Absence of paleontological evidence of change in appearance does not mean evolutionary stagnation
Horseshoe crabs be like
Submitted 4 days ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to science_memes@mander.xyz
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witty_username@feddit.nl 4 days ago
whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Science abhors a vacuum but it fucking loves a crab
Paraponera_clavata@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Nature abhors a vaccuum
apex32@lemmy.world 4 days ago
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Heckin sea roomba
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Yet some of them still managed to evolve into spiders…
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
They were bored one afternoon
Zacryon@feddit.org 4 days ago
There’s no evidence for gods though.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There’s also no evidence that horseshoe crabs have individual names and understand the concept of evolution.
ignotum@lemmy.world 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago
Zacryon@feddit.org 4 days ago
Me too. It’s a science meme community after all.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Lazy bastards
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
all extant species be like: evolve? whats that. just livin out here.
mononomi@feddit.nl 4 days 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 4 days ago
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Tja@programming.dev 4 days ago
Stupid life-saving copper based blood…
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 4 days 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 4 days 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 3 days ago
It’s like a more realistic representation of what Neo would see when he wakes from the Matrix