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Published: 2017-08-26 01:41:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1169; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 15
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Science Fact Friday!
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wow. the part with them using maps was especially cool!!
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Right?? Weird little critters.
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Woah, that's quite the mould. Like, it can do that? Damn.
btw, what program did you use to make the GIF?
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Right? Weird.
I used Photoshop! Clip Studio Paint is my main program and it also has an animation feature but I haven't totally figured it out yet.
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Oh, I see.
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Fascinating! Ā A topic I knew pretty much nothing about. Ā I love Science Fact Friday!!
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Yyyyyes! x'D Beautiful slime mold! This is really neat, I love the little animation, and I'd never realized the nifty path-finding one was called the many-headed slime! Sorta sounds like a Yu-Gi-Oh monster!
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oh my god it does lmao
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Very remarkable critters. With intriguingly complex behavior.
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Definitely! I know it's not "thinking" in the way that we think, and yet...so complex.
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Complex, indeed.
I don't remember if you've mentioned this, but it looks like octopi and similar critters may be rewriting their RNA to "learn" new and complex behaviors. ( news.uchicago.edu/article/2017ā¦ )
This may help explain why scientists have been having such a hard time determining what sort of intelligent octopi have. They're *really* different. I've talked about neural circuitry and animal behavior a few times. ( brendans-island.com/catholic-cā¦ )
Taking what we've been learning in another direction, I've speculated on how (serious) SETI might be handled, once we get used to the idea that the neural architecture of primates is not the only possible model for intelligence. ( brendans-island.com/catholic-cā¦ )
I don't, by the way, "believe in" space aliens: either that we must have neighbors, or that we must not. At the moment, we don't know. And that's another topic. One I'll be discussing in Friday's post. The preceding was shameless self-promotion.
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Ooooo, I have that RNA article already (you might've been the one to pass it to me?) but not those other ones. Fascinating, thank you! (She says, weeks later - oops.)
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Oh man! I remember seeing this on a nature show. It's mesmerizing.
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Ooo, do you remember which nature show? I'm always down to watch more lol
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It was so long ago (when I was little) It was probably the original Nova from the 80's,Ā don't know which episode though
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Aha no worries c:
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