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[–] Track_Shovel 101 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TBF if someone tased you every time you set your phone down you'd fucking remember

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I only turn into goo after a particularly bad day at work, though.

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 6 points 1 year ago

Or for the pretty ladies, but that's different.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or after Shinji has had a particularly bad day at work.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Get in the dam robot Shinji!

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ready for the bucket, Odo?

[–] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Parenting method from the year 3000

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[–] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I imagine they feel like β€œman, I really need to turn to goo” in the same way we are like β€œman, I really gotta take a shit”

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would fucking love to be a pile of goo for a couple of hours. I feel you, little caterpillar.

[–] FUCKRedditMods@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s basically why I was a heroin addict for 15 years. I just wanted to chrysalis-out the world and goo down.

I still want to but I’m clean now :|

[–] P0rkduck@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

I'm glad you're clean though. Keep it up!

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

In the wild while someone might interrupt the process tho? No, no thanks

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[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't exactly build the cocoon. Caterpillars periodically shed their outer skin layer, and the "cocoon" is just one of those layers. Turning into soup is also quite inaccurate. This video explains the process pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RaCURU6A2o

[–] bdkmshr@monyet.cc 7 points 1 year ago

Basically, its like everyday you change into the same somewhat similar shirt and then one day you went to change shirt and suddenly the shirt is not the same shirt but more fabulous shirt then before ?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't know they're going to be butterflies. They are driven by instinct to build the cocoon. It is a natural urge, an irresistible drive.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Insects with their tiny brains never really "know" what they're doing. They just do.

[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like the conservatives

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[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How accurate is this description?

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TH1NKTHRICE@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 year ago

Nice video. Yes caterpillars have a proto-wing internally before they pupate. But, as they say in the video, it’s a myth that they turn into goo in the cocoon. They don’t.

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there is so so much we don't know / can't observe / can't let ourselves realize about nature. animals know and understand far far more than we think -- just because they can't speak doesn't mean they don't feel emotions as strongly as us

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I learned this on my first acid trip. Nature is more intelligent than your average person believes, and it sucks that we take it for granted. I wish more people would open their third eye and pay attention to their surroundings.

EDIT: To add to the "there is so much we can't observe" thing, I implore anyone reading this to google the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Our senses, specifically sight and sound, can only pick up a tiny sliver of what's out there. You don't even need psychedelic drugs to understand just how little we can observe as human beings if you understand how radio waves work.

[–] BennyVC@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i can't believe they still couldn't answer the question after three whole paragraphs

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There isn't any way to know. We can test memories they had from one form to the next, but only in one direction. Can't really ask them or probe their brain to find out what they know.

Not with that attitude

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know that I'll be an adult but I still don't know wtf I'm doing

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's the best part, nobody knows what they are doing!

[–] Phantaminum@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Never trust people that say that they know what they're doing!

[–] ericatty@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago

If you replied from your phone, it's probably still in one of your hands.

[–] Rootiest@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what it feels like to be a brain in a goo sac

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, that's pretty much what we are.

A brain driving a meat puppet.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Celediel 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So... what does the thinking?

You're not understanding, are you? You're refusing to deal with what I'm telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat.

[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eat the brains, gain the knowledge!

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

High in Omega 3!

[–] Rekliner@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Hey now... Modern science has grown to where we now understand that we are an entire nervous system driving a meat puppet.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They’re made out of meat?!

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, thinking meat!

When they communicate they do it by flapping pieces of meat!

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

That’s disgusting!

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Has metamorphosis physiology been studied in detail with CT scans, electrodes? It sounds like one of those weird things that could really impact biology if understood in depth for things like regeneration and neuron plasticity...but maybe it's too far to be useful to humans :/

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does goo store memories??

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The thing about turning into literal goo is a myth.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

I looked it up and apparently it's half true, they mostly turn into goo but some parts don't.

[–] Zardoz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Excellent Radiolab episode about this. Pretty interesting https://radiolab.org/podcast/goo-and-you

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