That time they decided to blow up a dead whale on the beach.

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• Depress_Mode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A real classic! What wasn’t featured in the original news story was a passerby who had demolitions experience in the army in Vietnam. He approached the guy in charge of the job and explained that this would never work because when you detonate explosives in sand like they were going to, instead of blowing the whale entirely out to sea laterally, the blast created a cone of explosive force straight upward which sheared off massive chucks of whale hundreds of feet into the air and left half the carcass basically untouched. That crushed car at the end? It belonged to the dude who warned it would go tits up! Here’s a 25 year anniversary retrospective with a little more info.

  I don’t understand why they didn’t come at high tide and tow it miles out to sea using a couple tugboats. No dismemberment necessary, just a big strap around the tail-fin. Once miles from shore, the whale could be lanced to release the decomposition gasses and allow it to sink naturally where it could benefit the sea floor for decades. If they’d gone maybe 50ish miles offshore, that would have been proper deep sea abyssal zone and perfect for a whalefall.

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  • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t understand why they didn’t come at high tide and tow it miles out to sea using a couple tugboats.

    Cuz we want big boom

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  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess it depends on how far gone the whale is. If you are only strapping the tail, it may slough off and leave the bulk of the whale behind.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When all you’ve got is a hammer crate of dynamite everything starts to look like a nail whale

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• PanaX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds.”

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  • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    BBBaBB

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• Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure this was the first Internet video I ever saw back in the nineties on good ole real player on a postage stamp sized playing screen.

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was there, in the long long ago.

    Image

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  • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was definitely one of the first videos I remember going viral on email, back when you often had to figure out what codecs or player you needed before you could watch anything.

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  • ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Trust me buddy, you’ll never need more than 4KB of RAM!”

    (The salesman trying to sell my old boss a computer)

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• GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That dead whale never stood a chance

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• ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man the damage done to those cars! And I mean there’s more steel in a single one of them than 20 German tanks! You’d be a pancake if a big piece hit you.

  Gotta say, they were lucky no injuries.

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• azurefirefly@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hey Lois remember that time I helped a whale back into the ocean with a forklift?

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• guidothekillerpimp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Minor league baseball team took full advantage of this a while back.

  emeralds.milbstore.com/…/exploding-whales

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• Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What a terrible, terrible idea…

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “gotta nuke something”

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It hasn’t really been fifty years has it?

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• MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good, old, innocent news. I am nostalgic.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If I’ve learned anything from video games, it’s that they needed to Claymores.

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Claymore will just punch it full of holes.

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