• @[email protected]
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    767 months ago

    Just the idea of these dramatic transformations are super interesting imo. Imagine if humans shat out a sleeping bag, crawled into it, basically did pregnancy over again, and came out with new limbs that suddenly gave us a new mode of transport.

    That would be sick. I guess puberty is sorta like this but idk, it doesn’t feel as dramatic

      • @cynar
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        657 months ago

        What’s really screwy is memories survive that process. You can do Pavlov’s dog type training on a caterpillar. The resultant butterfly will still react to the trigger.

        The brain goes through a liquid phase, but still manages to maintain its wiring!

        • Ech
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          297 months ago

          The chrysalis process is amazing.

      • pruwyben
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        217 months ago

        I really wonder what happened in your puberty to be “sorta like this”

        What, you didn’t crawl into your puberty sac and grow your sex organs?

      • @Jerkface
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        87 months ago

        Yeah. Puberty. What was yours like?

      • @[email protected]
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        ‘Sorta like this’ meaning: we undergo some physical changes (height, body hair, hormones, etc) but nowhere near as dramatic as eating yourself and reassembling

        Nature/chem/physics is fuckin’ cool

      • Flax
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        37 months ago

        How much caterpillar soup is needed to be lost to kill it

    • @[email protected]
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      87 months ago

      Hmm… Man seemingly dies, goes into a small space with hard walls, comes back a little while later with the ability to fly… Is Jesus mothman?

    • palordrolap
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      17 months ago

      It worked… or it will work? for Jeffrey Sinclair and Delenn. Just don’t think too hard about which one of them did it / has done it / will do it first.

      And the closest thing to a moth wasn’t either of those.

  • @Brkdncr
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    27 months ago

    I like how it holds the “I” when screening friends. Creepy.