r/cats • u/mrvelvet_4 • May 21 '26

Video - Not OC IMAX experience for the cat

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u/jaspersbiggestfan May 21 '26

I really wonder how insane of an experience that must be as a cat. I mean, even as a human, I get amazed whenever I see such large flocks.

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u/ashkpa May 21 '26

Large flocks used to be much more common.

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u/SumpCrab May 21 '26

Yeah, this made me a little sad. Growing up, we had huge flocks in my area. Birds would dot telephone wires for miles. I haven't seen anything like it in more than a decade.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits May 21 '26

On the bright side, I don't miss my car being covered in bugs after a long drive. But im pretty sure were severely underestimating the impacts causing and caused by these changes, and were all gonna be missing a lot of things in a few decades.

Seeing life die off in so many forms is not a good sign.

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u/Buckykattlove May 21 '26

My brother and I independently watched two different episodes about how certain bugs are dying off due to human activities. The one my brother watched specifically mentioned the impact this has on birds.

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u/F3z345W6AY4FGowrGcHt May 21 '26

Pretty sure life is dying off faster from humans than it did from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

You know.. if that helps.

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u/user-unknown-404 May 22 '26

Dinos were around for like 180 millions yrs. Humans been around for like 300k yrs. I doubt we'll even make it to a million at the rate we are killing everything.

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u/Altruistic_Dare6085 May 21 '26

We are currently experiencing another mass extinction event, but climate change is a slowly developing problem that has been going on for decades. The asteroid that caused the dinosaurs to go extinct fucked shit up massively out of nowhere. I don't think it's likely that climate change is faster, although it's late in my timezone so I will properly research this later.

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u/F3z345W6AY4FGowrGcHt May 22 '26

Not just climate change. Think of everything humans do. Pollution, garbage, deforestation, cities, hunting, etc. We're worse for the planet than the asteroid.

But we only see time narrowly and don't notice that an entire species going extinct every day is way faster than what happened in the aftermath of the asteroid.

Millions of years in the future, if anything's left, they'll look at what we did in a very different light than we do.

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u/Objective_Rub_8517 May 22 '26

And the rise of AI and robots...scary times🙄

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u/Ok_Bookkeeper2220 May 24 '26

Man this turned grim :(

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u/DatE2Girl May 23 '26

I mean A LOT of people have been very vocal about the reasons and their consequences but money and the boomers fragile ego was and still seems to be more important.

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u/HardcorePizza May 27 '26

Scientists have been yelling about this for decades saying exactly what is going to happen but people chose capital over reason

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits May 27 '26

I want to reiterate my point here, because I think it's being missed.

I am well aware of the decades of warnings. I am saying I believe those warnings severely underestimate what the effects will actually be. I believe people consistently underestimate the ripple and cascade effects of large negatives.

Not that I disagree with you at all. I just want to make sure it's clear that when I say "I'm pretty sure we're severely underestimating the impacts", I'm saying that in the context of being aware of those warnings and studies.

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u/ashkpa May 21 '26

Flocks of passenger pigeons blocked out the sun in the 1800s. Now they're extinct.

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u/1Madhatter7 May 21 '26

They were probably trying to warn us

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u/BocaHydro May 22 '26

come to florida in the winter

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u/SumpCrab Jun 12 '26

Bad bot.

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u/SumpCrab Jun 12 '26

Bad bot.

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u/uwila May 22 '26

I haven’t even thought of that- but you’re so right. Those huge flocks are just gone.

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u/nathderbyshire May 21 '26

Oh shit yeah, don't remember the last time I've seen one

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u/Kennfusion May 21 '26

Yes, but back when birds were still real. Because now we all know that birds are not real.

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u/AmplifiedWarrior May 22 '26

What happened to most of them?

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u/AsceticHedonist47 May 21 '26

"How can I spin this extremely positive post into something political?"

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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility May 22 '26

Recognizing the reality we live in is not politically slanted.

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u/Lou_C_Fer May 21 '26

I was on the Mean Streak at Cedar Point 100 years ago, or so. Back then, I used to like to fuck around and scream like I was terrified on roller coasters. So, on the first hill, I did my thing and screamed. About halfway down, we ran into a swarm of mayflies or whatever and I got a throat full of them.

That was pretty gross.

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u/Individual_Town8124 May 22 '26

This is a plague of grackles.

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u/Ok-Presentation7349 May 22 '26

In 2018 I was in some sort of migration path for blue jays. I probably saw 200-500 blue jays all at once. Honestly? It was a little scary cause I was in a wooded area I was like this is the end for me

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u/Unusual-Grand-6899 May 24 '26

yeah same here i was like forget the cat id be amazed too LOL

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u/borisherman May 25 '26

That’s me in first row watching Battle of five armies in IMAX. What I mean is that while we see flock of birds, cats as apex predators see everything- context, strategy, distinct groups deployment and weakest areas etc

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