A KATU News re-edit from remastered 4K footage of the 1970 Oregon incident in which officials blew up a beached whale and showered the beach with blubber.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as the direct link to the infamous exploding whale footage, and used for jokes about explosions and whales.
“Direct link to the video without the shitty local news site”
News segment on the Oregon exploding whale
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Direct link to the video without the shitty local news site: this video Side rant: Their ad-tracking cookie opt-out is the epitome of a dark design pattern. It took over 2 minutes to run. Including saying "done" in a pop out and the only leaving a cancel button for another 15 seconds. There's absolutely zero reason it should take even 1/10th of that time, other than purposefully bad UX.
JokedredmorbiusOct 2021Full comment
I've somewhat deliberately left the pulverising mechanism unspecified. But the point remains: under the influence of the cloud's own gravity a cloud of merely separated particles will re-coalesce. You can look up in the night sky much of the time to see an example of this yourself, the Earth's moon. And again, depending on the mechanism , a fair fraction of particles, quite possibly / probably the majority, will approach the original centroid of the mass. In practice, pulverising planets and/or planetoids is likely a challenging proposition. Early experimentation on animal models tends to support this hypothesis: this video
Jokeal2o3crDec 2023Full comment
The Oregon State Highway Division can tell the folks in Waterford one whale-moving solution that DOESN'T work: this video
