Meagan Fredette
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.
This system helps native fish pass over dams in seconds rather than day pic.twitter.com/aAmhHArjPg
— Dr. Kash Sirinanda (@kashthefuturist) August 8, 2019
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
— Castaways, Sal’s a Castaway AHOY (@salmattos) August 13, 2019
stick my disgusting body into that fish tube and fire me into the goddamned sun!!! let’s GO
— CFO of Theytheon (@Lubchansky) August 11, 2019
Well I guess it's a Hot Girl Summer but a Fish Tube Fall
— Rachel Wenitsky (@RachelWenitsky) August 12, 2019
good morning yeet me through the fish tube
— JP (@jpbrammer) August 11, 2019
pack my body in the salmon cannon and shoot me into the sun. i want to be among the stars
— dave (@okaydave_) August 11, 2019
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
the salmon going through the giant fish tube: pic.twitter.com/UtIC7EKuc6
— Paul McCallion (@OrangePaulp) August 11, 2019
The A, C, F, 2, Fish Tube, and G, are running with delays
— Patrick Sullivan (@PatchNavillus) August 11, 2019
the last salmon to get put through the salmon tube, unsure of what has become of her salmon community https://t.co/aGoeagn0OM
— the peepholeth printheth (@missunitedface) August 11, 2019
the salmon going through the fish tube: pic.twitter.com/jkQuTofSHr
— alex (@alex_abads) August 11, 2019
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