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tictac2@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

scallops can gallop

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scallops can gallop

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tictac2@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • Osea_3@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I guess SpongeBob was accurate

    • 100thCatMarch@kbin.cafe
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      2 years ago

      Fun fact: Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of Spongebob, majored in marine biology and worked as staff artist in the Ocean Institute

      • SeatBeeSate@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Ocean man!

        • 100thCatMarch@kbin.cafe
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          2 years ago

          Take me by the hand, lead me to the land!

    • emmanuel_car@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      So were shell blades in Ocarina of Time!

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    2 years ago

    Sgallops?

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    I’ve watched this a dozen times and I still have no idea what’s going on

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      Basically if you wiggle in a fluid you push that fluid around you. The scallop moved via muscles it has, and shoves water down and away from its destination, which pushes it towards it.

      It moves by opening and closing rapidly, to suck in and force out water.

      Another way to say that is “You don’t have to be graceful to swim”, and scallops certainly fit that bill.

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        Oh ha ha, here I thought it looked like those gangly things were appendages it was using to run across the ocean floor, but I guess it’s just seaweed stuck to the shell?

        • Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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          Yeah. Dang that’d be neat though

          • RagingNerdoholic
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            TBH, it’s even better that it’s tooting along

  • Sundray@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    Great galloping scallops, Batman!

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    Wtf

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