KATU News
3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2020–2023
3:25 · 25M views · Nov 12, 2020
A KATU News re-edit from remastered 4K footage of the 1970 Oregon incident in which officials blew up a beached whale and showered the beach with blubber.
Cited as the direct link to the infamous exploding whale footage, and used for jokes about explosions and whales.
3 comments from Hacker News
Direct link to the video without the shitty local news site: this video Side rant: Their ad-tracking cookie opt-out is the epitome of a dark design pattern. It took over 2 minutes to run. Including saying "done" in a pop out and the only leaving a cancel button for another 15 seconds. There's absolutely zero reason it should take even 1/10th of that time, other than purposefully bad UX.
I've somewhat deliberately left the pulverising mechanism unspecified. But the point remains: under the influence of the cloud's own gravity a cloud of merely separated particles will re-coalesce. You can look up in the night sky much of the time to see an example of this yourself, the Earth's moon. And again, depending on the mechanism , a fair fraction of particles, quite possibly / probably the majority, will approach the original centroid of the mass. In practice, pulverising planets and/or planetoids is likely a challenging proposition. Early experimentation on animal models tends to support this hypothesis: this video
The Oregon State Highway Division can tell the folks in Waterford one whale-moving solution that DOESN'T work: this video