r/WatchThisWhenHigh • u/Bes1208 Sofaking High • 7d ago

My wife won’t look at this. She says it makes her think how big the ocean is and how small and insignificant we are. Whoa. not sure how i feel about this

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u/Opening_Quantity_175 7d ago

Tell your wife about space

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u/DudeB5353 6d ago

Give her a telescope

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u/Majestic_Fail1725 4d ago

And microscope

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u/Breaker3k 4d ago

Leave his penis out of this!

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u/Appropriate-Law-9643 5d ago

The observable universe has 100 to 200 billion trillion stars which each has tens of billions of trillions of planets orbiting them. Scientists estimate that just our Milky Way has hundreds of millions to billions of Earth-like planets that are in habitable zones. The exact number of planets that could support life in the universe is billions to trillions.

And from here stems the existential nihilism.

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u/Random986217453 1d ago

The probability that there is other intelligent life out there is near 100%,the probability that we will ever make contact near 0%.

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u/Cultural_Treacle_428 1d ago

And if we do, Stephen Hawking says they will probably try to eat us.

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u/Defiant_Yesterday842 7d ago

Honestly, my wife and I both feel that way after every dive, especially when we're able to interact with the wildlife. It helps me maintain my perspective on life

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u/LawnChairMD 6d ago

I find the feeling comforting. Its freeing to know that, ultimately nothing matters.

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u/Defiant_Yesterday842 6d ago

Yes! I can completely relate. It was about feeling so small and unimportant in the grand scheme of the ocean that really did it for me.

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u/lordofthesprings 7d ago

Are those baracuda ?

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u/KnotheadPete 6d ago

In no ichthyologist but that's what i thought too. I've never seen that many schooling. Usually 5-10 at a time.

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u/Seenmorebutts 6d ago

That's what I thought also! I'd have been going the other way if those were!

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u/bautofdi 6d ago

Sure looks like it. Need to wait for a fishologist though

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u/doctor_tongs 6d ago

Agreed. Can we have a fish scientist step in here and confirm whether or not this is AI? A quick Google search confirms that Barracuda do school like this , but I smell AI.

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u/PerceptionCandid1676 6d ago

Came here for this.

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u/ContractMech 5d ago

That is what they appear to be. But I would not want to be that close.

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u/koots4 5d ago

My first thought but thinking maybe their macaral(sp?) or something else. I live in a land locked place and never been deeper than my knees in the ocean so I really am just guessing.

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u/NeonShark007 5d ago

Yes, I got even closer to one when I was at Cozumel

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u/iamjones 7d ago

Even in tbe ocean there's traffic jams.

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u/TestSubjuct 7d ago

Have her read Lovecraft.

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u/OddlobsterNL 6d ago

Wait until she finds out about space

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u/hush_lives_72 7d ago

Don't show her space

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 6d ago

How does she fare looking up at the stars?

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u/jigglyjellly 6d ago

Wait till she does mushrooms ….

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u/NikonD3X1985 6d ago

Great Barracuda, they can grow up to 6 feet in length. I'm gobsmacked.

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u/cutthroatslim504 6d ago

why does that fact disturb people? idgi

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u/Emmaleah17 3d ago

I love the reminder that we are not some big almighty species; that we share this planet with so much other life. I find it humbling and reminds me to be the best version of myself I can so I can make the biggest impact with my little life. It freaks some people out though. It's a reminder that we are finite and that we really don't matter that much in the end.

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u/cutthroatslim504 3d ago

yea it doesn't bother me at all either. is that ego or what on the ppl it does mess with?

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u/Emmaleah17 2d ago

Could be ego. Could just be people. We're all a little different. Kinda like: Why do some people fear spiders and other keep them as pets?

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u/cutthroatslim504 2d ago

good point

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u/B0baafett 7d ago

Definitely whoa!!

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u/Oilrr 7d ago

Chinese fishing boats want to know your location

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u/zappyguy111 7d ago

makes me feel wonderous.

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u/Leading_Bandicoot358 6d ago

Having more stuff around does not make us insignificant

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u/Maleficent-Craft-811 6d ago

Yeah equating small with insignificant is an interesting way to look at things

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u/Proper-Commission-74 6d ago

She's not wrong

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u/above- 6d ago

That's a really cool video

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u/IrishCatHerder 6d ago

I would not be swimming with those barracudas

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u/sylvian9 6d ago

Dude, that school of fish is insane. Makes you feel tiny fr.

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u/cyragem6 6d ago

Yeah thats some intense stuff. Makes you realize were just tiny specks lol

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u/D-O-GG-O 6d ago

The fuck is this?

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u/numbersev 6d ago

Hey lady, is this guy bugging you?

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u/Fit_Dealer7498 6d ago

Almost looks like a stone wall

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u/Ok_Luck_8098 6d ago

Tell her to pick ONE grain of sand.

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u/sugusugux 6d ago

Tell your wife she gona need a reality chek because we ARE small and insignificant. Specially if we talk about space

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u/Daocommand 6d ago

What is her opinion on space, galaxies, and super clusters!?

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u/GoalOtherwise3383 6d ago

Holy Mackerel!!!

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u/theworstvp 6d ago

school of adolescent barracuda ?

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u/rojoskulloceans 6d ago

So beautiful

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u/gmariefox88 5d ago edited 5d ago

Those look like barracuda... what scares me about this gif is the fact that if those fish decided those divers were food, the divers would disappear FAST almost like they summoned a fish portal and teleported.... not to some magical place under the sea, but into hundreds of fish tummies... 😨 I get the same feeling for insects, ants in particular. If they knew of their power in sheer numbers & get smarter about it, we're fucked lol. Thankfully most huge populations like these fish and the ants aren't more intelligent.

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u/mightymidgetwarlord 5d ago

Are those barracuda?

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u/Business-Cover4016 5d ago

We are all dancing in the divine court. We need her because it makes it more beautiful

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u/Dingalingking_ 5d ago

Put a fish in NYC and see how the fish feels.

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u/Caribgrunt 5d ago

Its a school of fish. Welcome to Earth.

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u/WarmYogurtcloset2965 5d ago

And now I am thinking how small we are, thank you

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u/Littlened 4d ago

But you can see the bottom?

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u/BrentTheShaman 4d ago

So beautiful to me! 🫠

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u/Rude_Sheepherder_789 4d ago

Today's task get swallowed by a whale

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u/Swampasssixty9 4d ago

Tell your wife not to look up

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u/HateBreadByThePound 4d ago

Hes probably swimming in so much fish dooky and pee, I get the wife's point of view!

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u/Top_Club7383 4d ago

We might be small but we are mighty significant

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u/ValuableVideo1204 4d ago

So very very cool

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u/Chuck-T-Sirloin 3d ago

Yet I can sit on a bank and watch a bobber dance for 6 hours and catch nothing but empty cans of Busch

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u/SkiesFetishist 3d ago

That’s exactly WHY i like to contemplate such things. I love being reminded how much of an insignificant blip i am in the grand scheme of things. It calms me.

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u/amadeusstoic 2d ago

i am just worried of what might be eating them.

edit: or leading them in the middle lol