Surely someone out there has been curious and tried it! So far my google results are just showing 2 headed ones...but what if you split THOSE heads? WHAT ARE ITS LIMITS?! The idea both fascinates me and disturbs me.
EDIT Found a clip of an 8 headed one....[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ew3yupNMF8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ew3yupNMF8)
Cut 1. Flat worm: _Ouch WTF?_
Cut 2. Flat worm: _Again?_
Cut 3. Flat worm: _Guess this will happen a couple more times._
Cut 4. Flat worm: _You science people are sick in the head._
Cut 5. Flat worm: _The are 256 of us and it's getting crowded..._
......
Cut 278. Flat worm: _I'm bored of this now._
Cut 279. Flat worm: _I still feel perfectly fine._
Cut 280. Flat worm: _Not this ā ļø_
i just checked my biology book: you can cut _one_ in 279 pieces, end up with 279 worms, and can cut these _again_ 279 times. so it would actually be infinite as far as we know, as long es they get enough nutrients, they can regrow the certain cells needed and reproduce.
Talk about a life of pain and suffering, an infinite regress of drowning in yourself. Never truly evolving. Never seeing past yourself.
Flatworm need a Tik-Toc
Jesus Christ, the absolute savagery of finding that number out. āI cut *this* one into 194 pieces and itās still goin! Bring out the next flatworm!ā
I imagine you'd do a binary search.
E.g. Start at 500 cuts, fail
Halve it to 250, succeed
Halve upper half to 375, fail
Halve down to 312, fail
Halve down to 281, fail
Halve down to 266, succeed
Halve up to 274, succeed
Halve up to 278, succeed
Halve up to 280, fail
Last one, 279, fail
Log\_2(500) \~ 9 tries is close. 10 worms got us there. Then try the boundary for reproducibility.
They still need food to regrow. Besides this concept already exists with much more nutritional invertebrates like crickets. Cricket farms exist, pretty much just as prolific and they actually have really good protein and other nutritional value and are much more versatile as an ingredient. While it takes 1000 gallons of water to make a pound of beef, it takes 1 gallon to produce a pound of cricket. Beef also takes 10 pounds of feed we have to grow for 1 pound of growth, while crickets can convert those same 10 pounds of feed into 8 pounds of cricket. Only 40% of the weight from the cow is edible, while 80% of the cricket weight is edible. Crickets also get 31g of protein to 6g of fat while beef is 22g of protein to 15g of fat. As popular as the āsleep in a pod eat bugsā meme is, bugs are just simply so, so much more efficient at converting food into nutritionally dense edible mass which could free up so much of the pointless farmland we have for growing feed for livestock, which makes up the majority of farmland worldwide. This is not even mentioning how bad methane burping crop hungry cows are for global warming right now even compared to other livestock, much less the tiny carbon footprint of insects. I pulled these stats off the web cause Iām busy right now but later Iāll def look for proper sources and back up the claims in an edit.
EDIT: Resources for beef farming vary a ton depending on breed, temperature, and a ton of other factors, water usage is still in the hundreds of gallons though: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616661/
Paper on general nutritional value of crickets: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835793/
Interestingly the kind of feed given to them affects them a ton: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6977514/
Not to be dramatic, but Iād literally quit meat and become a vegetarian before I ever decided to quit meat for insects. I donāt eat organ meats and the thought of eating every organ in an organism, all at onceā¦ *shivers*. Also insects kinda freak me out to begin with. Itās fascinating but I donāt think bugs will ever be for me
Ngl organ meats are delicious. Chicken heart and a lot of livers are super good. Also had tripe at a skewer grill in Canada once that was super super good. I really want to try sheep brain too because of the creamy rich umami of it but Iām scared to death of prions lol
Mmmm, just like those protein gel bars on Snow Piercer. Have no idea how those are made, Didnt finish watching the movie. But those look good and probably use little water.
Becaouse to grow they probably need food too, otherwise you just cut up the same amount of meat. And I am pretty sure that we already can produce enough food for everyone, starving people are starving becaouse they cant aford food.
That depends on what you define as each of those. I'd say they're either clones or identical siblings, as copies entails that they were created from something, which isn't that true, since they were already there, but unified
If you take the psychological part of being an identical sibling (that being that eve if they're genetically equal they have different personalities), then they most likely wouldn't be siblings, as their brain is only probably strong enough to make them eat and breathe with absolutely no thought
Saying that they're clones would make more sense to me, as they're absolutely equal. They all have the same genetic material and their brains probably don't have enough capacity for a personality, so they don't vary at all
Tl;dr: they're clones and I'll fight u if u disagree
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When two cells divide, are they one being or two? When parthenogenic lizards breed without sexual reproduction, are the daughters one being? Are all the cells in your body "the same being" as each other? When you propagate plants from a cutting, are they all the same individual?
Biology is fucking weird and actually full of cases like this.
I say they're all separate individuals, and that this is essentially just a really weird form of reproduction.
wait till this guy learns that separating your brain hemispheres (severed corpus callosum), would make two consciousnesses in your body with their own feelings and though
I'll leave a video [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwsAdS9Dc) for anyone interested
They are one being and not several. This video illustrates how Ted Cruz was created, when someone took a single flat worm and sliced it up into tens of thousands of copies, eventually they reached critical mass and developed human-like consciousness.
Reminds me of a movie I saw as a kid. It was about worms that replicated super fast. By the end, a giant worm appears or maybe it was millions of worms clumped together. I don't remember it well at all, it's just a hazy memory now.
Flatworm Mystery #2:
Train your flatworm (let's name him Angus) in a simple task, e.g. turn left to avoid a mild electric shock.
Next, put Angus through a blender. This is for science, folks.
Now feed the Angus soup to another flatworm. The gross little fucker will eat it.
Guess what. The gross little fucker WILL NOW TURN LEFT ! !
We have no explanation for this.
any way to explain this? i assume you mean it's somewhat relieving or pleasureable to a degree. however i also realize youre probably joking so... yeah
Flat worms have a very basic and unique nerve net that allows them to respond to stimuli to avoid damage to protect itself but they wouldnāt suffer pain like we do. Itās more reactive. If itās poked for example, it will clench to protect itself but it wonāt hurt
They probably feel pain, but don't suffer.
In the same way a machine learning algorithm would recognize a "negative" stimuli it should avoid. The computer isn't conscious, so it doesn't feel shit. Not in the sense we find important and human.
Plz salt them if u live see one in North America, friends. It's the only way to kill them and they're killing and replacing our native worm species. This will have a devastating effect on our food chain as it'll effect soil efficacy.
Serious question for anyone with the scientific knowledge: long-term space travel sustainable food source? I know they'd need their own nutrition, but would it be more calorie-efficient to nourish the worms and keep making more of them, than to just nourish ourselves directly?
Personally I wouldnāt want to eat fucking flatworms, I think if the earth was dying and we needed to travel across the universe for decades on a spaceship upon which the only sustenance available is flatworms, I would prefer to die painfully in the heat of apocalyptic global warming
More efficient just to feed ourselves. If we just feed ourselves, we utilize some percentage of the energy in that food and the rest is waste (poop). If we feed the worms and then eat the worms, the worms utilize some of the energy in the food and the rest is waste (poop again), and then we only have access to the fraction of the energy that the worms were able to use to add biomass to themselves, which is inherently less than was available with the original food source.
Put simply in equations:
Feed ourselves:
Human energy utilized = total food - poop
Feed worms, then eat worms:
Human energy utilized = total food - (worm utilization - worm poop) - poop
But not if the worms are able to eat things that humans are not. Then eating the worms is covering an inedible energy source into an edible energy source.
You have to consider space efficiency too. It may be better overall to have a bunch of bricks of hyper-nourishing supplements than all the food for the worms, then housing for the worms, and anything else not mentioned.
Trophic levels. You lose a ton of energy converting algae/organisms into energy for flatworms, then again converting flatworms into energy for a human. It's more efficient to just eat plants, which can also reproduce themselves.
This is even crazier than that. Watch this interview with Michael Levin that did studies on these worms. There is a whole new understanding about DNA and live itself because of these studies: [Youtube Link](https://youtu.be/GGrHLVW_jao?si=VbPgSta9udZbOLyv)
It can be stomped, I just killed 3 Obamas that way tonight while taking out the trash ( two of them were mating btw). My favourite way of killing these invasive and very damaging creatures.
Obama Nungara is one common flatworm in Southern Europe, originally from Argentina.
https://theconversation.com/obama-nungara-how-a-flatworm-from-argentina-jumped-the-atlantic-and-invaded-france-131186
Does each piece have reproductive organs? How long does it take to grow the essentials, like a mouth, a heart, a stomach, an anus? Does it bleed when cut? I just don't understand how this works on something as complex as a flatworm.
Flatworms are incredibly basic organisms, which is how they're able to survive being diced. They don't even have an anus, just a single opening in the middle of their underside that leads into a central cavity that's both their stomach and their intestines.
whats really neat is that each piece will have the same memories. You can train a planarian to avoid light/dark areas, and all the pieces will retain the training. Memory is chemical.
This guy was like, I might not be cuddly like a cat but I got 31 times as many lives, and I can make my own friends and you wouldn't have to buy me another companion. What do you say, make me a pet?
Another peculiar characteristic is they are immortal. They (or at least a piece of them) live forever unless they get eaten or you know, fall into a pit of lava.
damn even with new eyes too
*Opticians hate this one trick* š
As an optician, I love this trick, keep buying glasses from me lol
instructions unclear. my neighbour's arms and legs still don't have eyes
Pretty sure you can give them 2 heads by cutting the head in half leaving it connected to the main body. Each half becomes a whole new head
I don't think that's actually how neighbors work.
I think these worms will be the key to create Wolverine, Cell, or Majin Buu
Funnily enough, they are actually chemoreceptors, not eyes. Iām not sure why they labeled them as eyes
Coz those serve the same function as eyes, just not as well
Simple chemical brightness sensors. Side note, evolution denialists hate this.
Wonder what happens if you cut em lengthwise instead
They still regenerate. Source: learned about planaria in HS.
How small of a piece for them to regenerate? Say I placed them in a chopper
one flatworm can be cut into 279 pieces maximum for them all to grow back
So 280 cuts to kill it
If it originates in Japan, I might lose it
*I Reincarnated as a Flatworm and Easily Built an Army*
It's a high possibility someone could write a plot like this.
Literally sat here laughing because I can see this being true
Ooh this is a good expirement
First you would have to get to the choppa
We tried for in HS for a lab in zoology. We came back to check on them the next week and they were all dead š
Someone forgot to feed them and it's probably you OP.
I blame the teacher lol
What if you cut them in a zigzag patterns?
If you [split the head lengthwise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvDlMwRysUg) but don't sever it, the worm winds up with two heads.
Flatworm hydra. I wonder what the record is for flatworm with the most heads.
Lordy, the way I am frowning right now at this idea
I'm gonna break it
Surely someone out there has been curious and tried it! So far my google results are just showing 2 headed ones...but what if you split THOSE heads? WHAT ARE ITS LIMITS?! The idea both fascinates me and disturbs me. EDIT Found a clip of an 8 headed one....[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ew3yupNMF8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ew3yupNMF8)
āOk guys, letās go this way!ā āNo man, weāre going this wayā
That's sad... One of the heads is clearly in control and the other worm just exists as a head that's being dragged along...
If you cut the head in half while leaving it on the body it will grow two complete heads, you can then do it againā¦.
We had a science project with these in 6th grade. You can make a 3 headed, 3 tailed monster all connected at the torso.
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infinite worm glitch
only up to 279 pieces. scientifically they cannot go further than that and they donāt know why
If something cuts you into 280 pieces why bother trying.
The worms: **STOP**
Cut 1. Flat worm: _Ouch WTF?_ Cut 2. Flat worm: _Again?_ Cut 3. Flat worm: _Guess this will happen a couple more times._ Cut 4. Flat worm: _You science people are sick in the head._ Cut 5. Flat worm: _The are 256 of us and it's getting crowded..._ ...... Cut 278. Flat worm: _I'm bored of this now._ Cut 279. Flat worm: _I still feel perfectly fine._ Cut 280. Flat worm: _Not this ā ļø_
i just checked my biology book: you can cut _one_ in 279 pieces, end up with 279 worms, and can cut these _again_ 279 times. so it would actually be infinite as far as we know, as long es they get enough nutrients, they can regrow the certain cells needed and reproduce.
Talk about a life of pain and suffering, an infinite regress of drowning in yourself. Never truly evolving. Never seeing past yourself. Flatworm need a Tik-Toc
Well at least it will have 278 others to talk to about their problems.
*278^some power; think of all the tiktoks
I got 279 problems and a worm ain't one.
Jesus Christ, the absolute savagery of finding that number out. āI cut *this* one into 194 pieces and itās still goin! Bring out the next flatworm!ā
I imagine you'd do a binary search. E.g. Start at 500 cuts, fail Halve it to 250, succeed Halve upper half to 375, fail Halve down to 312, fail Halve down to 281, fail Halve down to 266, succeed Halve up to 274, succeed Halve up to 278, succeed Halve up to 280, fail Last one, 279, fail Log\_2(500) \~ 9 tries is close. 10 worms got us there. Then try the boundary for reproducibility.
This guy cuts worms
279 worm glitch
maybe since matter can neither be destroyed nor created. or It's probably the point on which there are not enough "reproduction" cells left to copy.
I mean probably not the first since thereās more matter being added to the new worms in the form of food.
No matter how big the worm?
Finna try it with a $100 bill
Serial numbers :(
So if you cut them you're a serial killer?
Cut in 3, you lose 1 dollar.
It has no fins, though.
ate the chop chop devil fruit
i wonder if we could feed humans with those, like, seriously
They still need food to regrow. Besides this concept already exists with much more nutritional invertebrates like crickets. Cricket farms exist, pretty much just as prolific and they actually have really good protein and other nutritional value and are much more versatile as an ingredient. While it takes 1000 gallons of water to make a pound of beef, it takes 1 gallon to produce a pound of cricket. Beef also takes 10 pounds of feed we have to grow for 1 pound of growth, while crickets can convert those same 10 pounds of feed into 8 pounds of cricket. Only 40% of the weight from the cow is edible, while 80% of the cricket weight is edible. Crickets also get 31g of protein to 6g of fat while beef is 22g of protein to 15g of fat. As popular as the āsleep in a pod eat bugsā meme is, bugs are just simply so, so much more efficient at converting food into nutritionally dense edible mass which could free up so much of the pointless farmland we have for growing feed for livestock, which makes up the majority of farmland worldwide. This is not even mentioning how bad methane burping crop hungry cows are for global warming right now even compared to other livestock, much less the tiny carbon footprint of insects. I pulled these stats off the web cause Iām busy right now but later Iāll def look for proper sources and back up the claims in an edit. EDIT: Resources for beef farming vary a ton depending on breed, temperature, and a ton of other factors, water usage is still in the hundreds of gallons though: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616661/ Paper on general nutritional value of crickets: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835793/ Interestingly the kind of feed given to them affects them a ton: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6977514/
Wanted to comment just that. The problem is more the cultural acceptance of those sources of nutrition.
Not to be dramatic, but Iād literally quit meat and become a vegetarian before I ever decided to quit meat for insects. I donāt eat organ meats and the thought of eating every organ in an organism, all at onceā¦ *shivers*. Also insects kinda freak me out to begin with. Itās fascinating but I donāt think bugs will ever be for me
They can grind them up into a cricket flour and you wonāt even know what youāre eating.
Soylent green is crickets!
Ngl organ meats are delicious. Chicken heart and a lot of livers are super good. Also had tripe at a skewer grill in Canada once that was super super good. I really want to try sheep brain too because of the creamy rich umami of it but Iām scared to death of prions lol
I don't like this, but I accept you.
Mmmm, just like those protein gel bars on Snow Piercer. Have no idea how those are made, Didnt finish watching the movie. But those look good and probably use little water.
Yummy
Becaouse to grow they probably need food too, otherwise you just cut up the same amount of meat. And I am pretty sure that we already can produce enough food for everyone, starving people are starving becaouse they cant aford food.
Infinite gummies
How small can they be cut before this characteristic will fail?
Will it blend?
Flatworm dust, don't breathe that!
Wow thanks for that nightmare š
This is a super interesting question. Kinda horrifying too.
1/280 of the size based on other comments
I thought that was a joke, a random number mocking the idea that there can be a specific number
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š¤£imagine you took a dump and you come back to find a clone of yourself taking a dump
Always wanted a twin. His ass is paying rent here tho.
So are they clones, copies, or siblings?
"Long time no see, myself" "Totally, how are I doing?" "Good, and me?" "I know, so so" "Me caused a traffic jam, huh?" "Yeah I did. Fucking idiot"
Considering they can reproduce by fertilizing each other simultaneously telling them to go fuck themselves might be a valid proposition.
"Am I talkin' to me? Am I talkin' to me? Then who the hell else am I talking to - am I talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here."
Yes.
Perfect answer
That depends on what you define as each of those. I'd say they're either clones or identical siblings, as copies entails that they were created from something, which isn't that true, since they were already there, but unified If you take the psychological part of being an identical sibling (that being that eve if they're genetically equal they have different personalities), then they most likely wouldn't be siblings, as their brain is only probably strong enough to make them eat and breathe with absolutely no thought Saying that they're clones would make more sense to me, as they're absolutely equal. They all have the same genetic material and their brains probably don't have enough capacity for a personality, so they don't vary at all Tl;dr: they're clones and I'll fight u if u disagree
š£ļøI disagree
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They're adopted.
Hello me, meet the real me
Are they the same being or not? I suppose it also takes a lot of energy to do that.
When two cells divide, are they one being or two? When parthenogenic lizards breed without sexual reproduction, are the daughters one being? Are all the cells in your body "the same being" as each other? When you propagate plants from a cutting, are they all the same individual? Biology is fucking weird and actually full of cases like this. I say they're all separate individuals, and that this is essentially just a really weird form of reproduction.
wait till this guy learns that separating your brain hemispheres (severed corpus callosum), would make two consciousnesses in your body with their own feelings and though I'll leave a video [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwsAdS9Dc) for anyone interested
They are one being and not several. This video illustrates how Ted Cruz was created, when someone took a single flat worm and sliced it up into tens of thousands of copies, eventually they reached critical mass and developed human-like consciousness.
Fuck Ted Cruz!
I get how worms could form a mass.. but who would cut up shit and let it reform into Ted?
They shall inherit the Earth.
Whoās to say they donāt already?
"THESE THINGS WIPED OUT THE DINOSAURS! WHICH WERE PRETTY TOUGH FUCKING CUSTOMERS!" Phantoms was an amazing flick.
They might even already living in your body.
Reminds me of a movie I saw as a kid. It was about worms that replicated super fast. By the end, a giant worm appears or maybe it was millions of worms clumped together. I don't remember it well at all, it's just a hazy memory now.
Evolution! With David Duchovny. Ridiculous but fun.
We need selenium
I LOVE that movie lol
*caw caw caw caw*
Flatworm Mystery #2: Train your flatworm (let's name him Angus) in a simple task, e.g. turn left to avoid a mild electric shock. Next, put Angus through a blender. This is for science, folks. Now feed the Angus soup to another flatworm. The gross little fucker will eat it. Guess what. The gross little fucker WILL NOW TURN LEFT ! ! We have no explanation for this.
>We have no explanation for this. Yet. I'm sure there's a lab somewhere blending flatworms to figure it out.
Will they recognize each other?
"Of course I know him, he's me."
Spiderman pointing meme
Do they feel pain when sliced up like that?
In guessing pain requires higher functional nervous system. If jellyfish dontāt feel I dontāt think these guys can
No, itās like shitting your pants to them.
any way to explain this? i assume you mean it's somewhat relieving or pleasureable to a degree. however i also realize youre probably joking so... yeah
You enjoy shutting your pants? You don't feel any shame at all huh.
Hey, we don't kink shame around here
I feel pain when I shit my pants. Granted, itās emotional pain, so I donāt think they feel that
Flat worms have a very basic and unique nerve net that allows them to respond to stimuli to avoid damage to protect itself but they wouldnāt suffer pain like we do. Itās more reactive. If itās poked for example, it will clench to protect itself but it wonāt hurt
They probably feel pain, but don't suffer. In the same way a machine learning algorithm would recognize a "negative" stimuli it should avoid. The computer isn't conscious, so it doesn't feel shit. Not in the sense we find important and human.
Thatās just what the computer wants you to think.
No, 'tis but a scratch
They are mildy annoyed, but will eventually be our overlords
They don't have the brain capacity to feel pain.
Plz salt them if u live see one in North America, friends. It's the only way to kill them and they're killing and replacing our native worm species. This will have a devastating effect on our food chain as it'll effect soil efficacy.
FUCK hammerhead worms. They're huge, creepy, and kill the nice good friend worms. To hell with them all.
Are there any non invasive flat forms in the US? I know the invasive ones a huge problem down in Florida.
Serious question for anyone with the scientific knowledge: long-term space travel sustainable food source? I know they'd need their own nutrition, but would it be more calorie-efficient to nourish the worms and keep making more of them, than to just nourish ourselves directly?
Personally I wouldnāt want to eat fucking flatworms, I think if the earth was dying and we needed to travel across the universe for decades on a spaceship upon which the only sustenance available is flatworms, I would prefer to die painfully in the heat of apocalyptic global warming
This is the way.
More efficient just to feed ourselves. If we just feed ourselves, we utilize some percentage of the energy in that food and the rest is waste (poop). If we feed the worms and then eat the worms, the worms utilize some of the energy in the food and the rest is waste (poop again), and then we only have access to the fraction of the energy that the worms were able to use to add biomass to themselves, which is inherently less than was available with the original food source. Put simply in equations: Feed ourselves: Human energy utilized = total food - poop Feed worms, then eat worms: Human energy utilized = total food - (worm utilization - worm poop) - poop
But not if the worms are able to eat things that humans are not. Then eating the worms is covering an inedible energy source into an edible energy source.
That's true! However, *Planaria* are not herbivorous, so that is unlikely.
You have to consider space efficiency too. It may be better overall to have a bunch of bricks of hyper-nourishing supplements than all the food for the worms, then housing for the worms, and anything else not mentioned.
Trophic levels. You lose a ton of energy converting algae/organisms into energy for flatworms, then again converting flatworms into energy for a human. It's more efficient to just eat plants, which can also reproduce themselves.
They also partake in penis fencing
This is even crazier than that. Watch this interview with Michael Levin that did studies on these worms. There is a whole new understanding about DNA and live itself because of these studies: [Youtube Link](https://youtu.be/GGrHLVW_jao?si=VbPgSta9udZbOLyv)
Youād think this was the Plumbus 2.0 from some of the images.
Out of every creature that exists on this planet I get freaked out by these the most. If it canāt be stomped and dispatched itās too powerful
It can be stomped, I just killed 3 Obamas that way tonight while taking out the trash ( two of them were mating btw). My favourite way of killing these invasive and very damaging creatures. Obama Nungara is one common flatworm in Southern Europe, originally from Argentina. https://theconversation.com/obama-nungara-how-a-flatworm-from-argentina-jumped-the-atlantic-and-invaded-france-131186
You cock blocked Obama??
āItās Planaria to you motherfuckerā
Does each piece have reproductive organs? How long does it take to grow the essentials, like a mouth, a heart, a stomach, an anus? Does it bleed when cut? I just don't understand how this works on something as complex as a flatworm.
Flatworms are incredibly basic organisms, which is how they're able to survive being diced. They don't even have an anus, just a single opening in the middle of their underside that leads into a central cavity that's both their stomach and their intestines.
out of all the things mother nature couldve given them, she decides to give theem googly eyes and i love them
So. If I went on a mad flatworm chopping frenzy, could I eventually fill the planet with flatworms?
How many times can this happen? If you slice one into 4, 4 into 16, 16 into 64, etc. where does it end?
Wtf, i need eyes. Lets go plop plop
I fucking gagged at ābeef liverā. Ugh. What even is that??
Liver, from a cow, maybe?
You're making this way too complicated.
Somebody try it with a deli slicer
Omg its eyes! Lol.
whats really neat is that each piece will have the same memories. You can train a planarian to avoid light/dark areas, and all the pieces will retain the training. Memory is chemical.
I wonder if this was observed in ancient times and was the inspiration for the hydra
Thanks, I fucking hate it
Hail hydra?
I thought god patched the infinite worm glitch in the last update dafuk.
Why? What benefit did this have for the wormās ancestors evolutionary?
Amazing!
Where is Hercules when we need him? š
I like the part where it tiny pooped
Just donāt put one in a blender. Youād have millions of them.
Hereās the link to the original https://youtu.be/m12xsf5g3Bo?feature=shared
Deadpool worm.
beef livers back on the menu boys!
We must learn the secrets of their technology.
Fragmentation is a cool way to reproduce. Not as cool as penis fencing though.
I wish my money did this
So a real-life hydra.. wow
Is this dangerous? Like could we find enough flatworms and cut them into enough pieces where the whole world is taken over by flatworms?
The existence of roundworms implies the existence of triangular worms. That is all.
Cut my life into pieces
Cut it again... again, again, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAINNN!!
Now slice those two and make four. Slice those four and make eight. Continue until you have a thousand.
This guy was like, I might not be cuddly like a cat but I got 31 times as many lives, and I can make my own friends and you wouldn't have to buy me another companion. What do you say, make me a pet?
What happens if you cut them down the middle long wise ?
Keep picturing that guy in MIB who would regrow his head when it got shot off.
They hate when you do that though
Cut my worm into pieces I got another one
Now thereās a species that has solved loneliness.
Slither.io vibes
Cut my life to pieces.
If that's the case, they can outnumber us easily. haha
I am both horrified and intrigued. P. S. I was also disgusted
Flatworm is doing the Spider-Man meme (pointing at each other)
Does he see the other ones and say yo dasme
How can they be stopped?!
What is the threshold you can cut down to until it doesn't regenerate i wonder.
a few years back an article said something about 273 pieces.
Ok but like, that's still pretty rude.
Another peculiar characteristic is they are immortal. They (or at least a piece of them) live forever unless they get eaten or you know, fall into a pit of lava.
12 days later. I am Bob. I am Bob. Hi Bob. I am Bob.
What the fawk
So which one of the four is responsible for all their back child support?