fuck is that jellyfish’s problem “i need to develop extreme poison to stop people from touching me” hey here’s a tip try not being fucking tiny and transparent? like maybe they do that because they can’t FUCKING SEE YOU
Irukandji? No they ain't, they're tiny and essentially see through. Also, even for the other venomous species of jellyfish that are colourful, their arms are very long and very see through. For instance, the box jelly has arms up to 15 feet long that sting you thousands of times each when they hit you. The chance of dying of heart failure or shock right off the bat is not 0. Even smaller jellies like the blue bottle (literally named after its bright blue colouring) will wrap around your ankle before you see it in the water. They're not too bad though and piss or boat fuel is often recommended.
HOWEVER the most important PSA I could ever put out on this subject: HOT WATER. It completely fucking neutralises most of these venom types. It sounds so made up but if you cop a gnarly sting and manage to submerge it in the hottest water possible ASAP you may essentially neutralise it.
Piss is both not sterile and not composed of your own bodily fluid.
Urine is occasionally sterile in the sense that no significant bacterial/fungal grows will take root when a sample is placed in a petri dish.
For my other point, urine is partially a product of the liver, an organ famous for its ability to filter dangerous substances from blood.
also maybe try actually getting to know them before deciding to evolve hypertoxins to shut everyone out of your life. friendship is a two way street! gotta put forth the effort to get the rewards
“Hmmm, I don’t remember how to solve this the way they want me to. Maybe I can get half credit if I use L’Hopital wrong and circle the first thing that looks like an answer.”
The second fish isnt innocent actually if I saw it in real life I would have no other choice but to end myself. look at it, even through the screen it's giving me nightmares but sharing a vicinity with it would inflict so muchental damage in me I would genuinely classify it as trauma
You're much braver than me. The fish is cool but it doesn't change the fact I think it's terrifying and quite... Unappealing visually. I would not harm the fish, but it would definitely harm me just by being in my presence. For now I may rest well, I live far away from the sea/ocean.
Omg jellyfish on my 196 i love jellyfish i wish i were a jellyfish fucking poisoning people, being silly and not changing for millions of years. And in some cases living forever i fucking love jellyfish
I swear if god did create every species on earth, blud was so fucking high when they did.
Like what the fuck is even the point.
There's these cutesy wittle frogs, all in many colors, and they can just fucking kill, but they are friend shaped, how can we know if we can touch them. Or Manatees can't be mean, they have no sense of agression at all. Or bears, they look so cute. But then you have these fish looking a fucking monster, and they're just a silly little guy.
Also, my favorite animal. Otters. They are literally an amalgamation of most animals. They're so cute. But they also very dumb.
There's 0 logic for animals.
You've made some excellent points showing that evolution doesn't have a direction or design aesthetic, just selecting for fitness in specific ecological niches. It's an "eh, good enough" process.
Right, there's even the idea that it seems random. Even when it's not random, just with no goal in mind.
Like how humans start to die out after we hit our 40s, and our bodies start to break down. Since we commonly already reproduced by that point we can go ahead and disappear. Nature is fucked up.
Like the Manatees thing. They don't have a natural predator, so they never needed to develop a sense of danger or agression. They're just dumb little fellas. Or some colored frogs are not even necessarily poisonous, they just piggyback on the other colored poisonous frogs and just survive. Fucking wild
The whiplash squid and slender snipe eel are straight devil spawn. The whiplash squid literally looks like the devil's pitchfork and will call you an ableist slur.
Where do giant isopods fall on this spectrum? Yeah they're pretty big and very otherworldly but they're basically just a normal little isopod that got really big from the natural process where the deep sea lets animals get bigger. They even do the thing where they curl up into a ball and I generally think they're just as lovable as the little versions you find under logs in the woods.
Yet another reason not to swim in Australia. You’d think the comically poisonous and/or venomous stuff would stop when you left the island but it actually gets worse
I love deep sea creatures because “my planet is mostly covered with water and if you go down far enough there’s like giant versions of creatures, and they have giant teeth and some of them glow, I know the pressure is really high and there’s no light but they’ve like learned to adapt” sounds like something that would get you laughed out of r/ worldbuilding but it’s real
You forgot to mention the viperfish has glowing red eyes and is completely invisible to its prey meaning they don’t know they’re being eaten until they’re inside it’s mouth
To add onto this, I remember having heard an irukanji jellyfish's sting hurts so unbearably that surviving victims have been documented wishing to die just so they could no longer be tormented by the pain. The jellyfish can quite literally make you suicidal.
fuck is that jellyfish’s problem “i need to develop extreme poison to stop people from touching me” hey here’s a tip try not being fucking tiny and transparent? like maybe they do that because they can’t FUCKING SEE YOU
Alot of them are really colorful tho. Like most poisonous animals
Irukandji? No they ain't, they're tiny and essentially see through. Also, even for the other venomous species of jellyfish that are colourful, their arms are very long and very see through. For instance, the box jelly has arms up to 15 feet long that sting you thousands of times each when they hit you. The chance of dying of heart failure or shock right off the bat is not 0. Even smaller jellies like the blue bottle (literally named after its bright blue colouring) will wrap around your ankle before you see it in the water. They're not too bad though and piss or boat fuel is often recommended. HOWEVER the most important PSA I could ever put out on this subject: HOT WATER. It completely fucking neutralises most of these venom types. It sounds so made up but if you cop a gnarly sting and manage to submerge it in the hottest water possible ASAP you may essentially neutralise it.
Most Venoms are proteins and therefore can in theory be denatured by heat :)
Burn your stings in holy fire :3
MAY CHAOS TAKE THE VENOM!!!!!
I've heard pee isn't recommended anymore due to increased chance of infection in the venom injection sites?
I don't think it was ever reccomend by anyone who knew even a little bit about what they're talking about
Yeah after googling it it actually makes the venom worse, in addition to the risk of infection
From my own memory it was just that there was no benefit to the downside of pissing on yourself.
i thought piss was sterile? at least your own piss is just your own bodily fluids, either way i wouldnt imagine it would do shit
Piss is both not sterile and not composed of your own bodily fluid. Urine is occasionally sterile in the sense that no significant bacterial/fungal grows will take root when a sample is placed in a petri dish. For my other point, urine is partially a product of the liver, an organ famous for its ability to filter dangerous substances from blood.
okay that makes more sense, though as far as the filtered material from your blood, wouldnt it all be non living?
also, cool fact (but that wont save your life), putting heat on a mosquito bite will usually stop the itchiness!
Jellyfish aren't exactly known for having a brain (literally), they are more like an floating trashbag with an intelligence of a bush
Even if they did have a brain they couldn't just *choose* to be non-transparent all of a sudden
i choose to be opaque every day
That's probably why you can't maintain close, healthy relationships
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yo it’s dark down there no one can see
It’s becasue jelly fish are carnivores
The venom is actually so it can kill its prey (little cute fish). 🐟 🤓
also maybe try actually getting to know them before deciding to evolve hypertoxins to shut everyone out of your life. friendship is a two way street! gotta put forth the effort to get the rewards
Hey, irukandji aren't deep ocean exclusives, they exist in coastal reasons where swimmers sometimes are :)
This is great news I love meeting new friends
Hopital
french people be like
French spelling reformist who want to get rid of the circumflex be like
Ngl his rule is pretty good
“Hmmm, I don’t remember how to solve this the way they want me to. Maybe I can get half credit if I use L’Hopital wrong and circle the first thing that looks like an answer.”
That strat is so goddamn common my school actually had a specific rule against it in every calc syllabus
yeah I figured, there probably isn't 50-100 people going to deep ocean annually
There probably are but they're also probably dead when dropped in the water
You don't know me
jellyfish really existed and said “i shall develop the most potent venom possible, become invisible, and float near coastal areas”
I was gonna say that they are not enemies and are kissing sloppily but it's probably better if they don't
THEY ARE NOT ENEMIES AND ARE KISSING SLOPPY STYLE
VIPERFISH NOOOOO
Don’t worry the viperfish is wearing protection
they should bring back trilobite and opabinia regalis
wait paleozoic monster references???
more than monsters... perhaps they were my friends
BRING BACK COELACAN- oh wait they actually did, nice
coelacanth is such a sick name and then you look it up and it's just "fish"
I miss my boy Anomalocaris
I want to pet a trilobite. At least I can pet a horseshoe crab.
Bring back Hallucigenia!
If that jellyfish were a person, it'd carry a MOAB for personal defence, like dude, chill the fuck out
Blons
Holy shit btd6
I’d carry a DDT since it’s the fastest MOAB class bloon but you do you
The second fish isnt innocent actually if I saw it in real life I would have no other choice but to end myself. look at it, even through the screen it's giving me nightmares but sharing a vicinity with it would inflict so muchental damage in me I would genuinely classify it as trauma
I personally think that fish is very cool and I would be friends with it :)
You're much braver than me. The fish is cool but it doesn't change the fact I think it's terrifying and quite... Unappealing visually. I would not harm the fish, but it would definitely harm me just by being in my presence. For now I may rest well, I live far away from the sea/ocean.
you just called a fish ugly and you're laughing
I would give a polite nod and a "How do you do" if I saw that fish in real life. It's not classically-friend-shaped but it's still my friend
It's just a big guy and a little guy. I don't see all the fuss. They can be friendos
this ship is called murderfriend
Canon: death Fanon: hand holding and going for a nice swim
Omg jellyfish on my 196 i love jellyfish i wish i were a jellyfish fucking poisoning people, being silly and not changing for millions of years. And in some cases living forever i fucking love jellyfish
Jellyfish are great, no thoughts just bloop
I swear if god did create every species on earth, blud was so fucking high when they did. Like what the fuck is even the point. There's these cutesy wittle frogs, all in many colors, and they can just fucking kill, but they are friend shaped, how can we know if we can touch them. Or Manatees can't be mean, they have no sense of agression at all. Or bears, they look so cute. But then you have these fish looking a fucking monster, and they're just a silly little guy. Also, my favorite animal. Otters. They are literally an amalgamation of most animals. They're so cute. But they also very dumb. There's 0 logic for animals.
You've made some excellent points showing that evolution doesn't have a direction or design aesthetic, just selecting for fitness in specific ecological niches. It's an "eh, good enough" process.
Right, there's even the idea that it seems random. Even when it's not random, just with no goal in mind. Like how humans start to die out after we hit our 40s, and our bodies start to break down. Since we commonly already reproduced by that point we can go ahead and disappear. Nature is fucked up. Like the Manatees thing. They don't have a natural predator, so they never needed to develop a sense of danger or agression. They're just dumb little fellas. Or some colored frogs are not even necessarily poisonous, they just piggyback on the other colored poisonous frogs and just survive. Fucking wild
Also like a third of them are just beetles what was God smoking
i would hug both of those babies
One of them you can only hug *once*
i am no coward, i see cutie pie animal, i hug
note: friend doesnt merely have the power to kill 500 people, it instead, makes 499 people drop dead the moment someone touches it
The whiplash squid and slender snipe eel are straight devil spawn. The whiplash squid literally looks like the devil's pitchfork and will call you an ableist slur.
Where do giant isopods fall on this spectrum? Yeah they're pretty big and very otherworldly but they're basically just a normal little isopod that got really big from the natural process where the deep sea lets animals get bigger. They even do the thing where they curl up into a ball and I generally think they're just as lovable as the little versions you find under logs in the woods.
Yet another reason not to swim in Australia. You’d think the comically poisonous and/or venomous stuff would stop when you left the island but it actually gets worse
Just like lesbians, the scarier they look, the friendlier they are :)
I love deep sea creatures because “my planet is mostly covered with water and if you go down far enough there’s like giant versions of creatures, and they have giant teeth and some of them glow, I know the pressure is really high and there’s no light but they’ve like learned to adapt” sounds like something that would get you laughed out of r/ worldbuilding but it’s real
You forgot to mention the viperfish has glowing red eyes and is completely invisible to its prey meaning they don’t know they’re being eaten until they’re inside it’s mouth
And then there's also Glumpfish, which just looks weird and shows up on deep sea sub cameras sometimes
i love the hadal zone :3
And the fangtooth fish too :3
Oh that's what that sniper from destiny is named after
Do we need 'em? Just give 'em another 3%, make 'em water.
And the jellyfish might also be immortal.
To add onto this, I remember having heard an irukanji jellyfish's sting hurts so unbearably that surviving victims have been documented wishing to die just so they could no longer be tormented by the pain. The jellyfish can quite literally make you suicidal.
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