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The World Oceans Now 70% Shark Free
wheresjim writes "According to a study published in The Proceedings of The Royal Society, the world's oceans are now about 70% shark free. This is a bad sign for the sharks, the oceans and of course, journalists during slow news cycles."
Nothing for you to see here, please move along
70% appropriate.
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I am shocked to hear this kind of pro-shark fascism being spewed on Slashdot. As we all know, sharks are vile, evil creatures who are a danger and threat to all life and liberty.
Why do you hate America?
Are circling around Australian beaches.
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Does this mean that the ocean is 30% sharks by volume? I AM NEVER SWIMMING AGAIN!
I pretend to know more than I really do by mooching off google and wikipedia.
I blame Batman for dumping his anti-shark-spray into the ocean.
(if you get that joke you're really old)
Sure, but what about the poor Austrian fishermen? Why aren't you taking them into consideration with your "facts"?
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
We should encurage them to get new jobs. In the Austrian Navy for example.
For a nice date: Call strftime(3C)!
... So the documentary-makers stick with sharks. Generally, their
procedure is to scatter bleeding fish pieces around their boat, so as
to infest the waters. I would estimate that the primary food source of
sharks today is bleeding fish pieces scattered by people making
documentaries. Once the sharks arrive, they are generally fairly
listless. The general shark attitude seems to be: "Oh God, another
documentary." So the divers have to somehow goad them into attacking,
under the guise of Scientific Research. "We know very little about the
effect of electricity on sharks," the narrator will say, in a deeply
scientific voice. "That is why Todd is going to jab this Great White
in the testicles with a cattle prod." The divers keep this kind of
thing up until the shark finally gets irritated and snaps at them, and
then they act as though this was a totally unexpected and very
dangerous development, although clearly it is what they wanted all
along.
-- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV"
Seems like the documentary people has stopped feeding the sharks
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Bomb no.20 : To explode of course.