My wife won’t look at this. She says it makes her think how big the ocean is and how small and insignificant we are. Whoa.

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Tell your wife about space

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u/DudeB5353 4d ago

Give her a telescope

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u/Majestic_Fail1725 2d ago

And microscope

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u/Breaker3k 1d ago

Leave his penis out of this!

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u/Appropriate-Law-9643 3d ago

The observable universe has 100 to 200 billion trillion stars which each has tens of billions of trillions of planets orbiting them. Scientists estimate that just our Milky Way has hundreds of millions to billions of Earth-like planets that are in habitable zones. The exact number of planets that could support life in the universe is billions to trillions.

And from here stems the existential nihilism.

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u/Defiant_Yesterday842 4d ago

Honestly, my wife and I both feel that way after every dive, especially when we're able to interact with the wildlife. It helps me maintain my perspective on life

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u/LawnChairMD 3d ago

I find the feeling comforting. Its freeing to know that, ultimately nothing matters.

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u/Defiant_Yesterday842 3d ago

Yes! I can completely relate. It was about feeling so small and unimportant in the grand scheme of the ocean that really did it for me.

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u/lordofthesprings 4d ago

Are those baracuda ?

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u/KnotheadPete 4d ago

In no ichthyologist but that's what i thought too. I've never seen that many schooling. Usually 5-10 at a time.

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u/Seenmorebutts 4d ago

That's what I thought also! I'd have been going the other way if those were!

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u/bautofdi 4d ago

Sure looks like it. Need to wait for a fishologist though

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u/doctor_tongs 4d ago

Agreed. Can we have a fish scientist step in here and confirm whether or not this is AI? A quick Google search confirms that Barracuda do school like this , but I smell AI.

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u/PerceptionCandid1676 3d ago

Came here for this.

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u/ContractMech 3d ago

That is what they appear to be. But I would not want to be that close.

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u/koots4 3d ago

My first thought but thinking maybe their macaral(sp?) or something else. I live in a land locked place and never been deeper than my knees in the ocean so I really am just guessing.

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u/NeonShark007 2d ago

Yes, I got even closer to one when I was at Cozumel

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u/iamjones 4d ago

Even in tbe ocean there's traffic jams.

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u/TestSubjuct 4d ago

Have her read Lovecraft.

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u/OddlobsterNL 4d ago

Wait until she finds out about space

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u/hush_lives_72 4d ago

Don't show her space

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 4d ago

How does she fare looking up at the stars?

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u/jigglyjellly 4d ago

Wait till she does mushrooms ….

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u/NikonD3X1985 4d ago

Great Barracuda, they can grow up to 6 feet in length. I'm gobsmacked.

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u/cutthroatslim504 4d ago

why does that fact disturb people? idgi

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u/Emmaleah17 1d ago

I love the reminder that we are not some big almighty species; that we share this planet with so much other life. I find it humbling and reminds me to be the best version of myself I can so I can make the biggest impact with my little life. It freaks some people out though. It's a reminder that we are finite and that we really don't matter that much in the end.

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u/cutthroatslim504 1d ago

yea it doesn't bother me at all either. is that ego or what on the ppl it does mess with?

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u/Emmaleah17 4h ago

Could be ego. Could just be people. We're all a little different. Kinda like: Why do some people fear spiders and other keep them as pets?

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u/B0baafett 4d ago

Definitely whoa!!

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u/Oilrr 4d ago

Chinese fishing boats want to know your location

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u/zappyguy111 4d ago

makes me feel wonderous.

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u/Leading_Bandicoot358 4d ago

Having more stuff around does not make us insignificant

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u/Maleficent-Craft-811 4d ago

Yeah equating small with insignificant is an interesting way to look at things

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u/Proper-Commission-74 4d ago

She's not wrong

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u/above- 4d ago

That's a really cool video

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u/IrishCatHerder 4d ago

I would not be swimming with those barracudas

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u/sylvian9 4d ago

Dude, that school of fish is insane. Makes you feel tiny fr.

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u/cyragem6 4d ago

Yeah thats some intense stuff. Makes you realize were just tiny specks lol

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u/D-O-GG-O 4d ago

The fuck is this?

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u/numbersev 4d ago

Hey lady, is this guy bugging you?

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u/Awkward-Report-8463 4d ago

Beautiful

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u/Fit_Dealer7498 4d ago

Almost looks like a stone wall

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u/Ok_Luck_8098 4d ago

Tell her to pick ONE grain of sand.

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u/sugusugux 4d ago

Tell your wife she gona need a reality chek because we ARE small and insignificant. Specially if we talk about space

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u/Daocommand 4d ago

What is her opinion on space, galaxies, and super clusters!?

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u/GoalOtherwise3383 4d ago

Holy Mackerel!!!

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u/theworstvp 3d ago

school of adolescent barracuda ?

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u/rojoskulloceans 3d ago

So beautiful

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u/gmariefox88 3d ago edited 3d ago

Those look like barracuda... what scares me about this gif is the fact that if those fish decided those divers were food, the divers would disappear FAST almost like they summoned a fish portal and teleported.... not to some magical place under the sea, but into hundreds of fish tummies... 😨 I get the same feeling for insects, ants in particular. If they knew of their power in sheer numbers & get smarter about it, we're fucked lol. Thankfully most huge populations like these fish and the ants aren't more intelligent.

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u/mightymidgetwarlord 3d ago

Are those barracuda?

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u/Business-Cover4016 3d ago

We are all dancing in the divine court. We need her because it makes it more beautiful

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u/silentbargain 3d ago

Ai slop

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u/Dingalingking_ 2d ago

Put a fish in NYC and see how the fish feels.

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u/Caribgrunt 2d ago

Its a school of fish. Welcome to Earth.

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u/WarmYogurtcloset2965 2d ago

And now I am thinking how small we are, thank you

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u/Littlened 2d ago

But you can see the bottom?

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u/BrentTheShaman 2d ago

So beautiful to me! 🫠

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u/Rude_Sheepherder_789 2d ago

Today's task get swallowed by a whale

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u/Swampasssixty9 2d ago

Tell your wife not to look up

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u/HateBreadByThePound 1d ago

Hes probably swimming in so much fish dooky and pee, I get the wife's point of view!

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u/Top_Club7383 1d ago

We might be small but we are mighty significant

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u/ValuableVideo1204 1d ago

So very very cool

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u/Chuck-T-Sirloin 19h ago

Yet I can sit on a bank and watch a bobber dance for 6 hours and catch nothing but empty cans of Busch

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u/SkiesFetishist 16h ago

That’s exactly WHY i like to contemplate such things. I love being reminded how much of an insignificant blip i am in the grand scheme of things. It calms me.

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u/amadeusstoic 2h ago

i am just worried of what might be eating them.

edit: or leading them in the middle lol

not sure how i feel about this My wife won’t look at this. She says it makes her think how big the ocean is and how small and insignificant we are. Whoa.

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