We’re all forgetting one important factor: quality over quantity. First of all, the whale doesn’t just sit in one place to broadcast their 80km calls. We can’t really say that about a marine biologist; who more than likely is out to sea and away from anyone else using Tinder.
I’d bet those whales are getting more action than that marine biologist, despite having a “shorter” distance on their mating calls.
Suck on that, you stupid marine biologist and your decade of education and training.
This comes across as aggressive and its offputting, idc if its a joke
You might be shocked, but it is a joke.
I’m curious how this reads if it would not be a joke.
Length isn’t everything you know. Unlike me, a humpback could hardly take a bus to the town square to release their mating call from the most efficient location
“Well you asked the right guy. I’m a whale biologist. Though personally I hate whales. Especially Mushu.”
“Then why’d you become a whale biologist?”
“I don’t know you well enough to get into that.”
I see Futurama, I upvote.
You gotta be pretty brave or stupid to call out the mating ability of something with “humpback” right there in the name
Just a language thing tho, in my native they are called hunchback whales 👀 not quite as impressive
The range isn’t how far away people can see you, it’s how far away you can see other people. Even if you set your range to the minimum, you’re still shown to everyone that has a range that includes your location
Wait, really? But if the ranges dot overlap then there’s no chance of a match, right? Or am I misunderstanding how tinder works?
If someone outside of your match radius matches with you, you actually still will be shown their card, so, if you really want to game the app, you set your radius to .1 or whatever, and then only match with people outside it, because those are guaranteed matches. By doing this, you make your Like to Match ratio skyrocket, which causes Tinder’s algorithm to put you at the front of the list, and gets you even more matches
Oh interesting. I was told by someone once that you want to set your radius smaller which seemed counterintuitive but this explains why.
I paired up before online dating was really a thing but I’m always curious about this strange world I never experienced.
I’ve been in a committed relationship for almost five years now, so all I can do is pass on my knowledge lol
Marriage material.
The sea was angry that day my friends.
Difference is, the whale is not a virgin though.
Except that the humpback whale will reproduce long before that marine biologist loses his virginity.
Unless it’s the 52Hz whale. I’d shed a tear for that lonely creature; not for that biologist though.
Well yes, humpback whales reach sexual maturity by around 10 years of age (some much before then it seems). A marine biologist is still practically in it’s larval form at that point.
(Yes, yes, I know that wasn’t what you meant, but I couldn’t help myself)
The marine biologist:
I was scrolling comments to see if i am the only one who thought about him
It’s like Wyle E Coyote finally gets an ACME rocket that’s fast enough to catch the road runner, only to go zooming by the roadrunner on an upward trajectory headed for the moon.
Hmmm, let’s see:
- Can’t even spell “can” correctly. (dumb)
- Bad attitude towards animals. (mean spirited)
- Paid for premium. (desperate)
Yeah, I don’t see women lining up around the block for this catch of a human being.
Humpback gets laid though
Fun fact: every species on earth has been evolving for the same amount of time. Assuming that life wasn’t spontaneously generated multiple times on planet Earth, which seems relatively unlikely.
For some reason, I feel oddly defensive about the whale being insulted. Suck on that you stupid marine biologist, you should understand evolution more better.
It just took some crabs a bit longer to get there.
Why does it seem unlikely life appeared more than once? My understanding was that when life started, the conditions were optimal for complex molecules to form (warm water, lots of organic compounds) so around that time (give or take half a billion year) it may have happened, but in very similar ways.
All known lofe on Earth uses the same base “toolset” to keep it simple while genetic analysis shows all known life is at least distantly related. While it isn’t impossible that life developed multiple times on Earth, any other lineages were unable to compete and died off quickly.
It should also be noted how dramatically easier it is for existing life forms to hog all the available resources than it is for said resources to go through biogenesis. This is why scientists are unable to create life forms in labs, because no matter how sterile we try to make the conditions, some microbe finds a way in and thrives on the resoirce dense media that scientists are trying to recreate life with.
Biogenesis is crazy hard. Once that first lifeform appears it absorbs pretty much all available resources and takes over from there. All those conplex molecules just floating around get incorporated into the life form that appears first. Those primordial seas were constantly churning things about so life would have quickly spread across the ocean once it formed.
But that applies to life as we know it today right? The first life forms couldn’t have taken over the earth instantly, they weren’t battle hardened bacteria, but very simples beings, not far from overly complex proteins. Probably took at least some million years for a microbe to spread around the earth, just from the sheer size of it. So in that time, life could originate from other similar primordial soups.
Once they get going they reproduce like crazy. And there wouldn’t have been any competition for that first life form, so is growth would only be hindered by how many nutrients were available. Churning oceans and storms would have spread that first life form would only needaybe a couple
centuriesmillenia to spread across the Earth, while that leap from self replicateling macromolecules to actual life form would have simultaneously been way harder tham you think.
Well, maybe he refers to the branch with the greatest common ancestor of us and whales. So our branch of evolution can have mating calls 100KM rather than their branch with measly 80KM
Yeah I guess, but that doesn’t really help. Humans already killed most of the whales so rubbing in our technological superiority is quite gauche.
You never know if whales are going to get revenge for this kind of stuff someday 😅
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Unless the nuclear war and global warming kill off 99.999% of us, making our infrastructure unsustainable, then our mating call goes back down to a fraction of a kilometer. Whales: 1, humans: 0.
I mean if we assume that whales and us have been evolving for the same amount of time, it sounds like a skill issue on whales’ part
Correction.
Me: 1
Whale: .8
Well, you can find whales on tinder, but sometimes they use a picture of a friend…
You can also find whales in charity events.
He calls 'em like he sees 'em.
He does sound like he hates whales.
I bet he’d hate bears, if he were to switch fields.
That’s why he’s a marine biologist. He’s looking for the chad white whale who dated the girl he was into.
Whale biologist!
No, apparently he *kalls them.
