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[–] 57 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That is really cool!

Also chlorotica does not mean what I thought it did

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  • [–] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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    I recently saw a vid about these things. Another interesting thing they can do is voluntary decapitation. The head can survive and grow new organs, possibly because photosynthesis gives them the energy to keep going and growing.

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

    I think the creators of Bioshock were correct to base the plot on seaslugs.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    And yet when I give myself auto-brewery syndrome to keep myself permanently drunk people insist I have some kind of "serious medical problem".

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

    This is a pokemon if I’ve ever seen one

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (24 children)

    β€œStealing”? Am I β€œstealing” fat from the food I eat? Since when is retaining some components of what you consume equivalent to theft?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    I assume chloroplast is much more complex than fat and we do actually have fat within our body, while the slug doesn't naturally grow chloroplast.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (18 children)

    Am I stealing chloroplasts when I eat a salad?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I'd say, yes, you are literally consuming your food to take anything of value that your body can extract from it, often at the cost of everything for the thing you're eating (but definitely at the cost of the parts you eat). Like I'm a bit baffled as to how you can consider it not a form of theft. Hell, I'd even argue it is the purest form of theft there is and quite likely the original theft that only scavengers, photosynthesizers, and other life forms that survive on non-biological sources of energy aren't thieves in that manner.

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

    I was wondering why we didn't see any photosynthesizimg animals

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Bees (and relatives) do it too. If you need to deal with a wasp nest or something like that, do it at night and their defense will be much less enthusiastic.

    When I last dealt with some, knocking down the (small) nests would have a guard harass me until I moved about 10m away from the nest during the day. At night, it would just buzz me a bit before settling back down to rest without me even moving.

    Note that I'm not saying it's safe to harass a nest/hive at night, just safer than doing it during the day. The ones I dealt with were small enough that I only ever saw a single guard plus one worker, and even during the day, sometimes I'd just fight the one guard instead of running, since it's hard for a single wasp to sting you if you can track it decently and manage any fear. Trying to deal with a large nest could still be fatal at night.

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    [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "stealing"?! Who wrote this garbage?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Is this the next Stelaris DLC?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    this is sorta like how coral does it, and rare instance of jellyfish doing it too.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    So satisfactory is real life?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Much like potatoes!

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  • I see these little guys in the mangrove swamps down in Florida. Very quick

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I wish I was one kitty-birthday-sad

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Just today watched a video about these little buggers :) https://youtu.be/IH_uv4h2xYM

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  • Reminds me of the slugs from Satisfactory

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