Paris zoo unveils the "blob", an organism with no brain but 720 sexes
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That branching proboscis looks like a movie effect of weird spreading goop. Super cool.... since we are all not sleeping tonight
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Sorta. It doesn't quite cleanly compare to other branches of life. They're a single cell with numerous nuclei and no cell walls to divide it into multiple cells.
It looks like something from the tasting menu of a gourmet restaurant, it's missing a smear of some colorful kind of sauce across the plate and a sprinkling of some kind of green salad.
Well at least it is shit at connect the dots.
Great now this genetic root of all evil remembers humans cut it in half over and over, we're the aliens probing shit until it comes back to haunt us.
Since it's been hard to find any actual scientific writings on the organism, I'll take a stab at it.
You can imagine an organism with 3 mating types: mating type A can mate with mating type B or mating type C to form viable offspring, but not other mating type As. Similarly, B can form offspring with As or Cs, but not other Bs. Each mating type would constitute a "sex".
By sexes, do they simply mean genetic replication compatibilities?
As in Key X opens Lock X but not Lock Y which is opened by Key Y
As in Key X opens Lock X but not Lock Y which is opened by Key Y
Sort of. I found a paper in 2010 that looked a slime mold with 3 mating types and it essentially works out as I outlined above. Unfortunately it's not a well-studied organism so the exact determinants of these mating types is unknown.
For whatever reason, it was breaking up the quote tabs. It's already taking over the internet. Trying to stop people from knowing it's weakness.
720 sexes and no brain? Sounds like the Democrat Party if you ask me, folks!
(Excerpt from my new Netflix comedy special "BANNED from College Campuses for Free Speech")
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Looks like another material for Part III for cordyceps vs the blob.
Better yet, cordyceps + the blob = ???
Better yet, cordyceps + the blob = ???
That's what I was curious about too. The article is light on details for such an amazing discovery.
Edit: okay those tweets explain this bizarre article. It's just PR for a zoo with little basis in fact.
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That's probably what the blob think when it sees you.
For those curious about the 720 sexes thing that indeed seems to mean more or less exactly what it sounds like to the best of my understanding of this:
You know, blob, We really are the Last of Us
It's the offspring of this
Trump, when Ivanka accidentally walks into the bathroom while he takes a bath.It's the offspring of this
Yeah I was just reading about this and that's what they mean
They have 3 different types of sex gene, each of which has multiple variants.
So MatA1 MatB5 MatC2 is sexually compatible with everything except another MatA1 MatB5 MatC2 and so on
Just got in my office, almost 10am here and trust me it's no better. I lost my will to eat today.
