Horseshoe crabs be like

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• mononomi@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And then humans came along to mess with em

  human in protective clothing harvesting horseshoe crab blood in a lab

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  • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stupid life-saving copper based blood…

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  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I find it hard to understand, what special thing the blood has, that is not synthetically manufacturable. With most foodstuff companies trying to synthetically manufacture as much of the food as they can, what makes this “Near Threatened” animal, so important to harvest?

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    • Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I googled it for you, there is LAL which is a blood clotting agent (that exists only in the blood of horseshoe crabs) that reacts with the bacterial capsule which makes it important for vaccine safety tests. Alternatives do exist but ya know, money is more important to corporations than some animal’s life.

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  • KellysNokia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s like a more realistic representation of what Neo would see when he wakes from the Matrix

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• whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Science abhors a vacuum but it fucking loves a crab

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  • Paraponera_clavata@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nature abhors a vaccuum

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• apex32@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice doggie!

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Heckin sea roomba

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• Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s no evidence for gods though.

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s also no evidence that horseshoe crabs have individual names and understand the concept of evolution.

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    • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We do have evidence that at least one species give their members individual names, and at least a portion of the members understand the concept of evolution

      So i would say we have more evidence for this meme being accurate than any god being real

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    • Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair point. Although one may say this is fine here for comic purposes.

      The same argument could be made about the statement “Gods perfect creation”.
      But I’d argue that the suggestion of a creationist god expands the distance to scientific contexts even more while simple speech bubbles are fine due to less ideological conflict potential.

      Admittedly, I am also rather allergic to religions, which is why I am having a difficult time with that part of the meme.

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  • ZeroCool@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Me too. It’s a science meme community after all.

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• meowMix2525@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yet some of them still managed to evolve into spiders…

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They were bored one afternoon

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• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the best things I got to do as a kid was go down to horseshoe crab time at the shore at pet them and hear a science human talk about their fancy blood. The fancy blood of the horseshoe crabs, not the science human’s blood.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lazy bastards

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• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• sqw@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  all extant species be like: evolve? whats that. just livin out here.

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