Waching daily Feb 25 2018

Why Are There No Great White Sharks In Captivity?

The Secret Is Revealed!

Great white sharks are all the rage now, after all they are the talk of the town, uhmm in

every town!

So when you set foot in your local zoo or aquarium, it is understandable that your eyes

look for the great white.

But do you ever find it?

Nope!

Well it's not that the majestic shark has never made it to a glass tank to showcase

its grace.

But within a few days of living in the new home, the newspaper would read, "Great White

Shark dies after capture"!

The first known attempt was by Marineland of the Pacific, a California oceanarium and

tourist attraction, during the mid-1950s.

It survived for less than a day.

Can you believe that?

But the sad trail of deaths had just started!

When Seaworld tried a hand at captive shark displays in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, all of

them resulted in the shark dying or being released back to the wild within a couple

of weeks.

Such incidents suppressed the motivation and by 2000s only the Monterey Bay Aquarium was

trying to keep a great white in captivity.

Things moved in favor when in 2004, MBA was able to put a Great White on display for more

than six months before it was released back into the ocean.

Now that was something or should we say just an exception!

The truth is that Great whites and aquariums simply do not mix well!

But why is that so?

We have some theories here that will shed light on this important mystery!

One of the major problems with the great shark is that it would not eat anything other than

a live prey, unless it is near starvation!

Woah, self-dependence taken to the next level!

Alright now if you look at it practically, there are a lot of problems associated with

giving into the shark's whim of feeding.

Firstly, it is not easy and then it won't come cheap.

And then if you look at the bigger picture, arranging for a live animal for it to feast

on would be a terrible PR exercise!

You know animal rights and all that, so a BAD idea!

And when you try to offer it dead fish to eat, the great White would most certainly

refuse.

You know what it's gonna do to the shark, right?

Furthering this, we'd want to shed light on the fact that great whites are expensive

to keep in captivity.

Like we said, if you decide to serve live prey to them, it is expensive and will help

you gain negative publicity.

Ready for that?

Okay leave that for a while now and concentrate solely on the nature of this shark.

What would be the first thought raiding your mind when we question the marine beast's

personality?

You'd probably say aggression and you won't be entirely wrong!

The most interesting thing is that captivity irritates the shark and ignites the anger.

This results in damage to the glass tank at times in addition to injury and death of tank

mates due to their hunger and anger instincts!

You can well understand how expensive it would be to refill their tank time and again.

Were you thinking about a solo tank for them as a solution to this problem?

Well, that would add to expenses again and besides, constructing a tank that stretches

for miles for just one animal is neither profitable nor feasible!

Another problem is that the magnificent shark needs a constant flow of water through its

gills to be able to extract oxygen from it and survive.

Unlike other marine creatures who simply open their mouths, the great white has to move

forward in the water at high speeds to be in a position to breathe!

Now you do realize how big a tank you would need to allow the 6meter long shark to swim

around and get oxygen.

This might make more sense when you know that once a great white known as Nicole was documented

to travel from Africa to Australia and back again - a round trip of over 12,400 miles

- in just nine months.

Wow!

The great whites have to swim long distances for their contentment, that is the way they

live and trying to change that won't end well, right?

So now tell us, is it possible to mimic the size of the waters they feel comfortable in?

That'll simply be unrealistic!

On second thoughts even if you can build such a tank, it'll not be entertaining for the

paid visitors to try to spot the shark in a caged ocean, it'll take hours!

Shall we move on with another theory?

Alright then, this one suggests that since the shark's electroreception is incredibly

sharp, being captive in a glass tank might overwhelm or confuse the shark.

The explanation behind this is that the shark can perceive subtle changes in the marine

environment due to its electroreception but it could end up in confusion due to excessive

stimuli in the form of glass walls and electronic equipment surrounding them!

This results in the shark colliding with the walls and getting injured or simply getting

gloomy due to insane confusion.

Physically or mentally hurt shark will not be able to survive for long!

Wait, we have more reasons here!

Do you think it is easy to capture a great white shark?

Come on, it isn't a prawn that you can find, cook and gobble in the blink of an eye!

It is a shark and the largest one at that so capturing is a challenge in itself.

Once you manage to do that, the next question pops up.

How are you planning to move it to your aquarium?

You need a transfer tank that is big enough for the giant shark and manages to control

it till you reach your destination!

All this involves a lot of effort in addition to the mounting risk factor.

Are you ready to take the plunge?

Last but not the least, it is believed that these sharks retire to depression and gloominess

because their tank environment does not match their wild habitat!

Since these sharks are salt water species, it is important to create a saline water tank

for their survival.

Though we keep them in one but it is believed that the right balance is often not achieved

which leads to the shark's deteriorating health and subsequent death.

We can only hope this is not the case, poor massive sharks!

Death, ill health and a tendency to attack tank mates has made keeping the great white

in captivity a challenge.

So if you are dying to meet a Great White face to face and still exit alive, Gansbaai

in the Western Cape of South Africa is undeniably the best bet for you!

A 15-minute boat ride will take you to a spot where there is a 99.5% chance of seeing a

Great White Shark so you'd see these incredible creatures swimming happily in their natural

habitat!

Carefree in the wild or caged in an aquarium, where do you want to see the majestic Great

White Shark?

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For more infomation >> Why Great White Sharks Cannot Be Kept in Captivity? The Secret Is Revealed! - Duration: 6:29.

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Less is More | Fast Russian - Duration: 6:01.

Subtitles start at 0:51

I'm reading a book now,

that says about the fact that you need be able to enjoy small things, because

now news show us the greatest achievements, the most

horrible events, the most talented artists, then

show all the best, the most, the worst, the funniest, and the most

most ... most sad, I do not even know. And we are looking at it all, we also

look at the Instagram of people. They fly on airplanes on their own, private planes,

they have fun at parties, they go to the beaches, to awesome beaches,

they, I do not know, hang out with beautiful girls, with beautiful guys, everything

is amazing, they make a lot of money. And we compare ourselves with this

all, and we think that "dang, but my life is very boring, and I'm very ordinary

it seems. " And because we compare ourselves with others, we believe that in our life as well

everything should be on top, everything should be the best, the most beautiful,

the most expensive, the most good-smelling, and so on. But, unfortunately, even those people,

who are on this Instagram, right? They make this post once a week, and in this

post they highlight the best moment of their life. And sometimes they just lie to your

face. Let's say they took a photo with an amazing car

in the background, right? But this is not their car, for example, but you think that this is their

car and so on. They can easily deceive you. And because we compare

ourselves with others, we believe that we need to live some incredible life.

And unfortunately it's just not so. A life of each person is 90 percent

boring and not the most pleasant, and therefore we need to learn to rejoice

not great events, but those small things, the small things that happen

to us every day, for example enjoy the sunrise,

that you had a good conversation with your girlfriend or with a boyfriend, or with a friend even,

enjoy some good video on YouTube, just really say "dang it, it's

cool, I'm happy. " That is, we do not need seek out some great events to

be happy, we just need be, how to say, present or something.

Notice some beautiful things, really understand how much we ... forgot the word,

jeez. How lucky we are that we we can see, for example, let's say I have

there's a guitar, right? I have a little dust here, I I will clean it, and

I will have a beautiful guitar, how great it sounds

I'm glad for the fact that I can easily move my fingers,

And to play some melody pretty quickly, when five years ago that's how I played, now

I'll show you. I played like this ...

It's very slow and I'm happy about it. We just expect something incredible every day,

to say, "yes, today was a great day," and sometimes that incredible it can

manifest in a beautiful book, it can show in a smile of

a girl that you like, it can manifest in the great omelet you

ate for breakfast, in a beautiful guitar, in a beautiful sound, and so on. We are waiting

for incredible things to be happily ... happy, but we are missing those small

moments, those real joys of life, simply because they are not the most

supernatural. And I realized that for me to be happy, I need a good family,

my friends, and sometimes play the guitar.

For more infomation >> Less is More | Fast Russian - Duration: 6:01.

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The Samsung Galaxy S9 is Here - Duration: 6:25.

- Hey guys, this is Austin.

I recently got the chance to head out to San Francisco

to get a sneak peek at the brand new

Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus.

Design wise, it's definitely an evolution over the Galaxy S8

so just like when you went from the S6 to the S7,

it wasn't a huge difference,

on the surface the S9 looks very similar.

I'm definitely not going to complain.

The S8 already had one of the nicest looking designs

on the market, and here, we're keeping

that same infinity display that's going to be about

15% brighter as well as with some slightly smaller bezels.

Evolution, not revolution.

Amazingly enough, something else that carries over

is the headphone jack.

Yes, my friend, you heard correctly.

This is a flagship for 2018

which has a headphone jack.

For real though, props to Samsung for keeping it around.

While pretty much everyone has abandoned it,

a lot of people still really do appreciate

having a headphone jack,

and with the S9, it's going to be

one of the only high end options with one.

In fact, the audio side of things

has seen an upgrade across the board,

as Samsung took a page out of the iPhone playbook

and switched over to stereo speakers.

What they've done is combine the standard

bottom firing speaker from the S8

with the speaker grill that's going to give you

a decent sounding stereo setup.

Now it's not going to be quite as nice sounding

as the iPhone X or Pixel,

but it is a huge improvement over the previous generation.

In my brief time with the S9, it sounds pretty good.

And on top of that, you're going to be getting

Dolby Atmos support,

so this works not only with the speakers

as well as the headphone jack.

And while for normal stuff, it's not going to sound amazing,

it is cool to have that codec built in.

Something else improved this time around

is the fingerprint sensor.

After basically every tech reviewer on the planet

complained about the Galaxy S8 as well as the Note 8,

it has now been moved below the camera.

In addition to moving it,

it is also now a little bit raised,

so especially when you're just trying to

reach the fingerprint sensor from the back

without looking at it, it's much easier to find.

The S9 is going to be available in three colors

here in the US, black, blue, and pink.

Personally, I like the look of the blue,

especially when the light hits it,

I think it looks really, really nice.

But in a lot of international markets,

you're also going to get a gray option.

The rest of the design should look very similar.

You're still getting USB-C, fast wireless charging,

as well as IP68 water resistance.

Look, it is definitely not some huge overhaul,

but Samsung took pretty much everything that was good

about the Galaxy S8

and just cranked it up to 11 with the S9.

Two big thumbs up for me.

Inside, you're getting the brand new

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor

with four gigs of RAM on the S9 and six gigs on the S9 Plus.

Not only is this going to be

the first phone launching with it,

but you're also going to be getting

a 25 to 35% performance improvement.

I'll have to take a closer look

when I get the S9 in for review,

but based on first impressions, it's blisteringly fast.

Although that shouldn't exactly be a surprise

because that's basically every flagship

from the last few years.

Now the software is still very much in evolution

of the Samsung skin on Android.

It's fine, it's usable,

it's not something that's going to be a deal breaker,

but it is going to be nowhere near as clean

as what you're going to find on the Pixel.

Bixby is also back and improved

with the same wonderful Bixby button.

So there's a few improvements,

so you can now use Google Translate to translate text live

as opposed to taking a photo.

But for the most part, I think everyone's

just going to ignore it and use Google Assistant,

or at least that's what I'm gonna do.

One thing that hasn't really been improved is battery life.

So the sizes are going to be the exact same,

3000 milliamp hours on the S9 and 3500 on the S9 Plus.

Now unless they've gotten some crazy efficiency boosts,

it's going to be fairly similar to last year,

which is to say, decent but not spectacular,

especially in a world where the iPhone X and Pixel 2 XL

can easily last all day and then some.

The screen, on the other hand, is still phenomenal.

So it's very similar to last year's phones,

which is to say, about as good as it gets on a phone today.

So it's going to be a little bit brighter,

about 15% or so on the max brightness,

but for the most part, it's going to be right up there

with the very best that you could buy.

One of the most exciting updates is with the camera.

So while the S8 had basically the same camera from the S7,

the new Galaxy S9 is going to have an all new camera sensor

as well as it's going to be getting a telephoto option

if you jump up to the Galaxy S9 Plus.

The coolest party trick is an adjustable aperture.

So this is typically found on higher end cameras.

What this is going to allow you to do

is actually adjust the amount of light coming into the shot.

So you have two options here, f/1.5 or f/2.4.

Now unlike a normal camera,

you don't have any options in between,

but it is really nice to be able to have

at least some flexibility when you take a shot.

So, for example, when you open it all the way up,

it's going to be a little bit softer.

You're letting a lot more light in in a low light situation.

Whereas where you're out here on a nice bright day,

you might want to close it down a little bit

to get that extra bit of sharpness.

Speaking of low light,

there are also some other improvements

including taking up to eight shots

and combining them into one

to be able to get better noise processing

as well as they have a little demo set up

where you can actually see some of the low light photos

in action.

And it was very, very dark,

so it looked pretty decent.

But of course, this is something I'm going to have to try

when I get it in for a full review.

Now with the pro mode,

not only do you have the normal options

to be able to adjust things like shutter speed and ISO,

but you also can adjust the aperture here.

But on top of that, there's also a new mode,

super slow motion, which will record

at up to 960 frames per second.

The way it works is that it will start recording

standard 720p video at a normal frame rate

and then either when you manually trigger it

or you can set up a zone that will automatically trigger

when it detects motion,

it will record a quick burst of 960 frame per second video.

And while it's not going to be

the sharpest thing in the world,

you can do some really cool things with this.

And it's all made possible by the fact that this new sensor

has memory stacked actually on top of it,

very similar to some of the Sony stuff

and for example the RX100 Mark V.

Now this does mean that you can't exactly set it

to 960 frames per second and let it do

super slow motion all day long,

but when you get those short little bursts

with standard video around it,

even though it's not the sharpest thing in the world,

you get some really cool effects.

Video on the whole is actually pretty impressive.

So, in addition to your standard 1080p and 4K modes,

which the 4K actually now goes up to 60 frames per second,

but you're also going to be getting two options to record,

either to H.264 or the new and more efficient HEVC codec.

Now as far as the telephoto camera on the Galaxy S9 Plus,

it's fine.

It's not exactly going to be great.

In some of the portrait mode shots I took

actually aren't that impressive looking,

but for the most part, the standard camera on the S9

and the S9 Plus is going to look phenomenal.

Samsung is also introducing a brand new

revolutionary feature called AR Emoji.

So totally unlike Animoji on the iPhone X,

this uses the front facing camera

to paste a very, very scary version of your face on an emoji

which then will be hilariously shared out

not only as a photo or video if you want to record that

but as a series of stickers that go to your camera roll.

The Samsung Galaxy S9 will be available for pre-orders

starting on March 2nd and will be going on sale on the 16th.

Now yes, it is not going to be a huge update

over the Galaxy S8,

but there was a lot of nice little improvements here

that does actually add up to a pretty nice looking package.

So, what do you guys think about the Galaxy S9?

Let me know in the comments below,

and I will catch you on the next one.

For more infomation >> The Samsung Galaxy S9 is Here - Duration: 6:25.

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Trump Is Literally Encouraging Republicans To Break The Law - Duration: 3:19.

Recently, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the state's districts were severely gerrymandered

to benefit the Republican Party.

When the Republicans said, "Okay, we'll change them, but can we just have them for this year's

midterms?"

The Supreme Court said, "Absolutely not.

That's pretty stupid.

You're going to change these districts, redraw all these lines before the 2018 midterms."

So, that's the official court ruling, so therefore that is the law.

Well, Donald Trump isn't exactly happy about it.

He doesn't like that the Supreme Court is making the state of Pennsylvania play by the

rules.

He doesn't like that the state of Pennsylvania wants the voters in that state to have people

representing them that actually represent them.

So, Donald Trump took to Twitter, as he always does, and he told Republicans in Pennsylvania

to not follow the orders of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

He said, "Do not redraw those lines.

Do not listen to them.

Do not do this because it's going to benefit the Democrats.

Hold the line, folks."

Donald Trump literally encouraged Republicans in Pennsylvania to break the law.

Now, I'm not legal scholar, but I'm pretty sure that that Donald Trump statement of ignore

what the Supreme Court says and do whatever the hell you want to do anyway, break the

law, yeah, pretty sure that is illegal.

You can't do that when you're in a position of authority over someone else by telling

them to break the law.

Donald Trump may have just committed yet another impeachable offense here by telling these

Republicans in Pennsylvania to ignore a ruling of the Supreme Court.

Will he face any justice for this?

Absolutely not.

Is anybody really going to even talk about this beyond the next day or two?

Probably not.

However, this is a very real and a very serious story that shows just how much contempt Donald

Trump has for the rule of law in the United States.

The majority of voters who turned out for the last election in the state of Pennsylvania

voted for Democrats for their house seats, yet the majority of Republicans won.

That's how badly that state is gerrymandered.

That even though the majority of the votes cast go to Democrats, the majority of people

elected end up being Republicans.

That's by design.

That's what the Supreme Court saw.

They said, "You can't do this," and Donald Trump says, "To hell with the rule of law,

I want you to do what I want you to do.

Ignore the laws.

Do what I say.

I'm the guy in charge."

You can't do that.

That's illegal.

But, again, we have such a spineless congress, spineless senate, and absolutely a spineless

vice-president.

Nobody is going to hold Donald Trump accountable for encouraging elected Republican officials

to break the law and that's a shame.