Did Exploding Whales Just Go Mainstream?

There was a short scientific discipline lesson in this weekend ’s SNL , but if you blink you might have missed it . Also a pair of methane - fill maritime mammals sent their bloody viscera fell onto Taran Killam and Charlize Theron .

In case you have n’t hear , the internetspent some meter wonderingwhether a molder low-spirited whale that had wash up on a Newfoundland Beach would explode . It did n’t . Still , the speculation allowed scientific discipline writer Dr. Andrew Thaler the chance to explore justwhat is so compellingabout the whimsey of an exploding hulk .

What is it about explode whales that captures our collective imagination so thoroughly ? It ca n’t just be the oddity or absurdness of the situation . The net is bursting with rarified , grand , ridiculous moments than languish in obscurity . Is it the potential drop for metaphor ? Everything from Toronto city manager Rob Ford ’s career tomisogyny within the tech communityhave been compared to the dead , bloat bluish hulk carcass waiting to bust . burst whale laugh write themselves .

Perhaps exploding hulk force us to confront something profound about ourselves . For all our skill , all of our technological prowess , when a corpse of the large brute that ever hold up washes ashore , we are nearly helpless to move it . As far as we ’ve come since the daybreak we go up down from the trees , these dead , rot carcasses taunt us , mocking all that we have achieved .

We can consider these events as isolate incident of online exuberance or as benchmarks for the heavy transformations that have occurred over the last 20 year . From the other mean solar day of Usenet , where videos were partake not through the wires , but through physical infrastructure , to today , where were thirstily await newsworthiness of the recent ( possible deflated ) whale explosion . The history of exploding whales is the history of the cyberspace itself .

Perhaps its the idea that so monumental a creature could be rendered so completely unrecognizable , deplume to shreds by its own decomposition . I call up blow up whales hint at sprightliness ’s short-lived , temporary nature , while they simultaneously remind us that we will never rise to the volatile grandeur of our nautical mammal cousins . humanity may sometimes shuffle off that mortal curl in surprising way , but never with the kind of spectacle as an explode giant .

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