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How the dolphins being massacred to satisfy a food fetish are poisoning the Japanese who eat them
How the dolphins being massacred to satisfy a food fetish are poisoning the Japanese who eat them
Over the coming months, thousands of dolphins - some only a few days old - will be hacked to death.
The dolphin meat is so toxic because the seas around Japan have become a soup of industrial wastes. These poisons become concentrated in fish, which the dolphins then eat. And when the Japanese eat the dolphins, they progressively poison themselves. picked by kakana 6 months ago
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 Moe
6 months ago
And the Great Circle of Karma closes yet again.
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 DerAlt
6 months ago
Some of the things that go on in the Asian sphere
boggle the mind.
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 suebe
6 months ago
I'd like to take those murderers and torture them like they do the dolphins.
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 orfnerwe...
6 months ago

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This article really doesn't give enough credit to the documentary "The Cove." Without "The Cove," this issue wouldn't be getting such a surge of recent attention. It's been an amazingly effective documentary:
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 Doggyliv...
6 months ago


Lol

Even the same pictures. The Daily Fail is so up to date
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 T1000
6 months ago
"To put this in perspective, if a submarine uses its sonar at maximum power, then dolphins 100 miles away will hear an ear-splitting sound equivalent to standing next to a jet fighter on full thrust. Such noise pollution is believed to have led to many whale and dolphin strandings in recent years."

Really? Don't you think sound levels that over 100 miles away are loud enough to be akin to standing next to a jet engine at full thrust (which would cause instant and permanent damage) would just turn the sailors in the boat into sonically pummeled blobs of jelly?

The hyperbole is a little high.
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 Doggyliv...
6 months ago
« T1000 : "To put this in perspective, if a submarine uses its sonar at maximum power, then dolphins 100 miles away will hear an ear-splitting sound equivalent to standing next to a jet fighter on full thrust. Such noise pollution is believed to have led to many whale and dolphin strandings in recent years."

Really? Don't you think sound levels that over 100 miles away are loud enough to be akin to standing next to a jet engine at full thrust (which would cause instant and permanent damage) would just turn the sailors in the boat into sonically pummeled blobs of jelly?

The hyperbole is a little high.
Ermm, I think it's that Dolphins have super-sensitive hearing
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 T1000
6 months ago
« Doggylives : Ermm, I think it's that Dolphins have super-sensitive hearing
It doesn't matter. It is impossible for a sound to be that loud.

I could get all into the calculations, but just know that nothing in the world we live in can be that loud, simply due to the fact that the pressure ratios required cannot exist.

If you want to know more, this article is EXCELLLENT:



For a dolphin to hear a noise equivalent to you standing next to a jet engine (which is 140 dB 100' away, not even right next to it) the noise right next to their ear underwater would be roughly 200 dB.

In sea water sound attenuates at about 400 dB per kilometer.

So one kilometer away the noise would have to be 600 dB. Each 10 dB increase requires ten times more power. So the noise would have to start out at about 10^40 times louder. And the sound power in a sound is generally the square of the pressure. And in making that sound the efficiency between electrical power and sound power makes the energy needed even higher, so that makes it even more outrageous.
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 nev
6 months ago
« T1000 : It doesn't matter. It is impossible for a sound to be that loud.

I could get all into the calculations, but just know that nothing in the world we live in can be that loud, simply due to the fact that the pressure ratios required cannot exist.

If you want to know more, this article is EXCELLLENT:



For a dolphin to hear a noise equivalent to you standing next to a jet engine (which is 140 dB 100' away, not even right next to it) the noise right next to their ear underwater would be roughly 200 dB.

In sea water sound attenuates at about 400 dB per kilometer.

So one kilometer away the noise would have to be 600 dB. Each 10 dB increase requires ten times more power. So the noise would have to start out at about 10^40 times louder. And the sound power in a sound is generally the square of the pressure. And in making that sound the efficiency between electrical power and sound power makes the energy needed even higher, so that makes it even more outrageous.
Someone else knowing that much about sound makes me happy! Seriously though, that's awesome.
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 Doggyliv...
6 months ago
« T1000 : It doesn't matter. It is impossible for a sound to be that loud.

I could get all into the calculations, but just know that nothing in the world we live in can be that loud, simply due to the fact that the pressure ratios required cannot exist.

If you want to know more, this article is EXCELLLENT:



For a dolphin to hear a noise equivalent to you standing next to a jet engine (which is 140 dB 100' away, not even right next to it) the noise right next to their ear underwater would be roughly 200 dB.

In sea water sound attenuates at about 400 dB per kilometer.

So one kilometer away the noise would have to be 600 dB. Each 10 dB increase requires ten times more power. So the noise would have to start out at about 10^40 times louder. And the sound power in a sound is generally the square of the pressure. And in making that sound the efficiency between electrical power and sound power makes the energy needed even higher, so that makes it even more outrageous.
You think about dolphins too much
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