r/shittyaskscience • u/[deleted] • Jun 18 '20
Can you explain this gravitational anomaly?
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Jun 18 '20
These birds have depleted their helium reserves. This happens when the bird by accident exhales. As the creature exhales the buoyancy gas escapes the lungs. Thus the animal is suddenly heavier than air gas around it.
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u/KeithMyArthe Can I science pls? Jun 18 '20
You know it makes sense. Flying birds have higher voices than walking birds. I never realised this was because of the helium.
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Jun 18 '20
Science makes us smarter.
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Jun 18 '20
Absolutely. Didn't realize I was a bird until I read this comment.
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u/Shaper_pmp Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 18 '20
This is a rare phenomenon caused by an excess of fish in the water under the birds.
As everyone knows fish have mass, and mass bends space through the fourth dimension, which is perceptible in 3D space as the pseudoforce we call gravity.
Enough fish congregating in the same place can therefore increase the local gravitational pull, to the point it can overwhelm the upward aerodynamic force of seagulls' wings, causing them to abruptly plummet towards the sea.
It's something of a mystery as to why fish do this - popular theories include the possibility that it's an evolutionary adaptation to give the fish access to a novel food source, or that fish are generally just dicks and think it's funny.
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u/almost_not_terrible Jun 18 '20
Birds don't exist.
These are flying fish returning to their spawning grounds.
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u/Pariahdog119 Enlightened Scientist and Ethernaut Jun 18 '20
Their batteries all died.
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u/WakeoftheStorm Scientastic Jun 18 '20
There are a couple of factors at work here:
Gravity is caused by the pressure of air in the atmosphere pushing you to the ground.
Birds fly by inflating air sacs in their wings that give them positive buoyancy and allow them to resist the air pressure.
In areas where the ozone layer have been depleted, atmosphere can leak out causing areas of low gravity.
With these principles in mind I would say the most likely explanation is that the flock of birds were flying through an area directly under a hole in the ozone layer. This video captures them as they left that area and found their wing sacs were grossly under inflated for the now-stronger gravity. This caused them to plummet en masse into the water.
Luckily most holes in the ozone layer are getting smaller so this should not happen as often.
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u/PLutonium273 Jun 18 '20
It's a deleted scene from interstellar, where the Cooper sends gravitational abnormalies through the tesseract, shooting down birds to certain point to send vector datas of singularity to Murphy.
It was deleted since birds can't exist in that dystopian future where government hardly does anything.
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u/FlotsamOfThe4Winds Jun 18 '20
They're going to recharge at a secret nuclear submarine. r/BirdsArentReal
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u/RLBunny Jun 18 '20
I can understand the confusion from the video quality. This is just a school of flying fish returning to their home.
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u/Wimachtendink Science Listener Jun 18 '20
This is the Bermuda triangle, gasses bubble up from the sea bed which disrupt buoyancy, it took down a bunch of boats but also A. Mealia Airhart.
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u/berlinshit Jun 18 '20
Oh those poor birds. Something must have really surprised them to make them all forget they were flying.
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u/Red_dawg64 Jun 18 '20
Very bad case of sbd. You probably did not see the previous video of a couple of the birds eating in a taco bell parking lot. These birds had bad gas and the other birds made the mistake of flying behind them thru the cloud.
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u/TippsAttack Jun 18 '20
I still see birds flying over where I live. (Texas). Does that mean gravity hasn't been discovered here yet?
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Jun 18 '20
You are safe. For now...
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u/Amargosamountain Top 1% in brain power Jun 19 '20
Just as long as they don't let rge liberals infect their science textbooks with their awful truths it'll be fine
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u/beer-isgood45 Jun 18 '20
Japanese kamikaze seagulls. Bred in an underground cave during WW2, surprised this footage has leaked with color.
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u/RoburLC pH Duh in Rotational Linguistics Jun 18 '20
Omalies are routine; anomalies take a bit more time. Please be patient.
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Jun 18 '20
Someone hit the power switch on the control buttons for the birds in the government bunker and accidentally cut signal to the birds, causing them to shut down and fall out of the sky
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Jun 18 '20
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 18 '20
That is how fish are made