Environment & Energy

NNadir

(36,093 posts)

6. If one were to open a science book, one could learn that the "giant fish" were an endogenous species in Ukraine...

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 06:56 PM

Jun 9

...long before the discovery of the neutron.

Wels catfish

The wels is one of the largest freshwater fish in Europe and Western Asia, only exceeded by the anadromous Atlantic and beluga sturgeon. Most adult wels catfish are about 1.3–1.6 m (4 ft 3 in – 5 ft 3 in) long; fish longer than 2 m (6 ft 7 in) are a rarity. At 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) they can weigh 15–20 kg (33–44 lb) and at 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) they can weigh 65 kg (143 lb).

The species is about 7 million years old.

Like I said, there are too many people who read science fiction and confuse it with science. They're a pretty gullible bunch, they,

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

9 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Chernobyl looking to develop tourism post-war [View all] NNadir Jun 9 OP

Tarkovsky's "Stalker" comes to mind JoseBalow Jun 9 #1

"I'd still love to check it out also, though." Caribbeans Jun 9 #2

Oh surely the fossil fuel industry can do better than a picture of an abandoned Ferris Wheel. Can't we have... NNadir Jun 9 #5

The reason that the planet is burning all over its surface, vast ecosystems are dying, is that people invest more... NNadir Jun 9 #3

The Chernobyl episode of "River Monsters" shows the giant fish flourishing there undisturbed JoseBalow Jun 9 #4

If one were to open a science book, one could learn that the "giant fish" were an endogenous species in Ukraine... NNadir Jun 9 #6

Yes, it must be quite confusing for them JoseBalow Jun 9 #9

I toured Chernobyl and Pripyat back in April 2018. sinkingfeeling Jun 9 #7

Cool. NNadir Jun 9 #8