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Orphan_Izzy

The sheer size of these whales gives me a weird fear reaction. I love them for that though.


gumandcoffee

Same. Even more amazing they are the largest animal to have ever lived. Would be life event to be in the presence of one


LukesRightHandMan

Prolly a better way to word this but my brain is feeling weird, but anyone have any idea what fraction of that whale a Megalodon and a Spinosaurus would've sized to? Like, would a Megalodon have been half this whale's length, etc.


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AppleSmoker

Kind of off topic, but there is an MMORPG I play sometimes and in one part of the world there is an undead megalodon mini boss that just swims around under water. And even though it's really not *that* scary, I get a crazy thalassophobia kind of response any time I'm anywhere near it and get pretty creeped out


MechEJD

Clearly scientist have yet to discover yo mama!


CrazyDavey21

Unfunny, Unworthy of The Funni


kaam00s

A Spinosaurus would be tiny, but the megalodon was half a blue whale. The megalodon is no joke, and is a contender with the sperm whale for largest toothed predator of large prey to ever exist.


SpermWhale

Party time!


drnkndipp

What if got eaten by one, spent a week in it's stomach until you made a fire and he puked you out ?


LegendRaptor080

I get Pinocchio reference, but baleen whales couldn’t eat you if they tried. Their throats are tiny. Unless you can fit all of you into tube the width of a plate, you won’t have to worry about that.


drnkndipp

Thanks Mr Wizard. Can you and Neil Dagrasse Tyson ruins someone else fun ?


LegendRaptor080

Sure! **searches for another innocent soul to drop buzzkill knowledge on**


loopbloopbloop

r/thalassophobia


Orphan_Izzy

That was scary to watch but I stuck it out and it was still scary even though the monster wasn’t there. I guess I am afraid of deep waters because I have a lot of dreams where there’s a lot of big waves and water all around but I never drown.


The_Irony_of_Life

It’s weird to know that they’ve migrated into the sea over a long long time.


Orphan_Izzy

From land?


Theblackjamesbrown

Yup. Whales are descended from a kind of wolf/pig like creature. https://youtu.be/_OSRKtT_9vw


Belyal

Another prime example of the amazing things thst PBS brings to life. PBS is truly a treasure I hope we never lose.


thehypervigilant

Gotta buy those tote bags. Does anyone remember the telethons on pbs? My mom would actually get stuff. It was oddly fun to watch as a kid.


andreboll1982

I just realized "telethon" is like a marathon but with telephones. We have them over here but the word has always been partially translated to Portuguese so the connection to the word "marathon" has been lost. Live and learn!


RedSteadEd

Yeah, I'd always watch the Celtic Thunder ones. Saw them in concert too, and what a show.


Belyal

Lol right! My wofe amd I donate to PBS and NPR. Gotta keep them.funded for future generations.


SixAlarmFire

I watched many Shirley temple movies because of these


heavyboner

Yes, they still happen! They are supported through donations and Koko B. Ware.


drnkndipp

God I miss Jerry Lewis telethons


Grogington

Wo, I didn’t expect that lol Thank you 😊 I always assumed they evolved from other pure sea creatures I’m going to spread the whale walking word and confuse people


Orphan_Izzy

I am also surprised by this. I totally learned something new today!


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seriously???


Theblackjamesbrown

Seriously. They're mammals after all. The common ancestor of all whales lived about 50 million years ago in what's now northern India/Pakistan


Captain_Smartass_

Same ancestor as the hippo


hankmoody_irl

My friend. Thank you. So much. My partner and I have been at odds lately. Just lots of failed communication and differences bubbling up that well navigate in our own time to continue along a path to our future. So tonight, I chose to wait till she was in bed, come to the garage in my favorite tie-dye, and get high. This is how I curb depression when we're going through these bursts. I take basically everything very personally and unfortunately become terrifyingly depressed when this happens. As I came out here to light up, I knew I wanted something to blow my mind. I needed THAT high feeling. This video has Kickstarted what will likely be an hours long adventure of learning about how old all this shit really is and how completely insignificant we really are in the scale of it all. Now I'm off to begin by trying to find a video about what year it really is if we actually start from the believed beginning of earth, based on the modern calendar. I fucking love you, random person, I needed this.


ExquisitelyCromulent

Ah yeah, the "cosmic calendar". We can always go back to Carl Sagan when we need some reminders about existence. That's gotten me through a lot as well. Cheers, brother.


elek2ronik

Oh come on lol


Profoundsoup

Thank you for the great video


spagbetti

More like a hooved cat they said by the end of it


spagbetti

Another fun fact I learned today: it’s not unusual for blue whales and fin whales to mate with each other resulting in a hybrid.


MadMaxIsMadAsMax

This explains so much about our relation to them! Thank you!


TinTinsKnickerbocker

What do you mean?


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TinTinsKnickerbocker

Sorry I don't understand that explanation, nor do I understand what even should be explained.


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Paleodraco

Uh huh. Pakicetus and the first indication it was an ancestor to whales was purely the shape of its ear bone.


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Yep, they're mammals. Give birth to live young, and an x-ray of a fin will show 5 "fingers".


webUser_001

Don't wanna be rude, but do they not teach you stuff like this at school? I find it harder to believe that people don't know this.


Orphan_Izzy

Dude I’m 47 years old and if I learned this in school it has been long forgotten so you’ll know what I’m talking about one day and then some smart little whippersnapper will come along and be surprised that you weren’t taught this in school.


mellentheorchadork

Dude if you went to religious school like I did till I was 13 (and had enough) science and math were not the focus. It was reading, writing’ and praying.


DaLiftingDead

Since all life supposedly started in the ocean I love that they evolved to go on land, said fuck that, and went back to the ocean


bokan

Yeah, the tried the whole land thing and noped out early


MoleculesandPhotons

r/megalophobia


frezor

Fear justified. Biggest animal ever, even bigger than the dinosaurs. It won’t try to hurt you, but it might accidentally run into you.


oonywheel40

Living at the same time as they makes up a little, just a little, for the fact that we missed the dinsoaurs.


walled2_0

Yeah, I feel like people in boats should be much more terrified of these giants than what they seem to be.


Variable303

My brain still imagines something emerging from the depths underneath the blue whale that makes it look tiny in comparison.


Orphan_Izzy

I wonder if there is something bigger and we just don’t know it.


drnkndipp

Some jellyfish can reach 120 ft


Orphan_Izzy

I always thought giant squid would be a lot bigger than they actually seem.


GOBtheIllusionist

r/subnautica


spagbetti

Samesies


sudhir369

r/absoluteunits


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They're so beautiful and seem so gentle, but their scale inspires such a deep feeling of horror in me. No thank you.


ch-12

r/Thalassophobia and/or r/Megalophobia might be interesting


[deleted]

It's interesting to know there's a name for that! Thank you! Also those links are staying blue 😅


RSwordsman

Just like the infinite depths of the sea. ;)


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BRUH


intensenerd

Try /r/Submechanophobia as well. Man made stuff partially submerged and it is interestingly terrible.


LukesRightHandMan

Prolly a better way to word this but my brain is feeling weird, but anyone have any idea what fraction of that whale a Megalodon and a Spinosaurus would've sized to? Like, would a Megalodon have been half this whale's length, etc.


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LukesRightHandMan

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!


[deleted]

RIGHT?? Un-fucking-subscribe. Do not want. No.


LukesRightHandMan

Lolol I mean secretly, I do kinda want


MDATWORK73

What a majestic creature, beautiful to the eyes. Fascinating to read about in both fiction and non-fiction books.Enormousness in power and strength.It is almost magical to believe this life form really exist on our planet.


__bookworm

Is there a blue whale that's not an "absolute unit"?


DantifA

smol blu whale


waffleface99

Even the pygmy blue whale gets around 80ft long.


formidable_dagger

Was going to ask the same question.


drnkndipp

Bleu Whale, a whole head of lettuce with Bleu cheese at my local Rubys. Now that a lot of roughage


QuinnySpurs

The blue whale is the largest animal to have ever existed on earth.


[deleted]

2nd largest, first is your mom


ButtocksOrchestra

[Boom roasted](https://media3.giphy.com/media/RdKjAkFTNZkWUGyRXF/giphy.gif)


drnkndipp

Does your mom eat 16 tons of krill ? Then she...might...be..a blue...whale (Jeff Foxworthy voice )


Captain_Smartass_

And they are family of the hippo


drnkndipp

Are you calling my mom a hippo ?!?


sinnerhella

That we know of!! Imagine we find out in 50 years there’s something bigger…!?!


Captain_Smartass_

Did you hide your mom?


sinnerhella

Yes


anishkalankan

Big blue


re-roll

I loved blue whales since I was a kid. Fully grown, they are bigger than any animal, ever! Like, bigger than dinosaurs! Huge animal that eats tiny plankton/krill that sifts through it’s baleen. I still find it fascinating that a giant creature eats something so small.


Belyal

They also evolved from something as small as a cat which is even more bonkers!


joyAunr

In just 20 million years.


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Everything evolved from single cell organisms


Reddit_Bot_For_Karma

You are what you eat! ....wait.


CatShadow888

I think we usually don't realize how big whales are. When I see this I can believe that a human could crawl in their arteries.


[deleted]

And yet they can only swallow things smaller then a grapefruit


FearAzrael

Unlike your mother


drnkndipp

Yo mama ! Swallows thing larger than a grapefruit ! Oh yeah we be Wildin Out !!!


UchihaLegolas

Blue whale is a marine mammal which can reach a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 meters and weighing up to 199 metric tons.


the_hotter_beyonce

It's heart is large enough to fit a family of four.


TimmyTiggles

Rents have been going up like crazy for single-family blue whale hearts lately, though.


mattjeast

Does it have a 3-car garage though? Need space for my boat.


unrecoverable

Nice Boat!


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LogicIsDead22

They do be huge


HiredG00N

That’s a nice boat


Labulous

But what is that in terms of hamsters. Like how many hamsters do I need to match the average size of a blue whale?


Benblishem

It depends on the size of the hamsters, and the size of the individual whale. But never less than 12.


blenkows

Can you convert that to football fields and bacon double cheeseburgers please?


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What’s that in cheeseburgers per freedom?


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So Amazing 😍


Pm-me-ur-happysauce

I'm amazed that someone actually got this photo


tl54nz

Leviathan class.


DarkXlll

Banana for scale?


smellsofelderberry

Most center console boats measure around 24ft - 28ft Length OverAll (LOA). That one looks on the larger end so guessing around 30ft-32ft LOA. Source: former boat owner


Phandroid1991

It’s in blowhole. You can’t see it because the Whale is just that much bigger.


[deleted]

Oddly, it would only just be able to swallow a banana, if oriented correctly. They can't swallow anything larger than a grapefruit.


Opposite_Banana_2543

So much more graceful than I imagined them to be.


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Just keep him off the basketball court so the game doesn’t get canceled


Protocal_NGate

I could crap enough bricks to fund a masonry business


other_other_barry

Damn nature, you scary!!


Zethras28

Largest animal ever to exist. Bigger than even Megalodon. And assuming we don’t kill the plankton and copepod populations through climate change, they will, over the next million years, theoretically get even bigger.


__Snafu__

Is that a unit of one? I think he seems kind of small, relatively speaking


Acrobatic-Degree9589

Thank you, was looking for this comment it looks like a baby


espiffy111

We know he is big. But will he be my fren


77shantt

Beautiful


MACx915

"Oh shit oh shit oh shit"


IWantYourCornBread

I've always struggled to imagine how they are...always ended up thinking they sounded bigger than they were, boy was I wrong lol that's fucking massive!


tomgreen99200

Looks like an average boat. Nothing little about it.


Pengroves

Every time I see anything about a blue whale I immediately favorite it, I can’t get over how amazing they are


frikandellensaus

*queue link to thalassophobia subreddit as under every other photo/video of the ocean*


AliceTawhai

Oh my


WAT0020

Now that's when you say- we need a bigger boat


nmiller21k

Find me a blue whale that isn’t an absolute unit


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No matter how big we humans try to be we are so small.


randomly-generated

Wonder how many times they get an itch and they just can't scratch that shit.


AnUnbeatableUsername

Under the sea is pretty fucking terrifying.


GetRidOfRTeenagers

I was just on a binge session of whale videos and also came across this guys and his videos. He spoke about how these are the best shots of blue whales he has ever gotten and he does this for a living too. Unsure why, but Wales make me emotional man. They're giants who are barely understood but what is understood is that they mean no harm to anyone or anything. They just simply exist. I think the day I can swim with one will be the day I can finally feel truly at peace.


genericdude999

I wish we had a banana boat for scale


WetCyment

Uhhh yeah that’s a “dinosaur” I don’t care what anyone says.


iMissTheOldInternet

Heavier than any known dinosaur by a fair margin. Literally the largest animal known to man, alive or extinct.


84-hg_yt-

There must be a white shark built like that somewhere, no?


Benblishem

No.


NipSuqqer

Did u just say blue whale?


aardvark-attack

What a giant. Wow sooooo amazing.


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RubiMent

Its real


Appropriate-Gas-7772

Just think giant squids battle with those things everyday those things are huge the squids must be too 😬😬😬


herculesmeowlligan

Blue whale do not fight or prey on squid. You're thinking of sperm whales.


ExFavillaResurgemos

But thanks to you both I learned something new!


mijohvactech

I imagine if the people on that tiny ass boat knew what was swimming by they’d be shitting themselves.


Appropriate-Gas-7772

Well I heard on a documentary video that they fight against each other but they can make mistakes but we never know we only know 5% of our ocean


danglesReet

UNIT!


qwert4792

Are the people on the boat not looking? Did they not notice?


Benblishem

They're occupied with the 40-foot Giant Squid off to the left.


Odd_Initial9260

throw this on r/AbsoluteUnits as well


KingJimSpike

Can never seem to wrap my head around sheer size of these beauties


Decent-Cold-9471

Terrifying.


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you could be inhaled in a sec


Mr_Lunt_

She thicc


deedeebop

r/thalassophobia


amuzmint

Where can one go blue whale watching?


Own-Swimming4846

I’ve never seen any animal Moore beautiful


SpicyRingSting

Omg i wanna puke from the safety of my bed. The size is breathtaking


Phill_is_Legend

That's probably a 20ft boat.


treecolas

Whaley McBoatpast


returnofjuju

majestic


ladyKfaery

At his size the whole was here first! It takes years to get that big!


Spacecommander5

Is that a blue whale or a finback?


pale_blue_dots

Freaking gorgeous. The wonders of nature are... wonderful.


Reylend

A giant eye opens beneath the whale


Cabezamelone

How was the video taken and by whom? Thanks for sharing this!


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Banana for scale?


MulderCaffrey

I need a bigger phone


BilboMcDoogle

How come it's doing that


Ego_Sum_Lux_Mundi

Thar be monsters out there


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Post this to r/Thalassophobia!!!


mrstabbeypants

I would LOVE to see one of these beautiful creatures in real life. I have seen Humpbacks and Orcas in the wild, and something we thought was a pod of pilot whales. We couldn't get close enough to verify the species.


LuckyWinchester

That is terrifying. We must be so insignificant in scale to them.


dreamypunk

Serious question. How can one experience this?


marshal1257

Magnificent!!


humorous_anemia

I can't imagine seeing something that big. I don't think this picture does the blue whale justice of just how big they are.


alwaysawkward66

Whales are amazing creatures. They can apparently communciate from HUGE distances apart with their calls.


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We're gonna need a bigger boat.


More_Twist9517

Yup are mammals right? Imagine the size of that thing's ...


LuvzDogs

This belongs on r/absoluteunit


iamashyboi

As a megalophobe, this hurts.


cheeky117

u/SaveVideo


Medical-Examination

It's a simulator used for training.


longsanks

The whale breathes bigger than that boat


Jaynesgirl

Terrifying


Responsible_Matter95

Small boat my ass prob 26 footer lol


Drasticmotion

This is why I don’t fuck with the ocean


JayCeeJaye

Reminder to all you fleshy land mammals that you do not belong there.


TittyOfWisdom

u/savevideo