• daannii@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Ever see the underside of these on a fishtank side?

    I did once at a fish pet store.

    I remember it looking like a hundred tiny suction cups.

    But I can’t seem to find a good photo. This was the best I could find. Check out a real one if you get a chance.

  • Nangijala@feddit.dk
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    5 days ago

    Whenever I start feeling sorry for myself about hardships in life I remind myself that I’m lucky that life exists, that I got to be born at all, that I was born as part of the most intelligent species on Earth and I was born in a country where I have every opportunity to have a good life.

    I could’ve been an ant or I could’ve been nothing at all.

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    7 days ago

    Apparantly these are a local delicatesse in some regions…

    So we caught one with the mindset to see if we could barbecue it and when we placed it on the table it started to move and wiggle its needles.

    We originally thought it was similar to fungi, technically not plant but pretty much a plant… we quickly brought it back to the ocean.

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      7 days ago

      Yeah I am told urchin (that’s what we’re looking at, right?) is delicious. Still haven’t eaten one, so I can’t die yet (got a life goal to eat one of everything and climb to the literal top of the food chain. When I go, I plan to be composted so they can grow beans out of me or something and then whoever eats my beans becomes the top of the food chain by transitive property of having technically eaten me, who ate one of everything and you are what you eat so by eating beans made out of me look I’ve given this a fair amount of thought and usually people just smile and nod to get me to shut up about cannibalbeanism trust me it works)

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    7 days ago

    You could never be born a sea urchin. They dont even breed, they just squirt gametes in to the water and hope for the best.

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    7 days ago

    Does it have to get up after four hours sleep to work all day and go to IKEA at the weekend or does it just mess around it’s whole life in a warm ocean eating seafood and thinking gentle echinoid thoughts.