I want to know what the texture is like on this.
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Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m more interested in the mouthfeel.
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Asking the real questions,
Is that just a thick ass phospholipid bi-layer?
What’s going on here and can I eat that thing?
What does cytoplasm taste like?
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
For science, right?
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 months ago
Of course it’s for science. Now don’t look while I probe it.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a plastic like feel, smooth. Mostly Tasteless. Filled with salty water, but outside is pretty thin and delicate and splits easily. Doesn’t bounce more than once. Most you find are quite small, pearl sized. Outside of water it tends to get wrinkly out of water for very long.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I wonder how much strength the cell membrane has? Does it pop easily, and if not, what prevents it?
Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 months ago
“Pondering my cell” just didn’t have the same ring to it… Sounds like I’m suck in jail
PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I feel a sudden urge to have a water balloon fight.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Xenophyophores are multinucleate unicellular organisms found on the ocean floor
A multinucleate cell (also known as multinucleated cell or polynuclear cell) is a eukaryotic cell that has more than one nucleus, i.e., multiple nuclei share one common cytoplasm
There’s stuff down there…
Saleh@feddit.org 2 months ago
This algae ball also has multiple nuclei
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
So if you shake it, it will rattle?
Regna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They are fantastic. Some years ago I got a sudden urge (from seeing them on subreddits) to grow these in my aquaria, but then I looked at several aquarist forums and realized that I shouldn’t. Really shouldn’t. They kind of don’t seem like they need more habitats to thrive in.
edg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are they invasive or something?
Seleni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
More like incredibly aggressive. They are a type of algae after all. If you don’t keep a firm leash on them they’ll reproduce enough to drain all the oxygen and nutrients from an enclosed system like an aquarium.
Plant tribbles, if you will.
Regna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To give an exceptionally brief explanation:
- Yes.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
An egg is the same thing, albeit much simpler
jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This is one of the largest unicellular organisms, but as far as O know this is the largest:
Outwit1294@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I want to hold it. Where can I find it?
TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 months ago
They appear in tidal zones of tropical and subtropical areas, like the Caribbean, north through Florida, south to Brazil, and in the Indo-Pacific. Overall, they inhabit every ocean throughout the world, often living in coral rubble.
Outwit1294@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Ohh. Why have never seen one before
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
T H I C C Mitochondria!
gwilikers@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
What does it feel like?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
it looks like a taut grape that’s begging to be squeezed to burst.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
We’re gonna need a bigger gel blaster.
space_comrade@hexbear.net 2 months ago
That’s insane. I thought it was already amazing that you can almost see some amoeba with the naked eye.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
If you were to spit on it, would it pop?
catty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is this how… we used to look at one point in history?
shath@hexbear.net 2 months ago
what does it taste like
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And I thought megakaryocytes were huge.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 months ago
Big cells usually have multiple organelles of each type. They are less special than one would think, while being very strange indeed.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 months ago
this is the correct answer.
I’m betting their mitochondria are normal sized, they just have lots and lots of them.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Isn’t that true for all cells? I think human cells also have more than one mitochondria
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 months ago
Some human cells have 0. But all have few.