What the... This is possibly the saddest thing I've ever read

“Twenty-two of the whales – each weighing two tonnes and up to 12 metres (40 feet) long – washed ashore on Saturday at Ocean Beach near Strahan, and all of them died.”

http://news.yahoo.com/22-sperm-whales-die-australia-070222239.html

Sigh…

It’s the way of nature…they should use the meat for food so the whales don’t die in vain. I hear the Japanese love their whale meat.

Yeah, I don’t see that as really being that sad. They swam up on land, whales aren’t supposed to be on land. This sort of stuff happens every day.

I think it was a whale cult mass suicide.

It’s like reverse drowning.

Possibly related to 11/11/11

Yeah don’t cry for the whales - they’re riding on the hale-bopp comet as we speak.

No idea what that means

Woah… a Heaven’s Gate reference. Haven’t heard one of those in a while… If I recall, they died with their sneakers on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven’s_Gate_(religious_group) Whales are mammals, so they didn’t die from reverse drowning. They breathe air with lungs, not with gills as fish do. What happens is that their weight on land crushes their internal organs. They do asphyxiate, but it’s more like having a huge weight placed on your chest so you can’t breathe. In water, they are essentially weightless because of their boyancy.

When you look up “scary smart” in the dictionary there is a picture of bchadwick.

Very Clifford C. Clavin-esque. I kid, I kid.

Dude, you know everything… Standup Comedian/stalla instructor/Marine Biologist/Programmer/CharterHolder… You need to go on Jeopordy… uou’d kill it, Ken Jennings style.

I’m not a marine… though I did play one on COD.

You forgot to mention bchad’s brief stint as a pornstar in the 1990s. Without revealing too much, lets just say that the term “analyst” has multiple meanings.

Mommy, is this where sperm comes from?

Marine-Biologist… not Call of Duty. Speaking of, I suck at COD. I get dropped by 12 year olds all day.

I agree. This thread is the saddest thing I’ve read all day. Of all the things going on in the world you are concerned about some fking beached whales. What’s next, a waterskiing squirl!? By the way, how’s your carbon footprint?

We call that a reverse Sandusky.

Hilarious!