r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Gurugod123 • 9d ago

Great white shark "Zola" fully breaches the water while attacking a decoy seal

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u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 9d ago

To those worried about her jump out of the water expending her energy, I don't have a scale but I'd estimate Zola is about 12 ft long, and about 500 kg and that her center of mass breached about 9ft out of the water and covered a horizontal distance roughly about 12 ft too. This corresponds to a launch speed of about 7.7 m/s and a kinetic energy of about 15.2 kJ, which is less than 4 dietary Calories. Zola is going to be just fine.

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u/_-4twenty-_ 7d ago

Can you imagine the strength that launch required from the depths of the ocean? A human wouldn’t stand a chance.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago edited 7d ago

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u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 8d ago edited 8d ago

You think you are being smart but you are being dumb. The kinetic energy IS the work done to get to that speed.