I imagine they feel like “man, I really need to turn to goo” in the same way we are like “man, I really gotta take a shit”
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MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Jerkface@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I would fucking love to be a pile of goo for a couple of hours. I feel you, little caterpillar.
FUCKRedditMods@lemm.ee 9 months ago
That’s basically why I was a heroin addict for 15 years. I just wanted to chrysalis-out the world and goo down.
I still want to but I’m clean now :|
lowleveldata@programming.dev 9 months ago
In the wild while someone might interrupt the process tho? No, no thanks
Hupf@feddit.de 7 months ago
Odo, is that you?
RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They don’t exactly build the cocoon. Caterpillars periodically shed their outer skin layer, and the “cocoon” is just one of those layers. Turning into soup is also quite inaccurate. This video explains the process pretty well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RaCURU6A2o
bdkmshr@monyet.cc 9 months ago
Basically, its like everyday you change into the same somewhat similar shirt and then one day you went to change shirt and suddenly the shirt is not the same shirt but more fabulous shirt then before ?
Spzi@lemm.ee 9 months ago
How accurate is this description?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
TH1NKTHRICE@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Nice video. Yes caterpillars have a proto-wing internally before they pupate. But, as they say in the video, it’s a myth that they turn into goo in the cocoon. They don’t.
_number8_@lemmy.world 9 months ago
there is so so much we don’t know / can’t observe / can’t let ourselves realize about nature. animals know and understand far far more than we think – just because they can’t speak doesn’t mean they don’t feel emotions as strongly as us
Psythik@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I learned this on my first acid trip. Nature is more intelligent than your average person believes, and it sucks that we take it for granted.
sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 9 months ago
I still remember things from when I was 3, not that weird
they’re invertebrates so being goo is probably okay for them
BennyVC@kbin.social 9 months ago
i can't believe they still couldn't answer the question after three whole paragraphs
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
There isn’t any way to know. We can test memories they had from one form to the next, but only in one direction.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Not with that attitude
mojo@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I know that I’ll be an adult but I still don’t know wtf I’m doing
Rootiest@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I wonder what it feels like to be a brain in a goo sac
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 9 months ago
I mean, that’s pretty much what we are.
A brain driving a meat puppet.
Rekliner@beehaw.org 9 months ago
Hey now… Modern science has grown to where we now understand that we are an entire nervous system driving a meat puppet.
ericatty@infosec.pub 9 months ago
If you replied from your phone, it’s probably still in one of your hands.
Gsus4@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Has metamorphosis physiology been studied in detail with CT scans, electrodes? It sounds like one of those weird things that could really impact biology if understood in depth for things like regeneration…but maybe it’s too far to be useful to humans :/
berrytopylus@hexbear.net 9 months ago
Butterflies are just crazy animals in general. Back in the 1800s there was even a naturalist arrested in Chile because they thought he was spreading lies about them scientificamerican.com/…/insect-metamorphosis-evo…
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
How does goo store memories??
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
The thing about turning to literal goo is a myth.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I looked it up and apparently it’s half true, they mostly turn into goo but some parts don’t.
Zardoz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
TBF if someone tased you every time you set your phone down you’d fucking remember
Zorque@kbin.social 9 months ago
I only turn into goo after a particularly bad day at work, though.
sj_zero 9 months ago
Or for the pretty ladies, but that's different.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Or after Shinji has had a particularly bad day at work.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ready for the bucket, Odo?