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Nature is Metal

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  • jon-nycJ Online
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    Based.

    "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
    -Cormac McCarthy

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    • HoraceH Offline
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      Genes want to survive. Organisms only think they want to survive, because that thought is useful to the genes.

      Education is extremely important.

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        I'd say that genes are just as dispassionate as LLMs are. It just happens to be the case that genes that do not contribute to replicating themselves disappear after a while.

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          The teeth of the Maine blood worm are made from @copper. (Just joking - made from real copper)

          Link to video

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          • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

            Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

            Link to video

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            @taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal:

            Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

            Cannot tell from the video whether babies eat each other too. Are the babies smart enough to distinguish mother from siblings?

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            • AxtremusA Axtremus

              @taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal:

              Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

              Cannot tell from the video whether babies eat each other too. Are the babies smart enough to distinguish mother from siblings?

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              @Axtremus In my very small research, it appears that

              • the mother is already dying when giving birth. So, maybe gives off some sort of smell the babies recognize?

              • there is some bacteria in the mother that helps the babies digest things, which I guess they by instinct know.

              So, I dont think that they eat other babies.

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                Link to video

                Education is extremely important.

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                • MikM Offline
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                  That’s funny.

                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                    Male bees die after mating with females

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                      #421

                      Every year in the early days of summer, we get 2 monarch caterpillars and the kids watch them phase into a chrysalis and eventually a butterfly. It only takes a few weeks, a few leaves of milkweed, and it’s a remarkable sight to see to be honest.

                      This year, our first caterpillar went into chrysalis, and instead of emerging, we woke up one morning to find a string of silk from the hanging chrysalis down to the bottom of the container, after a quick Google it turned out T-flys will infect a caterpillar with parasitic eggs and once the caterpillar goes into chrysalis (hanging mode) the parasite eats the caterpillar from within, resulting in two or three fly larva climbing down a rope like a fucking mission impossible scene, and crawling around the jar until they turn into flies. Gross.

                      https://www.internationalbutterflybreeders.org/tachinid-fly-by-rose-franklin/

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                        #422

                        Pictures or it didn’t happen.

                        By the way that’s also a lesson for the kids though perhaps a bit gruesome.

                        "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                        -Cormac McCarthy

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                        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                          Pictures or it didn’t happen.

                          By the way that’s also a lesson for the kids though perhaps a bit gruesome.

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                          @jon-nyc said in Nature is Metal:

                          By the way that’s also a lesson for the kids though perhaps a bit gruesome.

                          THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU WANDER OFF AGAIN!!!!

                          I was only joking

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                            Not quite sure of the ending to this.. whether it was good or bad.

                            (title is a bit incorrect. Not sure if the leopard "saved" the deer or not)

                            Link to video

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