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spongebob big guy pants okay (mander.xyz)

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[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago

How many animals have we ground up and put through a sieve into salt water to be this confident about it being the only animal that can do this? I need sources.

[-] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, enough that manufacturing of homogenizers is a thing. https://improbable.com/2021/05/13/shakespeare-and-the-whole-mouse-homogenizer/?amp=1

The ad features the comforting headline: “Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds”

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 months ago

is this the biologist's equivalent of "assume a flat, frictionless plane"

Assume A Perfectly Homogeneous Liquid Mouse

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

now that’s what i call molecular biology!

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I shouldn’t have asked for sources…

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago

I think there's nematodes that we've blended up before, but instead you get a bunch of nematodes instead of just one.

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“Hey, Bob, watcha getting up to?”

“I’m just chopping up these worms.”

“… Why?”

“…_ Ssssssscience_?”

“Holy shit, they’re all functioning individually!”

“Oh, thank fu- I mean, yeah, that’s what I was testing for. …Do we have any dogs?”

“…”

[-] Rezoie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

what's a nematode?

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

basically tiny worms, often shorter than a few milimeters. it's the name for a whole group of different species, so some are microscopic while some can be several cm long