"Salmon Cannon" Shoots Fish Over Dams - Cool Invention
- 5 years ago
The "salmon cannon", created by Whoosh Innovations has been around since 2014, is a fish handling and transfer system that assists in helping salmon and other migrating fish over dams and structures. As the old Chinese proverb goes, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a day. But teach the fish to swim up a "salmon cannon" and the internet loses their collective minds - for good reason.
The "salmon cannon", created by Whoosh Innovations has been around since 2014, is a fish handling and transfer system that assists in helping salmon and other migrating fish over dams and other man-made structures, unhindering their natural migration paths for a healthier fish population.
The video features a man load a salmon into the "salmon cannon", after which the camera follows the fish's journey through the system, traveling at around an average speed of 22 miles per hour - landing safely upstream less than 1,100 feet later - a median ride of thirty-five seconds. However, the internet discovered the enigmatic innovation over the weekend - and the shock, awe and curiousness of the creation sent social media into an absolute frenzy.
One Twitter user wrote, "None of their fish friends are going to believe they did this." While another wrote, "We are all just helpless fish zooming through this tube called life."
Comedian John Oliver ran a segment on his show Last Week Tonight, back in 2014 featuring the "salmon cannon".
Within the episode, John Oliver featured his own version of the cannon, which he used to launch fish onto the The Daily Show news desk of his previous co-star John Stewart - as well as at many other famous shows, actors and personalities, including Tom Hanks, Jimmy Fallon, Anderson Cooper and Rachel Ray to name a few.
"In your darkest moments of despair, when you see a world torn apart by war, I want you to remember that video and think... We can do great things," Oliver said during his segment.
After the "salmon cannon" starting trending throughout the internet this weekend, The Last Week Tonight Twitter account reminded everyone of the segment, sharing the amusing video once again and reminding Twitter they covered this phenomenon five years ago.
According to a CNN report, Whoosh Innovation CEO Vincent Bryant, created the video in 2014 when they sold their first cannon. The first cannon required laborers to feed the fish into the system by hand, but new upgrades to the system now allow the fish to swim into the cannon themselves to bypass the man-made structures.
"It's sort of been outrageous how long this has taken to catch on," Bryant told CNN.
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The "salmon cannon", created by Whoosh Innovations has been around since 2014, is a fish handling and transfer system that assists in helping salmon and other migrating fish over dams and other man-made structures, unhindering their natural migration paths for a healthier fish population.
The video features a man load a salmon into the "salmon cannon", after which the camera follows the fish's journey through the system, traveling at around an average speed of 22 miles per hour - landing safely upstream less than 1,100 feet later - a median ride of thirty-five seconds. However, the internet discovered the enigmatic innovation over the weekend - and the shock, awe and curiousness of the creation sent social media into an absolute frenzy.
One Twitter user wrote, "None of their fish friends are going to believe they did this." While another wrote, "We are all just helpless fish zooming through this tube called life."
Comedian John Oliver ran a segment on his show Last Week Tonight, back in 2014 featuring the "salmon cannon".
Within the episode, John Oliver featured his own version of the cannon, which he used to launch fish onto the The Daily Show news desk of his previous co-star John Stewart - as well as at many other famous shows, actors and personalities, including Tom Hanks, Jimmy Fallon, Anderson Cooper and Rachel Ray to name a few.
"In your darkest moments of despair, when you see a world torn apart by war, I want you to remember that video and think... We can do great things," Oliver said during his segment.
After the "salmon cannon" starting trending throughout the internet this weekend, The Last Week Tonight Twitter account reminded everyone of the segment, sharing the amusing video once again and reminding Twitter they covered this phenomenon five years ago.
According to a CNN report, Whoosh Innovation CEO Vincent Bryant, created the video in 2014 when they sold their first cannon. The first cannon required laborers to feed the fish into the system by hand, but new upgrades to the system now allow the fish to swim into the cannon themselves to bypass the man-made structures.
"It's sort of been outrageous how long this has taken to catch on," Bryant told CNN.
Music: The Giant Killer by Dhruva Aliman
https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes
http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/
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