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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago

Too bad they don't know how to not dry up on the sidewalk yet

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fragmentation! No breeding!
Don't give a fuck, I'm not even bleeding.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

squirmi-squirmi-squirmi-squirmi, (duh-duhn..) squirmi-squirmi-squirmi-squirmi.. (guitar)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I just stepped on path that giants treaded before me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I had trauma watching the pain Olympics as a child. I would rather not see it again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I still can’t believe that was real lol. We had it good back then with lemon party, blue waffle, and meat spin xD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I guess I'm lucky I never heard of that particular corner of the internet

[–] Iamsqueegee 38 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Is each a clone of the original with the same memories? Or are they their own “personalities”?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (28 children)

This piqued my curiosity so I dug into it a bit on Wikipedia. Most worms are dumb as fuck, roundworms are about as dumb as they come with total neuron counts for a roundworm being comparable to a microscopic tartigrade (300 vs 200). Most of this is located in the head of the worm in a brain like structure though, so I'm betting the clones develop their brains independently with no information transfer. I doubt there's a ton of learning/memory forming going on at all though, based on how simple worms are, so it's probably functionally identical. I would be surprised if most worm species exhibit any kind of learned behaviors ever.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Excellent comment.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus christ, man, the implications! Fucking bobverse shit right there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I would imagine only the original retains memories

[–] BudgetBandit 23 points 2 weeks ago

Salt, sun, dryness and especially FIRE are needed to kill them, they’re invasive, endanger local flora/fauna and don’t have enough natural predators.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

It's the opposite of a worm of Theseus. Each individual part becomes a new whole.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Napalm or thermite, just to be safe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You might be surprised how much thermite won't be impressive here. Napalm sure, sticky fire everywhere. Thermite is hard to put everywhere and really doesn't want to light. Hard enough I'm not sure I have anything in my house that could, although idk how hot a lithium fire gets. Probably not even close.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just use black copper oxide instead of iron oxide for your thermite then. That'll just spontaneously ignite and explode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

What about termites?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So you’ve chosen the blowtorch I see

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Add a little salt

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

The only solution is exterminatus.

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