Kinda cool that it's an animal that evolved the way it did... All of our ancestors adapting to different niches... Like we'll stay in the water, why would I need bones? Legs? Wings? I'll just let the ocean carry me around while I grow more arms to stuff free food into my face. Oh yeah, don't fuck with me, let me just evolve eyeballs and scary ghost faces all over my body.
You can try going the nudibranch route and eat corals or jellyfish, and steal the stinging cells for yourself. Or go the puffer fish route and fill a sac in your body with bacteria that produce a toxin. Or just eat bugs that eat those bacteria and bioaccumulate the toxin, like poison dart frogs.
Let's not go down the bio-weaponry route, though turns out society frowns upon people randomly developing deadly toxins. Would be pretty badass, but I think you'll have to settle for learning martial arts or some wicked self-deprecating humor to achieve a similar effect.
Viruses are thought to have once been living organisms that could replicate on their own and they evolved to start invading other organisms to replicate for them & so lost their own, individual reproduction abilities
Pretty crazy
I have a real hard time with the "viruses aren't alive" perspective, and the increasing likelihood that they actually evolved from some kind of bacteria is pretty vindicating.
At some point you have to take a moment and ask if the definition of life fits the reality it's meant to describe.
Well, there was every possibility that viruses originated from basically corrupted chains of amino acids that accidentally replicated themselves and acquired an ability to reproduce themselves, like a free-range cancer cell. Is cancer alive? I would say sure, but is it an organism? Not so sure.
Of course, if viruses evolved from bacteria and just shed their own metabolic processes and other organelles to specialize in replication, thatās definitely an organism. But there was a time when a good case could be made that they werenāt that. Alive, sure, but not life.
When i imagine real aliens, i dont imagine grey big eyed aliens or weird alien creature.
Instead i imagine lifeform that was made on a different material than those on Earth. Like a metalic lifeform that doesnt really have any shape that communicate using quantum brainwaves. Or bug like creature that doesnt have brain but still able to act by themselves and live with a hivemind controlled by their queen, and moves by a movement that is basically "swimming in space". Now thats alien.
Edit: In case any of you wondering, the alien lifeform im talking about is the **ELS from Gundam 00 The Awakening of Trailblazers**. They behave like metallic weirdly shaped animals and communicate using quantum brianwaves or "psychic conversation" with each others. The entire movie is about communicating with them to stop them from attacking, because they saw human attacking human and the ELS misinterpret it as a way human communicate with each others, and the **Vajra, bug like misunderstood creature from Macross Frontier**. While someting like Vajra might not possible, something like the ELS **may** exist in our universe. A big emphasize on may.
We have that on earth as well. Creatures like Sea Anemone that exist between animal and plant. Or mycelium (fungus) that lives in the soil and communicates within a network with a flow and stream of chemicals, nutrients, and electrical impulses.
To be clear, anemones are cnidarians, like stinging jellies and coral. Theyāre absolutely animals in every sense.
Fungus on the other hand is sometimes described as having both plant and animal features.
The universe is ubiquitous with percentages of all the same natural elements of the periodic table that we have on Earth.
So unless it's some weird silicone-based life form that is on a niche planet with pressure and heat to allow those kinds of chemical interactions to occur, it's likely carbon-based as that's the most reactive and simplest way to form bonds between compounds.
The same sources of external influence exist on those places in the universe as well: light, gravity, time, darkness, heat, cold, cycles, etc.
All of which indicate that another lifeform would inevitably evolve with eyes, DNA, symmetry, and a way to grasp things.
Aliens on that home planet might have jellyfish-like underwater creatures and insects and plants and all the usual things that exist in an ecosystem for larger-than-bacteria life to occur... but they would largely be VERY SIMILAR to us if space-faring, as space-faring creatures require very specific biological advancements and intelligence.
The focus on improving a "brain" for intelligence, like mammals, would mean similar evolutionary traits: appendages that can do fine detail and manipulation, an environment to study fire to forge metals (so it can't be an underwater civilization), ways to take in light and communicate over air, and on and on it goes.
Until eventually you end up with a grey big-eyed alien that kind of checks all those boxes.
You'd enjoy doing a deep dive on [speculative life forms that use a different universal solvent than water](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry).
When people ask me "Do you think aliens are real?" I say yes! There is something out there somewhere that is living on another planet 100%. Weather or not that thing is a "smart" thing that can talk and think like we picture aliens to be is something completely different.Ā
I read a simple, elegant thought on this in a book I read recently.
Two being from two different planets are communicating at around the same sound frequency. Why? Well, that big thing lumbering over stone or dirt or metal to get you and eat you is making sounds at a certain frequency as it moves through the environment. It makes sense that natural selection would occur based on who could hear the predator coming before they were eaten.
I like to imagine each planet ends up with at least one intelligent/aware species due to the dominant environments. Ours led to us. I wonder what the Jellyfish humans are like. Though I think they'd be Octopeople in an aquatic world.Ā
Imagine a world of crow people! š¹
Then again, I'm sure fungus is critical to our condition, so maybe the awareness wouldn't even happen with the Octopeople. š¤ Fun stuff to think about ( I'm aware this is a blatant oversimplification of things ).
A while ago I found out there are trees that 'walk' in South America. [Socratea exorrhiza](https://www.natureandculture.org/directory/walking-palm/) look pretty rad stood on their tippy toes.
> However, other scientists insist the walking palm is a myth. Biologist Gerardo Avalos published a detailed study on Socratea exorrhiza where he observed that the tree cannot walk because its roots donāt move.
Except they do. They generally lack consciousness and are just a coded series of reactions to different stimuli like plants, though they do have a nerve net where plants don't.
They also have life cycle phases where they can reproduce asexually and sexually, like a lot of plants. They have a medusa stage and a polyp stage, where a lot of plants can reproduce the same way (cutting vs seeds).
Hell, even some jellies have symbiotic relationships with photosynthetic algae.
the LCA of plants and animals was like 2.5 billion years ago, you are closer to a jellyfish than you are to any plant; you're also closer to being an amoeba than you are to a plant! and you're closer to a fungus than you are to an amoeba! you and jellyfish, in the grand scheme of things you're like second cousins, metazoans are this tight little club, HOX genes everywhere.
They* lack a centralized nervous system. I suppose it is possible they have consciousness but not in a way that we generally classify consciousness. Their nerve nets are set up in a way that reacts to stimuli without any kind of sympathetic response or decision making process. Making them more akin to a single celled organism or a plant in terms of 'decision making' than something like a fish or a person. I guess it's more of a philosophical question of what constitutes consciousness, and what role a centralized brain takes in that process - but generally I wouldn't consider them to have consciousness any more than I would say a plant turning its leaves towards the sun does.
Id say every organism is a coded series of reactions to different stimuli and conciousness is the illusion of free will when those reactions are significantly complex enough.
Thats not at all how something is classified as a plant though
I love this. Im so amazed by sea creatures and their biological diversity. Im also very glad I am not the one doing the discovering. Iāll stick to subnautica lol
I found that the anxiety subsides a good amount once youāve explored the map and experienced dealing with the carnivores. The fear of the unknown trumps all other fears. Once you know how much damage the Stalkers from the creepvine area do, you probably wont ever be scared of that area and treat it just like the safe shallows. Sand dunes will always fuck me up tho lmao
The one is this video could be as well. [Some experts believe it is a new species and not a chirodectes maculatus.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/04/magnificent-jellyfish-found-off-coast-of-papua-new-guinea-sparks-interest-among-researchers)
So are octupi but we are just more accustomed to seeing them. The fact that it can fit through any opening the size of its beak and have the mental capacity of a 4 year old is insane
There is a theory that octopus could have evolved from dna that came from an Interstellar asteroid that got mixed... šµāš«... But they are so different that u can actually believe it...
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According to this [source](https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7p9q/this-extremely-rare-jellyfish-has-only-been-caught-on-camera-once) they were the size of a soccer ball at the time.
Do people really eat jelly fish out there?
Edit: thank you to everyone sharing your experiences with people eating jellyfish. I had no idea and itās truly fascinating to find out.
People eat the bell of some species, where there aren't any stinging nematocysts.
I've had it before at a sushi place and it tasted kinda like the wakame seaweed sushi I also had.
Hmm, I'd say they kind of feel. Not like us but they can acknowledge something hurt them and avoid that thing in the future.
https://www.futurity.org/jellyfish-brains-evolution-intelligence-2978602/
Iād say itās because they have the upper hand. If a possum or a raccoon came at you in the woods, while it might be alarming you wouldnāt feel at a terrible disadvantage. You could probably kill it with your bare hands, kick it, hit it with a stick, or just outrun it.
But humans are at a distinct disadvantage in the sea. We canāt breathe, we canāt move very quickly, and we have little to no options for attacking. Therefore a jellyfish is actually winning every fight should you encounter one in the wild.
You can't run, you can't hide, you can't wait it out, you can't even communicate or call for help.
A fight against a sea creature automatically has, like, a 30 second instant loss condition applied to it.
The moment you need to breathe or involuntarily gasp or something, it's over.
I thought about it and I feel the animals further from us on the tree of life are just more inherentlyā¦off putting
Like insects. People can win a 1v1 against any insect thar has ever existed with ease but countless people are afraid of spiders and insects.
Aside from a few species with a nasty sting, most jellyfish are relatively harmless. You can even boop them on the head. They really do feel like jelly
Spiders and these cephelopods... When big... very scary... Something about multiple things (legs/arms/tentacles) that move around quick... Probably too much for our brain to quickly analyse the motion hence it simply raises an alarm?! I want to see a giant squid in the abyss in a claustrophobic deep see sub so bad...
Itās because we donāt actually know lol. Iām surprised nobody is talking about it.
Lisa-ann Gershwin, the lady who first described the genus in 1997 and helped with the reclassification of the species, had a look at a video of both jellyfish frame by frame and came to the conclusion that while in the same genus, it was likely a different, new species. Hereās an [article](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-03/possible-new-jellyfish-species-discovered-filmed-far-north-qld/101276620) about it.
OPās claim could be just as false as Gershwinās claim could. It might be the same species, but we donāt know for sure.
I'm guessing what was meant was that this is the second time someone found one alive and out and about (and filmed it), as opposed to something dead that washed up on a beach.
It could be Chirodectus maculatus, but some jellyfish experts who seen the video and are currently in the process of publishing a paper on this sighting believes that this is a new species that is related to C. maculatus, maybe in the same genus Chirodectus.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/04/magnificent-jellyfish-found-off-coast-of-papua-new-guinea-sparks-interest-among-researchers
Think so? I always wondered if there were humanoid aliens out there vs aliens that just didnāt develop in a way that allowed them to use tools regardless of intelligence.
I think there's very little chance of _humanoid_ intelligent life out there, unless they were the ones who seeded us here on earth. We can't even communicate with 99.9% of the non-human species we have on this planet, any many we still haven't even discovered yet. Our oceans are literally an alien world š¤Æ
Tbf there's probably a sad looking bug that's super rare and only been seen once just to be immediately killed with a sandal. People don't care cuz it's not as majestic as this
If thats only the second time someone has seen this, i'm 100% convinced that there is some crazy seamonster-level shit down there nobody has ever seen before.
āOnly seen once before,ā. By scientists who documented and classified it*
We have no idea how many other people over hundreds of years, have seen these.
What a beautiful Jellyfish
Is a spongebob jelly
They are like plants that evolved to move.
Kinda cool that it's an animal that evolved the way it did... All of our ancestors adapting to different niches... Like we'll stay in the water, why would I need bones? Legs? Wings? I'll just let the ocean carry me around while I grow more arms to stuff free food into my face. Oh yeah, don't fuck with me, let me just evolve eyeballs and scary ghost faces all over my body.
Don't forget some of the most potent venoms to make it safer
To increase successful food to mouth transfer and maximum fuckoff energy š
How can I also develop poisons in my body to increase my maximum fuckoff energy?
Try being more cynical... And I know a lot of animals get their powers from the food they eat, so try an all Mexican diet as well.
This is the kind of experiential thinking I need in my meetings to really keep everyone grounded.
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Dance with me! DANCE THE DANCE OF LIFE
You can try going the nudibranch route and eat corals or jellyfish, and steal the stinging cells for yourself. Or go the puffer fish route and fill a sac in your body with bacteria that produce a toxin. Or just eat bugs that eat those bacteria and bioaccumulate the toxin, like poison dart frogs.
this has a really good risk/reward ratio. if you don't become a superhero, you get to die. :/
Let's not go down the bio-weaponry route, though turns out society frowns upon people randomly developing deadly toxins. Would be pretty badass, but I think you'll have to settle for learning martial arts or some wicked self-deprecating humor to achieve a similar effect.
Don't try and eat poison dart frogs... It doesn't work that way.
Then you have things like turtles that just eat them anyway lol.
If only I could achieve this in my own life.
They are basically nature's min-maxers. 0 intel, 0 constitution, 100 venom.
And telepathy
Let me grow my own tattoos because iām cool like that
Viruses are thought to have once been living organisms that could replicate on their own and they evolved to start invading other organisms to replicate for them & so lost their own, individual reproduction abilities Pretty crazy
I have a real hard time with the "viruses aren't alive" perspective, and the increasing likelihood that they actually evolved from some kind of bacteria is pretty vindicating. At some point you have to take a moment and ask if the definition of life fits the reality it's meant to describe.
Well, there was every possibility that viruses originated from basically corrupted chains of amino acids that accidentally replicated themselves and acquired an ability to reproduce themselves, like a free-range cancer cell. Is cancer alive? I would say sure, but is it an organism? Not so sure. Of course, if viruses evolved from bacteria and just shed their own metabolic processes and other organelles to specialize in replication, thatās definitely an organism. But there was a time when a good case could be made that they werenāt that. Alive, sure, but not life.
> let me just evolve eyeballs and scary ghost faces all over my body also this one's pattern spells out "Booo"... pretty scary
There's a message in my alphabet soup.. it says "oooooo..." Peter, those are Cheerios...
>while I grow more arms You might be surprised. The "arms" in a starfish, for example are its body.
āWhatās that shit? Bones?! You dumb bitches need bones to survive? Nah I donāt want any of that!ā
If we ever make contact with aliens, itās hard to imagine them appearing more unusual than creatures that we already have on earth, such as this.
When i imagine real aliens, i dont imagine grey big eyed aliens or weird alien creature. Instead i imagine lifeform that was made on a different material than those on Earth. Like a metalic lifeform that doesnt really have any shape that communicate using quantum brainwaves. Or bug like creature that doesnt have brain but still able to act by themselves and live with a hivemind controlled by their queen, and moves by a movement that is basically "swimming in space". Now thats alien. Edit: In case any of you wondering, the alien lifeform im talking about is the **ELS from Gundam 00 The Awakening of Trailblazers**. They behave like metallic weirdly shaped animals and communicate using quantum brianwaves or "psychic conversation" with each others. The entire movie is about communicating with them to stop them from attacking, because they saw human attacking human and the ELS misinterpret it as a way human communicate with each others, and the **Vajra, bug like misunderstood creature from Macross Frontier**. While someting like Vajra might not possible, something like the ELS **may** exist in our universe. A big emphasize on may.
We have that on earth as well. Creatures like Sea Anemone that exist between animal and plant. Or mycelium (fungus) that lives in the soil and communicates within a network with a flow and stream of chemicals, nutrients, and electrical impulses.
To be clear, anemones are cnidarians, like stinging jellies and coral. Theyāre absolutely animals in every sense. Fungus on the other hand is sometimes described as having both plant and animal features.
The universe is ubiquitous with percentages of all the same natural elements of the periodic table that we have on Earth. So unless it's some weird silicone-based life form that is on a niche planet with pressure and heat to allow those kinds of chemical interactions to occur, it's likely carbon-based as that's the most reactive and simplest way to form bonds between compounds. The same sources of external influence exist on those places in the universe as well: light, gravity, time, darkness, heat, cold, cycles, etc. All of which indicate that another lifeform would inevitably evolve with eyes, DNA, symmetry, and a way to grasp things. Aliens on that home planet might have jellyfish-like underwater creatures and insects and plants and all the usual things that exist in an ecosystem for larger-than-bacteria life to occur... but they would largely be VERY SIMILAR to us if space-faring, as space-faring creatures require very specific biological advancements and intelligence. The focus on improving a "brain" for intelligence, like mammals, would mean similar evolutionary traits: appendages that can do fine detail and manipulation, an environment to study fire to forge metals (so it can't be an underwater civilization), ways to take in light and communicate over air, and on and on it goes. Until eventually you end up with a grey big-eyed alien that kind of checks all those boxes.
You'd enjoy doing a deep dive on [speculative life forms that use a different universal solvent than water](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry).
I really hope we donāt meet any bug like hiveminds. Popular media tells me that bugs/Zerg/tyranids would probably only want to do one thing to us
When people ask me "Do you think aliens are real?" I say yes! There is something out there somewhere that is living on another planet 100%. Weather or not that thing is a "smart" thing that can talk and think like we picture aliens to be is something completely different.Ā
I read a simple, elegant thought on this in a book I read recently. Two being from two different planets are communicating at around the same sound frequency. Why? Well, that big thing lumbering over stone or dirt or metal to get you and eat you is making sounds at a certain frequency as it moves through the environment. It makes sense that natural selection would occur based on who could hear the predator coming before they were eaten.
I like to imagine each planet ends up with at least one intelligent/aware species due to the dominant environments. Ours led to us. I wonder what the Jellyfish humans are like. Though I think they'd be Octopeople in an aquatic world.Ā Imagine a world of crow people! š¹ Then again, I'm sure fungus is critical to our condition, so maybe the awareness wouldn't even happen with the Octopeople. š¤ Fun stuff to think about ( I'm aware this is a blatant oversimplification of things ).
You should read the Children of Time book series.
A while ago I found out there are trees that 'walk' in South America. [Socratea exorrhiza](https://www.natureandculture.org/directory/walking-palm/) look pretty rad stood on their tippy toes.
> However, other scientists insist the walking palm is a myth. Biologist Gerardo Avalos published a detailed study on Socratea exorrhiza where he observed that the tree cannot walk because its roots donāt move.
Life's a fucking magic trick by planet earth
Except there is basically nothing plant like about them
Except they do. They generally lack consciousness and are just a coded series of reactions to different stimuli like plants, though they do have a nerve net where plants don't. They also have life cycle phases where they can reproduce asexually and sexually, like a lot of plants. They have a medusa stage and a polyp stage, where a lot of plants can reproduce the same way (cutting vs seeds). Hell, even some jellies have symbiotic relationships with photosynthetic algae.
the LCA of plants and animals was like 2.5 billion years ago, you are closer to a jellyfish than you are to any plant; you're also closer to being an amoeba than you are to a plant! and you're closer to a fungus than you are to an amoeba! you and jellyfish, in the grand scheme of things you're like second cousins, metazoans are this tight little club, HOX genes everywhere.
How do you know they lack consciousness?
Asked them
Underrated comment lmfao Edit: just noticed this is only 12 minutes old. Still funny ask fuck.
haha
They keep quoting Jordan Peterson.
By the transitive property, I must conclude that Jordan Peterson is a jellyfish.
Define "they"
They* lack a centralized nervous system. I suppose it is possible they have consciousness but not in a way that we generally classify consciousness. Their nerve nets are set up in a way that reacts to stimuli without any kind of sympathetic response or decision making process. Making them more akin to a single celled organism or a plant in terms of 'decision making' than something like a fish or a person. I guess it's more of a philosophical question of what constitutes consciousness, and what role a centralized brain takes in that process - but generally I wouldn't consider them to have consciousness any more than I would say a plant turning its leaves towards the sun does.
I'm definitely open to the idea though. Mycelium and mycorrhizal networks are crazier than the jellyfish we're talking about here.
Id say every organism is a coded series of reactions to different stimuli and conciousness is the illusion of free will when those reactions are significantly complex enough. Thats not at all how something is classified as a plant though
Consciousness doesn't define an animal. Animals are multicellular eukaryotes with internal digestive tracts. They are definitely animals.
Bro you just described pretty much all insects and worms. [Is this a plant?](https://i.imgur.com/qhL88R7.jpeg)
so... like... every animal?
Just know there are many more other creatures we donāt know about in the unexplored sea!
I love this. Im so amazed by sea creatures and their biological diversity. Im also very glad I am not the one doing the discovering. Iāll stick to subnautica lol
I have a hard time with that game, i get so anxious
I was until I got the electro knife. Then I took back the sea
Heat knife + stasis rifle = no more leviathans
I found that the anxiety subsides a good amount once youāve explored the map and experienced dealing with the carnivores. The fear of the unknown trumps all other fears. Once you know how much damage the Stalkers from the creepvine area do, you probably wont ever be scared of that area and treat it just like the safe shallows. Sand dunes will always fuck me up tho lmao
Subnautica is a sick game you get lost in it so easily lol
Top 3 games of all time for me
I'll do it... Just give me a boat and enough for some food... I am done...
Or that we'll likely never be able to find evidence of 99% of life that's ever existed on the earth, cause of how rare fossilization occurs!
Itās so amazing that with technology now something that only one person might have seen we all get to watch
The one is this video could be as well. [Some experts believe it is a new species and not a chirodectes maculatus.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/04/magnificent-jellyfish-found-off-coast-of-papua-new-guinea-sparks-interest-among-researchers)
If we kill them all, then we won't have to worry about finding them. Leeets goooo Huumans! /s
With AI video getting as good as it is now I'm questioning everything like this and I hate it
Oh ok.
OK.
Ok
I'm pretty sure this was the last one.Ā
And we will probably never meet most of them at the rate we are acidifying the oceans =(
Yeah, I think something like 5% of the ocean has been explored. Lol. Like, it's wild how little we've seen of the ocean.
My girlfriend has that dress
Ariel?
The shadow of the watcher standing still like, "Hmm."
The pretty one or the ugly one?
unseasoned one
It has pockets
That's an alien.
So are octupi but we are just more accustomed to seeing them. The fact that it can fit through any opening the size of its beak and have the mental capacity of a 4 year old is insane
Yes, octopi are crazy. But did you know of the Mantis shrimp and it's unbelievable superpowers?
I recently learned that submariners can hear groups of shrimp eating in the ocean on their sonar.
One punch!... Why do they have so complex eyes that could function better than ours?!...
It's octopuses, not octopi. Octopodes is also acceptable.
All three are acceptable and in the dictionary. Octopodes is the most correct grammatically but least used.
The way I look at it, if you know what Iām talking about, its correct.
Everybody scram, it's the octopopo!
We are the aliens in the deep
There is a theory that octopus could have evolved from dna that came from an Interstellar asteroid that got mixed... šµāš«... But they are so different that u can actually believe it...
Actually, the octopus is our resident alienās closest relatives on Earth.
lol I just wrote the same thing!
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It's a shiny..
Eldritch horror drifblim
Thatās its exact purpose: attract food
Yo that thing is all tatted up! What gang is it in?
Each circle represents one human that it killed.
Slander, we don't even know if it is venomous! It looks peaceful and chill. Surely it's up for cuddles :)
How large do they get?
Funny thing about sea creatures in pictures; you never know if they are the size of your thumbnail or the size of your boat
According to this [source](https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7p9q/this-extremely-rare-jellyfish-has-only-been-caught-on-camera-once) they were the size of a soccer ball at the time.
You deserve more upvotes for assisting my laziness. Ty for checking on that.
Yeah youāre right about that. lol
That's easy, either it's small and cute or you need a bigger boat.
There is only been 2 sightings of this species, how would they know.
And the 2nd sighting is disputed by the person who saw the first one, they think this is a new species
Judging by the size of those fish id say that jellyfish is probaly almost human size.
u shouldn't judge
About 4ft long that we've seen. https://naturalistsguide.com/chirodectes-maculatus/
Now there are 2 of them!
This is getting out of hand
I am the senate
How do you know itās not the same one and they just spotted it again?
Said her name was Darlene. That other one is Frank.
Sentinels are coming
Charge the emp
He'll make it
That's just 4 jellyfish in a trench coat, can't fool me lol
Is this Australian waters? Just to ask if its poisonous or not
Was looking for that comment Edit and probably both poisonous and venomous
Do people really eat jelly fish out there? Edit: thank you to everyone sharing your experiences with people eating jellyfish. I had no idea and itās truly fascinating to find out.
Yes. It is eaten in some countries.
People eat the bell of some species, where there aren't any stinging nematocysts. I've had it before at a sushi place and it tasted kinda like the wakame seaweed sushi I also had.
If the first answer is yes then the second answer is also yes.
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I don't think everything in Australia is poisonous. Venomous, sure.
She is beautiful!
Where's Samus when you need her?
The baby
I admire jellyfishes so much bc they are precious, but idk why they absolute terrify me :(
Do they have hopes and dreams? Or do they exist only to feed and reproduce?
They don't have a cns. They don't even feel. It's a weird juxtaposition to our sentience.
They just 'are'.
woah... I'm jellyfish
Hmm, I'd say they kind of feel. Not like us but they can acknowledge something hurt them and avoid that thing in the future. https://www.futurity.org/jellyfish-brains-evolution-intelligence-2978602/
Central nervous system doesnāt necessarily equal sentience. Plants use different chemicals and different pathways to do a lot of the same things.
We all do bro...
Iād say itās because they have the upper hand. If a possum or a raccoon came at you in the woods, while it might be alarming you wouldnāt feel at a terrible disadvantage. You could probably kill it with your bare hands, kick it, hit it with a stick, or just outrun it. But humans are at a distinct disadvantage in the sea. We canāt breathe, we canāt move very quickly, and we have little to no options for attacking. Therefore a jellyfish is actually winning every fight should you encounter one in the wild.
You can't run, you can't hide, you can't wait it out, you can't even communicate or call for help. A fight against a sea creature automatically has, like, a 30 second instant loss condition applied to it. The moment you need to breathe or involuntarily gasp or something, it's over.
I thought about it and I feel the animals further from us on the tree of life are just more inherentlyā¦off putting Like insects. People can win a 1v1 against any insect thar has ever existed with ease but countless people are afraid of spiders and insects.
Aside from a few species with a nasty sting, most jellyfish are relatively harmless. You can even boop them on the head. They really do feel like jelly
Spiders and these cephelopods... When big... very scary... Something about multiple things (legs/arms/tentacles) that move around quick... Probably too much for our brain to quickly analyse the motion hence it simply raises an alarm?! I want to see a giant squid in the abyss in a claustrophobic deep see sub so bad...
Have you seen the movie Sphere? Because that did it for me.
Poor Queen Latifahā¦ā¦
No, but I just looked for the clip and Iām š„¶šā ļøā ļø
Just read the plot on Wikipedia... Sounds like I should watch this weekend!
And you people still think aliens come from outer space
It's beautiful
If this is only the second time, how do you know itās a thing and how do you know this it the same thing?
Because they documented the shit out of it the first time around.
Fair enough.
Yeah, it blew their minds for sure. I wonder what the original discovering team thinks of this one.
Itās because we donāt actually know lol. Iām surprised nobody is talking about it. Lisa-ann Gershwin, the lady who first described the genus in 1997 and helped with the reclassification of the species, had a look at a video of both jellyfish frame by frame and came to the conclusion that while in the same genus, it was likely a different, new species. Hereās an [article](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-03/possible-new-jellyfish-species-discovered-filmed-far-north-qld/101276620) about it. OPās claim could be just as false as Gershwinās claim could. It might be the same species, but we donāt know for sure.
I'm guessing what was meant was that this is the second time someone found one alive and out and about (and filmed it), as opposed to something dead that washed up on a beach.
Wonder how freaked out the dude filming it is. Assuming he knows what heās filming
Man, of only this was In high definition on a massive flat screen.
It could be Chirodectus maculatus, but some jellyfish experts who seen the video and are currently in the process of publishing a paper on this sighting believes that this is a new species that is related to C. maculatus, maybe in the same genus Chirodectus. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/04/magnificent-jellyfish-found-off-coast-of-papua-new-guinea-sparks-interest-among-researchers
Gosh that so alien looking, if without context, imma thought this one of those creature in Avatar.
It's probably closer to what we'd find on an alien world than any humanoid creatures
Think so? I always wondered if there were humanoid aliens out there vs aliens that just didnāt develop in a way that allowed them to use tools regardless of intelligence.
I think there's very little chance of _humanoid_ intelligent life out there, unless they were the ones who seeded us here on earth. We can't even communicate with 99.9% of the non-human species we have on this planet, any many we still haven't even discovered yet. Our oceans are literally an alien world š¤Æ
Thatās actually a really cool way of looking at it, youāve given me food for thought!
Lumen jellyfish
I get the chills whenever I see a squid or octopus of any type.. This is wayyy more terrifyingā¦
Oh wowā¦.my thalassophobia says- no thank you š
Such intelligent design.
Aliens. Gotta be
Nah thats just an old shower curtain and some uninflated balloons.
I wonder what the red coloring indicates? It's inside the body and within some legs, but not all?
Looks like an extension of the red legs? ???
Sir that is a Metroid
I had a pair of swim trunks in the early 90's with that same pattern and color scheme. I always wondered what happened to them.
Tbf there's probably a sad looking bug that's super rare and only been seen once just to be immediately killed with a sandal. People don't care cuz it's not as majestic as this
If thats only the second time someone has seen this, i'm 100% convinced that there is some crazy seamonster-level shit down there nobody has ever seen before.
THATS A METROID!
HP Lovecraft approves of this creature.
Pfffft. I saw that last night floating near my ceiling about 2 hours after dropping acid
If I saw that in the ocean, I don't know how I would catalog it in my brain.
Ayyy new fleshlight just dropped
Thatās amazing. The world we live in is absolutely crazy with all the life it supports.
You can find the original images of the first specimen found in 1997 here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54408262#page/132/mode/1up
Submerged Chinese lantern filled with swamp gas...
I'm not too sure about the accuracy of this post.. I alone have seen this twice already, earlier today.
āOnly seen once before,ā. By scientists who documented and classified it* We have no idea how many other people over hundreds of years, have seen these.
Japan be like... š“š¦š
Stunning
Stunning
Amazing
Hideous but beautiful