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Here is the portugese man o' war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBdCpcapB0s It is a cnidarian, and a hydrozoan, and more specifically a siphonophore. And I shouldn't even say "it". They. It's a colonial organism. The component organisms are specialized and cannot live independently (like AMERICA  ). Each component organism is known as a zooid, and each zooid is multicellular. These fuckers are real drat weird, there's nothing else quite like it. Well, bryozoans maybe. Pyrosome chordates (!). But gently caress them. Anyway, most siphonophores look like long trailing threads made of zooids similar in appearance. For example, Yep, that's an animal. So's this scrap of marine muppet:  And this ethereal sea colon:  And the "cronenberg arousal pod":  Okay, it's a "dandelion siphonophore". But it gets really exciting when we get to the man o' war (Physalia physalis), or the bluebottle (Physalia utriculus). (Not the fly, obviously. Obviously in the English-speaking world, "blue bottle" means a type of siphonophore and a type of fly. Keep up, English-as-second-languagers.) They're usually called a Portugese man o' war because they resembled the old-timey ships. So yeah, the other name for the other kind is also a type of boat. (KEEP UP.)  I know you're assuming it just floats around like a stingy piece of poo poo, but they do move:  And here's what it looks like in full:  These do sting, and it can be fatal, but not very often.  The blue bottle looks very similar, but it's a little smaller and doesn't have as much obvious motility. It only has one long tentacle.  Though they can move parts of themselves, they are subject to winds and currents for transit, sort of like a marine tumbleweed. Strangely, they're not just a balloon of air--the gas filling the gas bladder can be up to 14% carbon monoxide.
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Are we all not men o war floating on the sea of time?
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Dec 1, 2017 03:29
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Oh poo poo, it's those floating emotion-blobs from Mass Effect
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Dec 1, 2017 03:31
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Over There posted:Are we all not men o war floating on the sea of time? Much like a fat gross weirdo, the man o' war can manually (siphon-ally?) deflate its gas bladder to briefly submerge to escape enemies when attacked.
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Dec 1, 2017 03:31
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How does this tie into bitcoins and tentacle porn? I'm confused.
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what distinguishes zooids from cells?
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Dec 1, 2017 03:32
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turtles eat them, they are ocean pizza
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Who What Now posted:Oh poo poo, it's those floating emotion-blobs from Mass Effect "bleep blorp whatever mass effect things say" | | \ 
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a hole-y ghost posted:what distinguishes zooids from cells? Zooids are multicellular organisms. The cells in a zooid are not identical and can be differentiated by type.
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ahhh gotcha. I actually thought they were single cell until now. thanks I learned something today
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its all nice on rice posted:How does this tie into bitcoins and tentacle porn? I'm confused. You tell me *winky face* 
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Dec 1, 2017 03:35
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Taking hydrocodone in Hydrocity Zone hell yeah
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Dec 1, 2017 03:36
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FuhrerHat posted:turtles eat them, they are ocean pizza It's true. Sea turtles tend to feast on cnidaria and have tough skin on the inside of their gullet for this purpose. It's also why they tend to eat plastic bags (they look like cnidaria).
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Also what the hecks a pyrosome chordate, I know it's out of the scope of the thread but you can't tease us like that and not tell 
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a hole-y ghost posted:Also what the hecks a pyrosome chordate, I know it's out of the scope of the thread but you can't tease us like that and not tell it's a type of free-swimming tunicate
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not sure what that is either but google shows me this which I guess kind of answers that
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The blanket octopus, the also weird as hell animal pictured, is also known to steal man o war tentacles for offensive and defensive purposes. supposedly. I think it is for art purposes since this type of octopus is clearly like the ocean's ren faire "exotic" dancers who are frickin high all the time and wave around ribbons and stuff.
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a hole-y ghost posted:not sure what that is either but google shows me this which I guess kind of answers that That's a non-free-swimming (sessile) tunicate, my man, aka a "sea squirt". Vertebrates are descended from ancestral larval tunicates (really). That thing is waayyy more closely related to you than, for example, a spider.
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so how long after conception do man-o-wars do their voltron magic i guess each species' eggs mature at similar rates it would be cruel of nature not to do this
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Pick posted:That's a non-free-swimming (sessile) tunicate, my man, aka a "sea squirt". Vertebrates are descended from ancestral larval tunicates (really). That thing is waayyy more closely related to you than, for example, a spider. does that mean i can gently caress it and if i did what would the children look like? culdnt be any uglier than me, so, ..
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i got stung by one of those blue bottles and it felt like someone set my skin on fire and started twisting it with pliers
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Anyway, the siphonophores are closely related to the chondrophores (both hydrozoans). Boyyyy are those things frickin weird too. One example is Porpita porpita, also known as the blue button, not to be confused with the blue bottle (hello again not-english-native-languagers). The button part of the blue button is indeed hard and platelike, and the gooey bits are the zooids. Another colonial marine organism, with stingers.  Unlike a tunicate, you are in no way closely related to these things.
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"Man o' war"? Call me when we got some "man o' peace" I'm getting sick of these kids dying
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Smythe posted:does that mean i can gently caress it and if i did what would the children look like? culdnt be any uglier than me, so, .. um sure. you go ahead and jizz on it, i don't really care
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That's all well and good but what the President is breathing down my neck about is CAN IT BE REASONED WITH?!
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Dec 1, 2017 03:45
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These were floating around in morrowind op.
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Are there any dishes that use jellyfish? What's their nutritional value? I'm guessing not a lot.
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Pick posted:um sure. you go ahead and jizz on it, i don't really care it has a hole on top. ?
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Who What Now posted:Are there any dishes that use jellyfish? What's their nutritional value? I'm guessing not a lot. im pretty sure theyre like 99% water might as well eat your own dead skin
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Have you guys watched blue planet II? They filmed a bunch of these and other really cool poo poo.
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And here's an anthomedusid, and another hydrozoan relative of the other poo poo I have been showing you. It is known by a number of stupid names, such as the sea raft and the little sail. Those names are so dumb every biologist just calls it a Velella, which is fine. It's the only species of its genus (Velella velella).   As at least one of their dumb names would suggest, they're also at the mercy of the wind, so they get washed up sometimes like this. They're generally confused with garbage, sometimes even with condoms, and picked up during beach cleanups. They are a profoundly bright blue.
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how come theyre all so blue anyway
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Smythe posted:it has a hole on top. ? they got two holes
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Good thread op
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Who What Now posted:Are there any dishes that use jellyfish? What's their nutritional value? I'm guessing not a lot. There are, I've had them in Chinese cooking, they are gross.
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FuhrerHat posted:how come theyre all so blue anyway if they were green they would die
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Pick posted:they got two holes too depraved, even for me.
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Smythe posted:if they were green they would die i would like to know more
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Pick posted:There are, I've had them in Chinese cooking, they are gross. Yeah, but you also have a giant crate of moldy kumquats or something so idk if I can trust your taste buds...
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FuhrerHat posted:i would like to know more turns out they dont actually say green i would die but instead say this: Yo listen up, here's the story About a little guy that lives in a blue world And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue Like him, inside and outside Blue his house with a blue little window And a blue Corvette And everything is blue for him And himself and everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa I have a blue house with a blue window Blue is the color of all that I wear Blue are the streets and all the trees are too I have a girlfriend and she is so blue Blue are the people here that walk around Blue like my Corvette, it's in and outside Blue are the words I say and what I think Blue are the feelings that live inside me I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa I have a blue house with a blue window Blue is the color of all that I wear Blue are the streets and all the trees are too I have a girlfriend and she is so blue Blue are the people here that walk around Blue like my Corvette, it's in and outside Blue are the words I say and what I think Blue are the feelings that live inside me I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa
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