Comments for "Dolphins Blowing & Manipulating Bubble Rings in the Water!" Video at VideoSift.com

By kulpims

kulpims (http://www.videosift.com/member/kulpims) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:08:23 -0800

wow!

By Thylan

Thylan (http://www.videosift.com/member/Thylan) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:16:00 -0800

I cant believe what I'm seeing. That is soo awesome!

By cheezric

cheezric (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheezric) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:06:34 -0800

That is just absolutely astounding and amazing.

By BillOreilly

BillOreilly (http://www.videosift.com/member/BillOreilly) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:18:28 -0800

*beautiful

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:33:12 -0800

"who can take the sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two...oh, the candy man can."
...wait that's not the song.

I couldn't downvote this if I were paid to. By the power of Greyskull I summon this video to the top of the top 15

By castles

castles (http://www.videosift.com/member/castles) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:40:37 -0800

This video is seriously gorgeous.

By oxdottir

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:16:32 -0800

Oh wow! This might be the thing I've seen on the sift that hits me the hardest.

By evilspongebob

evilspongebob (http://www.videosift.com/member/evilspongebob) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:51:33 -0800

more..more...more...more

By Fade

Fade (http://www.videosift.com/member/Fade) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:16:40 -0800

Man and I thought my smoke rings were good!

By callistan

callistan (http://www.videosift.com/member/callistan) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:00:16 -0800

Holy crap!

By Woland

Woland (http://www.videosift.com/member/Woland) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:23:53 -0800

Wow!!!

By bamdrew

bamdrew (http://www.videosift.com/member/bamdrew) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:30:26 -0800

aww... and it looks like you've melted BillO's heart up there

By pmkierst

pmkierst (http://www.videosift.com/member/pmkierst) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:18:06 -0800

Ok, that totally blew me away.

By Woland

Woland (http://www.videosift.com/member/Woland) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:05:37 -0800

The more I look at this, the more I think this is the best video I've ever seen on VideoSift.

By GuyIncognito

GuyIncognito (http://www.videosift.com/member/GuyIncognito) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:38:57 -0800

aw, they're living in captivity... how cute everyone...

By Fade

Fade (http://www.videosift.com/member/Fade) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:35:26 -0800

Hey guy, I kinda got that feeling about it too. They're obviously bored to tears and are trying to entertain themselves.

By Trancecoach

Trancecoach (http://www.videosift.com/member/Trancecoach) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:52:33 -0800

that music sounds like a chamber rendition of "The Candyman" (i.e., "Who can make the sun shine?")

By gwiz665

gwiz665 (http://www.videosift.com/member/gwiz665) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:41:57 -0800

Anyone who downvotes this is a communist! Heh, seriously, this is freaking amazing.

By arsenault185

arsenault185 (http://arsenault185.videosift.com) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:08:47 -0800

I'm going to wait to cast my vote until someone can explain to me how this happens. If this is real, upvote and I'll agree, its a thing of beauty. If its fake, downvote (nah probably just no vote) and a "why do people feel they need to do things like this?" comment.

By arsenault185

arsenault185 (http://arsenault185.videosift.com) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:13:07 -0800

Ok google proves it. Bubble rings are real. Upvote!

By furball

furball (http://www.videosift.com/member/furball) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:40:47 -0800

The music is 'No one is Alone' from 'Into the Woods' by Steven Sondheim.

By deedub81

deedub81 (http://www.videosift.com/member/deedub81) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:33:56 -0800

http://www.videosift.com/video/Amazing-Bubble-Rings-Being-Blown-in-Pool-114

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:25:13 -0800

this is why i don't pay people to kill animals just so i can eat them.

they are alive dammit. they think, they love, they get bored.

By Fred_Chopin

Fred_Chopin (http://www.videosift.com/member/Fred_Chopin) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:40:45 -0800

Beautiful...

The power of the ring, it's everywhere!

By rychan

rychan (http://www.videosift.com/member/rychan) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:40:21 -0800

Awesome video.

Re Mink: You realize dolphins are Carnivores, right? They eat a ton of thinking, loving fish.

Re GuyIncognito and Fade: I don't have any ethical problem with the situation these dolphins are in.

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:03:47 -0800

they're just as much trapped in captivity as we all are.

By laura

laura (http://laura.videosift.com) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:11:38 -0800

I do believe this must also be the most beatiful, peaceful thread ever on the sift!

By my15minutes

my15minutes (http://my15minutes.videosift.com) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:25:28 -0800

>> ^rottenseed:
they're just as much trapped in captivity as we all are.

i like my cage. i put posters up and everything.

and i blow smoke rings. and enjoy it just as much as they do.

with or without a prefrontal lobe.

By Hive13

Hive13 (http://www.videosift.com/member/Hive13) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:42:28 -0800

One of the best videos I have seen on this site. Amazing post.

By ambassdor

ambassdor (http://www.videosift.com/member/ambassdor) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:44:42 -0800

wow.. i give up tuna

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:29:10 -0800

*sigh*...I wish quantumushroom were here to see this

By Linz

Linz (http://www.videosift.com/member/Linz) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:59:59 -0800

>> ^rottenseed:
sigh ...I wish quantumushroom were here to see this

Bwahahahaha!!

By Belone

Belone (http://www.videosift.com/member/Belone) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:47:59 -0800

Great, i just saw the video of the Dolphin Ring... does this mean some creepy dark haired dolphin is going to crawl out of my monitor and kill me?

By Norsuelefantti

Norsuelefantti (http://www.videosift.com/member/Norsuelefantti) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:43:16 -0800

If only they had opposable thumbs... they could take over the world - RUN!

By xxovercastxx

xxovercastxx (http://www.videosift.com/member/xxovercastxx) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:54:40 -0800

Hang on... It's a coded message...

So... long... and thanks... for... all... the fish.

WTF is that supposed to mean?

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:18:06 -0800

Probably very self-aware, but somewhere down the line from humans I think. Sentience is a very gray sliding scale IMHO. Some humans are not very sentient.

By DrPawn

DrPawn (http://www.videosift.com/member/DrPawn) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:55:45 -0800

Make me hungry for Mahi-mahi. I got to go open me a can after this.

By dystopianfuturetoday

dystopianfuturetoday (http://dft.videosift.com) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:39:02 -0800

The music is "You Are Not Alone" from 'Into the Woods" by Sondheim.

By persephone

persephone (http://www.videosift.com/member/persephone) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:39:41 -0800

I like how he/she chomps on the little bubble.

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:23:18 -0800

Wonder how old they are when they find out they can do that with that hole in their heads?

By videosiftbannedme

videosiftbannedme (http://www.videosift.com/member/videosiftbannedme) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:04:32 -0800

That's pretty crazy. I was surprised that they could blow a bubble ring to begin with, but then, when they reshape into another and discard the rest? Wow...

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:02:12 -0800

rychan:
i should eat animals because dolphins do?

the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYp_Xi4AtAQ

By dgandhi

dgandhi (http://www.videosift.com/member/dgandhi) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:04:56 -0800

>> ^dag:
Probably very self-aware, but somewhere down the line from humans I think. Sentience is a very gray sliding scale IMHO. Some humans are not very sentient.

IIRC cetaceans(dolphins, whales etc) are always half asleep, one hemisphere of the brain keeping them swimming/breathing at a time. They are doing this VERY complicated activity with, as Rush Limbaugh likes to say, half their brain tied behind their back.

While their brains are no doubt wired much better then ours for complicated 3D comprehension, to be able to model and direct a complicated system of invisible hydrodynamic flows in such a way as to maintain a vortex which will hold a ring of air underwater contrary to its buoyancy, and to do it as a learned behavior is more evidence for sentience then I have seen from any human I have ever met.

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:21:38 -0800

>> ^MINK:
rychan:
i should eat animals because dolphins do?

the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!

It's better than talking our heads off after sex.

By snoozedoctor

snoozedoctor (http://www.videosift.com/member/snoozedoctor) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:18:04 -0800

Amazing! Those dolphin looked like they were having a whale of a time. I heard a dolphin tried to teach Mike Tyson how to do that. It got frustrated and gave up. Damn, I hope Mike doesn't see that.

By therealblankman

therealblankman (http://www.videosift.com/member/therealblankman) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:39:40 -0800

I had the pleasure of seeing this once at the Vancouver Aquarium, save the bubble blowers were Orca killer-whales. Very cool.

By JAPR

JAPR (http://www.videosift.com/member/JAPR) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:12:27 -0800

>> ^bamdrew:
aww... and it looks like you've melted BillO's heart up there

HE HAS A HEART????

By JAPR

JAPR (http://www.videosift.com/member/JAPR) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:14:08 -0800

>> ^MINK:
this is why i don't pay people to kill animals just so i can eat them.

they are alive dammit. they think, they love, they get bored.

And they also taste delicious.

By residue

residue (http://www.videosift.com/member/residue) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:28:10 -0800

how on earth are those things keeping neutral buoyancy for so long??

By youdiejoe

youdiejoe (http://youdiejoe.videosift.com) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:53:23 -0800

I nominate dolphins to take over everything starting Today! We obviously have no reason to be in charge anymore.

By Peroxide

Peroxide (http://www.videosift.com/member/Peroxide) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:08:40 -0800

Its a shame about the bio-accumulation of toxins and climate change and all that.

Man humans are such dicks.

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By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:00:17 -0800

^are you seriously bringing that up right now?

By moonsammy

moonsammy (http://www.videosift.com/member/moonsammy) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:07:43 -0800

>> ^residue:
how on earth are those things keeping neutral buoyancy for so long??

I read the explanation posted in a previous comment, and it sounds like they make a rotating column of water (with their tails?), then shoot a bunch of bubbles into it - centrifugal force (from the rotating water) pushes the bubbles outward, and presumably some sort of friction where the rotating and non-rotating water meet keeps the bubbles from escaping. Even more impressive is that they're able to analyze the quality of the ring and then decide to blow another one to augment it, or if the ring is poor they'll let it go. These things are damned smart, it appears.

I don't think they sleep with half their brain at all times (as dgandhi referenced), rather that when they do sleep it's only 1/2 brain at a time. I'd love to be able to do that - shouldn't take more than 1/2 a brain to watch tv or mow the lawn or something.

By dgandhi

dgandhi (http://www.videosift.com/member/dgandhi) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:49:44 -0800

>> ^moonsammy:
I don't think they sleep with half their brain at all times (as dgandhi referenced), rather that when they do sleep it's only 1/2 brain at a time. I'd love to be able to do that - shouldn't take more than 1/2 a brain to watch tv or mow the lawn or something.

I just found a ref on this, EEG studies show that dolphins are in half brain sleep only 8hrs a day, so the answer to my IIRC is no I did not recall correctly Learning to do the bubble vortex thing is still pretty damn impressive though.

By jimnms

jimnms (http://www.videosift.com/member/jimnms) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:06:55 -0800

I didn't watch this at first because the thumbnail looked like something I had already watched. I'm glad I accidentally clicked on it now.

By StukaFox

StukaFox (http://www.videosift.com/member/StukaFox) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:23:29 -0800

MOAR!

By Bleedingsnowman

Bleedingsnowman (http://www.videosift.com/member/Bleedingsnowman) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:28:27 -0800

I am proud to upvote this to 200. Although I don't know what it has to do with cats n' dogs.

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:54:38 -0800

How did I possibly miss this video?

That is unbelievable. Almost as much as this exceeding 200 votes, and so quickly!!! Congrats laura.

Seem plee on cray obb luh!!!

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:54:21 -0800

i wish we could still *nominate

By my15minutes

my15minutes (http://my15minutes.videosift.com) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:20:26 -0700

>> ^lucky760:
> Seem plee on cray obb luh!!!

oui. et très *happy

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:20:28 -0700

Adding video to channels (Happy) - requested by my15minutes.

By AceOfKidneys

AceOfKidneys (http://www.videosift.com/member/AceOfKidneys) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:32:28 -0700

that is the coolest thing ive ever seen

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:47:09 -0700

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By youdiejoe

youdiejoe (http://youdiejoe.videosift.com) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:47:34 -0700

best suited for Nature channel

By blankfist

blankfist (http://blankfist.videosift.com) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:32:18 -0700

The world may never seem the same to me knowing other animals can perceptibly and knowingly conceive art. Wow. Just... wow.

By Don_Juan

Don_Juan (http://www.videosift.com/member/Don_Juan) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:26:09 -0700

O.K., so what!! I could probably do this if I had more time in the bathtub as a child!!!

By Don_Juan

Don_Juan (http://www.videosift.com/member/Don_Juan) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:42:32 -0700

MINK (love that name!!) says:

the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!

I say: Yes, it happens to me frequently, and I LOVE it!!!

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:57:15 -0700

it's been a while

*promote a happy Friday!!!

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:57:16 -0700

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, January 17th, 2008 11:20am PST - promote requested by rottenseed.