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Zorro

(16,452 posts) Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:04 PM Nov 21

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'Doomsday fish' washed ashore in California, but what does that mean?

If one oarfish landing on a beach is a sign of a disaster to come, how bad will it be if three wash up in quick succession?

A silvery 10-foot-long creature, the oarfish has fueled fisherman’s tales of sea serpents — and in some cultures has been a portent of natural disasters.

It’s rare to see an oarfish up close in California; only 22 have washed ashore since 1901, according to UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. But in the last three months, three of them have surfaced on Southern California beaches.

The latest was on Nov. 6, when an oarfish was discovered at Grandview Beach by Alison Laferriere, a doctoral candidate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The other two beached in La Jolla and Huntington Beach.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-11-21/doomsday-fish-washed-ashore-in-california-but-what-does-that-mean

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'Doomsday fish' washed ashore in California, but what does that mean? (Original Post) Zorro Nov 21 OP

I've heard that it's a bad omen. FoggyLake Nov 21 #1

We're in the midst of the 6th extinction Submariner Nov 21 #2

100% Nigrum Cattus Nov 21 #4

We just had an 80,000 year naked eye comet last month SledDriver Nov 21 #3

FoggyLake

(104 posts)

1. I've heard that it's a bad omen.

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:19 PM

Nov 21

So, it makes sense.

Submariner

(12,710 posts)

2. We're in the midst of the 6th extinction

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:43 PM

Nov 21

An Anthropocene destruction of life planet wide.

Get used to it.

Nigrum Cattus

(223 posts)

4. 100%

Reply to Submariner (Reply #2)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 07:50 PM

Nov 21

Advanced sonar is also driving them from the deep, as well as beaching
of Cetaceans. Overpopulation in the nail in our collective coffin, sad.

SledDriver

(2,099 posts)

3. We just had an 80,000 year naked eye comet last month

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 06:28 PM

Nov 21

Comets are harbingers of doom.

Mars, the bringer of war, the planet reaches a perihelic opposition in 2025 too.

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