• jimmux@programming.devEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • ch00f@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    7 days ago

    I think the creators of Bioshock were correct to base the plot on seaslugs.

  • mayorchid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    7 days ago

    “Stealing”? Am I “stealing” fat from the food I eat? Since when is retaining some components of what you consume equivalent to theft?

    • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 days ago

      It uses the chloroplast as the algae uses them. It doesn’t 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

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I’d say, yes, you are literally consuming your food to take anything of value that your body can extract from it, often at the cost of everything for the thing you’re eating (but definitely at the cost of the parts you eat). Like I’m a bit baffled as to how you can consider it not a form of theft. Hell, I’d even argue it is the purest form of theft there is and quite likely the original theft that only scavengers, photosynthesizers, and other life forms that survive on non-biological sources of energy aren’t thieves in that manner.

    • RedAggroBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Next? Plantoids have been a thing for ages. And yea you can even be photosynthetic, makes your pops consume less food for more energy