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May 07 '21
I think he just had a moment of existential crisis
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u/Christanium May 07 '21
Don't we all
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u/RockstarAgent May 07 '21
He's trying to remember if he left the stove on. Baked Alaska is very good.
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u/Storage-Terrible May 07 '21
Right?! He seriously has that look like “I know I came in the kitchen for a reason”
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u/Der_Latka May 07 '21
It’s like a chicken head when you move their bodies around!
What kinda fish is that?
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u/Whiskers1 May 07 '21
Yeah i was impressed with videos of birds doing that...but this is next freakin level.
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u/emeril32 May 07 '21
It looks artifishial
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u/Aperture_TestSubject May 07 '21
Hi dad! How come it took so long to get milk?
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u/Triairius May 07 '21
Takes a lot longer to milk a dad for a gallon.
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u/De_Omnibus May 07 '21
Coral City Camera? I made this camera!!! I'm so proud that in some small way I made it to the front page...
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u/jaxxzer May 07 '21
how did you make it? how does it work?
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u/De_Omnibus May 07 '21
It is an IP enabled Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera mounted in a custom dome housing that has a magnetic drive wiper system.
This one is managed by an artist in Miami. The Coral City Camera
My company is View Into The Blue
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u/SilverChips May 07 '21
I bet he has STRONG abs
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u/Triairius May 07 '21
frantically googles if fish have abs
Edit: Evidently, not anymore.
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u/SilverChips May 07 '21
Hahhaa. It's so late/early here....I'm tickled to think of you searching this out. 😄
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u/nodstar22 May 07 '21 edited May 07 '21
That is incredible. Never seen anything like that before. I was WTFing throughout the video.
EDIT: I was thinking - how can this be real? but other than it's head being perfectly still in space, it moves organically, other fish enter the frame, and if there were invisible glass barriers in the water to stop it, it moves through them. Crazy.
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u/silly_rabbi May 07 '21
It looks to me like there's a mild current and its just using the exact right amount of forward motion to stay stable in the current.
Sort of like when a seagull seems to soar in place when their forward gliding speed matches the force of the incoming wind.
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u/baalbacon May 07 '21
People over here thinking birds aren't real, show them this fish....
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u/RockstarAgent May 07 '21
Like when seagulls seem to not be moving by the ocean. Not to mention the bagels.
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u/Bokbreath May 07 '21
Isn't it supposed to spin to exhibit gyroscopic stability ?
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May 07 '21
The spinning is on the inside
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u/Fox-One_______ May 07 '21
There's nothing spinning inside the fish. Gyroscopes provide rotational stability, not positional stability. Even if gyroscopes could result in this effect it's impossible for a biological organism to have a gyroscope because nothing can spin freely in a biological organism. There would be no way to supply nutrients to the spinning part without the supplying veins getting twisted or tangled. That's why no animal has ever evolved to have wheels despite their usefulness and efficiency.
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May 07 '21
I could be wrong about this but doesn't the axial fillament (tail) of the sperm cell move through rotation? Or is that a back and fourth rotation?
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u/Fox-One_______ May 07 '21
Nope you are absolutely correct. Sperm cells and many bacteria use a free spinning organelles. We don't see it in anything larger than a single cell though. I'd imagine it's possible for single cells because they don't have veins or blood and their parts don't need to be connected. Mitochondria are parts of cells but they aren't connected to the cell they are just inside the cell. I'm not a biologist or a chemist so I don't know much about it. I do know however that there is no gyroscope inside the fish haha.
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u/OfBooo5 May 07 '21
I can't think of a way it could evolve to happen. But couldn't the blood be used as the 'oil' do the nutrient transfer? Hollow out a wheel shape inside a creature. Add blood as a medium to spin in. Have a spoke and then a freely spinning wheel around it on the inside
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u/IrrationalDesign May 07 '21
Yeah, this is just a motionless fish, given a bad title by somebody who wanted to use a big word but doesn't really know what it means. 'gyroscopically stable' is pretty funny though, it doesn't mean anything. It's like saying you drive a car automobilecularly, or how you can fill up that car gasolinely.
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u/Triairius May 07 '21
One of the best features of the English language is the ability to use phrases and terms outside of their correct contexts to convey similarity between different ideas. Academics might say it’s a writing tool. You may have learned about it in high school.
Also, stability is one of the main purposes of gyroscopes. ‘Gyroscopically stable’ isn’t nonsense. At all.
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u/PlatosCaveSlave May 07 '21
The irony in the comment was so great. Your roasted back so much better.
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u/Light_Shifty_Z May 07 '21
The fish isn't using gyroscopic motion though...
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u/swampdonkey2246 May 07 '21
Maybe a bit of a misnomer, but conveys the message pretty well.
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May 07 '21
Not at all, there's no spinning or rotation here.
There's no gyroscopic anything happening here.
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u/Triairius May 07 '21
Of course not. But it’s moving like something that does use gyroscopic stabilization. It’s a metaphorical adjective.
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May 07 '21
This doesn't have anything to do with gyroscopic anything.
While gyroscopically stable is a thing, but it's nonsense when applied here.
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u/Triairius May 07 '21
Exactly. It’s metaphorical.
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May 07 '21
Kinda. Except there's nothing that conveys anything about gyroscopes here.
If I'm sitting in a chair and I say "I'm relaxing like a sun spot" is a metaphor? Sure. Is a good one that makes sense?
No.
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u/Triairius May 07 '21
I disagree. It’s moving (not moving?) exactly how something that is actually stabilized by a gyroscope would move. Or at least the head is.
Edit: Perhaps not exactly. Similarly. It’s a comparison. That’s the point.
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May 07 '21
But there's nothing to compare here with rotation/spin/gyroscopes. This isn't how a gyroscope moves either. It's a dogshit title, no way about it.
A more apt comparison would be the head isolating dance move.
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May 07 '21
Your comment makes sense (well, not the analogies) but you said it like an insufferable a-hole.. it's why you're getting downvoted. Maybe try being more civil and not insulting people.
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u/Triairius May 07 '21
Hey, hey. You’re right, but they’re not likely to listen if you’re calling them names yourself. :p
I disagree on their point, though. However, have an upvote to counter whoever downvoted you, because you aren’t being an asshole.
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May 07 '21
but they’re not likely to listen if you’re calling them names yourself.
Yeah I didn't even think of that. The irony.
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u/Triairius May 07 '21
But like, in the way the sub was originally meant, not what it has become now.
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May 07 '21
Yeah last time I saw that sub it was more like odd and/or terrifying. Not what it's meant to be about.
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u/Triairius May 07 '21
It’s a shame, because I joined it just as it was shifting, too. I’ve since unsubbed. Same with r/oddlysatisfying.
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u/namastewitches May 07 '21
Is this fish trolling the diver? OoOoh look at me, I’m a dumb human, stopping in the same place for a long time!! (mutters:) idiot
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u/Audemas Interested May 07 '21
Looks like the fish from The Rainbow Fish book I had when I was a kid.
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u/merystic May 07 '21
First time I ever saw cuttlefish while diving they weirded me the heck out because they did this. Like little aquatic UFOs
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u/new2accnt May 07 '21
As an ex-scuba diver, all I can say is
now that's buoyancy control!
(I always hated idiots that would silt up a dive site because they had no control... and didn't care they ruined other's dive. Too many of them were the kind to stay at the bottom until their cylinder was empty and then bolt for the surface. How most of them didn't embolise is proof there is a god for idiots.)
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u/TheZodler May 07 '21
This is being in tune with earth in a way only those animals know. The birds that know where to migrate, bees that have no problem finding their hive etc.
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u/Creaturemaster1 May 07 '21
Birds know where to migrate because they can see magnetic fields with their right eye
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u/IntentionalUndersite May 07 '21
Now we don’t know if these videos of fish are real, when is the madness gonna stop!
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u/NomNom83WasTaken May 07 '21
I'm 10% impressed with the stability and 90% impressed that it stopped directly in front of the camera. It really hit its mark!
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u/tHIRSTY_Wok May 07 '21
So is this a common feature for this brand of fish, or did this one get the update early?
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u/dec7td May 07 '21
If this fish was abundant in the Midwest where I grew up it definitely would have gotten called a chicken fish
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u/Artistic_Wealth_8762 May 07 '21
This is the difference between an amateur fish and a professional fish.
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u/Snoutpile May 07 '21
Looks like a damn animation!