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Paris zoo unveils the "blob", an organism with no brain but 720 sexes
- Thread starter chadskin
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No, no, let it live. It will kill us all and finally bring the sad farce that is human existence to an end!
Yeah, that's my reaction, too. The whole time I was thinking it sounded like a slime mold. All the questioning of whether it's an animal or a fungus, is Kingdom Protista no longer a thing? I mean, I'd heard that there were biologists who weren't satisfied with it...
Protista was what's called a "wastebasket taxon", where stuff's just kind of haphazardly thrown in bc it doesn't fit neatly into boxes (in this case, animal/plant/fungus)
there's a lot more kingdoms now (for whatever "kingdom" actually means, because linnaean taxonomy is also putting things into boxes that don't really exist)
slime molds are in Amoebozoa with, uh, amoebas. amoebozoa is basal to the group of fungi+animals
this looks like the type of organism that would invade a human brain. then it would come up with a plan to put a part of itself in a zoo so it would seem harmless and to attract other potential hosts and spread itself. it will then take over all humans in high positions of power and force ''vaccinations'' on the populace that is just a cover for it spreading even more.
or not.
or not.
this is generally just really weird reporting given that the organism isn't identified in any way beyond "blob"
setting aside that this isn't even... a newly-discovered organism?
i mean i support zoos having stuff that's not just big mammals, because mammals are mostly boring, but the article is strange
also the "sexes" thing is probably about mating types, which... are sort of like sexes in determining reproductive compatibility, but also not
i'm not in mycology so i only have a vague awareness of them.
setting aside that this isn't even... a newly-discovered organism?
i mean i support zoos having stuff that's not just big mammals, because mammals are mostly boring, but the article is strange
also the "sexes" thing is probably about mating types, which... are sort of like sexes in determining reproductive compatibility, but also not
i'm not in mycology so i only have a vague awareness of them.
You think it's funny until you and your companions are walking through a dungeon and one of these falls from the ceiling and immediately KOs the Wizard and then melts the Fighters armor with one swing of its pseudopod.
Really underrated imo.
Derivative of a bunch of other movies. It delivered on what it needed to.
It was a well made straight forward creature feature. And those are few and far between in theaters these days.
But if you become one with the blob that means you become the overlord.
So it's basically similar to a jellyfish? A lot of the features it seems to have are similar to things like jellyfish or the chimeric nature of the Portuguese Man'O'War.
"Physarum polycephalum, literally the "many-headed slime", is a slime mold that inhabits shady, cool, moist areas, such as decaying leaves and logs. Like slime molds in general, it is sensitive to light; in particular, light can repel the slime mold and be a factor in triggering spore growth."
Weak against light for people preparing for the blob war.[/QUOTE]
Weak against light for people preparing for the blob war.[/QUOTE]
it was discovered at a picnic.
that's how it infiltrates and takes over.
Its other form is a delicious devil's food cake.
Also, if folk haven't seen the 1988 remake of The Blob, get on that, it's an underrated 80s horror film.
After reading the OP, I went and told my wife, because I thought it was cool. She looked at the picture in the article and said "That's slime mold." We then proceeded to watch a TED Talk about it from several years ago. I love that my wife is a scientist, and I'm just a dumb programmer.
This isn't some new amazing creature. It's been around longer than we have.
This isn't some new amazing creature. It's been around longer than we have.
I'm feeling a Mandela effect here, like these things didn't exist in my reality. Is this like the mind bugs in Rick & Morty? Am I too high right now?
So... if I ate one of these, would it just regenerate in my stomach and eat me from the inside?
I think your quote tags are slightly off, but you're the real MVP of this thread.
