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They'll get you when you least expect it. (startrek.website)

submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago

“While Kentucky doesn't have an ocean, it does have aquariums. In 2006, at least 12 people at Kentucky's Newport Aquarium were bitten by sharks while at an exhibit that allows visitors to touch the animals”

Keep in mind that this aquarium is just across the river from the zoo where parents let their kids fall into the gorilla exhibits.

[-] ButtCheekOnAStick@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

HARAMBE!!!!!

[-] foo@programming.dev 14 points 8 months ago

Is this an example of American exceptionalism?

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

And yet it's an awesome aquarium and I highly recommend it. Including the 'touch a shark' part.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

It was surprising how sandpaper-ish they feel.

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[-] cynar@lemmy.world 63 points 8 months ago

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/outreach.png

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 21 points 8 months ago

This is shockingly relevant

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

sharkingly*

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Definitely.

I also want to get the last 3 frames printed on a t-shirt. I have a young daughter, and it amuses me even more since that happened.

[-] ADTJ@feddit.uk 6 points 8 months ago

I can suspend my disbelief to a point but I have just one question.

Where did the helium come from?

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 10 points 8 months ago

Electrolysis and then nuclear fusion.

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[-] Gigan@lemmy.world 61 points 8 months ago

They swim up the Mississipi

[-] rifugee@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago

People don't realize that Mississippi is an acronym and all of the s's are for 'shark.'

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 47 points 8 months ago

Most
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Inconceivable

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 19 points 8 months ago

Really rolls off the tongue!

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

bull sharks are the only ones that go that far north right? they can maintain the salinity around them or some cool shit like that

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[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

NEW MEXICO?!?!?

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago

It's hilariously stupid. In 2005 one dude was cleaning an aquarium's shark tank and cut his arm on a passing shark.

https://sourcenm.com/2021/10/15/new-mexicos-shark-attack/

Still counts.

[-] Caspase8@aussie.zone 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

How does one cut one's arm on a passing shark? Sharks are smooth as can be.

Edit: Never mind just read the article and he cut his arm on a tooth while the shark swam past open-mouthed.

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I know you already found the answer, but I want to add that shark skin is only smooth in one direction, if at all. The scales are made of V-shaped grooves, like their teeth. Their skin can definitely break yours if rubbed in the wrong direction at a fast enough speed.

I can personally vouch for this. I used to volunteer at aquariums. The sharks and manta rays were my favorite exhibits to work in. Penguins were dope too, but they smell.

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[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 22 points 8 months ago

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah (had a shark attack)

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago

oh no i just released Kentucky too THE SHARKNADOES ARE COMING

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Non-midwesterners: surprised

Midwesterners who've had a fear of bull sharks since their friend told them about them when they were 5: see I knew it could happen

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[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Could it be loan sharks?

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Bull sharks yo

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 months ago

The chances of a shark attacking you on dry land are low but never zero!

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

That's just basic quantum physics.

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[-] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Just realized New York has a lot of shark attacks unless you're taking about loan sharks where the fuck do you get attacked by a shark in the toxic wasteland that is the entire state every water source is a pond full of garbage and other stuff you really don't want to touch

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

At the New York Aquarium

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 10 points 8 months ago

Ah, the elusive lank-shark!

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

NM, IL, KY, PA?

[-] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I remember reading the NM one happened in a aquarium, but it is still counted. Bull sharks do travel up the Mississippi River and tributaries and have been reported in IL.