That is really cool!
Also chlorotica does not mean what I thought it did
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It's not Plants vs Zombies fanfic?
It can also be that
I can take a four-peater.
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 π
Was it from the Octopus Lady ? She's always great.
Interestingly no! The video that was in my feed was from Real Science channel.Β
I think the creators of Bioshock were correct to base the plot on seaslugs.
This is a pokemon if Iβve ever seen one
Water/Grass is pretty good defensive typing as well.
βStealingβ? Am I βstealingβ 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.
It uses the chloroplast as the algae uses them. It doesnβt 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
Much like potatoes!
So satisfactory is real life?
Is this the next Stelaris DLC?
I see these little guys in the mangrove swamps down in Florida. Very quick