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[–]kalel1980 1121ポイント1122ポイント  (84子コメント)

The blanket octopus is immune to jellyfish stings, so a male will just waltz up and snag a tentacle. The little male octopus then wields the tentacle like a toxic whip to fend off predators.

Haha, I'd like to see that in action.

[–]Just1morefix 446ポイント447ポイント  (64子コメント)

Every time I read a new octopus fact they get stranger and more alien. This use of pneumatocyst weaponry only confirms how weird they are.

Edit: for brain fart

[–]HappyRectangle 126ポイント127ポイント  (13子コメント)

[–]Neo_Techni 135ポイント136ポイント  (10子コメント)

This use of nematode weaponry only confirms how dangerous they are.

FTFY

[–]EverChillingLucifer 67ポイント68ポイント  (7子コメント)

Would you trust something with SIX BRAINS? Join the army.

[–]magicman929 16ポイント17ポイント  (0子コメント)

Cnidarian weaponry if we're gonna start fixing stuff

[–]diealreadyidiot 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

This use of nematode weaponry only confirms how awesome they are. Fixed again

[–]Syphon8 18ポイント19ポイント  (12子コメント)

Jellies are cnidarians not nematodes.

[–]ArchmageNydia 22ポイント23ポイント  (11子コメント)

You're both wrong. In the article it states Portuguese Man O' War so it would be a Siphonophore, not a cnidarian or nematode. Well they are still technically cnidarians, just not in the more traditional sense.

[–]I_amLying 46ポイント47ポイント  (6子コメント)

Let me tell you about jackdaws...

[–]TomasTTEngin [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I'd ask you to reveal your true identity but your username tells me already that you're not not Unidan.

[–]HurricaneSandyHook [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

If there is one lesson to learn, it is that someone could post a picture of something and people will claim it is something else. You call it a jackdaw, but it is definitely a hermit crab.

[–]Syphon8 7ポイント8ポイント  (3子コメント)

The traditional sense is a broad phylum. Man o wars are definitely cnidaria.

[–]CyberPlatypus 11ポイント12ポイント  (11子コメント)

All marine life seems alien when you really look into it. Did you know some specious of sponge are carnivorous and anemones fight for territory and can swim? Both of which are some of our earliest ancestors with sponges being the first animal and anemones being the first animal to develop nerves and muscles. Pretty bizarre.

[–]SubtleMockery [スコア非表示]  (5子コメント)

All marine life seems alien when you really look into it.

Because their environment is alien. They live in a fluid with little light and no weather as we understand it. We live in a gas that is almost always brightly lit, with all kinds of weather and environments.

[–]Mageziya [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

I wouldn't say that the Ocean has no weather, but it actually relates to your point: The ocean's weather is so subtle or strange that even the ocean's weather is completely alien to us.

[–]flamingboard [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

"Deep sea weather report: Strong water winds from the up and a rain of dead carcases later this week. Possible spawning blizzard in the submarine suburbs."

[–]plomm [スコア非表示]  (4子コメント)

I heard that coral can just up and leave but chooses not to. True or false?

[–]Mageziya [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Depends on the species. Corals with stoney skeletons are often very immobile due to said skeleton. Corals that lack a skeleton, or related polyps like sea anemones, are often very mobile in their own ways. Most of the time they slowly crawl across the ocean floor, but some species can out right "inflate" and drift away if they find their environment too inadequate.

[–]RiverRunnerVDB [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

He often chooses to and usually right before zombies attack.

[–]guitarelf 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

You mean pneumatocyst? Nematode is a type of parasitic worm...

[–]Just1morefix [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Yes pneumatocyst. Dammit! Thanks for the heads up, I think I need to edit that one.

[–]guitarelf [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Haha- a nematode wielding octopus IS fucking terrifying!

[–]trilobot [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

You're gonna hate this, but you still have it wrong! It's nematocyst. A pneumatocyst is what keep seaweed buoyant.

But look at it this way: You, and maybe many others, have just learned what nematodes, pneumatocysts, and nematocysts are! What an excellent day!

[–]xTachibana [スコア非表示]  (4子コメント)

if anime has taught me anything, octopus and squids are aliens! (source: ika musume, gargantia + hentai)

[–]Just1morefix [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Yet, in those genres their needs and desires are strangely similar to our own terrestrial drives.

[–]Kaellian [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Neither Hideauze in Gargantia, or Ika are aliens

[–]mindokiller 163ポイント164ポイント  (3子コメント)

If we're quoting the article...

“and when she comes to need to fertilize her eggs, she can pull that arm out and squirt the sperm over her eggs like squirting soy sauce onto fried rice.” Thus concludes the greatest analogy in the history of science.

[–]hadhad69 28ポイント29ポイント  (0子コメント)

Straight from the Attenborough handbook.

[–]Keenooooo 25ポイント26ポイント  (0子コメント)

8/10 octosperm on rice

[–]ProfessionalDicker 13ポイント14ポイント  (4子コメント)

Is this not considered tool making?

[–]_MUY [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

Not really. Octopus are very intelligent with an absolutely fascinating neural anatomy but they can't conceptualize entire objects in their understanding of 3D space using touch alone the way you would do when putting your hand in a burlap sack to find a specific item.

[–]BakedForeskinChips [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

theyre smart enough to know its poisonous even though it doesnt poison them. how would they know this? did they learn this from observation of other animals being injured by the tentacles? thats pretty smart

[–]Parched-Mint [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I'd say something like ones who would hide in the tentacles survived more than those who didn't, then those who ventures out and took one with them survived a bit more than those who didn't and so on and so forth..

[–]EzzeJenkins 176ポイント177ポイント  (95子コメント)

For reference if a human female was 40,000 times more massive than the average human male how large would she be? Are we talking Mount Everest or the Burj Khalifa?

[–]playblu 239ポイント240ポイント  (54子コメント)

Mass != height

So if the average male weighs 195.5 pounds (Google), the female equivalent would be 195.5 x 40,000 = 7,820,000 pounds. That's a little more than a Saturn-V rocket (6,669,000 lbs), or maybe a space shuttle full of fuel.

[–]lettherebedwight 99ポイント100ポイント  (33子コメント)

Yea but I think you have to assume that in the human case that mass would be equally distributed.

[–]Casual-Swimmer 252ポイント253ポイント  (11子コメント)

"IT ALL GOES TO THE HIPS"

[–]rsjc852 144ポイント145ポイント  (10子コメント)

"IT'LL GO STRAIGHT TO YOUR THIGHS"

"Then what?"

"You'll blow up."

[–]Sharrakor [スコア非表示]  (4子コメント)

"What's gonna happen? Am I gonna blow up?"
"No, worse! It'll go right to your thighs!"
"My thighs?"
"And then you'll blow up!"

FTFY

[–]yuhutuh [スコア非表示]  (4子コメント)

Actually the way it went was,

"Squidward you can't eat that many Krabby Patties!"

"Or what, I'll blow up?"

"No, it'll go straight to your thighs"

shows Squidward's massive thighs

"Oh"

"And then you blow up"

[–]GenocideSolution [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

What's in Krabby Patties that makes them explosive when you approach critical mass?

Is it a byproduct of them being made in the aftermath of the Bikini Atoll nuke testing site?

[–]paradroid42 41ポイント42ポイント  (19子コメント)

Right. So all 7,000,000 pounds won't be added vertically, they will be added in all three dimensions. Meaning we would multiply the average male height (167cm) by the cuberoot of 40,000 (34.2), to find our 571m tall woman. A little taller than the CN Tower.

EDIT: As /u/DrImmergeil pointed out, 167cm x 34.2 = 5,710cm. That is roughly 57m, not 571m.

[–]DrImmergeil 12ポイント13ポイント  (8子コメント)

I redid the math, and I think you messed up somewhere. I "only" get 57.1m.
Still massive, but nevertheless a magnitude smaller.

[–]lettherebedwight 14ポイント15ポイント  (6子コメント)

Ah but they would be added proportionally, not equivalently. So not much at all should go to the depth dimension, and still a much more significant amount should go to the height as opposed to the width. Using a 2 to 1 ratio, assuming we're generally cylindrical, I've got that woman standing at about 50km.

[–]paradroid42 33ポイント34ポイント  (4子コメント)

Sorry I'm not much of a math person, but aren't we already adding proportionally because we are multiplying? 32 times in every direction.

Wolfram Alpha says the "Ideal Body Weight" for a 500m tall woman is 7.28x106kg, which is about double "average human weight times 40,000"

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mass+of+person+that+is+500m+tall

[–]TTTaToo 68ポイント69ポイント  (1子コメント)

"Ideal Body Weight" for a 500m tall woman

Sentences you never thought you'd hear.

[–]lettherebedwight 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

You are correct, by multiplying you are proportionally incrementing the size of the woman, I think you're right.

[–]Bojangly717 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

That's the point. Mass doesn't all go towards height. If you double a humans mass they won't be twice as tall. Taller yes but not be a factor of 2

[–]reddit_human 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

also i'm assuming the saturn rocket has a much higher density than human flesh so the person would be occupying a larger volume than the rocket

[–]Drudicta 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

So you're saying some females might angrily consume people terrible at sex like a praying mantis but with no evidence. Got it.

[–]Cley_Faye 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

But how does it translate in "your mom" joke units?

[–]is-da-vog [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

i weigh exactly 195lbs i guess i'm average.

[–]slydunan 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

You're really just setting your mom up for that one.

[–]Lonelan 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well if you're you, the mate would be OP's mom

[–]zip_000 0ポイント1ポイント  (31子コメント)

Well, if you assume the average male is 6 feet for simplicity, then the average female would be 45 miles tall.

So like 90 Burj Khalifas stacked on top of one another.

[–]billigesbuch 33ポイント34ポイント  (7子コメント)

That's not how that works. She would probably only be a couple hundred feet tall.

[–]zip_000 13ポイント14ポイント  (6子コメント)

Yeah, it was just a dumb calculation with an assumption the "40,000 times more massive" would mean 40,000 times the height/length - which is clearly absurd.

[–]finlayvscott 8ポイント9ポイント  (19子コメント)

Jesus... and its one male per woman or what?

[–]zip_000 35ポイント36ポイント  (18子コメント)

In the article it says the male has all of his sperm in one of his arms, rips it off and the female puts it inside her somewhere. She can keep several sperm-arms from several males, and use them when she wants.

The male dies.

[–]finlayvscott 23ポイント24ポイント  (16子コメント)

God damn, is there any species were males have it better off than females (inb4 people)?

[–]zip_000 19ポイント20ポイント  (4子コメント)

I am not at all an expert on this topic, just FYI.

I think there are a lot of species where males have it better. The first one that pops into my head is lions. If you're lucky enough to be the biggest lion around, you've got yourself a harem of lady lions that do all of the work. All you do is eat and have sex, and fight off any other dude lions that come into your territory.

Again, not an expert, this could all be completely inaccurate, and I'm sure it is overly simplified.

[–]1gnominious 30ポイント31ポイント  (2子コメント)

It's great if you're the biggest and baddest dude around. Not so great for all the other dudes who spend their lives scavenging for scraps, getting their ass kicked, blue balled, until they finally die hungry, injured, and utterly alone.

[–]Ailuroapult 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Nah male lions have it pretty rough, in their prime it's good but when they're young they're kicked out of their family, left to scavenge off hyenas cause they're not amazing hunters, they might get a pride for a few years and eventually get chased off and die. Male lions only keep a pride for 2-4 years. Females get to live inside a territory, they can fend for themselves without the males pretty well. Just need them for breeding.

[–]Biggs180 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Many males of various species have it better if they are the top male of their group.

[–]Loki_the_Poisoner 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I know there's a couple bugs out there that literally spear the female with their penis. The would forces the female to go into hiding to heal, this increasing her survival chances. I would provide a link, but I'm on mobile all day.

[–]bashar_speaks 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

Males are interchangable and disposable. Women are the essential givers and caretakers of life.

[–]super__sonic 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

any animal that gets pregnant...

[–]TenNeon 10ポイント11ポイント  (2子コメント)

Most animals don't have it so bad when it comes to pregnancy.

[–]ColonelAmerica 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I can see the Burj Khalifa from my bedroom window.

[–]Triggcrfinger 341ポイント342ポイント  (20子コメント)

Apparently they haven't met my wife.

[–]snotbag_pukebucket 124ポイント125ポイント  (2子コメント)

Maybe they did and just haven't realized it yet.

[–]Epledryyk [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

They assumed their research center was stationed on an earthy hill - they were looking for a woman at the wrong magnitude

[–]MRB0B0MB 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Mother fucker you had to slap the thigh and ride the wave in."

[–]SuperBloops 40ポイント41ポイント  (4子コメント)

Just when I thought ocean life couldn't get weirder. Looks like something Aquaman might wear.

[–]ThinKrisps [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Woah, that name is a lot more descriptive than I thought it would be. That really looks like a type of fabric.

[–]KilgoreRainbowTrout 37ポイント38ポイント  (2子コメント)

I am going to miss eating soy sauce.

[–]GratefullyGodless 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

LOL! I like the fact that the author calls it the greatest analogy in science.

[–]geekbot 10ポイント11ポイント  (1子コメント)

Same thing happened with viruses. We never looked for them at very large sizes, but it turns out really large viruses are common too.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/shrink/

[–]ltcommandervriska 15ポイント16ポイント  (0子コメント)

Death by snu-snu.

[–]Felinomancy[🍰] [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

"Yo mama's so fat..."

"Oh shut up, all our mommas are fat"

[–]lappyg55v[🍰] 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

Shit, they go to the same dating site I do.

[–]livedadevil [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

"but gender is a social construct"

[–]asopio [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I guess sex would be the more correct term, but since this is in the context of biology and not social science that discrepancy isn't really there. A lot of pedants on this site like to pretend that context isn't a thing and that words can't have different meanings in different fields.

[–]Anopheles1 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I was wondering if I was the only one who caught that. Guess not.

[–]donrhummy [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

So male blanket octopi like a little junk in the trunk?

[–]iloatheradicals [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

When she sits on your face and you can't hear your stereo.

[–]advicebad [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Interesting concept. Sexual dimorphism? Surely this does not occur in humans. Certainly.

[–]Freakin_A [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

That's a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge bitch!

[–]claretfella [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

They obviously didn't see how my mates Mrs went after 2 kids. That's the biggest gender size discrepancy in the animal kingdom, believe that.

[–]mikeywaldo 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

Reminds me of the women in Wisconsin. Woof.

[–]whatistheocean 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I originally read this as largest animal size discrepancy in the United Kingdom

[–]Solid_Waste 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

"Females can be up to 40,000 times more massive than males; the largest gender size discrepancy in the animal kingdom."

Tell that to my ex, the fucking ham planet.

[–]tomgilby [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I haven't seen 'hamplanet' in months. Thank you for using it today, it's such a great phrase

[–]Fatty_Wraps 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

There is only one this comment thread is gonna go...

[–]1939 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Very fascinating facts. I wish they'd just be stated clearly instead of a tangental fucking easy about the thoughts that go through the authors head. You ain't Hunter S. Thompson, and if you were, you wouldn't need a subject so blatant. Simply ask yourself what is it that is capturing the imagination of the reader, and if you can't out shine that, don't even fucking try. When reading an article like this I just want to go to the comments and look for a TLDR.

[–]sno0ks [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

No, you see. The octopus social norms condition males to be so small. It's evidence of an octomatriarchy, and it must end!

[–]Angrybakersf [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Aside from op's mother and father.

[–]ChairFace5eva [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

How does that work in the (ocean) bedroom department...?

[–]OfficerMudkip [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Like throwing a hot dog down a hallway

[–]Shitopia [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Sounds like the state of American women today.

[–]_king_of_time_ [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Something about op's mom being overweight

[–]Casey_is_drunk [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

I’d be willing to bet that the male blanket octopus has some serious inadequacy issues.

I hate jokes like this. Way to cheapen a really interesting article.

[–]Ivegotacitytorun [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I want to believe these beautiful creatures are what inspired Michael Jackson to name his child Blanket.

[–]Illusion13 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Clicked the link on angler fish. God there are some fucking ugly fishes.

[–]ColonelLocke [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

My guess is they've never seen my ex-wife's ass, or that size discrepancy would wouldn't be as impressive. (ass impressive?)

[–]MoorgunFreeman [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

TIL the size discrepancy between my ex and me is the same as the Blanket octopus. Or something like that

[–]mrgonzalez [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Divers spotted a male 2.4 centimeters (0.9 inches) long. By contrast, females of the species grow up to two meters (6.6 feet) long.

From elsewhere

[–]ToiletSpaghetti [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Is this a your mom joke, cause this totally could be a your mom joke

[–]manlymen [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

This happens in Florida every night.

[–]TheLastSamurai101 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

But this would actually be a brilliant evolutionary adaptation on the part of a male, and I'm surprised that it isn't more common in the animal kingdom. In-and-out before she even notices - reproductive success rate = 100%.