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spongebob big guy pants okay (mander.xyz)
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[–] 66 points 9 months ago (12 children)

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.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    I mean, enough that manufacturing of homogenizers is a thing. https://improbable.com/2021/05/13/shakespeare-and-the-whole-mouse-homogenizer/?amp=1

    The ad features the comforting headline: “Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds”

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I think there's nematodes that we've blended up before, but instead you get a bunch of nematodes instead of just one.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago*

    “Hey, Bob, watcha getting up to?”

    “I’m just chopping up these worms.”

    “… Why?”

    “… sssssscience?”

    “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?”

    “…”

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    what's a nematode?

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