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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 6 points 16 hours ago

The sharknado guard dissolves the sharknado by guiding the flying sharks into the inner screw structure, forcing them down and safely into the sea. A few perfectly placed sharknado guards can reduce a small to medium sharknado to a normal shark-less sub EF3 tornado, saving many lives in the process.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

This device converts the data stream from a parallel format to a serial format. Fish swimming in the data stream enter simultaneously, but emerge one by one, both in little-endian notation.

[–] jfrnz@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Ah yes Fish SerDes

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Six-to-one fish condenser

[–] zane@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

Salmon concentrator

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

Your boss's takehome; your takehome

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Anti-Jesus fish uncertainty centrifuge.

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

You kids these days with your fancy dancy fishy go rounds. When I was a kid all we had was the wobbly wheel of death. All but 1 of the fish would climb on, and then that 1 fish would start pushing with all their might and then jump on. Then the other fish would eventually lose their grip and flung fuck off.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The mechanical donut spline path calculator knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The spline path calculator uses deviations to generate corrective commands to direct the spline path of the mechanical donut from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is just a screenshot of Factorio

[–] megopie@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

Pyanodons specifically, what with all the loops and inexplicable animals in the production line.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 152 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's the large haddock collider.

[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 4 points 1 day ago

Holy fuck that's good.

[–] stretch2m@infosec.pub 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It makes me sad to know I will never come up with a quip this clever.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

Same, it makes me feel my life is so unworthy.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Goldfish crackers extraction.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

My First Trackmania track

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 90 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm more confused about the fact that the salmon go in backwards

[–] Janx@piefed.social 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Once inside, they instinctively swim against the strong current of water rushing downward. That means they end up moving backward down the spiral, eventually getting pushed out the bottom of the helix into the river.

This method has lead to better survival rates than when the fish were spilled over the top of the dam.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Janx@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Fishy want get stronk.

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 6 points 2 days ago

wow this is awesome!

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Salmon like to go downstream backwards

[–] recursivethinking@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Its actually walking and gacing up a downward moving escalator at a slower speed than the escalator.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Chris Cross Crash. But with fish and in reverse. 5 fish go in but only a lucky one will come out.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago

Blåhaj ~~Blaster~~ Bläster

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

Six fish enter! One fish leaves!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Fish Cannon 2000 is a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, water-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires fish caliber fish at an extremely high rate (typically 6,000 rounds per minute). The FC2k and its derivatives have been the principal cannon armament of United Fish States military fixed-wing aircraft for over forty years, as of the turn of century.

Each of the cannon's six barrels fires once in turn during each revolution of the barrel cluster. The multiple barrels provide both a very high rate of fire—around 100 fish per second—and contribute to prolonged weapon life by minimizing barrel erosion and heat generation. The average time between jams or failures is in excess of 10,000 fish, making it an extremely reliable weapon.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Salmon Multiplexer

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Proposed design for the Salmon Combiner Turbine.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

The salmonplexer

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's actually a salmon decimator. 1 in, many out

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Check the arrow direction, it's a salmon smasher!

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago

Their tails deceived me!! This large salmon collider will hopefully find the Biggs Bass-n particles that fishermen always say got away.

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[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago

The all new Fish++ turns six backwards fish into just ONE, which is just so, so fishy.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 7 points 2 days ago

With the machine completed, the messiah had automated his primary task and was thus terminated for redundancy.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

Salmon Accelerator

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Already has a caption:

A graphic of the Cle Elum fish passage helix - Washington State Department Of Ecology

https://www.knkx.org/environment/2026-05-13/fish-take-a-spin-at-cle-elum-dams-spiral-helix-yakama-nation

Edit: 💙🐟🐟🐟

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Must you live so relentlessly in facts and reality?

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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

FLOUNDERDOME: Six fish enter, one fish leaves!

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[–] guy@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Looks more like a combiner. OR gate for fishes? If any channel is FISH, it outputs FISH

[–] guy@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shit the arrows are the wrong way. Large Salmon Combiner it is.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 21 hours ago

Large Salmon Collider?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Fish comes in, fish goes out, you can't explain that!

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