Different worlds

#19 - japa

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(08/29/2013)[-]

You gonna fly with the birds?

#29 to #19 - jakekel

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(08/29/2013)[-]

you question that, and not the fact that the fish is smoking a cigarette under water and wearing a hat.

#35 to #29 - lucilavit

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(08/30/2013)[-]

#37 to #35 - jakekel

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(08/30/2013)[-]

oh **** I replied to the wrong comment. My mistake.

#4 - anon id: 2f065675

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(08/29/2013)[-]

Cool fact:

Reason why fish can't breath out of water. Their gills (made from multiple fleshy pads in series) create a large surface area underwater which allows oxygen to easily diffuse across into their bloodstream. When a fish is above water these gills collapse without the water's buoyant force. This means that all the pads stick to one another resulting decreasing the surface area of the gills to a point which fish cannot diffuse oxygen at the rate required to support respiration and then die.

#12 to #4 - urchinator

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(08/29/2013)[-]

but if we made some contraption that you strap to a fish, that would blow air through the gills and keep them separated and oxygenated? WE COULD KICKSTART EVOLUTION AND LET FISH WALK THE EARTH AS SOME SORT OF... AMPHIBIANS! oh wait

#41 to #12 - zombieicecream

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(08/30/2013)[-]

this one should be slightly nicer looking

#42 to #41 - zombieicecream

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(08/30/2013)[-]

i hate gifs now

#20 to #4 - eddymolly

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(08/29/2013)[-]

I think you'll find its because fish breath water, and there's not enough water in air for them to breath

This was a joke, but some people will still believe i'm that stupid

#8 to #4 - jokerdude

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(08/29/2013)[-]

Does that mean fish can breath in like a space station outsideof water?

#39 to #8 - bighairyfart

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(08/30/2013)[-]

Somebody call NASA.

#25 to #8 - gadgetzan

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(08/29/2013)[-]

You just asked a question I never even though about, but now I REALLY need to know the answer

#10 to #8 - flusteredmoose

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(08/29/2013)[-]

No, they still need oxygen.

#14 to #10 - kommandantvideo

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(08/29/2013)[-]

Space stations tend to have oxygen

#27 to #14 - flusteredmoose

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(08/29/2013)[-]

I don't know why, but I decided to not read the word "station" for reasons unknown.

#31 to #27 - kommandantvideo

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(08/29/2013)[-]

Hahah deadpool comics are funny

#30 to #4 - danster

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(08/29/2013)[-]

Why can't humans breath when they're underwater?

#32 to #30 - zenith

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(08/29/2013)[-]

its because our lung's alveoli do not cover enough surface area to diffuse the oxygen in the water to our bloodstream, sure the oxygen molecules can get across, but not enough to sustain humans for too long. Which is why we drown.

#1 - solitaryweasel

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(08/29/2013)[-]

You'd need more than one balloon to pull a fish above water.

#38 to #1 - jakekel

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(08/30/2013)[-]

you question that, and not the fact that the fish is smoking a cigarette under water and wearing a hat.

#11 to #1 - lolollo#365 on commentsRank#365

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(08/29/2013)[-]

No, all you need is one balloon, but it needs to be filled with a light enough gas to lift itself and the fish above the water's surface. Helium would work, but where a fish could get ahold of helium is beyond me...

#15 to #11 - iamundecided

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(08/29/2013)[-]

#47 to #11 - lateday

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(08/30/2013)[-]

the weight of the fish would bring it down.

#16 to #11 - solitaryweasel

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(08/29/2013)[-]

Helium only floats because it has lower weight than the buoyancy of its volume.
Therefore, as weight goes to 0, the mass that can be lifted has a set limit.

Long story short: if the balloon is that size, it doesn't matter what you put in it, fish won't be lifted.

#48 to #16 - lateday

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(08/30/2013)[-]

I may be an idiot, but I don't understand your first sentence.

#49 to #48 - solitaryweasel

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(08/30/2013)[-]

Helium doesn't push up. It simply pushes down less than air.
Buoyancy is what pushes the balloon up.

So a balloon filled with an extremely light substance would still only push up with as much force as the buoyancy of the balloon will allow.

#50 to #49 - lateday

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(08/30/2013)[-]

Isn't buoyancy a property of the surrounding fluid and not of the "floating" one? Wouldn't the airs buoyancy lift the helium? That's what got me confused in your first comment.

#2 to #1 - arnoldbusk

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(08/29/2013)[-]

I think that is just something you are assuming

#3 to #2 - solitaryweasel

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(08/29/2013)[-]

If we take the balloon to be the size of the fish, which it more or less is.
Then the volume of the whole system is more or less 2 fish.
The weight is more or less that of 1 fish.

Something with half the density of the fish would not float in air.

#40 to #3 - anon id: d90dd169

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(08/30/2013)[-]

Long story short, you agree that it would take more than one balloon

#9 to #3 - anon id: 0735896d

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(08/29/2013)[-]

you really like ruining things huh?
this is just a comic ffs

#7 to #1 - guiguito

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(08/29/2013)[-]

if a fish don't move for long enough he'll most likely die

#23 to #7 - lateday

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(08/29/2013)[-]

those are sharks...

#43 to #23 - guiguito

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(08/30/2013)[-]

both breathe the same way...

#44 to #43 - lateday

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(08/30/2013)[-]

Are you sure? Because I've heard sharks do stop breathing if they don't move. Only because of the way their gills are structured. I am not so sure ALL fish have this issue though. I've seen plenty of fish stay still for quite a while.

#45 to #44 - guiguito

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(08/30/2013)[-]

fish have gills too, and i doubt he would last long upside down, but hey, there is a fish smoking on water so logic does not aply.

#46 to #45 - lateday

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(08/30/2013)[-]

I know fish have gills. And I never said anything about fish being upside down, just still. As far as I know, most fish don't need to stay in motion to breathe. Water is pumped into their gills by muscles, while sharks don't. They use their own motion to have water pass through their gills. Although a quick google search showed me some types of sharks can stay still and breathe (angel sharks and nurse sharks).

#13 - tellybear

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(08/29/2013)[-]

Fish smoking under water.

#51 to #13 - tellybear

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(08/31/2013)[-]

Someone was having a bad day.

#36 to #13 - lucilavit

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(08/30/2013)[-]

He must be the Big Fish.
i tried

#34 to #13 - gongthehawkeye

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(08/29/2013)[-]

Spongebob logic.

#28 to #13 - jajathezombie

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(08/29/2013)[-]

It's a lollipop

#24 to #13 - Loopholes

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(08/29/2013)[-]

Fish wearing hat
Fish getting pulled out of water by balloon
Fish killing other fish using balloon
Fish wearing sunglasses
Seemingly sentient fish
And you only question the smoking?

#17 to #13 - blokrokker

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(08/29/2013)[-]

He used a waterproof match.

#5 - erpetrich

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(08/29/2013)[-]

#33 - rejak

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(08/29/2013)[-]

nice edit