Salmon Cannon: Video Of Fish Whooshing Through Tube Goes Viral

When humans needs to get somewhere fast, we have the Interstate Highway System, the Japanese Shinkansen bullet trains, and if you’re really unlucky, the New York City subway. Fish have…water currents? Well, they did, but now salmon have a new mode of transportation, thanks to the fish whoosh tube that is currently delighting the entire internet.

In a viral video, a fisher places a large salmon into a tube called a salmon cannon (yes, really!), and the fish travels the length of the tube at the speed of light. OK, maybe not that fast, but it definitely gives Sonic the Hedgehog a run for his money.

The company who created the salmon cannon is called Whooshh Innovations, and the device allows fish to cross manmade dams in a few seconds — a trip that could take otherwise take days. Vox explains the physics of the tubes, and notes that the salmon cannon could save salmon ecosystems, by allowing fish to have access to their spawning grounds.

https://twitter.com/kashthefuturist/status/1159610222148669440

Naturally, social media went crazy for the fish whoosh tube. Most people were astounded that such a device even exists. Some dubbed music and sound effects over the top, making for some truly hilarious videos that only the internet could come up with:

and that’s how babies are made https://t.co/sSOWq9Q1mG

— sarah schauer 🦂 (@sarahschauer) August 11, 2019

I am CRYING laughing at this like imagine being a fish and minding your own business but humans fucked up the world so bad that their version of helping you is launching you through a giant silly straw https://t.co/7UppI0r3IM

— JP (@jpbrammer) August 11, 2019

Lady Gaga as a salmon going through the fish tube pic.twitter.com/04HCcB1vNX

— Fran Zaya, no the other one (@salmattos) August 13, 2019

stick my disgusting body into that fish tube and fire me into the goddamned sun!!! let’s GO

— mattie lubchansky (@Lubchansky) August 11, 2019

https://twitter.com/RachelWenitsky/status/1160712490944212993

good morning yeet me through the fish tube

— JP (@jpbrammer) August 11, 2019

https://twitter.com/davidjhormell/status/1160667451316678662

https://twitter.com/markhoppus/status/1160642708609699840

me waving goodbye to the fish being launched across the dam through the tube pic.twitter.com/ZnfgY8dn8s

— 🤧 (@Scarlet4UrMa) August 12, 2019

My housemate: so how was your day

Me: sorry can you just give me a moment [spends 15 minutes thinking how to try to explain salmon cannon, without sounding crazy, to a person who doesn’t have twitter]

— Josh Butler (@JoshButler) August 11, 2019

https://twitter.com/roxiqt/status/1160678120955023360

https://twitter.com/OrangePaulp/status/1160546460859019266

The A, C, F, 2, Fish Tube, and G, are running with delays

— Patrick Sullivan (@PatchNavillus) August 11, 2019

https://twitter.com/missunitedface/status/1160578325364056071

the salmon going through the fish tube: https://t.co/jkQuTofSHr

— alex (@alex_abads) August 11, 2019

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