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Pretty much any animal. AFAIK, no burger has ever reorganized itself into a cow.
yes, that cow is me
That’s what they want you to think. Wake up!
However, I’ve seen plenty of butter cows
But is it the same sponge? Inverse ship of Theseus!
I forget which episode it was, but on Last Week Tonight someone compared some process to “turning a fried chicken nugget back into a live chicken.” To which John replied “If you managed that, that chicken would be FUCKED UP. Imagine the poetry it would write, ‘the things that I saw, buck buck bacaw…’”
A sponge can un-puree itself but I bet there’s a kind of scream we can’t hear that it would never stop making.
Not after I’m done, never be the same again…
I think the star trek transporter debate is more apt.
how many…?
Sieveral
No actually works on more. If you grind a human into a seive into salt water, pour the salt water into a busy walkway.
After forensics is done in there… the cleanup crew also organizes it into sponges, Mops… and all kinds of tools.
Crime Scene Cleaner is such a great game
All of them.
Get that grinder fired up! We might have to feed some of the bigger ones through a wood chipper…
For science!
You probably don’t want to know the details of any science done before… What? the 90’s?
You know, it’s always funny when sci-fi shows have doctors that refer to current year medical practices as “barbaric” or “Savage”, but honestly looking back just 50 years? Same feeling.
200 years ago, the local “doctor” will probably tell you to take a swig of the bottle he just dumped on your wound, because he’s gotta saw it off. Hopefully they at least washed it since it’s last use.
200 years from now? Eh. Doc will wave a light over it, you’ll be fine.
We still have jokes and common knowledge about being sent to the psych ward if you reveal anything weird about your mind. I’ve heard stories only a few years old of doctors refusing to refer trans patients to gender clinics, which quite often means either needing to circumvent the system or death. Only last year I had the revelation that doctors are supposed to help me, not just tell me what I must do.
Gays and Lesbians were institutionalized until the late 1960s.
I’d restrict it to the 2010s to be sure. But it varies from one specialty to another.
When again did medicine discovered that woman benefit from anesthetics when inserting an infra-uterine device? Oh it was by 2025…
The lack of pain-empathy in healthcare is mind-blowing. I’m a white man in an excellent position to be listened to, but when I had appendicitis last year getting people to understand that no, I am in crippling pain and I think it’s urgent was far to much hassle for someone in crippling pain. I can’t imagine what it’s like for women.
I can understand folk getting jaded eventually but I often get the feeling that many people start out not caring.
Aperture science intro
Some of you will be fighting for your planet. Some of you will be dying for your planet. Some of you will be forced through a fine screen mesh for your planet. Those will be the luckiest of all.
Shut up and take my upvote!
But we can morph grinded meet in another animal
Also morph grinded art into “art”.
the only one? what about slime molds?
Not an animal
Honest question. How is that sponge an animal and how is “animal” defined? If we grind something through a sieve and it reassembles surely the lifeform can’t be too complicated.
Sponge are some of the most simple animals alive. Jellyfish are comparatively not too far off.
Thank you. But are jellyfish really not that far off. Looks like a pretty huge step to me. Jellyfish look complex enough to not just magically reassemble if we grind them through a sieve.
I personally (but I’m not a biologists 🤣) definitely would consider a jellyfish an animal because different cells (at least ot very much looks like that) have different functions and thus throwing it in the meat grinder (even if individual cells are not damaged) I can’t imagine how ot could reassemble itself.
But a sponge seems so homogeneous it (I guess) almost doesn’t matter what goes where and that’s why it can reassemble. That why (I personally) wouldn’t think of that as an animal.
Are there other things that are technically animals that are that homogeneous?
Little pieces of a jellyfish can become new jellyfish. They can reproduce sexually or asexually. The Immortal Jellyfish is even weirder. They are some of the simplest multicellular animals after sponge and coral.
Animals are members of kingdom Animalia. One of the unify features of this kingdom is multicellularity. Slime molds are members of the mostly-single-celled protists and they themselves are some of the most complex single celled organisms. Sponges, being very basal animals, are one of the phyla that retains a high degree of regenerative ability that simplicity facilitates while being very much a multicellular organism with all the organization that comes with.
Thank you.
All of them?
not all of them.
Only the tasty ones
How you think we know which ones are tasty?
I hope spongebob never read this
Have you ever seen Spongebob? Way worse things happen to him.
