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Given enough time, the probability of carcinization being mentioned in any given conversation approaches one. This is known as metacarcinization.
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This makes no sense to me.
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How do they keep doing this
That’s the second time in ten minutes that I bumped into a relevant xkcd this morning!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
tl;dr: Crabs are the perfect life form and we all yearn to evolve into them.
… a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan
Applies to crustaceans only. :(
So it’d be like talking about lifes “many attempts at making a cow” and showing a bunch of bull like animals with horns.
Similar lifeforms, once put in a similar environment for a long period of time, tend to develop similar features.
What’s a charader? and what did it win?
Oh, Charmander is a Pokémon from the videogame Pokémon. In the video the titular animals evolve into different, stronger animals.
They fight battles and after winning enough of them it triggers their evolution.
The joke is that instead of evolving as they do in the videogame, they instead follow the meme concept of carcinisation and all evolved into a crab shaped Pokémon.
Why are they all attacking the kid?
It’s a bit of a horror movie trope, where the protagonist is an ‘other’ and slowly swarmed by a group of identical or similar enough beings.
The implication being that their difference is not wanted and/or that they know too much about the situation which could be a threat, this further ties into the carcinisation joke because everything else has become a crab except for this one child.
Got it, thanks for the explanation!
I love the joke, but technically carcinisation is only about non-crab crustaceans and their divergent evolution into crab-like forms, and it’s not referring to the evolution of other organisms at all
I know what that is, I don’t know what a charander is and what it won.
Oh, it’s a reference from the original generation of the Pokemon games. Charmander is one of three pokemon the player can choose between at the start of the gameto take on the adventure. Pokemon “evolve” after winning enough battles against other pokemon.
Ahh! Got it.
crab rave intensifys
Dammit, that one took me a minute lol.
