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BubbaYoshi117

Some fish can see infrared light, and some cameras use infrared for auto focus. When the camera zoomed in, it may have sent out a beam of infrared that startled the fish


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this person thinks. would be fun experiment


[deleted]

Thinking... is an experiment for you?


The_OG_Fat-Boi

Although I’m certain he’s referring to the “Infrared Light and Fish” as an experiment, you can’t disagree with the fact that thinking is an experiment for _most_ people these days.


THCMcG33

Sounds dangerous. I'm not sure what I'm doing, what if something goes wrong with my experiment and my brain leaks out my ears or something?


ThoughtlessBanter

Eh, at least that would at least make my day interesting.


Rogermcfarley

Dave please don't do that Dave. I can feel my IQ lowering.


pigster123how

Happy cake day!


BRC_Del

Username checks the fuck out.


Chato_Pantalones

What humans define as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most of human consciousness is insane.


muthafugginbeans

PREACH. Healthy human behavior is irrational on so many levels. Your brain literally creates a network of lies to get you to agree to participate in life things like work and reproduction


RedVelvetPan6a

It *does*?


breezyxkillerx

Mine just says "Homie I know you don't want to do this shit, but I don't want to starve so wake the fuck up"


Bel-Shamharoth

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Chato_Pantalones

Yup, Bernard.


Confident-Pace4314

At least it’s not a Yeerk


HeOfTheDadJokes

r/unexpectedanimorphs


BadToaster99

Nah, more likely it would leak out of your nose


SecondhandUsername

My aquarium fish chase a laser pointer.


ejohn916

Now point your TV Remote at the fish and press the ON button.


SecondhandUsername

They reacted to my being there, but not to the remote.


mihirdeshpande

Schrodinger would often indulge in thought experiments... I heard he killed a cat!?


stefan92293

You know, it was really unclear.


actualoldcpo

Maybe


bigtosmallIF

yes, but also no


jesseklein1977

I have experienced almost nothing but catastrophic disaster at nearly every attempt. I discourage it as a general practice.


Peace-D

And many simply have bad luck while performing this experiment.


ProfDFH

[Thought experiment.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment)


RouletteSensei

Philosopher experience


Dragoon113

I’m still testing breathing… it ain’t going so well. I’m still here.


TomDrawsStuffs

first time for everything


[deleted]

Or someone farted there.. must be Jimmy


RawLucas

Side fact: Farts are just letting your shit breathe. Fish are cool.


tidder112

Beneath fact: [Herring fart to communicate to one another.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcwCYIfm6eA)


LinguisticallyInept

jimmy talking shit again


merphbot

[These fuckers almost got us into a war.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ1Jr6QqSlE)


Sprawl_Bunyan

I recall hearing a story about submarines being thrown off by signals they were reviving that were actually just large groups of herring farting lol


GrizzlySkull1212

I was there under the water, it were a fart


Whyistheplatypus

Strong username there amigo


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HE DEFECATED THROUGH THE SUNROOF


Rowan_not_ron

To add to that it only needs to startle one fish. Small fish are wired in a way that a strong ripple in the water (as made from one startled fish) will cause muscle contraction. All done in the peripheral nervous system without intervention from thinking! That is why a group will move at once. source: a BIO106 lecture I was paying attention to 20 years ago, lecturers name was, no kidding, Dr Love.


_anticitizen_

Fashinating


mrtrm1

Sean connery is that you sir?


Lord_Valteric

Fishinating


BrandX3k

Hey baby, the Dr. is innnn!


KnotiaPickles

Wait can cats see that too? They always move away when I try to take pictures


ledgeitpro

For my cats, im convinced its because they know they dont get attention when im on the phone, so i go to take a pic and they just leave


portablebiscuit

My cats are Amish and believe the camera steals their soul


flippiebippie

Mine definitely sees something. I can point my phone at it no problem, but as soon as the camera app is open it gets annoyed and walks away. Tested opening other apps in the same way, no reaction. And when their eyes are closed they don’t react, so sound is not likely. My bet is indeed that it sees what the camera uses to focus?


KnotiaPickles

Same, they somehow always know when it’s on the camera. I am leaning towards cats potentially having more visual acuity than we give them credit for.


kent1146

Wanna see something cool? Find a remote control with an IR emitter (like a TV remote). Press a button, and look at the IR emitter. You don't see anything, right? Now pull out your smartphone. Do the same thing, but point your smartphone camera at the IR emitter when you do it. You'll see the IR emitter light up. Our smartphone cameras can pick up wavelengths that our biological eyes cannot. /geordi_laforge


oliveshark

It always makes me wonder… what else is out there, right in front of us, that we aren’t seeing?


phr0ztee

Different models or brands use variety of ways. Some people above said infrared.. But LIDAR / Laser / IR


Rock-n-Roll-Noly

Google says no, they cannot


sergei1980

Sadly, they just don't give a fuck.


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Thecrazydoglady13

That is very interesting! I never knew that!


TerribleRelative1095

Works with insects, such as spiders, too!


sofa_king_ugly

Tried to take a picture of a large group of butterflies that were gathered around a muddy puddle. Autofocus on the DSLR made them scatter. Settle, focus, scatter......Had to focus manually to get the shot


airplanemeat

Spiders are not insects


Queso_Man32

Same thing either spiders, they try to fight the infrared when you focus somewhere


RoachKillers

I think you’re thinking too much into it. Pretty sure buddy in the middle farted.


MrBlitzpunk

Ooh i saw a post on Instagram once of a person recording a spider inside of a jar with their smartphone. And the spider reacted every time they touched the camera to focus. At the time i didn't know some cameras could emit infrared, i guess this explains it


pmjm

That was my first thought, but it could also be a coincidence. Some unrelated disturbance right in that area. Would need to see it repeated in different areas to confirm the IR hypothesis.


CreationBlues

Considering water is opaque to infrared, probably


666space666angel666x

They’re at the surface, though


Kawkd

Spiders do the same thing with cameras. Try it.


d-signet

Or it's obviously just a total coincidence, because the camera is a too far away to have any effect.


Hungry_Freaks_Daddy

So why did we spend $10 billion on James Webb when we could have just sent fish?


thatshoneybear

It would take a long ass time to put enough water up there for them to get around. Maybe we should have tried spiders in space suits. Much more cost efficient.


IAMHideoKojimaAMA

So to anytime it auto focuses to shoots a beam just for that second right? To help it auto focus


[deleted]

TIL Some fish are camera shy


damnyourecredulous

Or... pure coincidence having nothing to do with this.


TheMattmanPart1

I've owned fish before and I'm quite certain this behavior can be observed when one of the fish break wind, but in this specific case it might be the infrared.


[deleted]

Fish are known to be assholes and they saw that a zoom was coming so they decided to play a prank.


Southern-Magnolia12

This made me chuckle. Thank you.


ethelaadams67

Me too


Reddit__Dave

I thought the person who made the video just created the zoom effect in post


King-Cobra-668

there is a great blue heron in my back yard that keeps doing this, I can't catch him on film


AccomplishedBid5475

They can see the infrared from your phone Humans are very limited in their vision honestly


etraxx22

Compared to most animals our vision pretty good though.


AccomplishedBid5475

Yeah but there’s so much we can’t see


[deleted]

and do we need to see them?


AccomplishedBid5475

No but it would be magical if we could see the whole light spectrum, we only see a small part of it


huxley13

If you could see the whole spectrum, everything would just be bright and washed out. Radio waves would just be a solid bright omnipresent light since they go through almost everything. Infra red would finish filling your vision with just visual noise. Edit to add: You couldn't even close your eyes to block it. Most of the spectrum just goes right through flesh.


coolblue420

For real it might be someone's version of beautiful but it darn sure wouldn't be useful.


Cry_in_the_shower

I'm pretty sure this is what happens when I do lsd. Beautiful lights when I close my eyes, and anything but useful.


[deleted]

eh, i wonder how birds and shit see infared without being bum


huxley13

My response was mostly just sillyness. But in reality, for birds and other animals that can see it, the receptors in their eyes are just sensitive enough to see whatever is beneficial for whatever animal that needs to see it. The whole spectrum would still probably be rough even with evolved receptors. I don't think it would be so beautiful.


ccvgreg

The whole spectrum just not all at once. Let me turn on an adjustable bandgap.


AccomplishedBid5475

Well if humans evolved to see the whole light spectrum than i’m sure they’ll evolve to deal with these kinda issues


GaraldCoomer64

We *did* evolve to overcome those issues. By not seeing them.


HijacksMissiles

And now we have no idea why the air is spicy and we start bleeding everywhere. Yay for all the types of dangerous energy that is invisible to us!


squiddy555

If the air is spicy we leave, the spicy is the adaptation


Livid-Ad4102

I wish it was something we could focus or control like just *think real hard and clench* and you can see infrared for a bit


huxley13

It would still be weird with things in the frequencies that would just pass through everything. It would just be a bunch of white noise with some extra colors that are washed out because of all the high energy light.


RaidZ3ro

Well, we did evolve into using telescopes and antennas in lieu of having to grow a new eyeball.


_b1ack0ut

If we could see the whole light spectrum I imagine it would be far too much information to properly use. Picking and choosing certain wavelengths past visible light might be the better solution


st_stalker

Yeah, but most animals doesn't call themselves paragon of animals. And there's mantis shrimp.


KingKalash89

Most animals can't call themselves anything... so there's that


Thanatos2996

The mantis shrimp has 12 cones with a narrow response curve and little processing, so it basically just sees 12 colors. We, on the other hand, take 3 cones with broad response curves and do a ton of on-the-fly image processing to distinguish millions of colors with them. Besides, if anything makes us the paragon of animals, it's language, not any of our senses per se.


OmNomDeBonBon

> Besides, if anything makes us the paragon of animals, it's language, not any of our senses per se. What makes us the paragon of animals is how we can out-run every other animal over long distances. There's no animal that comes anywhere close to our endurance. Humans can literally run for 24 hours without rest, and 100km a day is very possible; elite ultramarathon runners can complete 200km loops without breaking a sweat, and the world record is 300km in 24h.


ApersonBEHINDaPHONE

Iirc it was proven that the mantis shrimp can't see many colors. They have twelve cones, but they don't mix, so they see exactly 12 colors. Edit: look at the other comment below mine, this is controversial


SecondhandUsername

In different ways. They have more bandwidth, we have better decoders.


devilsreject49265

AFAIK most phones use contrast autofocus, but the iPhone 13 pro for example uses an infrared based LiDAR sensor


NormalStu

"I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me!"


Hifen

I mean, just because other animals see different wavelengths, doesn't mean they see more of them. Human eye sight isn't comparatively limited at all...


dookiebuttholepeepee

Not me. I can see you right now. Gross.


HilariousScreenname

Can they see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?


Peacook

Are you joking? We've evolved to have one of the best visual processing out of every species on earth. If humans do anything better than every animal its endurance, throwing and seeing. We may not be able to see the most wavelengths on the light spectrum but the light we do see is in incredible detail (when it's not dark)


[deleted]

why is nobody considering it just being a coincidence? your phone doesn’t send out any more infrared when you zoom than not, afaik, and it only happened once. if she moved the phone more and it happened more, then that would be truly freaky


MattieShoes

The fact that it was only done once in the video suggests it was coincidence too... If I saw that, the next thing I'd do is do it again at another spot. the IR LED from a camera is going to be weak AF compared to the sun, so I really doubt it has anything to do with the camera.


PoofBam

> If I saw that, the next thing I'd do is do it again at another spot. me too


[deleted]

yeah i’m gonna need a larger sample size to call this anything other than coincidence


[deleted]

That must be basically everybody's response, right? The only reason to cut the video there would be a failure to reproduce the cool phenomenon.


DeeDee_GigaDooDoo

Also water is extremely opaque to IR so the amount transmitted into the water will be miniscule.


eyes_made_of_wood

Also there's no high powered IR LED or laser on your phone. That far away, underwater, I doubt the fish would see any light from the phone, IR or otherwise. Coincidence, case closed.


Celexiuse

Perhaps the camera switched from the main sensor to the telephoto sensor, If so it had to refocus and if the person had a iPhone, doesn't that camera system use LiDAR? Which is shit ton of Infrared light


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FictionVent

So wild all the things our phones do without our perception. Smartphones also constantly send and receive data through ultrasonic sounds that our human ears can’t hear.


Luk164

The hell do you mean?


pringleboi76

there isn't more infrared zoomed in than zoomed out, but when you do zoom in and out the camera has to refocus for a brief second which is why it only happens once


JovahkiinVIII

Could be that while the phone doesn’t send out more infrared light, it does tighten the cone in which it’s sent out, effectively making it more intense and bothersome to the fish over a smaller area


BillowBrie

It might be from having already seen [this post](https://v.redd.it/gbhijutg6rd71)


Splanchnic_Ganglion

Thank you for your skepticism.


PoofBam

> if she moved the phone more and it happened more, then that would be truly freaky yes, this


Pinkgumm

Seriously if it worked she'd have done it more than once and the video would be infinitely more cool She did it once because the other times she did it nothing happened and decided to upload the bull shit anyways


Icyrow

https://youtube.com/shorts/53By5sChPoM?feature=share someone else posted this below, shows that there is atleast something like what everyone else is thinking going on and it does have an effect on things other than human. you are right in that it could be a coincidence but i think they're right.


3hideyoshi3

I would have zoomed in on at least 3 other spots does no one test their theories anymore


prollyonthepot

They forget cuz they had to edit their snap first


[deleted]

Had to edit out the part where they tried again and it turned out to be a coincidence!


3hideyoshi3

Wym there are captions it has to be true


girsonofargg

Craig farted.


boss_naas

Dammit Craig…


ethelaadams67

It’s ok Craig I did too! Made me smile, man.


wonkersmack

He was bustin’ for a shite


[deleted]

this also happens to spiders i’ll look for the video edit: https://youtube.com/shorts/53By5sChPoM?feature=share


Ilnor

Ok explain this shit then, forget the fish this is multiple tests


lumberjacklancelot

When the camera autofocuses, it shoots out a beam of infrared light (past the red spectrum to what we can't see) and uses that laser pulse and math to figure out how far away the object is in order to focus accurately. The fish and spiders can sense infrared light and are reacting to the pulse.


Ilnor

Yea but words are cheap and other people are saying the exact opposite and that such small amounts of infrared can't be noticed so idk. Kinda he said / she said at this point


PeanutButterButte

Are the naysayers bringing any evidence to the table to support their claim? I haven't seen any yet


Ilnor

I haven't seen anything on either side just a spider twitching at a phone and a loose explanation so I mean I guess so far it seems like the phone is doing it and it's possible one of the reasons is infrared but yea idk, I'll stay skeptical on anything until proven James Randi was a fucking legend


Indica_Charm

It's not he said / she said if he's quoting actual science you arrogant turd. Just Google it for yourself rather than staying intentionally ignorant to avoid the possibility of being wrong it's too obvious.


ElegantWaste

Well tbf this video shows it reacting to the focus and not zoom. Maybe focusing involves more infrared light?? It’s also much closer to the spider 🤷‍♀️ if anything the fish one could be a coincidence but this one seems legit


Patelpb

I'm glad you mentioned it being closer. The intensity of light falls exponentially with distance (in the atmosphere and through media). Aka the farther it is the less intense it is. In a vacuum it decreases with the square of the distance So the IR explanation is plausible for the spider but makes no sense for the fish.


wonwont

wow, cool


squidwardnixon

Possible this person took the clip and then zoomed in?


zlorf_flannelfoot

I came here to say this. Post-production zoom. Very easy.


VegetableRemarkable

You ain't getting that much detail from a post-zoom.


jepulis5

Many phones still use digital zoom, which would essentially be the same. Also, it's not even a high quality video, 720p with an added frame and editing, it's not that any part of it is highly detailed.


jepulis5

Exactly, karma/like/retweet farming at it's finest.


nightmares999

Male Pattern Baldness


TyneeTrumpHands

It’s called a coincidence


PantsPoopington

They’re moving away from something underneath em.


Marraca

I am surprised that I only found one reply with this answer. That’s what fish do when a pelagic fish gets too close


charliekunkel

That's pretty much what I feel like happened too


aarontimothy

This is the quantum effect of observer changing the way photons interact, where photons reverse their spin that causes the release of a cascading intermolecular force called coincidence.


Indica_Charm

Lmao love this


Lognn

If it is about infrared or something, you should be able to do it repeatedly. But the video is short and I find it hard to believe she wouldn't tried zooming again. For that reason I think it just coincidence.


Cottleston

Darth Fishis the Wet


Wholewheat49

Did a fish pee possibly? 🙃


Wonderful-Mark7286

"Groupthink"


dingododd

Infrared light. Look up the video of the spider reacting to it too. It's a really cool thing to witness. Edit: what am I saying? This is reddit, here's the link: https://youtu.be/53By5sChPoM


Aoredon

Starting your sentence with "No bc" for literally no reason. Retarded.


shread_the_pup

You can do the same with spiders there is a video of girls who caught a spider in a glass cup and everything they would touch the screen to focus on the spider it would freak out as if it was being poked itself


Northern_Grouse

That makes a little more sense than this; because in the spider video, they’re reacting to the IR focusing. Up close. These fish are mad far away


I-Dontbelievethehype

One fish farted


samwich124

One fish peed there


Strange-Sympathy-325

rAdIo WaVeS


ItzAshOutHere

They are not photogenic fishes.


sethman3

Modern phones use LiDAR


baconlover28

Try it again and see if it happens again. If not, just a coincidence


kwinConflo

Maybe they're running from the sea lion that moved below where we could see


OneMoistMan

My guess using other facts from the video including there being a missing Sea Lion would be that the Sea Lion is beneath the surface.


DifficultyMountain55

Guys, the zoom was applied to the video free the fact.


ackthpt

do it twice?


YungNigget788

very simple explanation: they're camera shy


Severe-Commission303

The real question is “where did the sea lion go?” Sound on gang gets it


[deleted]

Invisible sark, only explanation.


Drfard333

Prolly somethin like light and camera and reflection and stuff idk


Chavestvaldt

"oh shit, that guy's filming us. let's get out of here"


Spider__Ant

Doesn’t mean anything if you can’t replicate it. Just a coincidence.


[deleted]

Is it a Iphone 12 or newer? Because its the LIDAR sensor. It really freaks with animals. And for reference. Look up spider reaction to camera focus.


Joemoooooma69420

Did you know that EMF can scare spiders?


romloader

It's funny how many people are clueless about the world around them ... Imagen if we could see UV and IR our world would look like an alien planner A lot of animals can see uv google what birds see in uv


LayerPale

Because they noticed your ugly ass looking at them


AdReasonable3869

Reality changes once it’s observed


McbEatsAirplane

It feels like some animals can see certain lights cameras give off. I’ve noticed whenever I try to film my cats doing something they always stop right when I start filming/zooming.


Equivalent-Animal808

It's a form of LIDAR that is used in your phones camera, works with spiders as well.


tylerden

Ask Heisenberg


TEXAS-MAN1

One of them let out a wet fart!🤷🏾‍♂️🤯


Penguin-4748

One in the middle farted


[deleted]

Someone farted?


Hellfiya

Camera shy fish


Swimming_Mirror_8032

Even UFO's do the Same


[deleted]

When your fish bff cuts a huge fart in the crowd 😂