NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 10 months agoIceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square188fedilinkarrow-up1854
arrow-up1854external-linkIceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’www.theguardian.comNightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 10 months agomessage-square188fedilink
minus-squareSnipingNinja@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoI’m guessing this is what the >!Avatar: Way of the water thing was based on!<
minus-squarejcit878@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 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-squareRoboticide@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 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.