The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser

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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024

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  • @halfasinteresting
    @halfasinteresting  3 года назад +1090

    Unfortunately Half as Interesting Incorporated does not have an $800 million topic R&D budget, so our low-budget alternative is to bully you all into giving us topics for free (well, sort of for free--we send free HAI t-shirts to anyone who suggests one we use, after a little while.) So, submit your topic idea here if we're going to call you a nerd: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUdlvw6YgU44J8AnM2U_ZvRMyvh_CUM51LYSqF5nYJB9d1-w/viewform?usp=sf_link

    • @maredreizehnnullvier
      @maredreizehnnullvier 3 года назад +7

      go nerd yourself, nerd

    • @debated8358
      @debated8358 3 года назад +19

      Haha love your videos Sam! Your video format really helped me format my videos in a way that looked nice, but I still can’t do any sarcastic jokes without sounding weird.

    • @stuckinacartoon8936
      @stuckinacartoon8936 3 года назад +1

      epic sam

    • @AVeryRandomPerson
      @AVeryRandomPerson 3 года назад +3

      Then go buy a $800 million topic R&D budget

    • @Cooling1200
      @Cooling1200 3 года назад +2

      “Then the boat can go on its merry way” the opportunity to change merry with ferry was lost and I am disappointed

  • @PokerRageAH
    @PokerRageAH 3 года назад +1709

    As a Michigan native, I was hoping that the "Fish Tazer" would just fry anything unlucky enough to be in the water.

    • @Commrade-DOGE
      @Commrade-DOGE 3 года назад +164

      I mean that would also allow for free cooked fish...

    • @aaronortiz7818
      @aaronortiz7818 3 года назад +69

      @@Commrade-DOGE I think you’re on to something here

    • @jakeryan4545
      @jakeryan4545 3 года назад +33

      I think it would be cool if they somehow taught the carp to eat lampreys and zebra mussels instead of plankton.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад +88

      I'm not quite clear on why it isn't designed to do that. These monsters can destroy an ecosystem, why are we going with a solution that "should deter them" instead of a 100% lethal shock?

    • @andyb2028
      @andyb2028 3 года назад +58

      @@smeggiamagarwine electric selection

  • @samb123
    @samb123 3 года назад +4307

    Only one in five dentists have the courage to speak the truth.

    • @prakharmishra3000
      @prakharmishra3000 3 года назад +63

      Carp

    • @bernardomercado261
      @bernardomercado261 3 года назад +28

      @@prakharmishra3000 bigger

    • @BugsWisely
      @BugsWisely 3 года назад +26

      And consequently due to never having been able to actually interpret X-ray images; drill holes in your teeth unnecessarily. Many later subjected to class action lawsuits.

    • @ArtemisAYO
      @ArtemisAYO 3 года назад +1

      Oh no

    • @LittleWhole
      @LittleWhole 3 года назад +2

      @@BugsWisely Carp

  • @carsoncarter770
    @carsoncarter770 3 года назад +687

    Our school just made us do a project on this exact situation. We had to design a solution to keep bighead carp out of Lake Michigan. THIS EXACT ONE. If this video came out a week earlier, then I would have had my answer.

    • @NopWorks
      @NopWorks 3 года назад +9

      Should just make a network of boats with super strong tasers and put them in all waters to kill all the fishes and repopulate them with native species.
      Some of the waters are mostly made out of carps anyway.

    • @LionHeartSamy
      @LionHeartSamy 3 года назад +8

      So what did you come up with?

    • @vijays8555
      @vijays8555 3 года назад +24

      Asian carp is one of the well liked fish in India n china. American dont eat it because of its bone. If you cant kill them just eat them. Create fish export system, or force pet food and fertilizer industry to use carp fish

    • @Morningstar_37
      @Morningstar_37 3 года назад +11

      @@vijays8555 "If you cant kill them just eat them"
      like, alive?

    • @NautilusSSN571
      @NautilusSSN571 3 года назад +15

      @@Morningstar_37 No he means like if your hearth can't handle the mass killing of a fish species for merely existing then just try eating then so at least they died for something. Which is a pretty stupid way of thinking, the best thing you can do is kill them as soon as you catch them an then throw them back into the water, that way other creatures like baby bluegills, or crawfish can feed on their remains.

  • @60secondfinance81
    @60secondfinance81 3 года назад +964

    Next video on Wendover Productions:
    The logistics of flying fish

  • @lonestarr1490
    @lonestarr1490 3 года назад +622

    "To be completed in 2027".
    And they're confident the carp won't reach Lake Michigan for another 6 years?

    • @bjh3612
      @bjh3612 3 года назад +171

      nope, the already existing electric batrier was thought to have been enough. you can think of this as the last minute, oh shit we are about to lose 23 billion yearly if this fails again strategy.

    • @CarrotConsumer
      @CarrotConsumer 3 года назад +15

      Lol, what a colossusly stupid problem.

    • @mittensfastpaw
      @mittensfastpaw 3 года назад +73

      @@bjh3612 You know some idiot will release them into the lake in ignorance or on purpose to be a jackass with it that close.

    • @NshbrVrjsn
      @NshbrVrjsn 3 года назад +62

      @@mittensfastpaw honestly, i can see it being a tiktok challenge

    • @algorithm1193
      @algorithm1193 3 года назад +90

      "found within 3 miles" basically translates to "they're probably in there, you're fucked"

  • @UwU-mo7xh
    @UwU-mo7xh 3 года назад +1416

    "4 out of 5 dentists agree that boats are bigger than Carp"
    -HAI 2021

    • @duncangilpatric987
      @duncangilpatric987 3 года назад +38

      I want to meet that 5th dentist

    • @troler7147
      @troler7147 3 года назад +9

      which of these dentists said that Carp were bigger than the boats?

    • @renderproductions1032
      @renderproductions1032 3 года назад

      |-O-|.

    • @UwU-mo7xh
      @UwU-mo7xh 3 года назад +7

      Legend says the fifth dentist flunked International fish studies...

    • @tudorjason
      @tudorjason 3 года назад +4

      The fifth dentist cheated in all of his exams.

  • @OhThatEdit
    @OhThatEdit 3 года назад +2077

    Thats indeed an interesting way to spend money

    • @6z0
      @6z0 3 года назад +3

      crazy

    • @shakingh4nd
      @shakingh4nd 3 года назад +13

      Disagreed. Just give me to money to eat them all!!!

    • @TheWeekndGaming
      @TheWeekndGaming 3 года назад +1

      amogus

    • @TheWeekndGaming
      @TheWeekndGaming 3 года назад +4

      guys look verified youtuber reply quick before there’s 500 replies

    • @Raspberry1111
      @Raspberry1111 3 года назад +1

      that is indeed the *best* way to spend money

  • @MortyMortyMorty
    @MortyMortyMorty 3 года назад +307

    If one of those fishes go thought that system, then that's not only an invasive fish, but also a *strong boi invasive fish king with superpowers* so it will be even more impossible to get rid of them in lake Michigan.

    • @stijn2472
      @stijn2472 3 года назад +12

      Easy. Just CARPet bomb the Carp.

    • @LittleWhole
      @LittleWhole 3 года назад +2

      @@stijn2472 Carp

    • @userkfkcifisjd
      @userkfkcifisjd 3 года назад +1

      𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙮, strong boi carp

    • @Ben.N
      @Ben.N 3 года назад +3

      Tazer resistant Asian carp

  • @gamechip06
    @gamechip06 3 года назад +1385

    "They out compete their american counterpart"... Dude, *ouch*

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 3 года назад +31

      That's truer than I could possibly prove it to be true

    • @davisdelp8131
      @davisdelp8131 3 года назад +67

      They use cheap and basically slave labor to outcompete us

    • @ethanverdersa2520
      @ethanverdersa2520 3 года назад +28

      Well, yeah... its kind of hard to compete with slavery

    • @davisdelp8131
      @davisdelp8131 3 года назад +14

      @@ethanverdersa2520 I now right it is almost like you don’t pay them anything or give them basic rights hmmmmmmm

    • @qifuhyue3568
      @qifuhyue3568 3 года назад +9

      Those mfs work for like 12 hours a day, they’re hardworking af

  • @starwarsnerd95
    @starwarsnerd95 3 года назад +370

    now I have to ask why they went to all the trouble of setting up this anti-carp barrier when they could have simply declared war on the carp and sent in a squad of marines to take them all out?

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад +61

      Yeah, declaring war should work. Like the war on drugs, war on homelessness, war on terrorism... oh you mean shootin' wars. So a quick efficient solution like the war on Afghanistan, the war on Iraq, the war on Vietnam...

    • @starandfox601
      @starandfox601 3 года назад +57

      Do you mean like the emu war?

    • @gamarus0kragh
      @gamarus0kragh 3 года назад +9

      Well the Norwegian answer is or was to kill all life in the rivers proven or suspected of harboring an infectious salmon virus. So, there's a well tested method for you.
      Don't know what people would say if you proposed to kill all higher aquatic lifeforms in the entire Mississippi...

    • @NautilusSSN571
      @NautilusSSN571 3 года назад +5

      @@starandfox601 Ohh no those ended badly.

    • @chilln0648
      @chilln0648 3 года назад +8

      Well 90% of the life in the river is carp, so you’d basically have to just kill the entire river

  • @ojtheaviator1795
    @ojtheaviator1795 3 года назад +1825

    Asian carp eat a ton
    Sounds like they're fitting right in here in the US

    • @prakharmishra3000
      @prakharmishra3000 3 года назад +20

      Can I please start a fight here?

    • @jmonsted
      @jmonsted 3 года назад +64

      Most americans also eat 20% of their bodyweight in lower life forms every day?

    • @bartholomewdan
      @bartholomewdan 3 года назад +91

      @@jmonsted As a European, that sounds about right.

    • @prakharmishra3000
      @prakharmishra3000 3 года назад +33

      @@bartholomewdan truer words have never been spoken

    • @GyroCannon
      @GyroCannon 3 года назад +44

      And racists say that immigrants don't assimilate.
      Sounds like the carp assimilate really well. About 20% of their body weight each day.

  • @MyPhobo
    @MyPhobo 3 года назад +112

    I solemnly put my hand on my heart as the US National Anthem plays and hundreds of dead fish float to the surface of the lake behind me. One patriotic tear falls from my cheek.

    • @Think_Inc
      @Think_Inc 3 года назад +2

      Oh....! I get it. Fish HATE noise.

    • @Redwan777
      @Redwan777 Год назад

      The sound of freedom is just too much for the carps to handle 😂

  • @rock4cheese
    @rock4cheese 3 года назад +222

    What these fish teach us is to seize the day.
    In other words, carpe diem.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад +12

      Oh, I'm not supposed to seize the fish? I've lived my whole life wrong.

    • @steviroy
      @steviroy 3 года назад +1

      Foods for the worms o captain! My captain!

    • @scratchliquid1
      @scratchliquid1 3 года назад +3

      carp-e diem

    • @amandaliberty08
      @amandaliberty08 3 года назад +11

      That's the corniest comment on the net today... Well done

    • @clockworkgnome
      @clockworkgnome 3 года назад +1

      Carpe carp…Seize the carp

  • @robertk1701
    @robertk1701 3 года назад +151

    If the song of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly has taught me anything, they just need a bigger fish to eat the Asian Carp. Perhaps the Alligator Gar. Then just bring in Alligators to hunt the gar. Bring in raccoons to take care of the baby alligators. Coyotes for the raccoons. Brown bears for the coyotes. Tigers for the bears. Umm. How does song end again? Ohhh, nevermind.

    • @andyb2028
      @andyb2028 3 года назад +12

      Take up the ol' murican tradition: shooting problems to make them go away

    • @whafflete6721
      @whafflete6721 3 года назад +2

      @@andyb2028 "Lake get spammed? Shoot your problems away"

    • @MarkWTK
      @MarkWTK 3 года назад +2

      @@smeggiamagarwine yes, the old lady can nag the tiger and bear to death

    • @MarkWTK
      @MarkWTK 3 года назад

      @@smeggiamagarwine oh haha. I'm not from the US, so I didn't know any better. sad ending though.

    • @clockworkgnome
      @clockworkgnome 3 года назад

      *Dragons*

  • @Crooshka
    @Crooshka 3 года назад +19

    I'm 100% certain the Army Corp of Engineers would have gone with fish taser. Sadly, "taser" falls under the trademark of Taser International. "Electric dispersal barrier" was probably the backup name that the designers went with. It allowed the device to have a cool name, but also an acronym they could reference in every other sentence to make military jargon sound even more like a scrambled recitation of the alphabet.

  • @shakingh4nd
    @shakingh4nd 3 года назад +515

    I want to have my gravestone say "here lies George Smith, he died by being slapped in the face from asian carp"

    • @prakharmishra3000
      @prakharmishra3000 3 года назад +36

      Imagine just visiting a funeral and seeing that on a gravestone. I'll burst out laughing

    • @MC_MMV
      @MC_MMV 3 года назад +6

      Hey, you have the most generic name I can think of
      Coincidence... I think not

    • @shakingh4nd
      @shakingh4nd 3 года назад +3

      @@MC_MMV (:

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад +2

      We can make arrangements for that.

    • @clockworkgnome
      @clockworkgnome 3 года назад

      Do you work at the Ministry of Silly Walks by chance?

  • @Ninten007
    @Ninten007 3 года назад +85

    As a Lake Michigan adjacent Michigander, I can't tell you how big of a deal this is to us.

    • @ishashka
      @ishashka 3 года назад +8

      Why not?

    • @chilln0648
      @chilln0648 3 года назад +1

      Me too as someone who lives in Illinois near Chicago.

    • @mittensfastpaw
      @mittensfastpaw 3 года назад

      Kill all the river fish! 90% trash fish anyways! Then repopulate!

  • @MagikarpMan
    @MagikarpMan 3 года назад +115

    Kyle hill: the worlds most dangerous water
    HAI: fish taser

  • @badhrihari1705
    @badhrihari1705 3 года назад +376

    Boat people: living
    Carp: And I took that personally

    • @madensmith7014
      @madensmith7014 3 года назад +4

      They just want to give a high five to the land dwellers. Why do people think they hate people?

    • @obilesk
      @obilesk 3 года назад

      this hit me so silly i had to stop and laugh it out

    • @KnightIA
      @KnightIA 3 года назад +2

      “Slapped to death by a fishy boi”

  • @xaninator
    @xaninator 3 года назад +38

    "3 Asian carp have been captured past the electric barrier here, that's CURRENTLY the primary line of defense" pun intended?

  • @JackGirard1
    @JackGirard1 3 года назад +8

    Fun fact: people with pacemakers aren't allowed near the lock. I work freight trains on the tracks next to it and we had to stop crew swaps near there due to the health hazard.

  • @TheTyman3000
    @TheTyman3000 3 года назад +25

    Lol I literally live 10 minutes from the Asian Buffet shown at 0:46, I had to go back and look at it several times.

  • @kadenk.3760
    @kadenk.3760 3 года назад +17

    R.I.P.
    Sam Fromwendover
    19something - 2021
    Slapped to death by a fish.

  • @pastrychefiii822
    @pastrychefiii822 3 года назад +127

    YES FINALLY ON THE RIGHT CHANNEL!!!!!!!!

    • @hdhwkq
      @hdhwkq 3 года назад +4

      But there are many channels but with different narrators

  • @nazamroth8427
    @nazamroth8427 3 года назад +20

    This sounds like it all relies on all fish eggs and larvae being successfully flushed out, and every carp getting scared of the barriers..... it is literally based on hopes and dreams....

    • @ravenwing199
      @ravenwing199 3 года назад +1

      Except for the Tazer. That will kill many many fish.

    • @LeviForWaifu
      @LeviForWaifu 3 года назад +1

      @@ravenwing199 it doesn't kill them as said in the video

    • @nazamroth8427
      @nazamroth8427 3 года назад +1

      @@LeviForWaifu That would be animal cruelty, and we can only have that if the animals will be food later.

    • @ravenwing199
      @ravenwing199 3 года назад

      @@LeviForWaifu I'm thinking young or small fish who it will likely incapacitate.

  • @No-uc6fg
    @No-uc6fg 3 года назад +28

    For april fools, you oughta make a video that's not about bricks, start explaining bricks and continue.
    The joke is that it was about bricks, everyone just thought it was an intro distraction.

  • @debated8358
    @debated8358 3 года назад +270

    Imagine someone having to justify the fish taser at a congressional budget hearing: “Bu- But the fish were da- da- ngerous”.
    Haha I love your videos though, as they served as an inspiration for my channel.

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 3 года назад +1

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    • @niddhigarg3344
      @niddhigarg3344 3 года назад +9

      So I looked at your channel, and it looked pretty interesting. Like you make videos in different topics than HAI but use a similar format, which is very neat. I will subscribe!

    • @debated8358
      @debated8358 3 года назад +7

      @@niddhigarg3344 oh thanks!

    • @sentientmop317
      @sentientmop317 3 года назад +10

      From Northern Illinois and I can say with certainty that this is a serious issue. Jokes aside this is a serious issue and really not much has worked so far.

    • @Shadeem
      @Shadeem 3 года назад +1

      immigrant fish

  • @chrisbeynon8700
    @chrisbeynon8700 3 года назад +74

    You know it's going to be a wild video when it starts with 'the US government'

    • @kirkland2228
      @kirkland2228 3 года назад +11

      That’s when you know that we’re about to learn something about bricks.

    • @61rampy65
      @61rampy65 3 года назад +1

      @@kirkland2228 Sadly, no bricks this time. :(

  • @gormster
    @gormster 3 года назад +7

    2:44 so I thought it was crazy that Lake Michigan’s fishing industry was less than half the size of its recreational boating industry, but astoundingly the domestic fishing industry nationwide is dwarfed by the recreational boating industry, which is more than six times the size of the former. Even if you include imported fish, it’s still about two-and-a-half times larger. America, you are an odd duck.

    • @keeganharris186
      @keeganharris186 2 года назад +2

      Fish isn't a major part of the American diet unless its Lent in a catholic area.

  • @davidtorres8396
    @davidtorres8396 3 года назад +9

    Bubbles are a last resort when we have a giant taser floor? That’s hilarious!

  • @adrianrafaelmagana804
    @adrianrafaelmagana804 3 года назад +31

    "This is Murica, I will never bow down to no..."
    *FISH SLAP*
    "All hail Carplord!"

  • @tejasdixit4417
    @tejasdixit4417 3 года назад +3

    We have a similar problem here in India. The government introduced water hyacinths thinking they are getting pretty flowers for cheap but they had no natural predators and sucked oxygen right out of rivers.

  • @HeyImLauren
    @HeyImLauren 3 года назад +38

    0:19 what do you mean? that intro is f i n tastic

    • @David-lr2vi
      @David-lr2vi 3 года назад

      I see what you did there.

  • @scottsieke7948
    @scottsieke7948 3 года назад +15

    “Electroids...” Sounds dangerous.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад +2

      Also sounds like something that plants might crave.

  • @gerry5712
    @gerry5712 2 года назад +2

    According to the USGS Asian carp are actually quite tasty, just a lot of bony to work with. Set up a packing plant (or cat food factory) just downstream of the barrier and use them all up. You can even give them "carp blanche..."

  • @wrenrix
    @wrenrix 3 года назад +12

    The shade in this video-

  • @CLINT-THE-GREAT
    @CLINT-THE-GREAT 3 года назад +2

    I live on the Illinois river and in the summer they have festivals where people compete shooting these carp with a bow and arrow when they jump out of the water

    • @scythal
      @scythal 3 года назад

      w-what about shooting them with guns?? m...murica????

    • @t6hp
      @t6hp 3 года назад

      @@scythal Shots aren't free you know..

  • @keoganlarademusic918
    @keoganlarademusic918 3 года назад +4

    This channel is the definition of "alright it's almost 10 I should go to sleep soon"
    3 AM:

  • @D00000T
    @D00000T 3 года назад +9

    Good to know that America's spending is being well placed in creating cutting edge military technology like they say

  • @alexandriaprissy9555
    @alexandriaprissy9555 3 года назад +14

    Thank you for bringing a depressed person some happiness

  • @kv4648
    @kv4648 3 года назад +96

    2:02 uwu what are you doing carp-san *blush *

    • @SK-pw9id
      @SK-pw9id 3 года назад +16

      No

    • @Nota-Skaven
      @Nota-Skaven 3 года назад +29

      "Boaters GENERALLY dislike being smacked in the face by large fish", this implies a minority that doesn't mind being slapped or even likes it.

    • @flamefaz
      @flamefaz 3 года назад +5

      what the 𝙁 𝙍 𝙄 𝘾 𝘾

    • @x3non57
      @x3non57 3 года назад +14

      9 of 10 boaters dislike being slapped by a fish.

    • @qwerty_and_azerty
      @qwerty_and_azerty 3 года назад +12

      @@x3non57 4 out of 5 dentists agree that 9 out of 10 boaters disliked being slapped my carp

  • @FlyingMozzarella
    @FlyingMozzarella 3 года назад +3

    5:07 "electroids" 😂

  • @mohantysarthak
    @mohantysarthak 3 года назад +1

    THE CARPET CLEANER PUN THO LMAO

  • @folofus4815
    @folofus4815 3 года назад +99

    Glad to know that this is what they take 30% of my paycheck for

    • @eavn9684
      @eavn9684 3 года назад +19

      $800 Million is pocket change in government money.

    • @renderproductions1032
      @renderproductions1032 3 года назад

      Lol

    • @uwu_senpai
      @uwu_senpai 3 года назад +31

      In France they take 60% of my paychecks for even more stupider stuffs. And our wages are way lower. So Americans shouldn't really complain.
      800 millions $ to support a 20 billion $ industry is quite reasonnable.

    • @attritionsghost
      @attritionsghost 3 года назад +9

      There is no such thing as government money...it is all tax payer money...

    • @renderproductions1032
      @renderproductions1032 3 года назад +4

      @@uwu_senpai who wouldn’t complain about being taxed, though?

  • @simonforget280
    @simonforget280 3 года назад +2

    There's already Asian Carps in the St. Lawrence river. They came either with ballast water or from the Great Lakes. Take your bids: yours are as good as mine.
    Keep up your excellent work!

  • @CAG2
    @CAG2 3 года назад +9

    Has anyone else watched Kyle Hill’s video on this exact same topic?

  • @markiangooley
    @markiangooley 3 года назад +1

    In the Suwanee River, boaters get smacked in the face by leaping sturgeon trying to attract mates for spawning. The sturgeon are considered endangered though (they are native and were very nearly wiped out for caviar).

  • @jamestarbet9608
    @jamestarbet9608 3 года назад +5

    The fish taser has been active for years.

  • @alexandermarvin9536
    @alexandermarvin9536 3 года назад +2

    You should do a video on fish ladders. And alternative methods to try to transport fish around dams.

  • @Yuge428
    @Yuge428 3 года назад +4

    keeping the principle of " learning by doing" in mind, I've come to the conclusion that we should not watch an HAI video while drinking coffee and in close proximity to the laptop. i opened it thinking its an educational video.

  • @rw9495
    @rw9495 3 года назад +2

    "4 out of 5 dentists agree that boats are bigger than carp" 🤣🤣

  • @friedpancakes266
    @friedpancakes266 3 года назад +8

    While bringing over a natural predator would wipe out the invasive species, there's a risk of driving out the native predators as well

    • @starandfox601
      @starandfox601 3 года назад +1

      We could owes just stop killing the large top predators for stupid reasons.considering far and large catfish can eat carp

  • @echocharlie1605
    @echocharlie1605 3 года назад +1

    Can’t believe there wasn’t even one Magikarp joke...

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  • @waffle2434
    @waffle2434 3 года назад +5

    Am I the only one who paused the video just to read the original intro?

  • @eladblaier898
    @eladblaier898 3 года назад +1

    "4 out of 5 dentists agree that boats are bigger than carps" the reamining one is probably Qui-Gon-Jin

  • @foxstamp
    @foxstamp 3 года назад +4

    Ok question: Suppose I was a creator of chaos and I stole some Asian carp from the Illinois river and I wanted to go over to Lake Michigan to create a carp apocalypse. What's stopping me? Are there any enforced laws that stop me?

    • @elegantbiscuityt
      @elegantbiscuityt 3 года назад +6

      Potentially a class action or regular lawsuit from the people who suffered financial losses, which may probably include all the great lake states, and they come after you for damages. They could also probably get a few million separate charges of property damage or reckless endangerment, maybe murder if the collapse of the great lakes economy results in some suicides considering you knowingly and maliciously did this.
      Although it would be pretty much impossible to track down that it was you who did it (unless you leave a youtube comment about this plan like you just did)... The search area for potential suspects would basically be anyone in over a dozen states in the entire mississippi river basin, cross referenced with anyone in the 8 states bordering the great lakes, where they would have to have your vehicle and license plate tracked down across multiple state lines and potentially along thousands of miles of rural roads, and eliminate every other person traveling between the two watersheds.
      All you really have to do is show up with a fishing pole somewhere along the mississippi and start catching, put them in a few buckets or tubs of water with an aerator and battery power supply to keep the fish alive and drive it over to the great lakes to dump em in. You can basically ruin hundreds of thousands of lives over the course of a weekend if you really wanted.

    • @foxstamp
      @foxstamp 3 года назад +2

      @@elegantbiscuityt Exactly, I'm not interested about the aftermath of what happens. I'm just a little confused that because of how simple it is why no one has done it yet. So I guess it's really that easy?

    • @bjh3612
      @bjh3612 3 года назад +1

      there are also fish and wildlife services in most of these states, that keep an eye on who has fishing licenses, how fish are large scale transported and other things. but really ther is no preventative force to stop you only retalitory, as if you are publically revealed as the perpetrator, you will have the residents of multiple states and canadian provinces at your throat.

    • @altrag
      @altrag 3 года назад

      Assuming anyone actually figured out it was you, I'm pretty sure ecoterrorism has crimes defined to cover pretty much anything you can do with the intent of damaging the environment (especially commercially important parts of the environment cause money).
      * Edit: I mean non-sanctioned actions of course. If you can figure out how to make destroying the environment in that way profitable and get a license from.. somebody.. then freedom baby!

  • @FrostyFrostySnow
    @FrostyFrostySnow 3 года назад +1

    Pokèmon was my favourite documentary as a kid as well, right up there with that documentary about a mermaid girl named Ariel

  • @hugopnik3380
    @hugopnik3380 3 года назад +11

    citizens: can you just support us more?
    US government: Haha fish lazer goes BZZZBZBZBZBZ
    edit: I meant tazer, but I think US government is capable of creating fish lazer

    • @ch4.hayabusa
      @ch4.hayabusa 3 года назад

      Frikin Lasers! I wish they would spend money on technology that has off shoots. Not just purpose made off the shelf tech. Why not have sentient robot muder fish. Why not have sharks with Lasers, neuralink and satellite hive mind connectivity. Why not have autonomous submarines with anti carp torpedoes.

  • @SeoDeadeHenn
    @SeoDeadeHenn 3 года назад +1

    As someone who lives along the Illinois River, I can confirm that fishe smak = big ouch

  • @davidpower1843
    @davidpower1843 3 года назад +5

    Steel what? “Electroids”? Are we taseing fish with Pokémon?
    Edit: I paused the video and posted this before you referenced Pokémon 😂

  • @REEEPROGRAM
    @REEEPROGRAM 3 года назад +1

    The "Slap to death by a fish" sounds like a fun way to die

    • @auhsojacosta1672
      @auhsojacosta1672 3 года назад

      Wait til you find out about white stuff overdose

  • @Trirosmos
    @Trirosmos 3 года назад +3

    5:11 " You pulse direct current through it "
    Current that changes with time... Hmm, surely there must be a name for that

    • @Alan_Hans__
      @Alan_Hans__ 3 года назад +2

      Yes. Pulsed DC current. AC current actually involves changing the polarity.

    • @crackedemerald4930
      @crackedemerald4930 3 года назад +2

      Every current is Pulsed DC or AC because they'll never last forever.

  • @gunnarfreeman9123
    @gunnarfreeman9123 3 года назад +1

    Justice for that gem of an intro

  • @dylanp_ayz8016
    @dylanp_ayz8016 3 года назад +4

    Yo can you do an episode about the texas grid failure right now?
    its basically a meme.
    DFW area here: without power for 20+ hours on "Rolling blackouts"

  • @lunarchangel6762
    @lunarchangel6762 2 года назад +1

    This sounds like a big waste of money. Carp already within 3 miles of the lake, and with 5 years until completion. Might as well declare open season and host fishing competitions within the river to hunt and kill carp.

  • @exploding_pineapples
    @exploding_pineapples 3 года назад +9

    "Your hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being wisely spent" - Someone in the US government, 19th century

  • @scotthannan8669
    @scotthannan8669 3 года назад +1

    I’m looking forward to all the Carp-centric programming on the new Wendover Productions. Things like “Don’t fall for that hook!!”, “Is the President actually a cat??”, and “1970 Carp State vs Bass U Highlight Reel” and of course lots of TikTok‘s about how this or that ‘slaps’, now that carp are in charge of slapping things.

  • @Marylandbrony
    @Marylandbrony 3 года назад +6

    I'm starting suspect that Wendover productions and Half as interesting are the same person.

    • @Weretyu7777
      @Weretyu7777 3 года назад +1

      You do realize that they ARE the same person, right? He just uses a more serious voice and less jokes on his Wendover videos.

    • @tarunbasra8230
      @tarunbasra8230 3 года назад

      Nooooo I don't think so

    • @marcpatzelt2430
      @marcpatzelt2430 3 года назад

      It is exactly the same person

  • @deesh6378
    @deesh6378 3 года назад +1

    Couldn't they have created a large conveyor that sticks out of the water that can carry the boats along but leaves the fish, since they'd be in the open air and can be either removed manually or would suffocate. Some places already have a system like this for other reasons but it could be more effective and cheaper.

  • @joshwhitehurstx
    @joshwhitehurstx 3 года назад +4

    Accordion to a recent study, 90% of the people didn’t realize i put an instrument at the start of this sentence (now I want my like) 01.05.21 15:33

  • @Michelrs
    @Michelrs 3 года назад +1

    Humans: *use fish taser*
    Aquaman: *TRIGGERED*

  • @amritkar256
    @amritkar256 3 года назад +3

    Other Governments: Hey, we can use all this money to help hospitals get better equipment, and help schools get better materials!
    USA: *Fish Taser*

    • @nicholaslewis8594
      @nicholaslewis8594 Год назад

      I mean making sure an industry worth tens of billions of dollars doesn’t die is a pretty good use of money.

  • @michaelkline9647
    @michaelkline9647 3 года назад +1

    There have been campaigns to promote eating of the fish too. However, it's still a pricy fish to buy.

  • @warren5037
    @warren5037 3 года назад +6

    1:08 so even in fish, there's always an asian better than you 🤣

  • @jusawaterbottle
    @jusawaterbottle 3 года назад +2

    "So what do you call a Fish with no Arms?"
    *The little mermaid after a tragic boating accident*

  • @theprimest
    @theprimest 3 года назад +4

    If you're reading this you have potential to create great things, you were put on this planet for greatness, remember that. Yes. You

  • @kevinkenny5427
    @kevinkenny5427 3 года назад +1

    "Makes you wonder why they aren't called American Carp" Fkn hilarious!!

  • @boredmusic4302
    @boredmusic4302 3 года назад +3

    Sad Fact: In Africa, every 60 seconds a minute passes.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад +3

      What can I do to stop this injustice?

    • @kirkc9643
      @kirkc9643 3 года назад

      That's not entirely accurate. Due to gravitational variances on the surface of the earth, time varies slightly. But then I think that is 'relative to the observer' so I guess it depends on whether you are located at that same place in Africa or not :-P

    • @nicholaslewis8594
      @nicholaslewis8594 Год назад

      It’d still be true, since no matter how different the rate is, it’d still be 60s=1m.

  • @lamenwatch1877
    @lamenwatch1877 3 года назад +1

    0:19
    I paused right before the word "carp" thinking I was about to read the whole thing, and was unreasonably amused when I got to the "end". Oh dear.

  • @svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038
    @svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038 3 года назад +3

    Hey, you know you sound just like that guy from Wendover Productions?

    • @cypriotmappers5342
      @cypriotmappers5342 3 года назад

      He is the guy from Wendover productions

    • @Brikxar
      @Brikxar 3 года назад +1

      @@cypriotmappers5342 Do I need to whoooosh you?

  • @MrGrombie
    @MrGrombie 3 года назад +1

    I like when non fish people show pictures of "carp" and the show off silver arawanas lol

  • @AnonymousMC
    @AnonymousMC 3 года назад +3

    Hi guys! :D I hope you stay safe and have a nice day, God bless you!

  • @squinty36isdabomb
    @squinty36isdabomb 3 года назад +1

    I've heard about this being an issue of them almost being in 4-5 years ago, it would be hard to believe they aren't in already. Not that all the slaughter houses on the Kalamazoo River is already destroying Lake Michigan with all the pollution. Not to mention the breaking pipeline under the Mackinac Bridge.

  • @fd16gaming8
    @fd16gaming8 3 года назад +3

    Im not first(although I am),
    Im not last,
    But most importantly,
    NO ONE ASKED!

    • @quokka_yt
      @quokka_yt 3 года назад +2

      THANK YOU!!! NO ONE CARES IF YOU'RE FIRST!

  • @ljphoenix4341
    @ljphoenix4341 3 года назад

    I've already brought the Nebula subscription, but I'll always watch HAI videos on RUclips just to hear the smooth transitions from content to sponsorship 👌

  • @2KOOLURATOOLGaming
    @2KOOLURATOOLGaming 3 года назад +4

    Have a good day!
    Nope, I'm not one of those not accounts that asks for subs.
    No, this is not a double bluff.
    Just have a good day!

  • @Amalokch
    @Amalokch 2 года назад

    As an automation and controls engineer who has been working 10 years in the aquaculture this is so interesting and you earn a new subscribed.

  • @TheHeatguru
    @TheHeatguru 3 года назад +1

    I literally listened to a radio podcast about this the other day

  • @ahmadprogramming1197
    @ahmadprogramming1197 3 года назад +2

    Me: wants to sleep
    RUclips: "You wanna see a $800 million dollar fish taser?"
    Me:

  • @williamhalsted4
    @williamhalsted4 Год назад

    He's always telling us about really intriguing things, flashing a bunch of text on the screen, and making me pause the video and back it up to read it.

  • @juandiegoprado
    @juandiegoprado 3 года назад +1

    5:38 “I’d like to remind them that as a trusted RUclips personality I could be useful in the rounding of others”

  • @JoeBleasdaleReal
    @JoeBleasdaleReal 3 года назад +1

    “If you love fish like I do, you’ll want them to die with dignity.” - Homer Simpson, 2k07

  • @theremightbeangels5909
    @theremightbeangels5909 2 года назад

    I imagine a carp passing the taser level would end up seeing the bubble field and turning back, but turning back means seeing the taser level again, so it turns back, then it sees the bubble field again so it turns back, but turning back means seeing the taser level again, so it turns back, but the bubble field...

  • @IRLtrolls
    @IRLtrolls 3 года назад +1

    I knew what this video was about before I even opened it! I work on a Mississippi River tow boat and I've been all the way up the Illinois River to the Chicago sanitation canal (Chicago dumped raw sewage into the CSC until the 1980s) . I've been through the electric fish barrier many times. Every time we pass through it the captain makes us get inside and close the doors...I doubt we could get shocked outside the boat but thats just policy.
    Something you missed is the lock diagram you made had it flushing water out south bound and the boat and barges dropping and going north bound but north bound tows have to go UP for elevation increases so this flushing diagram you made doesn't work.

  • @josephcharles2917
    @josephcharles2917 3 года назад +2

    The little mermaid after a boating accident. That intro was perfect sir.

  • @shanechurilla
    @shanechurilla 3 года назад

    “Then I indeed welcome our new carp overlords”
    Nice touch

  • @sebastiand152
    @sebastiand152 3 года назад

    0 out of 5 lawyers would have made a statement as the dentist did.

  • @maasbekooy901
    @maasbekooy901 3 года назад +2

    3:38 I would like to have a word with the 1 out of 5 that disagree with that statement

  • @56rounakyadav44
    @56rounakyadav44 3 года назад +2

    Make a video on Australia's cat invasion .