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T2Legit2Quit t1_j6dx6dq wrote

Reply to comment by Darkrain0629 in 🔥 A Polar Bear following photographer Paul Souders from under the ice. by W0lfsKitten

The polar bear might be the apex of apex predators. They're big, fast and always ready to kill.

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dranaei t1_j6dyibz wrote

What a coincidence, so are missiles.

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MonkeyPanls t1_j6flg4x wrote

-- The post brought to you but the new FGM-186 "Polar Bear" surface to surface missile by Raytheon.

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mentorofminos t1_j6i01l2 wrote

I hear that other missile manufacturers only fire 55% of the missile while the Polar Bear fires 100%. That's 45% more missile PER MISSILE. Truly an Animal King!

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Masonjaruniversity t1_j6iv8qy wrote

That maybe too much missile for me. Can get like 75% and hold onto the other 25% for later?

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FFS_WORD_WORD_NUMBER t1_j6h91aq wrote

Like the ear buds? ^^^jk

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eyesotope86 t1_j6hxx8r wrote

If Raytheon made earbuds, they'd cost 6.5 million dollars, be made of 45 bucks worth of materials, and the first 3 generations would sound like shit and randomly blow your left ear off.

And the government would use our taxes to buy 450 million pairs.

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jondubb t1_j6imkq1 wrote

We (US) already have knife missiles, kind of upset it wasn't named polar bear express now.

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Zappababuru t1_j6kqu87 wrote

>knife missiles

Had no clue about this until your comment, which prompted me to Google "knife missile." That's wild. Pretty interesting idea.

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SidewaysInfinity t1_j6grsje wrote

The polar bear always knows where it is because it knows where it's not

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Hopperkin t1_j6gyp1z wrote

What a coincidence, so are people... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKEWdRPRf3I

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smurb15 t1_j6h39u3 wrote

More like a virus. Use up every natural resource and then move on to the next plentiful area until we deplete that

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khlnmrgn t1_j6hsy4a wrote

We only started doing that ~200 years ago. That's a feature of industrial civilization, not human nature.

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malachi347 t1_j6icjpb wrote

Not sure why you got downvoted, overpopulation is a problem everyone seems to be willfully ignorant of.

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[deleted] t1_j6ec23i wrote

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dranaei t1_j6ecakj wrote

Mad? I was making a joke as to how missiles can be compared to bears.

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wilks64 t1_j6ev5ge wrote

Wow defensive much!? You basically just admitted to being mad. /s

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iAmUnintelligible t1_j6g9bfm wrote

Even the /s didn't save you

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wilks64 t1_j6gduwl wrote

Oh well, people not getting jokes is the whole reason this little thread exists. Cheers!

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RichCorinthian t1_j6espcz wrote

>They're big, fast and always ready to kill

Must be easy for them to write a profile on a dating app. "Big, fast, and DTK."

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SpookyGeek t1_j6fn352 wrote

I guess that makes melting ice an apex apex apex predator.

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arctechnica t1_j6fp871 wrote

They just have to watch out for hippos. Hippos hax life.

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willstr1 t1_j6gxl2g wrote

If a polar bear is chasing you, strip naked, you wouldn't want the bear to choke on your jacket would you

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Zauberer-IMDB t1_j6g4sf9 wrote

Yeah except orcas will eat them. Man is the ultimate apex, since we kill everything. Disqualifying them there are 2 top dogs. The sperm whale and the orca.

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concernedexpressions t1_j6h8nlt wrote

So are humans, to be fair. Our "tool use" has gotten out of hand. There are people on this earth that can call for a nuclear strike remotely. That's fucked up.

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SheCouldFromFaceThat t1_j6ikxl4 wrote

I'd pit them or a Kodiak against any other predator, not like an elephant or rhino or other opportunistic carnivore, like an actual predator. In terms of toughness and sheer power, they might have everyone else beat.

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elbizzlee t1_j6ily0u wrote

Salt-water croc is about all I can think of to challenge the polar bear. Interesting that in this case we have a croc vs another semi-aquatic so if the battle occurs in or near water, even that won’t be entirely in the croc’s advantage.

However, a full-grown saltie will outweigh the polar bear by quite a bit. They are so much more massive than most people realize.

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SheCouldFromFaceThat t1_j6isyst wrote

Must be. I can't realistically picture a croc that big.

Good luck doing the spin of death on a fuckin bear, though.

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mcgyver229 t1_j6hvhkp wrote

Polar Bear are the largest predatory land animal on Earth.

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drawnred t1_j6jy71z wrote

pretty sure a grizzly beats a polar bear in a fight

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Pr0j3ct_02 t1_j6h0zg7 wrote

Pretty sure that title goes to gators. They have hard to destroy skin, gobble a lot of limbs, and survived a lot of the Extinction events

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Sage296 t1_j6hbkff wrote

I think a polar bear would have no problem destroying a gator

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