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Get High Like Planes (mander.xyz)
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[–] sp3tr4l 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I mean, you probably should throw it like a paper airplane (with form, and not stupendously forcefully), or at least put it back in the water. It is a fish, it will asphyxiate if you just keep holding it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I have to imagine it has a greater capacity to hold its breath than the average fish, on account of their gliding and everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's just having a good time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

don't they glide for ridiculous lengths of time tho?

[–] sp3tr4l 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Apparently the longest ever recorded glide is 45 seconds.

Fish don't have lungs, so the analogy is kind of busted, but some humans can hold their breath for 30 seconds, some 2 minutes, some 5 minutes, but overall it doesn't take long for brain damage/death to occur.

I'd guesstimate that a flying fish would be probably irrevivably dead after 3 to 5 minutes out of water.

I tried to look up more specifics on flying fish respiratory systems vs other fish back when I posted this, to see if they have measurably better ability to remain alive out of water for longer than other fish, but I couldn't find much.