Spyke

Your username could be interpreted as analogous to their digestive system.

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lemmy.world

Yeah, but think of the CEOs! What would happen if they didn't buy a new supercar each year at least?

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They generally expel the water out the nostrils so drinking straws love to get lodged in their noses. Then they slowly die of starvation. Isn't life beautiful?

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Maybe it could've been "Yeah the booze. Purge the snacks. Keep that's handy"

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lemmy.today

So do they just have no gut acid? How quickly does that regenerate if you’re giving your stomach a seawater oral enema every time you eat.

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Well, our stomachs are not at full acid all the time, only when we eat. I imagine it's pretty similar.

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turtles, because of the jellyfish they eat have very thick eosophagus lining, i assume thier stomaches are equally touch.

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feddit.org

I think a reverse filter would only let large particles through while retaining the ones to small to pass through it.

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lemmy.world

That's still just a filter. A filter is something that separates and divides a mixed group into specific categories. So a reverse filter would be the opposite of that. Something that takes separate groups and mixes them together.

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Something that takes separate groups and mixes them together.

I've got a system like that, you can mix together things from any group you want: fruits and vegetables, proteins, grains, you name it. Unfortunately the end product isn't what I'd describe as desirable.

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lemmy.world

Strainers and sieves are filters. A filter is a filter. A reverse filter is still a filter. Direction doesn't make a difference because direction is subjective.

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someguy3reply
lemmy.world

Direction matters in what you keep. A filter you keep the water. A strainer/sieve you keep the contents. Direction does matter, that's why the comic has to specify reverse filter. But it's a poor choice of words because reverse means it's a strainer/sieve.

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Cortreply
lemmy.world

Well, unless you used the strainer/sieve to get and keep fine cake flour (the water in your analogy) from coarse flour (the contents).

Or like in the way they use sieves to sort gravel. They keep all of it.

My point is, direction is relative.

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someguy3reply
lemmy.world

Oh using multiple accounts then?

The one here is water and contents. Like water filter, you keep the water. Or pasta strainer, you keep the pasta. Hell even the comic says reverse filter. You're trying to ignore common day parlance. Ciao.

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Cortreply
lemmy.world

Oh using multiple accounts then?

Nope, multiple people disagree with you.

Or pasta strainer, you keep the pasta.

You're also supposed to keep some of the water to thicken the sauce typically

You're trying to ignore common day parlance.

And you're ignoring the gravel sieve example where everything is kept, because it's inconvenient for your argument.

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You said "My point" not "Their point".

This comic is water and its contents. Anyway, you're being weird (b b but some water is kept!) and weirdly confrontational about this so ciao.

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aussie.zone

It only stops solids above a certain size, so a filter is more accurate. Check valves generally stop everything or all of a class of things, the turtle passes all liquid and some solids

Our heart valves are check valves

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lemmy.world

A class of things = large solid objects like jellyfish and food?

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psudreply
aussie.zone

Maybe, I'm no linguist or expert. Small jellyfish will go out with the water

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I mean you're right. The idea is filtration by size exclusion but only in one direction.

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lemmy.ml

Sspine doesn't make sense here at all. I assume OP meant esophagus/ gullet.

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lemmy.nz

It says spines, rather than spine. The esophagus is covered in spines (think like the spines on a porcupine, not a backbone).

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lemmy.ml

Thanks to all for the English lesson! I've learned something.

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More a biology lesson. It's the scientific word for the appendage. Human's — I believe all mammals as well — have them lining our lower intestines. They help us absorb nutrients by increasing surface area.

The word itself, papillae, just means "a small, rounded part which protrudes from an organ/ nipple" from Latin.

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Seems like they meant spines to me? As in those little spikey spines pointing backwards down the esophagus?

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