I want to know what the texture is like on this.
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m more interested in the mouthfeel.
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Asking the real questions,
Is that just a thick ass phospholipid bi-layer?
What’s going on here and can I eat that thing?
What does cytoplasm taste like?
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
For science, right?
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Of course it’s for science. Now don’t look while I probe it.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a plastic like feel, smooth. Mostly Tasteless. Filled with salty water, but outside is pretty thin and delicate and splits easily. Doesn’t bounce more than once. Most you find are quite small, pearl sized. Outside of water it tends to get wrinkly out of water for very long.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I wonder how much strength the cell membrane has? Does it pop easily, and if not, what prevents it?
Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
“Pondering my cell” just didn’t have the same ring to it… Sounds like I’m suck in jail
PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I feel a sudden urge to have a water balloon fight.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Xenophyophores are multinucleate unicellular organisms found on the ocean floor
A multinucleate cell (also known as multinucleated cell or polynuclear cell) is a eukaryotic cell that has more than one nucleus, i.e., multiple nuclei share one common cytoplasm
There’s stuff down there…
Saleh@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
This algae ball also has multiple nuclei
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
So if you shake it, it will rattle?
Regna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are fantastic. Some years ago I got a sudden urge (from seeing them on subreddits) to grow these in my aquaria, but then I looked at several aquarist forums and realized that I shouldn’t. Really shouldn’t. They kind of don’t seem like they need more habitats to thrive in.
edg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are they invasive or something?
Seleni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More like incredibly aggressive. They are a type of algae after all. If you don’t keep a firm leash on them they’ll reproduce enough to drain all the oxygen and nutrients from an enclosed system like an aquarium.
Plant tribbles, if you will.
Regna@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To give an exceptionally brief explanation:
- Yes.
jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
This is one of the largest unicellular organisms, but as far as O know this is the largest:
mEEGal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
An egg is the same thing, albeit much simpler
Outwit1294@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I want to hold it. Where can I find it?
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
They appear in tidal zones of tropical and subtropical areas, like the Caribbean, north through Florida, south to Brazil, and in the Indo-Pacific. Overall, they inhabit every ocean throughout the world, often living in coral rubble.
Outwit1294@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Ohh. Why have never seen one before
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
T H I C C Mitochondria!
gwilikers@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
What does it feel like?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it looks like a taut grape that’s begging to be squeezed to burst.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
We’re gonna need a bigger gel blaster.
space_comrade@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
That’s insane. I thought it was already amazing that you can almost see some amoeba with the naked eye.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
If you were to spit on it, would it pop?
catty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is this how… we used to look at one point in history?
shath@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
what does it taste like
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And I thought megakaryocytes were huge.
Gladaed@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Big cells usually have multiple organelles of each type. They are less special than one would think, while being very strange indeed.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
this is the correct answer.
I’m betting their mitochondria are normal sized, they just have lots and lots of them.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Isn’t that true for all cells? I think human cells also have more than one mitochondria
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Some human cells have 0. But all have few.