@NightOwl to World News@lemmy.ml • 9 months agoIceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square194arrow-up1878arrow-down119
arrow-up1859arrow-down1external-linkIceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’www.theguardian.com@NightOwl to World News@lemmy.ml • 9 months agomessage-square194
minus-square@SnipingNinja@slrpnk.netlinkfedilink2•9 months agoI’m guessing this is what the >!Avatar: Way of the water thing was based on!<
minus-square@jcit878@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•9 months agowhales have something in their brain cavity that was considered valuable at the time, can’t remember what it was called or what it was used for but I think that was the equivilant thing they were going for in Avatar
minus-squareRoboticidelinkfedilink1•9 months agoWhales have been used for a number of resources in the past. Oil from blubber was a big one, and used in everything from lamps to soap. Ambergris was a perfume base. Spermaceti, the substance in the head of sperm whales, was used for candles and also lamps, as it was a higher quality.
I’m guessing this is what the >!Avatar: Way of the water thing was based on!<
whales have something in their brain cavity that was considered valuable at the time, can’t remember what it was called or what it was used for but I think that was the equivilant thing they were going for in Avatar
Whales have been used for a number of resources in the past.
Oil from blubber was a big one, and used in everything from lamps to soap.
Ambergris was a perfume base.
Spermaceti, the substance in the head of sperm whales, was used for candles and also lamps, as it was a higher quality.