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spongebob big guy pants okay

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Submitted ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How many other animals did they put through a sieve to reach this conclusion? How many?!

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    • aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      idk all of them I guess

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      • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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      • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Many, many poor little creatures with simpler or more robust or segmented nervous systems. Mostly worms, cnidarians, starfish, metamorphosing insects, and more in that line of thought. It’s common in college bio to watch planarians unmangle themselves. Sucks for them, but they get food and relative safety, so I’ve always considered it an even trade

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  • s@piefed.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you mix up the grindings of multiple sponges, do they only recombine with their own cells?

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    • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Excellent question!

      Now on to the grinder…

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      • mech@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Did I hear on to Grindr?
        Hell yes, let’s do science!

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    • hunkyburrito@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Based on the link sent by fossilesque@mander.xyz above, it seems somewhat unlikely. The video mentions that the sponge recombines into multiple small sponges, meaning the cells don’t necessarily remember the original form.

      I very well could be wrong in my interpretation though

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    • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The real scientist here asking the real questions

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  • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There seem to be many of these multicellular animals who don’t feel like a singular individual animal. I was commenting on a post a few months ago about the most genetically simple multicellular animal, this thing has less base pairs than most bacteria, and it can also do this trick where disassociated cells recombine into new individuals. This creature also reproduce sexually if and only if the concentration of fellow individuals is high enough, cells will just leave the body and join a new one like for fun. It really calls into question what an individual is.

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    • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess it makes sense that multicellularity would be more of a spectrum than a binary condition. If life evolved into it gradually, then it would make sense to find a lot of “intermediate” evolutionary states that don’t feel like they’re distinctly one or the other.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My body still repairs itself while I dissociate. Does that count?

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fact: Spongebob can teleport

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  • SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah, yes, I too read The Bikini Bottom Horror

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  • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t caterpillars turn thier cells to mush when they turn into butterflys?

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, but I don’t think it works with a grinder.

      However, apparently caterpillars retain memories from their caterpillar form when in butterfly form! That’s pretty cool.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Bro, the whole process of going from caterpillar-> goo->butterfly creeps me out.

        I’m sure it is fascinating. But also, nope.

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      • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My friends never seen a butterfly on grender yet, so u think your right.

        Seriously though, the whole memory retention thing is amazing

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    • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They don’t completely turn to goo, structures are already there in caterpillar form. youtu.be/4RaCURU6A2o

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      • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Cool video
        It cerities my lifelong belief that butterflies love ass to ass!

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How do they know other lifeforms do not do that?

    Answer me! How do they know?!

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      SCIENCE

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  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So, when they reassemble does it start with the middle finger?

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    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Without a nervous system, the only thing it can feel is ANGER.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Chat, is this true?

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      shapeoflife.org/…/sponges-time-lapse-sponge-cells…

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  • glimmer_twin@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TIL sponges can teleport

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  • Speiser0@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Forbidden cake.

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  • huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So that’s how Boros did it

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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    when they come back they grow 2 hands with the long fingers and fused palms

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