Fricking humpback whale ran straight through our net on our last set of the day and made a giant hole. Dragged that b-word about 100 fathoms before it finally broke through. Took two god darn hours to fix that. Oh well, we're on anchor all day anyways. Just cut into my cocktail time.
Ngl it was pretty cool to see it happen though. That neighbor was about 80 feet from our bow. After it rekt the net, it came up and spouted. Libtards pay thousands of dollars to come up and MAYBE see the majestic beauty I experience daily lmao
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But I done enjoyed yer whale of a tale of a whale all the same
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thats like saying cm is for small objects LOL
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fr, leagues refer to distance, fathoms refer to depth
You don't talk about how wide a building is in stories.
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maybe YOU don't
how many "news" articles have you seen where burgers use swimming pools or elephants to measure things?
think about it
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Even Elon Musk made his employees measure how many hamsters could fit in his new battery plant.
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TIL 20,000 leagues under the sea was referring to the surface of the ocean
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Correct. They traveled 20,000 leagues of distance while under the sea. They weren't at 20,000 leagues of depth.
SNL did an entire sketch on just that in the 90s.
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That's weird because we always measure our net in fathoms. I'll consneed though, we aren't the smartest bunch up here lol
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fathoms is depth neighbor. thats how far down your net goes. a leauge is like 3 nautical miles or so. 80 leagues would be 240 or so miles under, i think the deepest part of the ocean is like 7
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I still don't buy it, it's just a unit of measurement - 6 ft to be exact. Goes either way
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I always wondered how they managed to go 10 times deeper than the Earth's radius. 20,000 leagues is still much larger than Earth's circumference, but looping back would actually make sense in that context.
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That's what ((they)) want you to think.
They don't want you to find all the cool stuff in the subterranean world like where Yakub's people lived.
(tbh you couldn't even do 20,000 leagues into Jupiter. You could only get 12,000 or so before you reached the chewy metallic hydrogen center)
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