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Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas
- dobladov 6mo agoThis classifies Cocaine Shark as a documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Shark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Shark
- yruam001 6mo agoindeed
- dbbk 6mo ago"The film features various mutated creatures, none of which are actually sharks on cocaine as the title suggests." they had one job
- butlike 6mo agoOne. Job.
- api 6mo agoSo much potential in that franchise. Cocaine moose, cocaine snake (or Snakes on Cocaine, which could have the line “I want these mother f’ing snakes off mother f’ing cocaine!”), cocaine lion, cocaine hippo, cocaine alligator…
- oniony 6mo agoOr even Cocaine Bear: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14209916 https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14209916
- JohnHaugeland 6mo agothat's what the person you're replying to was referring to
- snapplebobapple 6mo agoMeh, i think branching out to different animals is a mistake. They could have evolved beyond comedy to drama by instead putting the bear on meth in the sequel. Follow the bear through its downward spiral losing its teeth and eventually hitting bottom drinking its own urine to stay high. The redemption ark could be an unlikely friendship formed with one of the campers it mauled in the first movie sparked by the bear sobering up and doing the apology tour.
- api 6mo agoThat sounds more like magic mushrooms bear, in which the bear realizes all life is one and to maul other beings is to maul yourself.
- metalman 6mo agothis clearly points to an previously unknown seasonal migration from wall st.
- pixelpoet 6mo agoThe Shark of Wall St
- Gravityloss 6mo agoClearly there are missing parts, or opportunites, in the two trilogies. [Cocaine] Shark | Wolf | Bear [of Wall St]
- seanhunter 6mo ago...on a plane. It has the potential for a whole cinematic universe.
- pixelpoet 6mo ago... in the multiverse. Who are we kidding, this is literally Marvel's combinatorial formula.
- throwanem 6mo agoSeasonal migration from Wall Street to the Bahamas? 'Previously unknown?' A bit déclassé maybe, but...
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- stavros 6mo agoAfter the "plastic glove" smoking gun the other day, I wonder if this is another instance of lab contamination making it into the results.
- donkey_brains 6mo agoUnlike plastic gloves, researchers don’t typically bring these substances into the lab.
- stavros 6mo agoAlas, that was the joke.
- blitzar 6mo agoresearchers party too
- mapontosevenths 6mo agoMaybe you just aren't getting invited to the cool labs?
- mghackerlady 6mo agoIt just sounds like you've been to really lame labs
- tskulbru 6mo agoFirst it was cocaine bear, and now cocaine shark.
- pixelpoet 6mo agoWe've already had Cocaine Crabs from Outer Space: https://imdb.com/title/tt28651516/ https://imdb.com/title/tt28651516/
- amelius 6mo agoDo they write Rust?
- hsbauauvhabzb 6mo agoNo because if they did they’d tell you about it in the first sentence
- mghackerlady 6mo agoif someone uses */Linux, writes rust, and is a vegan, what do they tell you first?
- sailfast 6mo agoThey tell you about free software and what it means and no not like beer.
- Esophagus4 6mo agohttps://blog.ari.lt/media/86b362afea5c76f61ed65da4762b91fda1a99d302f814b48fbf79a8b1f6bcc94.png https://blog.ari.lt/media/86b362afea5c76f61ed65da4762b91fda1...
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- losthobbies 6mo ago#justlikeus
- laughing_man 6mo agoI wonder how much of this is just that our tests are getting more sensitive.
- croemer 6mo agoExactly, the detection itself doesn't mean anything. Is the dose relevant? If not, then not. And the dose likely isn't relevant.
- eggy 6mo agoAgreed. When you zoom in, even the normal life stuff can give you concern. I showed my kids what creatures live on their and others' bodies. You have millions of microscopic arachnids called Demodex mites living in your hair follicles and sebaceous glands, particularly on your face. My wife gave me an evil look as I showed my children this fact in online vids and pics. Granted these are symbiotic/parasitic relationships of life, but still, the closer you look, the more you see!
- mistrial9 6mo agoOK - but had you been to the Bahamas recently when you decided to do that....
- doubleg72 6mo agoNot millions
- eggy 6mo agoCorrect, not millions of Demodex mites, which are usually in the hundreds to thousands on a typical, non-infested human. The millions should be the general amount of mites and other symbiotic/parasitic on and in your body. Thanks!
- seanhunter 6mo agoYou can say what you like about the dose being pharmacologically ineffective but I want my sharks completely sober.
- tcper 6mo agoSharks obtain cocaine by eating people?
- wkjagt 6mo agoMaybe it says something about the people taking cocaine and go swimming with sharks.
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- mapontosevenths 6mo agoSharks are on cocaine for the same reason it rains birth control now.
- nashashmi 6mo agoDoes that make for more aggressive sharks in the waters with unexplained behaviors? Is caffeine really that bad?
- croemer 6mo agoThe measured concentrations are on the order of 1-20 ng/mL in blood. Cmax in humans when taking those drugs are about 100-1000x higher. I wouldn't put too much weight on the finding that those with detections had different urea/lactate etc. There might be something underlying explaining both drug and physiology, like age. Could still be bad to have chronic exposure at such low levels - also fish physiology is different.
- dotcoma 6mo agoThey probably ate lawyers from New York who were on vacation…
- numpad0 6mo agoNot surprising. A lot of these substances get metabolized, or just diluted by water and filtered out without being like, magically deconstructed and turned into all CO2 and H2O and N2. So a lot of wacky chemical compounds humans tend to consume tend to get detected wherever humans gather and discharge bodily fluids that eventually reach the ocean. This does not immediately indicate that e.g. evil corporations are dumping toxic wastes, forever plastics pieces are leaching out scary additives, etc.
- augusto-moura 6mo agoHm, I'm not convinced this is contamination from human waste. The quantity of caffeine and painkillers a human consume should be too small. Also, the body does break caffeine and painkillers, the amount in waste shouldn't be meaningful If diluted in the oceans I would say that it would be undectable. Cocaine is even harder, because it is not commonly consumed, it is for a group of people, but not enough for the statistics
- aaron695 6mo ago[dead]
- mghackerlady 6mo agoI see they've graduated High School
- kleiba2 6mo agoParty on, sharks!
- cindyllm 6mo ago[dead]
- BLKNSLVR 6mo agoNow all they need is blackjack and hookers.
- saivan 6mo agoReggae Shark is Real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ytTKZf344&list=RDA3ytTKZf344&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ytTKZf344&list=RDA3ytTKZf3...
- juancn 6mo agoThese sharks surely know how to party!
- dr_faustus 6mo agoThank god, it's not microplastic!