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Nature is Metal

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  • jon-nycJ Offline
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    He had it coming.

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

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      https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2025/05/31/burmese-python-florida-killed-bobcat-everglades-video-photos/83945813007/

      Only about twice the size of domestic cats, Florida's bobcats may be small in size, but they're big in moxie.

      Case in point: A bobcat appears to have killed a massive, 13-foot Burmese python in the Everglades recently and made a meal of it.

      The 52-pound male python was a Conservancy of Southwest Florida scout snake nicknamed Loki. Scout snakes have implanted transmitters that are tracked and used to lure breeding females.

      The invasive snake was found in a pile of debris, apparently mauled, with its head smashed and slashed, and partially buried for later feeding.

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

        Link to video

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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 Online
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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)

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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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                    @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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