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[–] xzinik@feddit.cl 1 points 2 days ago

feesh plinko

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is just a screenshot of Factorio

[–] megopie@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago

Pyanodons specifically, what with all the loops and inexplicable animals in the production line.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 6 points 5 days ago

The sharknado guard dissolves the sharknado by guiding the flying sharks into the inner screw structure, forcing them down and safely into the sea. A few perfectly placed sharknado guards can reduce a small to medium sharknado to a normal shark-less sub EF3 tornado, saving many lives in the process.

[–] zane@infosec.pub 5 points 5 days ago

Salmon concentrator

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

Anti-Jesus fish uncertainty centrifuge.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago

Your boss's takehome; your takehome

[–] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

the fish multiplier

EDIT: id like to correct my catastrophic misunderstanding of the above structure, as this is, in fact, a fish divider

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Your original name was fine. The multiplier is one-sixth.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I posit that it is infact a fish compressor. We have 6 entering the system on the left, based on the direction of the arrows. And a Fish Concentrate leaves.

[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 1 points 5 days ago

Possibly a synchronised fish compositor.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Six-to-one fish condenser

[–] NoFood4u@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Fig 1. F I S H A C C E L E R A T O R

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 7 points 6 days ago

The all new Fish++ turns six backwards fish into just ONE, which is just so, so fishy.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 7 points 6 days ago

With the machine completed, the messiah had automated his primary task and was thus terminated for redundancy.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago

My First Trackmania track

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The mechanical donut spline path calculator knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The spline path calculator uses deviations to generate corrective commands to direct the spline path of the mechanical donut from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

[–] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago

Fishies get sucked into the tall centrifuge tower, tail-first, then after processing, only one fish will be the fortunate one to be released back into the wild.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This device converts the data stream from a parallel format to a serial format. Fish swimming in the data stream enter simultaneously, but emerge one by one, both in little-endian notation.

[–] jfrnz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Ah yes Fish SerDes

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

You kids these days with your fancy dancy fishy go rounds. When I was a kid all we had was the wobbly wheel of death. All but 1 of the fish would climb on, and then that 1 fish would start pushing with all their might and then jump on. Then the other fish would eventually lose their grip and flung fuck off.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Goldfish crackers extraction.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

Chris Cross Crash. But with fish and in reverse. 5 fish go in but only a lucky one will come out.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 154 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's the large haddock collider.

[–] Sidhean@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Simply insert up to six salmon and wait! The fish are sequentially collided at 25 mph, reulting in one ultra-dense salmon, dispensed ass-first.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

If they run it in reverse it splits a dense salmon into many smaller salmon in a process called fisshion.

[–] stretch2m@infosec.pub 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It makes me sad to know I will never come up with a quip this clever.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Same, it makes me feel my life is so unworthy.

[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 4 points 5 days ago

Holy fuck that's good.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 89 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm more confused about the fact that the salmon go in backwards

[–] Janx@piefed.social 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Once inside, they instinctively swim against the strong current of water rushing downward. That means they end up moving backward down the spiral, eventually getting pushed out the bottom of the helix into the river.

This method has lead to better survival rates than when the fish were spilled over the top of the dam.

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[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Six fish enter! One fish leaves!

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Proposed design for the Salmon Combiner Turbine.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

The salmonplexer

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's actually a salmon decimator. 1 in, many out

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Check the arrow direction, it's a salmon smasher!

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[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Salmon Multiplexer

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Fish Cannon 2000 is a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, water-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires fish caliber fish at an extremely high rate (typically 6,000 rounds per minute). The FC2k and its derivatives have been the principal cannon armament of United Fish States military fixed-wing aircraft for over forty years, as of the turn of century.

Each of the cannon's six barrels fires once in turn during each revolution of the barrel cluster. The multiple barrels provide both a very high rate of fire—around 100 fish per second—and contribute to prolonged weapon life by minimizing barrel erosion and heat generation. The average time between jams or failures is in excess of 10,000 fish, making it an extremely reliable weapon.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Already has a caption:

A graphic of the Cle Elum fish passage helix - Washington State Department Of Ecology

https://www.knkx.org/environment/2026-05-13/fish-take-a-spin-at-cle-elum-dams-spiral-helix-yakama-nation

Edit: 💙🐟🐟🐟

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Must you live so relentlessly in facts and reality?

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