this is so sad

[dolf]

a life without connection...

 

[Adre]

I was feeling pretty chipper til I saw this. Thanks a lot.

 

[KyleW]

This will cheer you up. Radiolab tweeted this

http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/

 

[Tryharder62]

I wondered why they didn't see her but found this on the web:

Whales primarily experience the world through sound. Vision is nearly useless in most oceans of the world.

Very sad indeed.

 

[Aquagal]

I wish I hadn't read that.

 

[richard_daily]

a life without connection...

I would think that some well-meaning scientists could find a way to adjust her songs to the lower frequency...

I think that would be lovely.

 

[neci]

i wonder if there is any way to alter her pitch through some kind of underwater sound filter in a backpack.

edit. frequency. that's the right word. i think. i just listen to the noises.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Listen to it here

 

[CHNOPS]

G-sharp is the saddest of all pitches.

 

[butters]

a life without connection...

*sorrow*

 

[remy_lebeau8]

G-sharp is the saddest of all pitches.

I don't know about that. Bm is pretty fuckin sad.

 

[Debbie]

It is a wee bit sad but I wonder ...

if scientists are always right?


http://www.express.co.uk/news/world...hose-unique-call-has-stopped-him-finding-love


http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/events/department-news/1183/the-loneliest-whale-in-the-world/



I don't think we truly know enough to know that this whale is a life without connection.

Perhaps it's just me - hoping for a happy ending.

 

[blackleggings]

I just want to be a whale for one day and hold her, if whales could hold each other.

 

[run_silent]

Very sad. Have they thought of moving her to a pod of the same kind of whale?

 

[dolf]

Very sad. Have they thought of moving her to a pod of the same kind of whale?

they can't say for sure what she is.

plus, moving a whale?

 

[Aquagal]

Wondering if he found a pod, would they accept him? Maybe scientists could mimic something along his calling range and make him follow til they reach a different pod.

 

[JohnnySavage]

<--- 52 Hz.

 

[dolf]

Wondering if he found a pod, would they accept him? Maybe scientists could mimic something along his calling range and make him follow til they reach a different pod.

without a voice to keep them connected, they would soon lose each other.

 

[run_silent]

they can't say for sure what she is.

plus, moving a whale?

Seaworld seems to have no problem with it.

 

[butters]

so . . . 2 whales, or one male or one female?

 

[doctor_insanus]

Just reading that was agonizing. Poor girl.

 

[Aquagal]

without a voice to keep them connected, they would soon lose each other.

.....

 

[dolf]

so . . . 2 whales, or one male or one female?

it's not always easy to tell when critters don't have the obvious external genitals and you can't get that close.

 

[Sean]

Fuck off.

 

[JohnnySavage]

it's not always easy to tell when critters don't have the obvious external genitals and you can't get that close.

I always figured a whale would have a big wiener.