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I see these little guys in the mangrove swamps down in Florida. Very quick
Just today watched a video about these little buggers :) https://youtu.be/IH_uv4h2xYM
“Stealing”? Am I “stealing” fat from the food I eat? Since when is retaining some components of what you consume equivalent to theft?
It uses the chloroplast as the algae uses them. It doesn’t really it them it uses them to photosynthesize. If you took the wing off the chicken and used it to fly you could say that was stealing its wing
I assume chloroplast is much more complex than fat and we do actually have fat within our body, while the slug doesn’t naturally grow chloroplast.
Am I stealing chloroplasts when I eat a salad?
Can you photosynthesis afterward?
I imagine there is an incredibly short window in which I technically can.
Can’t tell if joking or anti-science, but ok.
Digestion begins before you swallow. I expect if I chewed up some salad, opened my mouth and aimed it at the sun, some percentage of what I’d just chewed on would have access to co2, h2o and 600nm EMR, and synthesize a glucose molecule two.
Since the genesis of this conversation was purely semantic (“why is eating a chrolorplast theft if eating anything else isn’t?”) I think it’s pretty fair game to point out that yes, technically I also can reap the benefits of photosynthesis in a very limited way for something im actively digesting.
Not really a point in getting into a semantic argument if you’re just gonna come out swinging about being anti-science.
Can we learn how to steal the chloroplastic piracy of the algea?
This is a pokemon if I’ve ever seen one
Water/Grass is pretty good defensive typing as well.
the process has a great name: Kleptoplasty
That is really cool!
Also chlorotica does not mean what I thought it did
It’s not Plants vs Zombies fanfic?
It can also be that
I can take a four-peater.
I recently saw a vid about these things. Another interesting thing they can do is voluntary decapitation. The head can survive and grow new organs, possibly because photosynthesis gives them the energy to keep going and growing.
I should steal some chloroplasts.
We might have seen the same video 😄
Was it from the Octopus Lady ? She’s always great.
I think the creators of Bioshock were correct to base the plot on seaslugs.
Especially Ayn Rand.
Fucking got her
So satisfactory is real life?
Much like potatoes!
