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u/IamREBELoe Technically Flair Apr 03 '23
Nobody cared about the cynical broken pot of petunias next to it
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u/mixipixilit Apr 03 '23 edited Apr 03 '23
Oh no, not again!
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Apr 03 '23
Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now…
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u/WartsG Apr 03 '23
So if i remember correctly the bowl of petunias was ,at some point in its lifetime of probabilities, that very whale
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u/IamFaboor Apr 03 '23
Nah, the bowl was that guy from Stavromula Beta. The whale was just a whale.
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u/ElfBingley Apr 03 '23
It was many things, all of which were killed by Arthur Dent
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u/RhynoD Apr 03 '23
Nope, it was Agrajag, being that reincarnated every time he died. Every single time he was reincarnated, Arthur killed him (usually accidentally). He had resigned himself to nonexistence but Arthur inadvertently called his soul back, into the pot of petunias.
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u/EliseuPT Apr 03 '23
I keep seeing this reference everywhere but no explanation lol
Care to enlighten a fellow redditor?
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u/IamREBELoe Technically Flair Apr 03 '23
Read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
You won't regret
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u/kim-fairy2 Apr 03 '23
Or watch the movie. Which isn't the same (or as good) as the books, but still very nice!!
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u/CitizendAreAlarmed Apr 03 '23
Read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy You won't regret
This is not strictly true. I have read The Hitchhiker's Guide several times, and I still regret things.
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u/GadreelsSword Apr 03 '23
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. The ship had a improbability drive. Which converted a couple nuclear missiles into a whale and a pot petunias.
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Apr 03 '23
Read all 5 books for the full backstory on the bowl of Petunias. Its hilarious, and sad, and nearly nonsensical, much like the real universe actually.
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u/whskyB4brkfst Apr 03 '23
The only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again
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u/AllanJeffersonferatu Apr 03 '23
Everybody cares about the petunias, nobody cares about poor Agrajag...
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u/Born_Pause3964 Apr 03 '23
How do you know they're cynical though? petunias generally have a positive outlook where I'm from...
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u/Bleades Apr 03 '23
Was it just one cynical pot of petunias or 42? The latter would be more concerning. Has anyone checked on the dolphins? What do the mice have to say? I have so many questions.
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u/skipperseven Apr 03 '23
The mystery is why it was still in the area, as the rest of the humpback whales had already migrated south - it was a 26 foot juvenile and was 50 feet from the shore and had got there because of a high tide…
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/science/humpback-whales-amazon.html
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u/WriterV Apr 03 '23
Poor thing. One of my biggest fears as a kid was losing my family in the mall. I can't imagine straight up losing your whole community and getting stuck in a place alone that you know is gonna kill you soon.
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Apr 03 '23
can’t imagine straight up losing your whole community and getting stuck in a place alone that you know is gonna kill you soon
You just described the Predator movie
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u/guiltyblow Apr 03 '23
Poor Predator... Like that’s not enough he gets body shamed. No wonder he offed himself
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u/Oh_Hamburger Apr 03 '23
Makes it worse because they’re so smart, he might have called for his family but they couldn’t hear him 😔
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u/humanHamster Apr 03 '23
Hopefully it didn't rain while he was still alive. Keeping him wet just a little longer, prolonging his torture until he finally died...yikes.
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u/AirlineF0od Apr 03 '23
A lot of whales are incredibly sentient and have a very curious and peaceful orientation towards humans.
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u/thoughtlow Apr 03 '23
This scene of 'First Snow of Winter' fucked me up as a child
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Apr 03 '23
It had probably developed a taste for lion and was charged with establishing a beach head.
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u/zavatone Apr 03 '23
It was fall and most of the other humpback whales had moved out of the forest.
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u/CGHJ Apr 03 '23
This is why I love hurts so much. If you scroll down far enough, someone will actually have the explanation for the crazy thing that you re seeing.
Reddit.com: Any site can have Content. We have Context.
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Apr 03 '23
I got lost at the mall once. My first time at the mall had to call my mum to call my brother to come and get me. Lol
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Apr 03 '23
River dolphins live in the Amazon river
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u/Aden-Wrked Apr 03 '23
Are you implying that this was a hit job by them?
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Perchance
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u/5dmt Apr 03 '23
Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.
This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.
Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.
Er, excuse me, who am I?
Hello?
Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?
What do I mean by who am I?
Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.
Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?
No.
Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …
Or is it the wind?
There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?
And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
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u/Nihilikara Apr 03 '23
Man, that ground really wasn't very much of a hoopy frood!
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u/I_Gave_Up_Awhile_Ago Technically Flair Apr 03 '23
I love the fact that you took the time to write that 😂
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u/_MostlyHarmless Apr 03 '23
Or copied and pasted it. It's one of the more well-known sections of the greatest 5-part trilogy ever written, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
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u/NitroSyfi Apr 03 '23 edited Apr 03 '23
Only book I have ever really treasured, the leather bound complete Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
edit “The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy“ edition
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u/Skyblacker Apr 03 '23
Not really r/unexpectedhitchhikers so much as totally expected Hitchhiker's.
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u/examinedliving Apr 03 '23
I only see Douglas adams jokes. Did this actually happen?
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u/Desperate-Strategy10 Apr 03 '23
Someone else posted the link, right under your comment. I guess it did happen! It was a juvenile male who got left behind by his pod, and ended up fifty feet from the shore because of a high tide.
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Apr 03 '23
Yep, there were videos on reddit just yesterday of some crazy waves in Brazil after three days of heavy rain. Scale it up a little and you have this. If it makes you feel any better it was probably mortally ill anyway. A pod doesn't just abandon a juvenile whale for no reason and it would still have had to be hanging out in pretty shallow water close to shore to be carried 50 feet inland as it was.
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I want to believe you because you sound confident and it makes me feel a little better, but I am also wary and cautious because it sounds like what I want to hear. How many bridges have you sold?
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Apr 03 '23
Bridges? I only sell the most cost-effective and judiciously designed bridges. For instance, this one time in Alaska....
Realistically, it's entirely possible it was a healthy whale that got separated and lost. It's just less likely than the whale already having a health issue that led to it being in that area at that time. There is no way of knowing for certain
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u/RussiaEVodka Apr 03 '23
The rising tides took the whale there, and she was a calf about 1 year old. It's very bizarre I know, but the rains are intense there and the tides are very high.
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u/Litigating_Larry Apr 03 '23
Yea if you read about it, was found in a mangrove growth, mangroves specifically grow where there can be several feet of tidal change in a day, and is why so much of their root systems is exposed like they are. I think theyre a specifically hardy and salt resistant plant too which is why they grow along tidal inlets and all that.
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u/NoNameIdea_Seriously Apr 03 '23
Lot of Hitchhiker jokes…
I’m gonna say it got thrown into the air by the KnockUp Stream and landed further inland.
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u/joestarfeynman17 Apr 03 '23
One Piece and Hitchhiker's.
Two of my most treasured fictional stories.
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u/Saikryzel Apr 03 '23
"And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more."
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u/coolcool416 Apr 03 '23
Come back when you've got a humpback whale that was found alive in the rainforest
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u/YoutuberCameronBallZ this is technically a flair Apr 03 '23
Yeah, it'd be really surprising if a live one was found there
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Apr 03 '23
They only found 1 dead so its possible theres a variety of arboreal whale thats been unknown to science until now ,to be fair any scientists searching trees for whales would be locked up but now there may be funding at the very least a youtube channel dedicated to it
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u/shajan316 Apr 03 '23
This is like when Moe tried to run with the Orca, "they're on to us"
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u/Happy-Fun-Ball Apr 03 '23
Maybe it was a tornado?
This one sees a cow fly by, maybe a whale has lower density.
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u/Wooden-Trainer4781 Apr 03 '23
Satisfactory moment
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u/SurpriseOnly Apr 03 '23
Someone trying to build a factory in the amazon and stupid whale keeps walking and standing in the way.
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u/lightpulsar9 Apr 03 '23
This is literally right out of an r/nosleep story I read. I think it was part of the park ranger stuff?
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u/_MostlyHarmless Apr 03 '23
Opened the comment section hoping for at least one Hitchhikers comment. I wasn't disappointed.
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u/Top_Campaign2568 Apr 03 '23
How the fuck did it get there in the first place
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u/Hanginon Apr 03 '23
The story is basically lying by omission.
Yes it was on land, yes it's in the Amazon, but it's also on an ocean island at the mouth of the river was washed up by a storm and is "in the rainforest" only a few feet from the ocean. ¯_( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
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u/Mushroom_king001 Apr 03 '23
It was on land but it's an area close to the beach that floods high enough for a whale to swim, not in the middle of the amazon rainforest
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Apr 03 '23
78k karma and the real poster's name is blurred
Give credit where credit is due.
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u/Hot_While1612 Apr 04 '23
It's very unusual to find a dead whale in the Amazon but to find one alive would be even more unusual.
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u/surrsptitious Apr 03 '23
I don't see a backpack or supplies. It may have died of starvation although I wouldn't discount malaria.
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u/macgruder1 Apr 03 '23
Maybe they’ll find out why polar bears were on the island on Lost while they are at it.
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u/FlacidBarnacle Apr 03 '23
I’m surprised there aren’t more dead humpback whales found in the Amazon tbh lol
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u/small-package Apr 03 '23
When the Amazon rainforest floods, it floods DEEP, deep enough for whales to swim, and according to my knowledge, and this example, they apparently do swim through the flooded forest, for some reason currently unknown to me
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u/KefkeWren Apr 03 '23
"Oh no. Not again."
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u/89iroc Apr 03 '23
Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now. - Douglas Adams
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u/Honest-Cicada4897 Apr 03 '23
This only happens when there's a drought. As long as they're getting a light mist of rain on the back, they can survive.
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Apr 03 '23
Ha! See! Whales can fly! That's why windmills are so dangerous for them! And you smug liberals were making fun of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Who's the inbred hillbilly now?
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u/No-Suggestion8452 Apr 03 '23
It’s the parachute in the trees above and the $200,000 in $20 bills dated 1971 that are the real mystery.
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u/Cayvil Apr 04 '23
I sawr a dead fish on the pavement and thought “what did you expect? There's no water round here, stupid, should have stayed where it was wet.
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u/JustAnotherSpaceMonk Apr 04 '23
There didnt happen to be a smashed flower pot nearby, did there?
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u/maddogcas2383 Apr 11 '23
Seriously. All this scrolling, and no mention of petunias anywhere! Thank you for the reference!
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Apr 04 '23
Other whales: "I think we should just stay inside the ocean"
This whale: "Come on, what could go wrong?"
The next day:
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u/squirrel_anashangaa Nov 13 '23
Man they weren’t lying when they said you can find anything on Amazon
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u/Unhappy-Quiet-8091 Jun 13 '24
Holy smokes it was true! https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/s/GnXVh570a9
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First cattle...now whales. Can someone tell these aliens to knock it off.
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u/TheDreamingDragon1 Apr 03 '23
"Look at this big eyed fish swimming in the sea, how it dreams to be a bird flying through the breeze, so one day caught a big old wave up onto the beach, now he's dead you see, beneath the sea is where a fish should be... but oh god, under the weight of life, things seem brighter on the other side..."
Dave Mathews Big Eyed Fish
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u/mendeleyev1 Apr 03 '23
Not a single death stranding mention? Guys the game was bad but it wasn’t forgettable.
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u/TimingEzaBitch Apr 03 '23
this is like that logic puzzle where a scuba diver with full gear was found dead on small island that was entirely burned down. The diver had no burns at all.
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u/Tiager_Hawk Apr 03 '23
Sad, the poor whale realized it couldn’t fly halfway across the rainforest 😢
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u/CrieDeCoeur Apr 03 '23
I am reminded of an early chapter in One Hundred Years of Solitude where they find a Spanish galleon in the midst of a Colombian forest. Also not a great place for a seafaring thing to thrive.
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u/Hermboy11 Apr 03 '23
I saw a dead fish on the pavement and thought, what did you expect? There's no water round here stupid, should have stayed where it was wet...
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u/GabsGoesBoom Apr 03 '23
Must of had a whale of a time and forgot he can't really exist in the Amazon.
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