• @[email protected]
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    5912 hours ago

    How is there not a single Futurama reference in the comments? I thought we were all nerds?

    • @[email protected]
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      64 hours ago

      Cockroach milk is sourced from the Pacific Beetle cockroach, a type of roach that gives birth to live offspring and produces ‘milk’, which it feeds its embryos through a ‘brood sac’ (essentially a cockroach womb). There is, in fact, no actual ‘milking’ involved: scientists need to carve out the cockroach’s gut in order to access the milk, which is in the form of crystals.

  • @glitch1985
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    1512 hours ago

    Is this acquired similar to how cow milk is or more like almond milk?

    • @[email protected]
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      2610 hours ago

      Popped open the article to find out, and the answer is neither. The ‘milk’ is crystals collected by cutting open a particular kind of roach and extracting them from its brood sack.

      There’s a phrase I didn’t know I’d be using today.

      • @[email protected]
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        98 hours ago

        I wonder what kind of research goes in a lab where someone goes “what if we cut the grub from the pregnant cockroach and test to see it’s nutrition content?”

      • @glitch1985
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        1510 hours ago

        What a terrible day to be able to read.

      • @glitch1985
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        310 hours ago

        Just read the other reply and I can now say no I wish I didn’t know.

    • Nightwatch Admin
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      2216 hours ago

      There are not many times I feel sorry for cockroaches, but setting RFK onto them would be one.

  • @[email protected]
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    3215 hours ago

    I’m kindof a nimby when it comes do giant cockroach farms in my area, please don’t scale this up. Don’t make “oops 2 billion milkroaches have escaped” a thing.

  • @misterwu
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    10 hours ago

    Who’s Greg? You mean Gaylord. Gaylord Focker

  • @latenightnoir
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    2416 hours ago

    Would’ve been useful knowledge while I was still living in the dorm…

  • @GraniteM
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    413 hours ago

    I definitely assume that Palmetto Cheese is just ground-up palmetto bugs.