Comrade Willy

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Quarter stick of dynamite or 110 volts would do the trick.

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110 would not do the trick.

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Not with that attitude.

“Ohm’s law says that the current is voltage divided by resistance, so 110 volts / 2500 ohms gives 0.044 amps. At first, one might say that the orca would survive since that’s less than the fatal level of 0.1 amp. However, that level is easily enough to cause the muscles to contract violently, and if that condition persisted for more than a short time, it would kill by respiratory paralysis. (Again, assuming whale physiology is comparable to humans’.”

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That’s no way to behave as a guest.

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Maybe the host shouldn’t trash my ride.

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That’s why the orcas are destroying the yachts, we’re destroying their ride.

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They’re based

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saved a click

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Another article…

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/orcas-sink-yacht-in-strait-of-gibraltar

This one has useful comments, like…

Rudders certainly look like a fin…best way to disable prey is to maim a fin. The orcas have learned power vessels are of sterner stuff.

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I think the answer to this question is in their name tbh. Should have named them Panda Whales instead.

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Tell me you know nothing about pandas

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pandas

Ugh those fucking fickle hostile, always pooping, weird extra thumb having, sexless weirdos.

I think I know too much about Pandas, and it makes me want nothing to do with their conservation.

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The article is about orcas, but that video at the top is not an orca and just happened to sink a small fishing boat while it was feeding. Pretty sure that incident was an accident and the whale wasn’t trying to sink it, it was just breaching and eating.

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