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1y ago

We'll be ready for the events of the late 2200s

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Sit your ass back down, Kirstie Alley, you had nothing to do with it!

Star Trek canon aside, this movie probably did move the dial on marine protections especially as it applies to whales. The movement to save them had been working for decades, but the amount of public consciousness this movie delivered probably cut a decade or so off the timeline, and that could have been success vs failure.

I grew up in kayaking with humpback whales. This news makes me really happy. I hope more get to experience that now too.
- This seems to be either quite old or just talking about the atlantic population. Wikipedia says the global population is around 120.000. Which is amazing, as there where only a couple thousand left when the hunt was banned in the sixties. Just thought that would make you happy to know.
  Edit: just noticed who I was answering to, Stamets will probably not even see this...
  
  I had no idea humpbacks went that low. I thought they were one of the "safer" numbers one. TIL

Good plan, because there is no way George and Gracie could make up a viable breeding population.

Can someone explain this? I've not seen tos all the way through
- The movie Star Trek 4 was a large contributing factor to public awareness of whaling and other threats to the humpback whale species.
  The movie involved time travel, and taking a pair of whales from 1986 to a future where they were already extinct.
  
  Oh, that's cool. Thanks for the info.

[insert colorful metaphor] Yeah!
- Well, a double asshole on you!
  
  Yea boiii they made those whalers look like double dumbasses. Image is worth a thousand envionmentalist pamphlets.

It's incredible that their population came back without me even noticing. I had just assumed Asian Waling Ships were going to keep whittling them down all these years.

Don't tell me that Kirk... 😳

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