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That is really cool!
Also chlorotica does not mean what I thought it did
It’s not Plants vs Zombies fanfic?
It can also be that
I can take a four-peater.
the process has a great name: Kleptoplasty
A disorder I’d like to develop.
Are fan shirts available?
I recently saw a vid about these things. Another interesting thing they can do is voluntary decapitation. The head can survive and grow new organs, possibly because photosynthesis gives them the energy to keep going and growing.
I should steal some chloroplasts.
We might have seen the same video 😄
Was it from the Octopus Lady ? She’s always great.
Interestingly no! The video that was in my feed was from Real Science channel.
And yet when I give myself auto-brewery syndrome to keep myself permanently drunk people insist I have some kind of “serious medical problem”.
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I think the creators of Bioshock were correct to base the plot on seaslugs.
Especially Ayn Rand.
Fucking got her
“Stealing”? Am I “stealing” fat from the food I eat? Since when is retaining some components of what you consume equivalent to theft?
I assume chloroplast is much more complex than fat and we do actually have fat within our body, while the slug doesn’t naturally grow chloroplast.
Am I stealing chloroplasts when I eat a salad?
Can you photosynthesis afterward?
Can we learn how to steal the chloroplastic piracy of the algea?
I imagine there is an incredibly short window in which I technically can.
Can’t tell if joking or anti-science, but ok.
Digestion begins before you swallow. I expect if I chewed up some salad, opened my mouth and aimed it at the sun, some percentage of what I’d just chewed on would have access to co2, h2o and 600nm EMR, and synthesize a glucose molecule two.
Since the genesis of this conversation was purely semantic (“why is eating a chrolorplast theft if eating anything else isn’t?”) I think it’s pretty fair game to point out that yes, technically I also can reap the benefits of photosynthesis in a very limited way for something im actively digesting.
Not really a point in getting into a semantic argument if you’re just gonna come out swinging about being anti-science.
To put it simply, that slug basically absorb and keep the chloroplast in their own body and let it continue to photosynthesis, hence stealing the ability of the plant they feed, while in your example we basically digest it whole, leaving none of the chloroplast cell to photosynthesis.
That’s a huge difference between this two organism, kinda silly to bring it up as an example, no? And technically, it’s still the salad that does the photosynthesis in your example. You do know what’s up, so not anti-science but trolling? Sealioning? Idk. But overall silly.
your stomach acid would probably dissolve it before it becomes useful.
It uses the chloroplast as the algae uses them. It doesn’t really it them it uses them to photosynthesize. If you took the wing off the chicken and used it to fly you could say that was stealing its wing
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I would have gotten away with it, too, if not for you mean cows
I’d say, yes, you are literally consuming your food to take anything of value that your body can extract from it, often at the cost of everything for the thing you’re eating (but definitely at the cost of the parts you eat). Like I’m a bit baffled as to how you can consider it not a form of theft. Hell, I’d even argue it is the purest form of theft there is and quite likely the original theft that only scavengers, photosynthesizers, and other life forms that survive on non-biological sources of energy aren’t thieves in that manner.
This is a pokemon if I’ve ever seen one
Water/Grass is pretty good defensive typing as well.
IvyTortle
Is this the next Stelaris DLC?
Next? Plantoids have been a thing for ages. And yea you can even be photosynthetic, makes your pops consume less food for more energy
So satisfactory is real life?
“stealing”?! Who wrote this garbage?
this is sorta like how coral does it, and rare instance of jellyfish doing it too.
Cmiiw don’t corals keep the algae alive instead of just keeping the chloroplast?
Much like potatoes!
I see these little guys in the mangrove swamps down in Florida. Very quick
Just today watched a video about these little buggers :) https://youtu.be/IH_uv4h2xYM
