Then explain this photograph.
Checkmate, nerds
I learned from Franklin books and Mario games that you’re wrong. A picture showing a clear cavity where a turtle could pop out won’t convince me!
I’m not inside my skin. I am my skin.
I am not up my ass. I am my ass.
I’m up your ass tho.
You’re a bundle of neurons piloting a skeleton inside a wetsuit
When you’re in a Jaeger, you can fight the hurricane.
Idk I see a big cavity that would contain turtle…
Yes, that’s for pregnant turtles.
They have nerves throughout their shells and can feel even gentle touch.
Hell yeah time to pet some turts
I’ve seen turtles love getting brushed by a soft bristle stuff like toothbrushes plus you alao clean them
SCNR
So my head is not “inside” my skull but *is* my skull? Is the brain not a part of my head?
What part of you makes you? Is it just your brain?
Anyway, I think what they’re getting at is that the shell is actually their spine, not like some extra thing that grows on top of their spine.
I get what they try to say. But it’s just funny that they correct a statement with another wrong statement.
What part of the second statement is wrong? A turtle cannot survive without its shell, just like you could not survive without your skull. It is an intrinsic part of what allows it to function as a living organism, therefore the line between “turtle” and “shell” is a bit blurred
You cannot survive without air but you’re not air
I mean yes, no one, human or turtle, can survive without the ecosystem of the earth, so you could really argue that the planet is the true organism and we are simply byproducts of its existence
Yet you won’t argue that you are the earth. Why would you argue that a turtle is the same as a turtle’s shell then?
Where can you really draw the line? Could you survive in space without any air or equipment? Even if you could, where did the equipment and air come from?
Photosynthetic organisms are for all practical purposes part of your lungs
You can bring extra air and survive just fine.
You can’t bring an extra skull.
Likewise, a hermit crab can bring an extra shell, but a turtle cannot bring an extra shell.
There are animals that inhabit shells, like a Hermit crab. This is different.
I think the right analogy would be to say “you are not inside your skull, you are your skull”. And I would count this as a more or less correct statement.
Am I my skull? So I get to live as long as my skull is not decayed?
Well, that’s the paradox isn’t it? We are our minds but somehow we also are our bodies.
What about ninja turtles?
Wait, what? I’m wrapped around my skeleton?
Queue Edgar Allen Poe
That’s neat and all. But how do they retract their heads?
Kinda looks like those vertical bones are part of a hinge joint.
And feet, especially box turtles. Some species can indeed go inside their shells - while still being a part of the shell itself, of course.
What about Ninja Turtles?
Same deal.
Turtles *are a half shell.
Turtle power!
I feel like an annual reminder would be entirely sufficient, to be honest.
I’d like to know who needs a daily reminder.
They can feel touch through their shells
the hollow space contains treasure
who should i trust? Nintendo or a random person on the Internet?
Those are koopa troopas. They’re turtle-like, but not actual turtles.
Please don’t tap/knock on turtle shells. It would be like someone knocking directly on your bones.
My bones are not weak, they can take it.
Your bones are not weak but its still not a good excuse to abuse a turtle by knocking on its shell.
Surviving and getting pissed off are totally different things that can happen at the same time…
That’s really easy to do, knock on your head. There’s just a thin layer of skin over the bone.
