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Sharks test positive for cocaine in waters off Brazilian coast
- pelagicAustral 2y agohttp://archive.today/lnPf8 http://archive.today/lnPf8
- theGeatZhopa 2y agoI'm waiting for a similar movie as the superb 'cocaine bear'
- eddof13 2y agococaine shark was the obvious sequel
- joshl32532 2y agoCocaine Sharknado
- motohagiography 2y agoCocaine Sharknado II: Shart Week
- doubled112 2y agoI vote for sharks then sharknados.
- Medox 2y agoSharknarco
- IG_Semmelweiss 2y agoThe article states that it already happened, but didn't quite make the "cut" that you'd expect. >>> A documentary released in 2023, called Cocaine Sharks attempted to establish whether sharks in the Gulf of Mexico were consuming the hundreds of packages of cocaine lost or dumped every year by drug smugglers.
- mistrial9 2y ago> documentary .. they had a very tight production deadline! everyone seemed enthusiastic somehow despite obvious problems each day
- sam_perez 2y agoYeah, I can already feel the prompts for scripts being entered into an LLM...
- Rhapso 2y agoBioaccumulation means sharks collect pollutants like this from the local biosphere. The theories in the article seem dubious. I suspect those sharks test positive for a LOT of things.
- jpalawaga 2y agoDo sharks not have any way to metabolize or pass these things? Usually bioaccumulation refers to things that STAY in an organism. For example, vitamin c does not bioaccumulate. Microplastics do.
- arghwhat 2y agoFat soluble compounds accumulate in fatty tissue, while I imagine water soluble compounds could accumulate in e.g. muscle tissue. It’s not in the same sense as microplastics, as these compounds are released when their storage medium is processed. That’s actually a beneficial mechanism as it means that fat is also a store of essential nutrients rather than just calories, released steadily when fat is burned. It’s just bad when things accumulate in excess. Cocaine might be able to accumulate in small amounts in tissue this way.
- mistrial9 2y agoagree - accumulation of heavy metals e.g. lead, is less exciting, and more worth some public attention..
- codr7 2y agoWait, I've seen this movie. They experiment on sharks by giving them brain boosting drugs, and then shit happens as expected. On the other hand, I've never seen anyone become smarter by doing coke; now I'm stuck wondering if this is worse or better.
- kevindamm 2y agoMaybe the experiment was to test confidence-boosting instead of intelligence.
- pelagicAustral 2y agoI imagine there are very few ways a shark can get more confident. It's an apex predator.
- MaxikCZ 2y agoI dont see how these two things are related.
- cjbgkagh 2y agoCocaine is a d2 reuptake inhibitor like AFAIK pretty much all notropics. But the speed of action and the short duration makes it very addictive. So I could readily believe people are smarter while on cocaine, just that gets shadowed by the focus on feeding the addiction. I take modafinil which is slower and longer acting d2 reuptake inhibitor and am definitely smarter on it, it helps with my ADHD as I had dopamine dysregulation prior to taking modafinil. Because of that prior state I get a much stronger effect from it and require only a lower dose of it (50 to 100mg).
- alan-hn 2y agoD2 is a specific subtype of dopamine receptor not a dopamine transporter. The dopamine transporter is DAT which is inhibited by cocaine along with NET and SERT
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- FredPret 2y agoDon't sharks have large livers that collect all sorts of chemicals? You'd expect high concentrations of many pollutants.
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- 01acheru 2y agoWhat an awesome time to be a shark!
- masteruvpuppetz 2y agoJust watched C*caine Bear yesterday..
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