[HN Gopher] The Moon brings a wild but precarious fish orgy to C...
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The Moon brings a wild but precarious fish orgy to California's
beaches
Author : priyankanath
Score : 67 points
Date : 2024-04-22 04:27 UTC (1 days ago)
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| blackle wrote:
| I love grunions. Such funny little creatures. I'd recommend
| finding a video of them in action where they bury themselves in
| the sand, only to wiggle around and "pop" out of the sand again.
| daveslash wrote:
| My favorite video so far.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rHEpNwkWc8
| Xeyz0r wrote:
| Thank you, fascinating creatures
| Xeyz0r wrote:
| Do not know why but watching them is comforting in some way
| zoky wrote:
| As a teenager I once stumbled upon a grunion run, before I had
| any what they were or that it was even a thing. It was... pretty
| incredible. I still consider myself lucky that I got to see it.
| Xeyz0r wrote:
| Actually, you are
| hotsauceror wrote:
| Apropos of nothing, but would there ever be a "non-wild" orgy?
| Perhaps an orderly progression of couplings, with a timekeeper
| and protocols, and tea being served?
| zoky wrote:
| That's how they used to do it before about 1900, yeah.
| Victorian orgies were on a whole different plane of
| sophistication.
| jayd16 wrote:
| Reminds me of this article https://archive.is/gXs4u
| rvbissell wrote:
| > In addition, they only spawn during full or new moons - because
| they need a high tide.
|
| Seems like tides should be dependent solely on moon position, not
| moon phase.
| sjburt wrote:
| Moon phase is caused by moon position.
| rvbissell wrote:
| Moon phase is caused by moon position, _relative to the sun-
| moon-earth system._
|
| My point was that the moon can be directly above or below,
| regardless of phase.
|
| .... but thinking about it a little more, the tide probably
| gets an additional boost when the sun is contributing (i.e.,
| the 3 bodies are lined up)
| js2 wrote:
| It's commonly known as a spring tide:
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| https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/springtide.html
|
| It's readily apparent along most coasts.
|
| Aside, grew up in Florida and was always a little surprised
| whenever I met someone who'd not seen the ocean until they
| were an adult, but eventually realized maybe that wasn't so
| odd considering I didn't see snow for the first time till I
| was an adult. To me, skiing is something you do on the
| water, so when I say "snow skiing" people often look at me
| oddly, as if there's any other kind. Well, there is. :-)
| wbl wrote:
| I have been told by a friend of a student from Louisiana
| who was an avid water skier. Her friends at UC Berkeley
| discussed going to the lake to ski. She joined and was
| quite confused by the snow on the ground.
| ISL wrote:
| Tides depend on both the moon and sun. So does the phase of the
| moon.
|
| Tides are largest at full moon and new moon, when their gravity
| gradients combine to enhance each other's tides. A week later,
| their gravity gradients interfere, decreasing the amplitudes of
| the tides.
| RIMR wrote:
| Hell yeah
| dhosek wrote:
| Only one solution: WE MUST DESTROY THE MOON.
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