Science abhors a vacuum but it fucking loves a crab
Horseshoe crabs be like
Submitted 10 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to science_memes@mander.xyz
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whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Paraponera_clavata@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nature abhors a vaccuum
apex32@lemmy.world 10 months ago
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Heckin sea roomba
Zacryon@feddit.org 10 months ago
There’s no evidence for gods though.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s also no evidence that horseshoe crabs have individual names and understand the concept of evolution.
ignotum@lemmy.world 10 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
Zacryon@feddit.org 10 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.
ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Zacryon@feddit.org 10 months ago
Me too. It’s a science meme community after all.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yet some of them still managed to evolve into spiders…
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
They were bored one afternoon
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 10 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.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Lazy bastards
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
all extant species be like: evolve? whats that. just livin out here.
mononomi@feddit.nl 10 months ago
And then humans came along to mess with em
human in protective clothing harvesting horseshoe crab blood in a lab
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
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Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Stupid life-saving copper based blood…
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 10 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?
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 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.
KellysNokia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s like a more realistic representation of what Neo would see when he wakes from the Matrix