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youtube.com — Pistol shrimp blowing a blast of water a speed of 100km/h with temp 9900C!

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  • NoctemSaiyaku, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26I knew about the sonic wave but the temp.... shiiet!
    • screamthenrun, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21i was gonna go with FAKE.... until i saw this:
      http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6855/abs/413477a0.html
    • Conway, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3Go ahead. Make my lunch.
    • wushu18t, on 10/11/2007, -1/+47there goes nature again, blowing my mind.
    • DubbedOver, on 10/11/2007, -5/+32How does a shrimp evolve with that type of weapon? I wonder what started the transformation and why nature chose the beginning trait to be stronger than those who didn't do it?
    • drgnpaladin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+46Down, Down Right, Right.
    • Wratherin, on 10/11/2007, -39/+12"How does a shrimp evolve with that type of weapon? I wonder what started the transformation and why nature chose the beginning trait to be stronger than those who didn't do it?"

      You're assuming it evolved it.
    • DubbedOver, on 10/11/2007, -13/+5That's one theory.
    • nite23, on 10/11/2007, -15/+7wtf, creationists are being dugg up now...?
    • ShrimpCrackers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Thats a shrimp-HADOKEN! Gotetsu would be proud.
    • WillAnderson07, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5pistol shrimp-man would be a cooler superhero than emo-peter parker
    • tyywebb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Dude! Sylar turned into a shrimp!
    • Smills, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@nite23
      I don't think he is a creationist. Merely commenting on how amazing evolution is...
    • mapkinase, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The nature article refers to sonoluminescence which was published in Nature two ears earlier, states that though it is similart it is different (they even call it rather sheepishly "shrimpoluminescence" bwahaha), then nevertheless conclude:

      "indicating that extreme pressures and temperatures of at least 5,000 K (ref. 4) MUST exist inside the bubble at the point of collapse. "

      Nature publishes crap that you need to seed through all the time, do not be so gullible, that is my 20 years experience of reading it talking.
    • rkiga, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Yeah I'm skeptical of Nature Mag, it's just speculation for something that they can't explain yet.
      A researcher at Berkeley more recently studied Mantis Shrimp, which use a similar mechanism to create an impact strike with 200+ pounds of force, though she didn't elaborate on the flash of light, other than that it has to to do with cavitation.
      http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/77
      16 minute video, skip to 11:10 if you want.
    • Filippo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7From the youtube comments:

      " Number 23 on the lists of "Animals that could evolve to ***** kill us" "

      rofl
    • yow1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0shrimpoluminescence
  • rhinopig, on 10/11/2007, -3/+72the zerg need to get there hands on some of that tech.
  • swazo, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2Im just waiting for the news stories now that go something like

    "Man in Florida robs bank with tank of water and a snapping shrimp"
  • exemef, on 10/11/2007, -1/+37the gun sounds were annoying, though i bet thats exactly how it sounds in real life.
    • DubbedOver, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19"...specialized claw shut to create a cavitation wave that generates noise in excess of 180 to 200 decibels"

      Not sure why the narrator didn't mention that but it's on Wikipedia
    • heliox, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7I especially like to "cocking" sound.
    • gothicx00, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29I'm not sure y'all understand the concept of 180 to 200 dB (technically it'd be 194 cause thats as high as it goes.) 125 dB is the threshold of pain, 140 is a jet engine at 100'. So we are talking about 18x the volume of the threshold of pain. And before you correct me on my math, every 3 dB is a doubling in sound pressure, and every 10db is a doubling in perceived volume at about 1000hz (yes, increases in dB are perceived differently at different frequencies).

      So all in all, not only is that really really loud, it's painfully loud. 180 dB is instant tissue death for your ears. We're not just talking pop your eardrum loud, but if it was an instant pop at 180 dB, everything from the cilia in your inner ear to the tiny bones that make up the middle ear would be toast. Gone.... no amount of hearing aid would allow you to hear much better.
  • rajaal1977, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Dugg...that's some pretty *****' interesting information.
  • MaxwellTD, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36Is it just me or did the gun shot sound like the AK-47 in counter-strike?
    • gothicx00, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Chances are whatever sound they were using was from a royalty free sound archive. I wouldn't be surprised to see that the devs of CS used sounds from just such an archive. Happens all the time. People use the Wilhelm scream in tons of movies. When I was in college (for Audio Engineering) we had a few canned sound CDs for learning how to do audio for video, and it included 2 out of the 5 Wilhelm screams. Tons of gunshot sounds too, most of which I've heard time and time again in TV shows and video games.
    • syobwoc, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2it reminded me of a gun in Goldeneye for the N64. Can't remember which one, but boy, do I love that game.
  • datagod, on 10/11/2007, -48/+3Hmmm...maybe the planes that hit the twin towers were filled with THESE little suckers. It would explain what melted all the steel...
    • kosmoX, on 10/11/2007, -7/+30No, physics explains what happened to the steel. It was heated by fire, weakened, and collapsed do to the immense weight of, oh I don't know, a ***** building.
    • danakin, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13Also, don't go by the melting point of steel in your crazy conspiracy. You don't need to melt steel to lower its yield strength.
    • peaches017, on 10/11/2007, -6/+10Please kill yourself.
    • vidar808, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Yes... A group of _xxx_ agents filled the world trade center towers with a couple miles of explosive wiring and thousands of holes for timed explosive charges and no one noticed anything odd the next morning. If planes crashed into a building fully loaded with fuel they would probably disrupt any sort of explosive wiring that was in place as well. Its just mind boggling how little thought through this theory is...
    • datagod, on 10/11/2007, -17/+8First of all, I was joking. Second of all you just showed how pathetic / apathetic the general public is to this issue.

      Use your mind and do some research.

      1. Kerosene does not burn hot enough to even warp the steel.
      2. Black smoke indicates lack of oxygen = less than optimal fire = relative cool burning = no warping/melting.
      3. There was constant construction on the building, tenants were moving from floor to floor for months prior to 911.
      4. Three weeks prior 911, there was a short notice power outage scheduled, all power turned off, no backup power allowed, nobody allowed in the buildings.
      5. There are eyewitnesses that felt and heard explosions in the building PRIOR to the planes crashing.
      6. Anyone who looks at the countless hours of footage can in fact see small eplosions blowing out the windows immediately below the crash sites.
      7. WTC was designed to sustain the impact of a similar aircraft, including all the fuel.
      8. No large steel building has EVER collapsed due to fire.
      9. WTC-7 collapsed in a similar fashion, even though it was NOT hit by airplanes nor did it have a significant fire.

      Study the footage yourself. That's what I did.

      And stop being so rude, you smug arrogant blind zombie brainwashed bastards.
    • TheHal, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269196,00.html

      I guess fuel burning can't make steal weak and buckle even under concrete and asphault.
    • stevensj2, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5"Also, don't go by the melting point of steel in your crazy conspiracy. You don't need to melt steel to lower its yield strength."

      No, but you would indeed have to melt it to leave a molten pile of it that lasted for more than a month.

      Read more. Assume less.
    • vidar808, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Wow so during a power outage they were able to route a couple miles of explosive cables through the building. That is a good one... Perfectly positioned so that the planes wouldn't damage the charges or accidentally set them off...
    • datagod, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Somebody actually quotes a FOX news story to support their argument that nothing suspicious happened on 911....that is just pathetic...what a moron.
    • mikeazorin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3datagod: The FOX news story was about an actual event. It's not any specific quotes from that article, just the event in general, and I guarantee you if you look that event up on Google News, you'll find the same story from numerous other sources.
  • freyaXgefn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7a supporting article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1003_SnappingShrimp.html
  • hedonictonic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6can someone explain or point me to the science behind this? collapsing sonic bubbles imploding and reaching the temperature of the sun? what?
    • hedonictonic, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1freyaxgefn, danka.
    • triscuitbiscuit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The bubbles are basically pockets of gas and since there is a positive correlation between pressure and temperature, a high increase in temperature will simultaneously raise the temperature holding everything else constant.
    • ersatzphi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10What biscuit meant to say is, at the high pressure levels this deep in the water, the high pressure rapidly collapses the bubbles and since an increase in pressure leads to an increase in temperature, you can expect a ridiculous temperature increase as the bubble collapses. Quite fascinating really but this "gun" wouldn't be nearly as effective in shallower water.
    • grenden, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Check out this link for a video explanation of the physics behind this phenomenon.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONQlTMUYCW4&NR=1
  • gvetterick, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1I may be wrong, but the sun is a bit hotter than 9900C....
    • bootfail, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Nope...
      The surface of the sun is 5785 Kelvin. So, around 5511 Celcius. However, the core is in the Mega Kelvin range.
  • benjaminradler, on 10/11/2007, -7/+0holy ***** *****
  • rotarychainsaw, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2So thats how Guile does it.
    • knicks555, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2im taking you down with me haha :)
  • knicks555, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2big deal....Ryu's been doing that ON LAND for years
  • dvdcr, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1So Franky is the result of this....
  • GiJoeBob, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5So, its synthesizing an excited bromide in an argon matrix?
  • Hoxie, on 10/11/2007, -7/+0Wouldn't there be some sort of rather catastrophic consequence if the temperature of the sun was reached? Wouldn't a large amount of water evaporate?
    • dcmjzero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4the energy is radiated away in the form of a shockwave. the temperature is highly localized, and it takes a surprising amount of energy to evaporate water- especially at such high pressure. so no.
  • cocoamix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I'd love to see a match between a pistol shrimp and a mantis shrimp:
    http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/04/21_shrimp.shtml

    • MikeMania, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7http://youtube.com/watch?v=mu6yrC6bjNo
    • Rooster99, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I think the pistol shrimp will stun it before it gets close! I know the mantis shrimp is a tough opponent, but that pistol shrimp is just so devastating!

      It would be a good match up. Go to Thailand, and take bets on it! Easy money!
  • Afterlife, on 10/11/2007, -6/+19In Soviet Russia, shrimp cooks YOU!
    • psg188, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1Whats with that reference in EVERY thread...

      starting to get annoying.
    • Rooster99, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6STARTING to get annoying??
  • orxor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9I wonder if I can get some of these at Red Lobster
  • dearsomeone, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18maybe there was a pistol shrimp on the grassy knoll.
  • Pilot85, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Im gonna be honest with you... I had no idea what the title meant when I clicked on it.
  • TremorX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9It's a frickin' shrimp, with a frickin' pistol on it's claw. It's not a frickin' shark with frickin' lasers, but I'll take what I can get.
  • Aliarse, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Now i normally wouldn't do this, but this video is part of another set of videos already on the net. I submitted them to the video section 4 days ago, but as usual with everything i submit, they got buried under everything else submitted rather quick..

    If anyone wants to watch them, check out my submitted page and click on "Natures Freaky Feeding techniques". - http://www.digg.com/users/Aliarse/videos/submitted
  • spliffy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1couldn't we make the worlds most powerful weapon out of these pistol shrimp? has anyone started any projects?
  • angrycat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5My cat can create temperatures of TWO suns, plus he keeps me warm at night, all that shrimp can do is be in my cat's stomach.
  • Bei337, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3I for one welcome our new pistol shrimp overlords.
  • alphaeno, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1So a simple animal is able to produce this amount of heat and sound...Wonder what power aliens could have; create a black hole with their thought?
  • carl25, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6SHRIMPY I CHOOSE YOU

    now evade and use bubblebeam
    • durru7, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1hah, pokemon popped into my head when i saw this to :p
  • dj4site, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Dumb question, but if these things can produce the temperature of the Sun.. Has anybody looked into using that process for power generation / fusion research?
    • Abram730, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0that's a smart question.
      science
      search sonofusion
      invention
      search cavitation heater
  • unlimitedorb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The "bubbles" they refer to are actually an example of sonoluminescence. It's not truly confirmed whether or not the temperature is really that intense, but some speculate that if that power can be harnessed, it could be the trigger scientists need for cold fusion.
  • tw0k1ngs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Screw ***** fighting and dog fighting... Shrimp fighting is better than pokemon!
  • h3ndrix, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1You know if you got a pin prick to be the temp of the sun, everything around it would incinerate?
  • jongurizzy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0SUPER high speed footage of the actual bubble it makes, anyone? maybe like 500 fps?
  • BuckyDent, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The nature.com article says " temperatures of at least 5,000 K " that's 4,726.85 degrees Celsius. The temperature of the sun at it's outermost layer is about 6,000° C, at it's core temperatures can get up to about 15,000,000° C, that's much hotter than 4,726.85° C. VERY hot but not quite the temperature of the sun.
    • Abram730, on 10/10/2007, -0/+020,000 degrees Kelvin [35,540 degrees Fahrenheit] — is four times hotter than the surface of our Sun.

      neutrons have been confermed to be released from this proccess...search "Desktop fusion is back on the table"
  • Evi1d33d, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Boom headshot!
  • Catchpen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Shrimply amazing
  • IllBeBack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I was about to take a bite out of him when the little ***** shot me! Damned pistol shrimp.
  • starrychloe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That video was totally sensationalized. Probably in the name of ratings, not science. One of the related videos goes into more depth, and is more realistic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONQlTMUYCW4&mode=related&search=
    • Abram730, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0notice the explotion at 1:38 in your link.
      That's the energy that is released.
      the bubble collapses and boom.
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