thats not a lot of time for a species to adapt, particularly one on the verge of exstinction.
one must consider the huge amount of traffic in the shipping lanes which run up and down continents and across oceans where its quite unlikely to go more than a few hours without being able to visually spot another ship. many fish and mammals have migration routes that span thousands of miles of ocean and we know so little about the nature of these routes. if a shipping lane happens to lie across one of these routes, its like a herd of ducks trying to cross a busy 4 lane highway.
as to the amount of noise a ship can produce. low pitch sounds like the noise of a large ship's engines travel further than high pitch sounds, thus why early warning systems such as low pitched fog horns are used in shipping. humans have horrible hearing abilities underwater - if someone is yelling at me underwater more than 5 ft away, i can't hear them. yet i can easily hear a high pitched speed boat ripping across the lake when its more than a km away.
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07-28-2009, 09:19 PM
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Fin Whale buried at sea
Whale was found impaled on a cruise ship, Saturday
Dave White/Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) | Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 9:25 pm
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The 70-tonne carcass of a Fin Whale, found impaled on a cruise ship Saturday at Canada Place, has been sent to a watery grave.
The Vancouver Sun reports the carcass was dropped far off the western coast of Vancouver Island sometime Monday evening. Investigators are still waiting for results of a necropsy before they can determine if the whale died when it was hit or if it was already dead.
| :/ they shoulda kept it cold and then like i said already sell it to local restaurants :/
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07-28-2009, 09:25 PM
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^^^ I think it's illegal to serve whale meat in North America unless you're Native.
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