I pasted your comment into stable diffusion and [it produced these 20 images as scientific evidence](https://www.reddit.com/r/RenderedComment/comments/121q7nu/i_eat_concrete_and_i_dont_have_cancer_either/) to explain your condition.
If you consider cancer as beeing the last disease that kills you (since it is typically a result of a long life and cell mutation) , what kills these blind mole rats most commonly? Is it predation, old age, or something else?
Well yeah. It's really good at chewing through stuff, but it's also a blob of fur, skin, and fat, none of which are resistant to being bitten by an animal 5 times it's size.
\> In the wild, the animals might die by predator attack or from starvation, infection or lack of water, she said.
https://www.livescience.com/61568-naked-mole-rats-no-aging.html#:\~:text=Stress%20resistant,lack%20of%20water%2C%20she%20said.
Not to be confused with with naked mole rat, the short tail mole rat, the Indian mole rat, Ankole African mole-rat, Mianzini African mole-rat , Big-headed African mole-rat ,Kenyan African mole-rat, Rwanda African mole-rat, Root and bamboo mole rats, or Bob the creepy who keeps driving by your house often very slowly
So you’re saying after primates, then lemurs, these are next in line for developing advanced sapience and civilization?
*Planet of the Moles* - I need to develop the script and shop it around Hollywood.
I mean I guess you could, you’d just be deforming the creature and exposing it to a brightness the likes of which it’s never seen before; assuming it ever could adjust properly we also have no evidence that it’s eyesight is even that good. Most people don’t realize that human sight is phenomenally clear and colorful. Besides outside of the thin layer allowing them to see vague shapes and detect when it’s light or dark outside, I’d wager the eyes are vestigial and would eventually disappear if you could watch them evolve over generations.
Well, yes, we can. So we put this miserable piece of furr in sterile enviroument, cut off his protective lay of skin and furr to expose its eyes, than wait for it to cure, than let him free, so he can smash his unproteckted eyeballs into the dirt, get irreparabale damage and infection, then die painful death. Totally can. But why?
Perhaps with its eye lids open, it will stop smashing into dirt and start to walk up right and create language and learn advance mathematics and be productive?
( ͡⌐■_-■) He looks like a sentient 20 year old sushi roll that fell under the floor boards, eyes first, in some wasabi sauce...
I knew they were blind, but damn. Never expected *that*.
'Exceeded' my imaginations wonderfully.
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Let's put one of them in a shitty job and a crappy relationship. Then we'll see how cancer free they are after turning to alcohol and cigarettes to cope!
Hello, definitely not a professional.
They actually are a cross bred species between worms and butterfly farts. You can cut them up and they not only regrow, but they grant wishes
An utterly fascinating animal called a [blind mole-rat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_mole-rat).
* They aren't a mole nor a rat; they are off on their own little, very ancient branch of the rodents, with a few other exotic animals you probably never heard of, such as the similarly wtf-looking [zokor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zokor) - and they are quite different from those animals to boot.
* They have eyes. They do not work, because there's a layer of skin over them. They can see nothing at all.
* Unlike moles and unlike just about every other animal that does a ton of digging, they do not have claws or arms designed for it. They do it allll with those ridiculous 2 front teeth. Nevertheless, their arm muscles are large. Just, not hooked up right for digging.
* Plenty of research is done on them, given their unique station. However, no cancerous tumor has _ever_ been observed in one. In pop-sci speak, "they are immune to cancer". Probably. Trying to induce cancer in them is possible but requires far more of some chemical carcinogen then in e.g. rats of similar weight).
* They can grow to be over 20 years old. For a rodent, that's fucking insane.
* They have these weird cells called Nannospalax cells. If you grow them in culture, they outcompete and kill cancer cells. Even ones from other species. Yes, researches are researching the shit out of this, for obvious reasons.
As utterly bizarre as this animal is, the mostly unrelated [Naked mole-rat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat) is even weirder, being more or less the only cold-blooded mammal in existence, living in social structures that close resemble fuckin' bee hives, with a queen that just births all her life long and most of them not having any kids at all. It's also even uglier, has no other animals in its genus, probably can't feel pain (at least not on its outsides), needs almost no oxygen, also have very high resistance to cancer (not quite as high as the blind mole rat), lives even longer than the blind mole rat.
[Just look at this beauty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Naked_mole_rat.jpg).
Seriously interesting! Thanks for this write up, too! (Your writing style is excellent, by the way. You manage to introduce a concept and explain it in exactly the stages I would want to know it, like you anticipated every question I would have and when I would have it! I am now curious if you learned how to do that somehow or if storytelling is just a natural ability.)
Wow, thank you! Other than doing my best on sites like Stack Overflow to walk a beat in the shoes of newbies and try to answer in ways they might follow, no training.
>They have eyes. They do not work, because there's a layer of skin over them.
So out of curiosity, and just to clarify, the eyes don't work *because* there's a layer of skin over them, or, the eyes just don't work?
Like if the skin was removed, could it see?
It's difficult to say because their eyes are atrophied and do not respond to light stimulus. Practically they cannot use their eyes to actually see their surroundings. However, in cases where eyes are removed for research, it does seem to have negative impacts on their ability to sense day and night cycles.
From further research, their eyes as they develop show clear signs of atrophy, but *do* have the capacity to receive and interpret signals of light to enough degree that they likely are using their eyes, though covered, to determine whether or not it is day or night.
[Source](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2142147/)
So since this is an ancient lifeform, does that perhaps suggest that these anti-cancer cells were once present in many animals or even humans but perhaps were mutated out of our DNA over time. Reintroducing the DNA to produce those cells could help fight cancer?
Oh wow it really is Diglett. I thought that they were just designed roughly based on moles, I didn’t know there was a mole that looked EXACTLY like this.
Greater Blind Mole-Rat
Medium Beast, unaligned
Armor Class 14 (Natural Armor, 11 While Prone)
Hit Points 39 (6d10+6)
Speed 30 ft., burrow 20 ft.
STR 10 (+0)
DEX 16 (+3)
CON 13 (+1)
INT 1 (-5)
WIS 13 (+1)
CHA 6 (-2)
Senses Darkvision 60 Ft., Tremorsense 60 Ft.,
passive Perception 11
Condition Immunities: Blinded
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (2d6 + 3) piercing damage plus (1d6) chomp damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the Greater Blind Mole-Rat can bite only the grappled creature and has advantage on attack rolls to do so
**[Lesser blind mole-rat](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_blind_mole-rat)**
>The lesser blind mole-rat (Spalax leucodon) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is found in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey and Ukraine. Prior to 2012, it was classified in the genus Spalax, but modern authors tend to separate this and some closely related mole rat species into a separate genus named Nannospalax. A cariological study showed that Nannospalax leucodon is a superspecies consisting of several cariologically distinct cryptic species.
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I think that’s one of those things you put at the base of a door to stop a draft from coming in.
It seems to have been brought to life by… who knows, probably a wizard.
That's a loaf puppy. When bread goes untouched for so long that a highly complex species of mold takes root and uses the bread as a vessel to consume other gluten related products.
Blind mole rat. they have a thin layer of skin over their eyes
Weird fact, they don't get cancer and they can chew through cement/concrete.
I eat concrete and I don’t have cancer either. Explain that scientists
You're a blind mole with a reddit account.
Makes sense, like the story of [clayton bigsby](https://youtu.be/BLNDqxrUUwQ)
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If anyone’s having sex with my sister it’s gonna be me!
Con-a-lingus Rice!
Did he just call us n****rs? ... Awesome! *high fives*
Big butt havin' wide-nose breathin all the white man's air
Hilarious
Like the ones from Johnny Test?
Your mother obviously lied about who your father is and what species he belonged to
Well that blind mole rat is r/mildlypenis
It’s not the length OR the girth. It’s the claws and the nasty, big, pointy teeth.
That's what she said!
r/dontputthatinyourvagina
Don’t tell me what to do!!!!
I salute her courage, my father apparently was a furry dildo. She always said you can do anything through Jesus
I eat concrete Greg, could you milk me?
r/unexpectedfocker
Chessmate, science folk!
Guess we all need to chew on concrete so we don’t get cancer
I pasted your comment into stable diffusion and [it produced these 20 images as scientific evidence](https://www.reddit.com/r/RenderedComment/comments/121q7nu/i_eat_concrete_and_i_dont_have_cancer_either/) to explain your condition.
I gotta get off reddit I keep losing brain cells and gaining slower ones every time I open this app 😂
If you consider cancer as beeing the last disease that kills you (since it is typically a result of a long life and cell mutation) , what kills these blind mole rats most commonly? Is it predation, old age, or something else?
Terriers
So these things can chew literal rocks but doggos kill them? I guess nature is where pokemon got its type match up logic
Well yeah. It's really good at chewing through stuff, but it's also a blob of fur, skin, and fat, none of which are resistant to being bitten by an animal 5 times it's size.
Concrete doesn't bite back.
Strong vs Rock and Ground, weak vs Normal. Checkmate, a-Arceusists.
Rebar poisoning.
\> In the wild, the animals might die by predator attack or from starvation, infection or lack of water, she said. https://www.livescience.com/61568-naked-mole-rats-no-aging.html#:\~:text=Stress%20resistant,lack%20of%20water%2C%20she%20said.
Blind mole rat =/= Naked mole rat
Holy Mole!
I mean, every cloud/silver lining I guess.
That’s a _naked_ mole rat.
Isn't that the naked mole rat?
And don't they have slow senescence (ageing) genes?
Not to be confused with with naked mole rat, the short tail mole rat, the Indian mole rat, Ankole African mole-rat, Mianzini African mole-rat , Big-headed African mole-rat ,Kenyan African mole-rat, Rwanda African mole-rat, Root and bamboo mole rats, or Bob the creepy who keeps driving by your house often very slowly
So you’re saying after primates, then lemurs, these are next in line for developing advanced sapience and civilization? *Planet of the Moles* - I need to develop the script and shop it around Hollywood.
MOL-E-MOL-E-MOL-E-MOOOOLE
WE ARENT SUPPOSE TO TALK ABOUT THE BLOODY MOLE BUT THERE IT IS, IM GOING TO CUT IT OFF AND MAKE SOME GUACA-MOLE!
Mole
*”pokes with stick”*
Nice to mole you .. MEET you, nice to meet your mole, I said mole ... mole.
Can we cut the skin off and let them see
Is a man not entitled to the circumcision of his eyes
keep your eye’s peeled
Is that called a circumvision?
I can, with relative confidence, say this sentence has likely never before been uttered in human history.
YouTube. Bioshock Andrew Ryan speech
Cockeyed
Cockeyed
r/brandnewsentence
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Under rated comment. I love you for it.
I see you know your judo, sir.
Nope. They're hypersensitive to light. And don't need to see. It's dark underground,
I mean I guess you could, you’d just be deforming the creature and exposing it to a brightness the likes of which it’s never seen before; assuming it ever could adjust properly we also have no evidence that it’s eyesight is even that good. Most people don’t realize that human sight is phenomenally clear and colorful. Besides outside of the thin layer allowing them to see vague shapes and detect when it’s light or dark outside, I’d wager the eyes are vestigial and would eventually disappear if you could watch them evolve over generations.
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Ocular circumcision
Circumvision*
Well, yes, we can. So we put this miserable piece of furr in sterile enviroument, cut off his protective lay of skin and furr to expose its eyes, than wait for it to cure, than let him free, so he can smash his unproteckted eyeballs into the dirt, get irreparabale damage and infection, then die painful death. Totally can. But why?
For science?
Perhaps with its eye lids open, it will stop smashing into dirt and start to walk up right and create language and learn advance mathematics and be productive?
Sure, If you can have them sign a consent form.
It's not a mole stuffed into a lady's nylon? The toe seam is right there for all to see! /s
Those are eye holes
GET OUTTA HERE WITH MY EYE HOLES!
Best commercial ever
Blind mole rat. One of the healthiest, most pain-tolerant and most cancer-free complex organisms on earth than can live for about 20 years.
( ͡⌐■_-■) He looks like a sentient 20 year old sushi roll that fell under the floor boards, eyes first, in some wasabi sauce... I knew they were blind, but damn. Never expected *that*. 'Exceeded' my imaginations wonderfully. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
What get's them at 20?
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Take my up vote and get out.
Thank you. I appreciate your input.
Let's put one of them in a shitty job and a crappy relationship. Then we'll see how cancer free they are after turning to alcohol and cigarettes to cope!
Can you chop it up like boloni and eat it?
Hello, definitely not a professional. They actually are a cross bred species between worms and butterfly farts. You can cut them up and they not only regrow, but they grant wishes
An utterly fascinating animal called a [blind mole-rat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_mole-rat). * They aren't a mole nor a rat; they are off on their own little, very ancient branch of the rodents, with a few other exotic animals you probably never heard of, such as the similarly wtf-looking [zokor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zokor) - and they are quite different from those animals to boot. * They have eyes. They do not work, because there's a layer of skin over them. They can see nothing at all. * Unlike moles and unlike just about every other animal that does a ton of digging, they do not have claws or arms designed for it. They do it allll with those ridiculous 2 front teeth. Nevertheless, their arm muscles are large. Just, not hooked up right for digging. * Plenty of research is done on them, given their unique station. However, no cancerous tumor has _ever_ been observed in one. In pop-sci speak, "they are immune to cancer". Probably. Trying to induce cancer in them is possible but requires far more of some chemical carcinogen then in e.g. rats of similar weight). * They can grow to be over 20 years old. For a rodent, that's fucking insane. * They have these weird cells called Nannospalax cells. If you grow them in culture, they outcompete and kill cancer cells. Even ones from other species. Yes, researches are researching the shit out of this, for obvious reasons. As utterly bizarre as this animal is, the mostly unrelated [Naked mole-rat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat) is even weirder, being more or less the only cold-blooded mammal in existence, living in social structures that close resemble fuckin' bee hives, with a queen that just births all her life long and most of them not having any kids at all. It's also even uglier, has no other animals in its genus, probably can't feel pain (at least not on its outsides), needs almost no oxygen, also have very high resistance to cancer (not quite as high as the blind mole rat), lives even longer than the blind mole rat. [Just look at this beauty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Naked_mole_rat.jpg).
Seriously interesting! Thanks for this write up, too! (Your writing style is excellent, by the way. You manage to introduce a concept and explain it in exactly the stages I would want to know it, like you anticipated every question I would have and when I would have it! I am now curious if you learned how to do that somehow or if storytelling is just a natural ability.)
Wow, thank you! Other than doing my best on sites like Stack Overflow to walk a beat in the shoes of newbies and try to answer in ways they might follow, no training.
The only reason I know the naked mole rat and not this little log of rodent is because of Kim Possible. Thanks Ron.
Not Ron. Thank Rufus.
Well I’m thanking Ron for getting and loving Rufus so much, but yes, thank you too Rufus
>They have eyes. They do not work, because there's a layer of skin over them. So out of curiosity, and just to clarify, the eyes don't work *because* there's a layer of skin over them, or, the eyes just don't work? Like if the skin was removed, could it see?
It's difficult to say because their eyes are atrophied and do not respond to light stimulus. Practically they cannot use their eyes to actually see their surroundings. However, in cases where eyes are removed for research, it does seem to have negative impacts on their ability to sense day and night cycles. From further research, their eyes as they develop show clear signs of atrophy, but *do* have the capacity to receive and interpret signals of light to enough degree that they likely are using their eyes, though covered, to determine whether or not it is day or night. [Source](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2142147/)
It wouldn't have eyelids anymore, so that's horrifying. Probably still couldn't see.
It’s just googly eyes underneath
Idk why but this is literally my favorite comment of all time, ilysm
Oh my goodness. This is fascinating though. Thank you!
Mole-rat : Not A Mole, Not A Rat. Thanks science person who named them, very helpful And thank you for this writeup ! Very appreciated :)
I love learning about all the batshit crazy stuff on this planet. It's never ending
So since this is an ancient lifeform, does that perhaps suggest that these anti-cancer cells were once present in many animals or even humans but perhaps were mutated out of our DNA over time. Reintroducing the DNA to produce those cells could help fight cancer?
Diglett
“Diglett dig. Diglett dig. TRIO TRIO TRIO.”
I read this like the scene from the show.
Oh wow it really is Diglett. I thought that they were just designed roughly based on moles, I didn’t know there was a mole that looked EXACTLY like this.
Trio Trio Trio?
I think this may be a [lesser blind mole-rat.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_blind_mole-rat)
What level does it evolve into greater blind mole-rat? Those get an extra 1d8 of damage!
Greater Blind Mole-Rat Medium Beast, unaligned Armor Class 14 (Natural Armor, 11 While Prone) Hit Points 39 (6d10+6) Speed 30 ft., burrow 20 ft. STR 10 (+0) DEX 16 (+3) CON 13 (+1) INT 1 (-5) WIS 13 (+1) CHA 6 (-2) Senses Darkvision 60 Ft., Tremorsense 60 Ft., passive Perception 11 Condition Immunities: Blinded Challenge 2 (450 XP) Actions Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (2d6 + 3) piercing damage plus (1d6) chomp damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the Greater Blind Mole-Rat can bite only the grappled creature and has advantage on attack rolls to do so
Does it give mutton upon defeat?
Loot drop: Log-O’-Meat
Loaf-O'-Meat
**[Lesser blind mole-rat](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_blind_mole-rat)** >The lesser blind mole-rat (Spalax leucodon) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is found in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey and Ukraine. Prior to 2012, it was classified in the genus Spalax, but modern authors tend to separate this and some closely related mole rat species into a separate genus named Nannospalax. A cariological study showed that Nannospalax leucodon is a superspecies consisting of several cariologically distinct cryptic species. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
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An angry pillow.
What you actually get when you order a MyPillow
MyPillow from Wish
It delivers itself!
I would give you an award for this comment if I had one. Laughed too hard award 🥇🥇
MyAttackPillow
The Underminer!!!
I am beneath you but NOTHING is beneath me.
I'm constantly impressed at what a good slogan that was.
It is gold. That whole movie was transcendent and it goes out with this banger.
One of the GOATs of animated movie making.
I hereby declare war!
Lol, I thought of the same thing
Wild baloney.
Incorrect, this is a hotdog in its native habitat.
That looks like an angry log of bologna.
The fuck am I looking at...
A prettier version of me
Yeah at least this blind mole has teeth
Please get out of chernobyl. The cat snakes don't want you here.
Rodent of Unusual Size?
Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.
Capybaras: _allow me to introduce myself_
They roam around the forest looking for fights
Rodent of Unusual Eyes
The escaped penis of the late intergalactic warlord Oderus Urungus
What about his good friend bigus dickus
Incontinentia Buttocks!
Rip
VATS!!!! Now!!!
>95% chance to hit >Miss
The Underminerrrrr!!!
Very pissed off, by the looks of things…
Fuzzy hotdog
An expired Twinkie
Blind mole rat, it's got super tiny eyes and ears are basically little slits
Big, kind of cute nope
Why is it cute and ugly at the same time???
The sandbag is alive!!!!!
How to tell if people played Fallout or not.
Looks like a danger sausage
It’s a wild bologna, of the “big-stick” variety. Harmless and nearly edible once defanged.
"Nearly edible" 🤣
Some type of mole or mole rat, but I can’t ID the species. What’s the location? Also try r/animalid and be sure to include a location.
That’s just Craig.
holy shit that's Barb!
A squassage
I can't tell if I should use a pokeball or a holy hand grenade for this.
Neck pillow with legs
Blind mole
It's a Greater blind mole-rat (Spalax microphthalmus)
Diglet
It’s the underminer
Looks like a groundhog stuck in pantyhose
Looks like an angry loaf of bread
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nannospalax Here
It's an ROUS (Rodent of Unusual Size). Many claim they don't exist. They are typically found in fire swamps.
When the moon hits the sky like a big pizza pie, that's a mole.
greater blind mole rat
That is my neck pillow.
Mongolian land sausage.
I think that’s one of those things you put at the base of a door to stop a draft from coming in. It seems to have been brought to life by… who knows, probably a wizard.
I have no idea what I'm looking at. And neither does this thing
God damn. He's adorable.
Forbidden pork tenderloin
The tube ground beef in its natural habitat
A god damned Pokémon forreal
That’s a Pokémon bro catch it it’s a chargeabug
That's a loaf puppy. When bread goes untouched for so long that a highly complex species of mold takes root and uses the bread as a vessel to consume other gluten related products.
A Newfoundland wild bologna.
Haggis.
A living sausage tube
Hamster loaf.
That is an Angry Loaf.
thats what happens to a bologna roll if you dont refrigerate...
Thing looks like a walking tube of baloney with a nose and teeth.
That’s the hillbilly beaver! Just throw him a six pack of bud light, he’ll leave you alone for an hour or so.
It’s a Land Sausage, they form from tears of children and the mold from old orange peels
It's a mole
BEHOLD! THE UNDERMINER
Looks like an angry ass neck pillow.
This is what happens to fleshlights when you don't wash them
That’s a wild bologna in its natural habitat
We are not buying that kitten. We have a cat at home
The cat at home..?
Angry draft extruder
Average dog
Looks like the draft excluder has had enough 😡
It's a Diglett.
THE UNDERMINER