http://love.videosift.com/video/Dolphins-Blowing-Manipulating-Bubble-Rings-in-the-Water

Your video, Dolphins Blowing & Manipulating Bubble Rings in the Water!, has made it into your personal Highest Rated Videos listing. Congratulations on a job well done. For you contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

thank you, deano!

In reply to this comment by Deano:
How the hell did I miss this?! *promote

you rock!
thanks

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
it's been a while

*promote a happy Friday!!!

>> ^iwastheturkey:
Those rings of thought-communication-fish-telepathy... where have I seen them before...


Thanks for crosslinking that video, turkey. That was an amazing video. Just wow.

Those rings of thought-communication-fish-telepathy... where have I seen them before...

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

oui. et très *happy

I don't think it will work out that way. I think once a video moves to a private queue it will languish in most cases. Sure, eventually SOME will escape and make it to the front page, but once they're there they'll mostly be surrounded by LOLcats. I'm not prone to visiting members' profile pages unless I'm leaving them a comment, but that's what we'll have to do in order to view what's in a member's private queue.

Before I became a VS member I lurked for many months, enjoying the wide variety of videos I found on the front page. Not just videos like this or this or this (all good videos, mind you), but also some requeued gems like this and this and this. With this new system I believe we will see less variety, making us more like Milk and Cookes or I-Am-Bored. However I'll be the first to admit that I could be wrong, and I hope I am. But a more homogeneous front page will make this place boring to me, and that's what I fear will happen.

We'll see what happens.

>> ^dag:
But see, the nice thing is that those artsy, interesting posts now have more of a chance to make it out- because they don't disappear as discards. They go into the private queue of those members that post the fascinating stuff- and are still votable- thereby giving them more of a chance to get out.
>> ^kronosposeidon:
I also do not like the complete removal of requeue. There have been WAY too many requeue survivors that have gone on to be very successful on their 2nd or even 3rd attempts. We'll see a lot less artsy, interesting, and/or obscure videos being sifted. Maybe I'll be wrong, but I ain't counting on it.

Now if only those skateboarders were dolphins blowing bubble rings.. this video would be downright hypnotic.

Thanks for helping that vid make it to 200, snowman!
As for the cats and dogs (+others) it says:
"This group is for the dog and cat fancier, but other domesticated animals have found there way in and that is O.K. with us."
good point, though...are these dolphins domesticated? Nah, but whatever.


In reply to this comment by Bleedingsnowman:
I am proud to upvote this to 200. Although I don't know what it has to do with cats n' dogs.

>> ^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.

>> ^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.

If the new content made the video more interesting I would upvote it, but I really only found the bubble rings bit to be all that engaging.

Now I have to go to the old video to see if there's any explanation as to how the hell they do that.

>> ^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.

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


HE HAS A HEART????