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Mr. Flunchy posted:This is such a bullshit way of thinking. There are obviously other options besides keeping them as caged performing animals or bunging them back in the sea and hoping for the best. Pretty sure their point was that yes there are potentially options that aren't just keep them or kill them, but they're all massively expensive and that's a major issue. The release of Keiko cost double figure millions, mostly funded by donations because of the publicity from Free Willy. The general public sure as poo poo aren't going to be raising the kind of funding they'd need for twenty or thirty anonymous whales these days, and I doubt Seaworld will be giving that generously either. Maybe there's the possibility of transferring to a sanctuary deal where they can offset some of the costs by running whale tours, but at that point are they even any better off? Keiko went looking for humans after his release and was supposedly encouraging kids to ride on him. It's a lot of damage to undo. Do we have any goon cetacean psychologists who can expand on the subject?
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Honestly in many places in america with a pop of under ~25k this is a real issue. Your choice is between Chili's, Subway and a terrible place that is only still in business because sometimes people get really tired of the Subway and decide to spend two dollars more at that place where the police chiefs DUI-happy daughter desperately tries to make some terrible hoagie she saw Rachel Ray make one time when she was waiting to get patched up in the ER a town over. This hit so close to home that I have a black eye
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Whatev posted:Reminds me of those awful HFCS commercials from a few years ago. Now I ain't really seen any scientific consensus that HFCS is really any worse for you than cane sugar, but The thing that's lovely about HFCS is that it's in everything, not that it's somewhat more unhealthy than regular sugar. I hated those commercials too.
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... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbGJ360hBQw
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There's no way that Sea World is going to get rid of the Orcas, they're just too connected brand-wise, so instead, they're doubling down with a $300 million expansion to their Orca area.
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Gann Jerrod posted:There's no way that Sea World is going to get rid of the Orcas, they're just too connected brand-wise, so instead, they're doubling down with a $300 million expansion to their Orca area. Haha, wow, they might as well just let the Orcas literally eat their money.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:This is such a bullshit way of thinking. There are obviously other options besides keeping them as caged performing animals or bunging them back in the sea and hoping for the best. Let's hear them.
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Dunno if it counts, since it looks like it might've been successful in a weird meta way, but recently a reluctant Ricky Gervais was given the task to promote Netflix to Australia: http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/29/8308347/ricky-gervais-australian-netflix-ads
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theironjef posted:Let's hear them. This is not the thread. Go make a DnD thread if you're curious.
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Captain Monkey posted:This is not the thread. Go make a DnD thread if you're curious. yes, this thread with the 30 page loving coffee derail can't have a brief orca discussion
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lamey_whinehouse posted:yes, this thread with the 30 page loving coffee derail can't have a brief orca discussion No, it can't. Because it won't be brief, and it'll end in bans and thread closures. Do you not know goons at all?
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I don't know why we bother taking care of the orcas anyway; they're the assholes that destroyed Stormwind during the first Great War.
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YAvenging_Mikon posted:No, it can't. Because it won't be brief, and it'll end in bans and thread closures. Do you not know goons at all? yes, a discussion on a topic relevant to bad marketing and business decisions will render this thread unreadable, please take this discussion to the forum where everybody will nod in agreement then somehow shift gears into police reform
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death .cab for qt posted:yes, a discussion on a topic relevant to bad marketing and business decisions will render this thread unreadable, please take this discussion to the forum where everybody will nod in agreement then somehow shift gears into police reform This, but unironically.
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death .cab for qt posted:Y I was making a joke. I don't know what you just made, but my cat is trying to bury it. Note: that is also a joke. I do not own a cat, and do know what you made. It was a lovely post. 
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Avenging_Mikon posted:I was making a joke. I don't know what you just made, but my cat is trying to bury it. Shut up, idiot.
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Gann Jerrod posted:There's no way that Sea World is going to get rid of the Orcas, they're just too connected brand-wise, so instead, they're doubling down with a $300 million expansion to their Orca area. Whales... We could probably send a nasa team to explore Mercury for that price.
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Mercury's hot and there's fuckall there. 300 million please?
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Go to Venus instead because it has scorpions.
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swims posted:Whales... This is such a bullshit way of thinking. There are obviously other options besides sending astronauts to a barren iron hellscape and letting them walk around looking for stuff and hoping for the best.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:This is such a bullshit way of thinking. There are obviously other options besides sending astronauts to a barren iron hellscape and letting them walk around looking for stuff and hoping for the best. Agreed, send the orcas to Mercury.
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What? That's stupid, everyone knows Orcas live on the moon.
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DrBouvenstein posted:What? That's stupid, everyone knows Orcas live on the moon. Dare to dream big. We'll get orca corpses throughout the solar system one day.
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Jimbo Jaggins posted:Shut up, idiot. Yeah, because you're a bastion of great posting.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Yeah, because you're a bastion of great posting. Please take the slapfight elsewhere. We're in the middle of a discussion about slinging orcas around the galaxy here Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Dare to dream big. We'll get orca corpses throughout the solar system one day. I think that with enough planning and focus we can have an orca in a stable orbit around Proxima Centauri in the next 25 to 30 years
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I think that with enough planning and focus we can have an orca in a stable orbit around Proxima Centauri in the next 25 to 30 years I think I remember that star trek
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wasn't there some incident involving a whale and some flowers falling through space, i'm not convinced orcas are good at doing the orbit thing
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DrBouvenstein posted:What? That's stupid, everyone knows Orcas live on the moon. At least the Orca no longer suffered. 
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The Saddest Rhino posted:wasn't there some incident involving a whale and some flowers falling through space, i'm not convinced orcas are good at doing the orbit thing That was originally a bomb. Doesn't really count. Whales make poor bombs.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:wasn't there some incident involving a whale and some flowers falling through space, i'm not convinced orcas are good at doing the orbit thing That was a sperm whale. An Orca would require significantly less boost to get to orbit velocity, which you'd know if you were reading the Spaceflight thread in SAL. The failure of the petunias is another matter entirely unrelated to whale-based astrophysics.
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DrBouvenstein posted:What? That's stupid, everyone knows Orcas live on the moon. No they don't. I've seen a documentary about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doJj5hKyXuw
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:That was a sperm whale. An Orca would require significantly less boost to get to orbit velocity, which you'd know if you were reading the Spaceflight thread in SAL. To be fair they were never even propelled to begin with. Well, unless you count gravity.
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That laugh at the end.
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theironjef posted:Let's hear them. http://www.orcanetwork.org/Main/index.php?categories_file=Retirement
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:To be fair they were never even propelled to begin with. They were right up until the last instant that they were missiles. So the whale and bowl of petunias at least had a very high initial velocity. But yes, they were never propelled.
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I have to love that Microsoft's answer to Siri is to use the softcore nerdbait chick from Halo, and then try to market her to the general public. "HI THERE! WANT ME TO SET YOU UP A DINNER RESERVATION? MY TRON TITTIES CAN DO ANYTHING FOR YOU." What's next, Hatsune Miku for the
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They've also named their new web browser 'Spartan'. Now, alright, there are plenty of other places that name could have come from, but I don't think it's a coincidence. Windows Halo Edition
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Screaming Idiot posted:What's next, Hatsune Miku for the There are entire R&D departments whose unspoken mission is to get us to that level of waifu technology. There are some Japanese companies that make it more explicit, but rest assured everywhere there are tons of undersexed STEM dudes there is an undercurrent of working towards that day when every man gets some form of robot/AI sex slave.
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Screaming Idiot posted:What's next, Hatsune Miku for the Yes.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I think that with enough planning and focus we can have an orca in a stable orbit around Proxima Centauri in the next 25 to 30 years This sounds like the start to an Event Horizon sequel
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