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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

When you're a gunfish, every shooting is a school shooting.

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I see what you did there

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, wow - that's fantastic!

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Clever person

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

pfft antiscience bs. everyone knows swordfish were supplanted by the bayonet fish

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago

InterContinental Ballistic Fish

[–] Michal@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bullets don't work as well underwater

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even when you manufacture a weapon to specifically function below water, 30m meters is the longest range at 5m depth.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That’s plenty of range to kill a swordfish, which swims slower than the superior gunfish.

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mightier than the penfish?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Whatcu gonna write your way out of a gun fight?

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Marine biologists cringing at the forced joke when the ocean has actual Pistol Shrimp that work very much like you’d expect.

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't that fucker generate heat as hot as the surface of the sun for a split second? We're lucky this gun toting animal never evolved smarts.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Why haven’t we harnessed their power for fusion? I can see a line of little pistol shrimp repeatedly punching an atom to fuse matter together and creating infinite energy.