Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/27/red-lobster-saves-blue-lobster.html
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Here I was ready for an inspiring tail of sea-bug kindness, but it was just a restaurant being decent. Still, good on them
And I thought the spawn rate for shiny Pokemon was low
The restaurant reached out to the Akron Zoo on Friday to place a take-out order to donate the rare find.
This sentence is a little puzzling.
i’ve got some news for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCZag9YjOz4
Well, this story came right out of the blue…
This reminds me of the conditions that lead to the story “The Golden Spruce” by John Vaillant where a one in a million tree revered by the local population was “saved” by the logging company Macmillan Bloedel in the 80’s only to become one mans symbol of protest against deforestation.
The University of Maine Lobster Institute says the likelihood of catching a blue lobster is one in 200 million.
As with most statistical statements, the more I think about this, the less I understand it. Are we saying just that one lobster in 200 million is blue? Or do the blue ones, on top of being rare to begin with, have a different likelihood of being caught from that of other lobsters? Are my chances of catching one affected by the fact that I never go anywhere near the sea, or into Red Lobster?
This BoingBoing piece misquotes the odds at “one in 2 million”, but I don’t see any problem with a hundredfold error in a statistic that’s meaningless anyway.
How did this guy make it to Ohio in the first place? Typically when lobster fishermen catch a blue one, they take a picture to send to the news, and toss the lobster back. I wonder who the unscrupulous fisherman was that left this guy in with the rest of the day’s catch.
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