How many animals have we ground up and put through a sieve into salt water to be this confident about it being the only animal that can do this? I need sources.
spongebob big guy pants okay
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I mean, enough that manufacturing of homgenizers is a thing. improbable.com/…/shakespeare-and-the-whole-mouse-…
The ad features the comforting headline: “Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds”
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
is this the biologist’s equivalent of “assume a flat, frictionless plane”
Assume A Perfectly Homogeneous Liquid Mouse
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I shouldn’t have asked for sources…
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I think there’s nematodes that we’ve blended up before, but instead you get a bunch of nematodes instead of just one.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Hey, Bob, watcha getting up to?”
“I’m just chopping up these worms.”
“… Why?”
“… Science?”
“Holy shit, they’re all functioning individually!”
“Oh, thank fu- I mean, yeah, that’s what I was testing for. …Do we have any dogs?”
“…”
elbiter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m trying with a dog now, the hamster and the cat didn’t work…
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ed… ward…
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No…
danhab99@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
There seem to be many of these multicellular animals who don’t feel like a singular individual animal. I was commenting on a post a few months ago about the most genetically simple multicellular animal, this thing has less base pairs than most bacteria, and it can also do this trick where disassociated cells recombine into new individuals. This creature also reproduce sexually if and only if the concentration of fellow individuals is high enough, cells will just leave the body and join a new one like for fun. It really calls into question what an individual is.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I guess it makes sense that multicellularity would be more of a spectrum than a binary condition. If life evolved into it gradually, then it would make sense to find a lot of “intermediate” evolutionary states that don’t feel like they’re distinctly one or the other.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
My body still repairs itself while I dissociate. Does that count?
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
I find my body really struggles with basic repair when I dissociate
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Would have been better without the dumb AI image
MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fact: Spongebob can teleport
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah, yes, I too read The Bikini Bottom Horror
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Do they regrow their body or a new body made from the same parts?
rucksack@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
New ship of Theseus just dropped
killingspark@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
What the fuck is Theseus doing over there?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
What if you cut it in half first, would the ground up halves restore to half a sponge?
Then what if you stir the sponge powder and remove half.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Give this person a grant and let them sciencify please
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I have had new ideas too, what if you combine fractions of different sponges?
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
So, my assumption is: separated cells with the same genetic code, or some other biomarker of “individuality” that might not technically be unique, will attach to each other given the chance.
Super quick research suggests they don’t have organs or a nervous system, but do have specialized bits like flagella to move water through their pores/tunnels. The majority of the cells just … are. Sounds more like a colony of genetically identical cells than a single multi-cellular creature (to me), but I assume biologists have much more information and reason to consider them the way they do.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
So could we clone them and then grow them larger again, then once they regrow combine them into a super sponge!
sirico@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Like Deadpool
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How do they know other lifeforms do not do that?
Answer me! How do they know?!
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
So, when they reassemble does it start with the middle finger?
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Without a nervous system, the only thing it can feel is ANGER.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
TIL Deadpool is a sponge.
Speiser0@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Forbidden cake.
glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
TIL sponges can teleport
huquad@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
So that’s how Boros did it
expatriado@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
when they come back they grow 2 hands with the long fingers and fused palms
Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
coughs in hydra
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
How many other animals did they put through a sieve to reach this conclusion? How many?!
aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
idk all of them I guess
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
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MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Many, many poor little creatures with simpler or more robust or segmented nervous systems. Mostly worms, cnidarians, starfish, metamorphosing insects, and more in that line of thought. It’s common in college bio to watch planarians unmangle themselves. Sucks for them, but they get food and relative safety, so I’ve always considered it an even trade