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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Conspiracy fish: "The Earth is flat. There is a giant land wall around the edges keeping our water from spilling over the edge!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget that the land wall erases memories of the land wall.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Right! Right.

Uh, what was it again?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I knew it. They DID build breathing apperatices to hunt lion from the coasts of Africa! Look how much land there they have mapped out.

[–] Cptmurph616 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am a peacock, you gotta let me fly!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

he loves you VERY MUCH Francine

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hmm. Aren’t the Great Lakes in North America connected to each other and then to the St. Lawrence River via Lake Ontario, which eventually leads to the Atlantic Ocean? Maybe the map should include those large bodies of water too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lampreys are the greatest explorers among saltwater fish. They've mapped most of deepest darkest Greatlakesica, but most don't make it back out to report their findings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do biologists determine that the lampreys migrated from the ocean versus being hatched/born in the Great Lakes?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Accent. You can take the fish out of the ocean but you can't take the ocean out of the fish.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There are fish that go from saltwater to freshwater or vice versa. They're called anadromous fish. Salmon are one species like that. So you'll have to include every river as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Niagra falls is a one-way trip into the Great Lakes, although it does look like there are other passages through that area for fish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are. Also you can get to several of the Rockies, even past them,
e.g. The Fraser River will take you to Yellowhead Lake by Jasper Alberta.
Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories will get you to Athebasca Lake, which also drains into Hudsons Bay.

For that matter, most of the Canadian Shield is linked by rivers and creeks to Hudson's Bay. Which is how that company used to be one of the largest "countries" on the planet. Their deed was to all land all water which flowed into the bay. The English King who did that was an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting. Aside from North America, Lake Victoria, in Africa, and many other lakes connect to Bahr al Jabal, which connects to the Nile, and eventually the Mediterranean Sea. This is leading me down the geographic rabbit hole, haha.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fish with a bird's eye view of the Sahára, this is a cool idea but not consistent with it's intention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No Lake Baikal fishes :(

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How these fish mapping out the interiors of Africa and Australia

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Carefully and at great risk

[–] Pyr_Pressure 2 points 1 year ago

Flying fish

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Fish recon of Africa and Australia is already complete.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Everything's coming up Spilhaus!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two central Americas? No great lakes? Interior Africa? Some interesting choices exercised on this map. I'll suspend disbelief...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah this map seems a little fishy

[–] Pyr_Pressure 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like fish wouldn't centre their map off of Antarctica, but rather the equator. Most fish are in warm water not freezing cold water.

Or maybe with the middle of the Pacific Ocean as the centre since it's the largest open area of ocean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of fish in the Southern ocean. In fact, it has become an international issue with trawling fleets from China etc overfishing the area.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Are you really suggesting that fish have a map, just one map of the world?

There is no way they don't have many different protections. Based on different navigational and political goals.

Also the Pacific salmon definitely have the water ways of the PNW mapped.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Every map when I try to get a good minecraft seed (world spawn will be in Hawaii):

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The Caspian shouldn't be on there though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha! Take that round earthers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Based sopo projection

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Of course it Americocentric. Even though Antarctica is on the centre, over half of the circumference is dominated by The Americas.