You jest (and you jest well)., And yet there is at least one rather-famously documented case of a whale grappling with that very same constraint:
"Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more." -DA
That's not correct. The need for buoyancy is a very similar constraint, just with a different threshold. If a blue whale is too heavy (or rather more accurately, too dense), then it will become very challenging for the whale to surface to breathe.
But I'm not sure why anyone would want to paint one?
Tagbert|2 years ago
tpurves|2 years ago
"Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more." -DA
d1sxeyes|2 years ago
But I'm not sure why anyone would want to paint one?
hammock|2 years ago
userbinator|2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transair_Flight_810
(Sorry, could not resist...)