Spyke

Just the idea of these dramatic transformations are super interesting imo. Imagine if humans shat out a sleeping bag, crawled into it, basically did pregnancy over again, and came out with new limbs that suddenly gave us a new mode of transport.

That would be sick. I guess puberty is sorta like this but idk, it doesn't feel as dramatic

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cynarreply
lemmy.world

What's really screwy is memories survive that process. You can do Pavlov's dog type training on a caterpillar. The resultant butterfly will still react to the trigger.

The brain goes through a liquid phase, but still manages to maintain its wiring!

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Echreply

The chrysalis process is amazing.

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I really wonder what happened in your puberty to be “sorta like this”

What, you didn't crawl into your puberty sac and grow your sex organs?

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'Sorta like this' meaning: we undergo some physical changes (height, body hair, hormones, etc) but nowhere near as dramatic as eating yourself and reassembling

Nature/chem/physics is fuckin' cool

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tegs_terryreply
feddit.uk

The crazy thing is they completely liquify in the pupa and reconstitute from the goo.

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Signtistreply
lemm.ee

Hmm... Man seemingly dies, goes into a small space with hard walls, comes back a little while later with the ability to fly... Is Jesus mothman?

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It worked... or it will work? for Jeffrey Sinclair and Delenn. Just don't think too hard about which one of them did it / has done it / will do it first.

And the closest thing to a moth wasn't either of those.

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