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[-] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes 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.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Six-to-one fish condenser

[-] zane@infosec.pub 3 points 4 hours ago

Salmon concentrator

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

Anti-Jesus fish uncertainty centrifuge.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 hours ago

Your boss's takehome; your takehome

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Goldfish crackers extraction.

[-] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago

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 hours ago

Possibly a synchronised fish compositor.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 4 points 13 hours ago

My First Trackmania track

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 10 points 16 hours ago

This is just a screenshot of Factorio

[-] megopie@beehaw.org 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 141 points 1 day ago

It's the large haddock collider.

[-] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 2 points 5 hours ago

Holy fuck that's good.

[-] stretch2m@infosec.pub 8 points 1 day ago

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

[-] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 minutes ago

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

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 84 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Janx@piefed.social 49 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 11 points 1 day ago
[-] Janx@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Fishy want get stronk.

[-] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 5 points 1 day ago

wow this is awesome!

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 13 points 1 day ago

Salmon like to go downstream backwards

[-] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago
[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago

Blåhaj ~~Blaster~~ Bläster

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Six fish enter! One fish leaves!

[-] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Salmon Multiplexer

[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Asafum@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Proposed design for the Salmon Combiner Turbine.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

The salmonplexer

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Asafum@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago

Their tails deceived me!! This large salmon collider will hopefully find the Biggs Bass-n particles that fishermen always say got away.

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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

Salmon Accelerator

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 day ago

Must you live so relentlessly in facts and reality?

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[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago
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[-] guy@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago
[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Looks more like a combiner. OR gate for fishes? If any channel is FISH, it outputs FISH

[-] guy@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago

Shit the arrows are the wrong way. Large Salmon Combiner it is.

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Large Salmon Collider?

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Fish comes in, fish goes out, you can't explain that!

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago
[-] Venat0r@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I think it's actually a salmonado

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

FLOUNDERDOME: Six fish enter, one fish leaves!

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