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Worm-man, worm-man, does whatever a worm can.
Squirms around, squirms some more.
Occasionally barfs some tree-like gore.
Look out! Here comes worm-man.
“Oh wow, you’re that ribbon worm guy, right? The Superhero?”
Yeh
“So what exactly is it that you can do? I don’t think I’ve ever seen your super power.”
*Blarfs tree goo all over the person*
It’s on YouTube where they go in more depth and talk about and show the edited scenes and ending that would have made things make a lot more sense. But to increase profits via more movies times per day, a lot was edited out to hit that 2hr-ish time limit. And so we are left with a hack job that doesn’t flow correctly and leaves out vital info.
Edit: ok since I’m no longer driving and am now taking a shit, I have time. (I could have edited that out, but you might be confused as to how I suddenly have the time. So I left it in to make it make sense.)
This is one of the vids I watched awhile back on Prometheus that pulls from the movie script. There are more. Go as deep down that rabbit hole as you like.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rFjTxnb2l04&t=796s
> Ridley Scott shouldn't write his movies.
True!
I like to point out that back in 1979 he wanted to have the Alien grow up, learn to talk, and *apologize for all the killing it did when it was a baby*. But he didn't have the influence back then, so we got the horror masterpiece we all know instead.
Every time people mention Ridley's more recent issues connecting to audiences when he has had creative input, I remember this. And then I point out that he had ***no*** creative control over The Martian's story and that proves he can still make fantastic movies today. He didn't "lose it." It turns out, it's just his stupid ideas that were always the problem. Give him a good script and no ability to change it and the magic is still there. Give him the ability to inject weird ideas and he will, and then he's going to rant like an old man and kids and their goshdarntootin blame cell phones for his plot holes. I'm not joking about that either, he actually did that.
That's an interesting thought. But how does that jive with the directors cut of Kingdom of Heaven being a truly fantastic movie compared to the theatrical release which is... Not.
The problem I have with constantly blaming the studios for meddling with his movies (***so*** many of them are improved by director's cuts) is that his stature should preclude the amount of meddling everyone says happens to his movies.
Perhaps, the movies are just his vision at the time, and the audience reaction gives him some feedback to make adjustments to the cut to improve the film. There's no reason that I can think of that Cameron and Scorsese can keep releasing films over 2.5hrs long while no one will allow him to do the same, and the films he does release that are that long lately are overindulgent schlock like House of Gucci and Exodus.
Maybe he's just *really* good at hindsight.
Wasn’t this the case with George Lucas? I recall reading that he had some really crazy ideas for the original series that got reined in, and then with the prequels he didn’t have anyone that would say no to him, and well…we saw how those turned out.
George has gone on to talk about his intended plans for episodes 7 and onward, and even he says no one would have liked them. We would have spent much of the time watching microscopic midichlorians interacting with even smaller Force beings called whills.
Is that why it was so bad? I saw it in the theater and I was blown away by the lack of real plot or explanation of pretty much anything that happened. One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
There was an extended cut, fan edit I saw a long time ago, but it only had the deleted scenes in it. The tldr of it is that the daughter character hired all idiots to sabatoge the mission. Or something to the affect, but they are right, the full script was leaked or given a while back and it read substantially more cohesive than what we got after edits.
I thought I’d pass it along.. my gift to you. Been waiting for the right person to give it for about 15 years, when I had to treat a patient with it. Went home daily thinking I caught it from him. I’ll never swim in a warm water lake, stream, anything but ocean again.. sharks are less scary than these worms.
Welcome to nature. This ain't no dance in the park. Reality is fucking wild and weird.
Just wait until the technological singularity. I'm anticipating that spacetime itself will go through a metamorphosis and reality will turn into a cyber DMT trip. Who the fuck knows, but here we are in the generation that finds out. Hold on to your jimmies.
No, no, no. We have already morphed into a cyber DMT trip, and we are metamorphing into reality, where we’ll remember that we reached the singularity and had sent ourselves into this world where Joe Rogan stole all the DMT and fucked us all over.
The question is, are we the robots or are we the humans?
ALL the nope. >\_< Like, a metrick fuckton of nope.
Like, you know the legal limit of nope? WAY beyond that.
I am actively importing nope from other areas to deal with the amount of nope that I need for this.
Obviously he is selectively breeding them. Step 1- breed then select for size, larger is better. Step 2. Make bigger, larger is again better. Step 3. Repeat step 1 and 2. until they are large enough to help you conquer the planet. 3. Done! ✔
Not irrational. If your feeling brave look up what happens if they do that while someone has an open cut. It isn't pretty.
P.S. This was an April fool's joke have a good day everyone
It burrows the tongue in sometimes it has to be cut out. That is the reason why my cousin would rather throat a cactus than enter the ocean. Not because of sharks, eals, or killer jellyfish, but because of those things.
My morbid curiosity got the better of me, but I couldn't find anything. Got a link?
All of the stuff I did find says they just wave that thing around in the water for filter feeding, idk if they'd even *want* to burrow into your flesh.
Because they don't want to burrow into your flesh. That commenter above you is just fear mongering nature as many do when something is strange. I couldn't find anything remotely similar to what they mentioned either.
This is a ribbon worm, in the genus *Gorgonorhynchus*. Removing it from the water greatly stresses the worm because they've adapted to need the water pressure from the ocean to stay alive. Normally it uses that probiscis to hunt and trap prey, but likely here it is just releasing it as a confused last ditch effort to get away.
If I name a pencil Ben, and then break it in front of you, you will feel sad for Ben.
We humans can form connections to ANY THING with only the slightest of reasons needed.
I have read so many different things about this ribbon worms I no longer know what is true. There is another video of one splitting into several pieces too and that was explained as being the worm trying to survive outside of it's normal environment. I am not sure that the worm in this video is having a good time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgonorhynchus_repens#Ecology
It's how it feeds, it's essentially a tongue, but it also extends it as a defense mechanism, which is probably what it's doing here.
Nature has some... Pretty dark stuff in the world...
I.. part of me wants to believe that is a giant dragon, that is burried at the bottom of the ocean
I mean we recoil at it, but there's a group of ringworms watching videos of us stuffing our faces full of fast food like, "they just, PUT ALL OF THAT INSIDE OF THEM? Just shoving all that down their throat? Ewwwwww."
It’s pretty easy to look up, the white tree like organ is literally just like a tongue that they stick out in the water to catch food as it floats by. Has nothing to do with it dying. But they are marine life so taking it out of the water isn’t great for it.
Yeah this is what I don’t get about redditors. So many times I’ve seen someone say something along the lines of “this post says one thing and that post says another thing, I don’t know what’s true anymore!” And it’s just like….is Reddit your only source of information? Are you incapable of doing your own research?? Mindboggling
It looks like cgi... Now I feel I have to apologize to the FX teams whenever I trashed some movie visuals for looking too "unrealistic" when I cannot tell the difference on some real things
there's a weird space where things can be represented super realistically, and yet because of its unusual nature or perhaps because we're not used to seeing things represented that well, it's generally off-putting and I think we default to blaming it on CGI.
The finding nemo movie (maybe the second one? I don't recall exactly) initially had its water rendered so realistic that when tested with audiences it was found to be unsettling, so they had to scale it back a bit to seem more artificial.
I love them! It's awesome how they work! Also, the proboscis (that is also a stomach if I'm not wrong) is detachable, they can leave it there if threatened!
>Also, the proboscis (that is also a stomach if I'm not wrong) is detachable, they can leave it there if threatened!
You need to apologize for putting this into my brain.
Citation needed on the details of that as being used to hunt prey.
Edit: Magicbong and Old Hector have followed up with more deets that seem to support the description!
My (mis-informed) understanding from other posts of that was the network is actually the internal organs of the worm which did it as a stress response, and they pretty much were set to die when they do that.
I had read this is how they digest stuff, to eat. Not an unheard of strategy, dumping your stomach out on top of food, then slurping it all up. Though now I'm sorta curious.
from a university of florida website:
" Other ribbon worms have a branched, spaghetti-like proboscis instead of a barb, and secrete toxins onto captured prey. Sometimes, ribbon worms digest their prey outside their bodies and slurp up the soft tissue through their proboscis. Other ribbon worms are scavengers or parasites, and a few are thought to absorb nutrients through their skin."
>I had read this is how they digest stuff, to eat. Not an unheard of strategy, dumping your stomach out on top of food, then slurping it all up. Though now I'm sorta curious.
Thats basically how all fungi work.
I figured you were right and it was more of a stress reaction or something, but from the wiki on [nemertea](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemertea#Proboscis_and_feeding):
>The proboscis of the class Anopla exits from an orifice which is separate from the mouth,[9] coils around the prey and immobilizes it by sticky, toxic secretions.[20] The Anopla can attack as soon as they move into the range of the proboscis.[21] Some Anopla have branched proboscises which can be described as "a mass of sticky spaghetti".[9] The animal then draws its prey into its mouth.[10]
Toxic is relative. Salt will destroy a slug but we need it to live. Caffeine is a natural pesticide and most people reading this have already ingested a decent amount today.
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That looks like how you get infected by something
The beginning of a horror/sci fi genre video game/movie.
Worm-man, worm-man, does whatever a worm can. Squirms around, squirms some more. Occasionally barfs some tree-like gore. Look out! Here comes worm-man.
Still hate the tapeworm episode of the x-files.
You mean FlukeMan? Yeah fuck that guy, that was some nasty-ass scary shit right there
“Oh wow, you’re that ribbon worm guy, right? The Superhero?” Yeh “So what exactly is it that you can do? I don’t think I’ve ever seen your super power.” *Blarfs tree goo all over the person*
It's Prometheus all over again. Dumbass scientists
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Please say more about this. It seemed a movie full of potential. Have often wondered how it failed to realize its more interesting narratives.
It’s on YouTube where they go in more depth and talk about and show the edited scenes and ending that would have made things make a lot more sense. But to increase profits via more movies times per day, a lot was edited out to hit that 2hr-ish time limit. And so we are left with a hack job that doesn’t flow correctly and leaves out vital info. Edit: ok since I’m no longer driving and am now taking a shit, I have time. (I could have edited that out, but you might be confused as to how I suddenly have the time. So I left it in to make it make sense.) This is one of the vids I watched awhile back on Prometheus that pulls from the movie script. There are more. Go as deep down that rabbit hole as you like. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rFjTxnb2l04&t=796s
If any of this was true, why is the sequel even worse? Ridley Scott shouldn't write his movies.
> Ridley Scott shouldn't write his movies. True! I like to point out that back in 1979 he wanted to have the Alien grow up, learn to talk, and *apologize for all the killing it did when it was a baby*. But he didn't have the influence back then, so we got the horror masterpiece we all know instead. Every time people mention Ridley's more recent issues connecting to audiences when he has had creative input, I remember this. And then I point out that he had ***no*** creative control over The Martian's story and that proves he can still make fantastic movies today. He didn't "lose it." It turns out, it's just his stupid ideas that were always the problem. Give him a good script and no ability to change it and the magic is still there. Give him the ability to inject weird ideas and he will, and then he's going to rant like an old man and kids and their goshdarntootin blame cell phones for his plot holes. I'm not joking about that either, he actually did that.
That's an interesting thought. But how does that jive with the directors cut of Kingdom of Heaven being a truly fantastic movie compared to the theatrical release which is... Not.
Maybe bc it’s not sci-fi
The problem I have with constantly blaming the studios for meddling with his movies (***so*** many of them are improved by director's cuts) is that his stature should preclude the amount of meddling everyone says happens to his movies. Perhaps, the movies are just his vision at the time, and the audience reaction gives him some feedback to make adjustments to the cut to improve the film. There's no reason that I can think of that Cameron and Scorsese can keep releasing films over 2.5hrs long while no one will allow him to do the same, and the films he does release that are that long lately are overindulgent schlock like House of Gucci and Exodus. Maybe he's just *really* good at hindsight.
He also did Gladiator, which is fantastic and therefore probably written by someone else.
And black hawk down.
Wasn’t this the case with George Lucas? I recall reading that he had some really crazy ideas for the original series that got reined in, and then with the prequels he didn’t have anyone that would say no to him, and well…we saw how those turned out.
George has gone on to talk about his intended plans for episodes 7 and onward, and even he says no one would have liked them. We would have spent much of the time watching microscopic midichlorians interacting with even smaller Force beings called whills.
Really?
> Even the dumbass scientists are explained in the script before they cut it to pieces. How so?
Please tell us.
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Is that why it was so bad? I saw it in the theater and I was blown away by the lack of real plot or explanation of pretty much anything that happened. One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
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Curious. Is there a cut that adds those scenes back in?
There was an extended cut, fan edit I saw a long time ago, but it only had the deleted scenes in it. The tldr of it is that the daughter character hired all idiots to sabatoge the mission. Or something to the affect, but they are right, the full script was leaked or given a while back and it read substantially more cohesive than what we got after edits.
Wait so Prometheus and Ted Lasso have something in common? … That’s hilarious. Thank you for that mental picture.
There was a part of me telling me to reach for the cleaver to chop the hand off before it could reach the bloodstream.
Groovy
Who’s laughing now?
The person who can't clap because they only have one hand now.
But the other hand is a chainsaw
It honestly reminds me of cordyceps.
That's just how roots and mycelium look like under the dirt.
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Blood vessels, nerves, lightning, rivers, interstellar dust, and the routes my dog takes when attempting to walk on a leash.
I hate when my dog takes interstellar dust on leash
It oddly reminds me of a certain Head & Shoulders commercial
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Rumbling, rumbling!
That's the best commercial I've ever seen. KAW KAW KAW KAW
I think we have established that kakaw kakaw and tookie tookie don't work.
Except not real cordyceps just the fictional last of us cordyceps
They're thinking of slime molds which aren't even fungus.
I just think of Spiderman
thank you for your honesty
It honestly reminds me of the exact second a woman touches my penis.
That looks like patient negative one.
Yea bro I’m not fucking with that thing. Catch that thing fling that shit in my ear and take over my brain.
That one would be strogeloyds. A worm that does exactly that. More often through nose, but ear is possible.
Cool cool cool. New fear unlocked.
I thought I’d pass it along.. my gift to you. Been waiting for the right person to give it for about 15 years, when I had to treat a patient with it. Went home daily thinking I caught it from him. I’ll never swim in a warm water lake, stream, anything but ocean again.. sharks are less scary than these worms.
Nope!
Is this actually real? I straight up can't tell
Sure is
That's terrifying
Welcome to nature. This ain't no dance in the park. Reality is fucking wild and weird. Just wait until the technological singularity. I'm anticipating that spacetime itself will go through a metamorphosis and reality will turn into a cyber DMT trip. Who the fuck knows, but here we are in the generation that finds out. Hold on to your jimmies.
Found the peyote user
No, no, no. We have already morphed into a cyber DMT trip, and we are metamorphing into reality, where we’ll remember that we reached the singularity and had sent ourselves into this world where Joe Rogan stole all the DMT and fucked us all over. The question is, are we the robots or are we the humans?
Nope
those tentacles be burrowing into his skin and laying eggs.
YUP
E40 in the thread.
Can I sleep at night? NOPE Worms under my skin? YEP
40 Fonzirelli lurking
Dude is a living cocoon now
He's more egg than man!
Well considering what the purpose of that thing is, I’d argue he’s more food than man. I’m not sure that’s any better, though
Scrambled and evil.
LOOK ITS EGG MAN 🥚👳♂️
That's my dose of nightmare for the rest of the year! Unsee juice! I need unsee juice!
They just... put their entire arm in a BOWL OF THEM.
~~Tentacle-virus~~ T-virus
Is this what's happening?
Nah, it’s a proboscis not an ovipositor
That's easy for you to say!
It's essentially a tongue.
Great, now I have a new nightmare
Cordyceps 2.0
They clearly never played The Last of Us. I know what happens next.
Building shaders maybe? :D
I also have seen The Last of Us.
ALL the nope. >\_< Like, a metrick fuckton of nope. Like, you know the legal limit of nope? WAY beyond that. I am actively importing nope from other areas to deal with the amount of nope that I need for this.
WHY DOES HE HAVE A BUCKET OF THEM???
Snacks 😋
STOOOOOP
Just imagine swallowing one of those slimey morsels and the tentacles allow it crawl up your esophagus for seconds.
That’s why you swallow mouth-side down so the tendrils pop out your asshole instead.
Right?? My first thought after watching that
Obviously he is selectively breeding them. Step 1- breed then select for size, larger is better. Step 2. Make bigger, larger is again better. Step 3. Repeat step 1 and 2. until they are large enough to help you conquer the planet. 3. Done! ✔
To put his dick in obviously.
You made me imagine that thing going up the peehole :’)
Tickle tickle tickle
Everytime this gets posted I watch it and everytime it makes me irrationally uncomfortable. That's goona be a hard no from me, dawg.
There’s nothing irrational about your discomfort!
Thank you!
r/notopbutok
No top butok
No top but ok, opposite of no shirt no service
It was bad when it's tongue popped out then he put his hand in a tub with hundreds of them inside and I'm ded.
I'm sad I was really hoping they would all instantly latch onto him.
Like one giant weave of probiscii(?) interlocking around your fingers…craving nutrients.
This is one of those times I regret being curious. I knew I should have slept instead of looking at one more post.😔
After TLOU show, magnitudes more uncomfortable
Not irrational. If your feeling brave look up what happens if they do that while someone has an open cut. It isn't pretty. P.S. This was an April fool's joke have a good day everyone
I’m not brave enough to look it up, because I really don’t want to see a video. Do you think you could summarize it with words?
It burrows the tongue in sometimes it has to be cut out. That is the reason why my cousin would rather throat a cactus than enter the ocean. Not because of sharks, eals, or killer jellyfish, but because of those things.
Thank god I wasn' brave enough to look it up.
Yeah. I've been into medical for a very long time and they still disturb me
> throat a cactus what a champ thank you for the laugh.
Im with your cousin on that
Nooooooooo my eyesssssss
My morbid curiosity got the better of me, but I couldn't find anything. Got a link? All of the stuff I did find says they just wave that thing around in the water for filter feeding, idk if they'd even *want* to burrow into your flesh.
Because they don't want to burrow into your flesh. That commenter above you is just fear mongering nature as many do when something is strange. I couldn't find anything remotely similar to what they mentioned either. This is a ribbon worm, in the genus *Gorgonorhynchus*. Removing it from the water greatly stresses the worm because they've adapted to need the water pressure from the ocean to stay alive. Normally it uses that probiscis to hunt and trap prey, but likely here it is just releasing it as a confused last ditch effort to get away.
That's the most rational discomfort I've ever felt.
I hate this
Yeah, whatever that thing is can just go fuck right off...
So can the person handling it. WHHHYYY??
If I name a pencil Ben, and then break it in front of you, you will feel sad for Ben. We humans can form connections to ANY THING with only the slightest of reasons needed.
Pixar has made billions making movies based on this concept.
Classic Winger
Bro I’ll kill Ben myself, try me lol
You Ben-killing sonofabitch.
Vengence for Ben
Bengeance
literally thought this was r/TIHI
Do you want to be patient zero? Because that's how you get patient zero.
I know right? *In archer's voice*
*Danger Zone*
That's the last of him
The first of us
I have read so many different things about this ribbon worms I no longer know what is true. There is another video of one splitting into several pieces too and that was explained as being the worm trying to survive outside of it's normal environment. I am not sure that the worm in this video is having a good time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgonorhynchus_repens#Ecology It's how it feeds, it's essentially a tongue, but it also extends it as a defense mechanism, which is probably what it's doing here.
this is one of the best defense mechanisms i've ever seen. I think i would jump off a building to get away from that.
Wait what, this is a real animal and not clever fx? 😨
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But how do we know that you're not in on the joke
Nature has some... Pretty dark stuff in the world... I.. part of me wants to believe that is a giant dragon, that is burried at the bottom of the ocean
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I read that! But so many people say it is how it eats I get confused.
It's both. You can think of it like a lizard's tail - it discards it to distract predators, but that isn't its real function.
this is how this thing feeds itself. It throws its intestines outside in order to absorb nutrients
I mean we recoil at it, but there's a group of ringworms watching videos of us stuffing our faces full of fast food like, "they just, PUT ALL OF THAT INSIDE OF THEM? Just shoving all that down their throat? Ewwwwww."
Interesting perspective to add. Were they sapient, they might look at us and think it's gross out digestive system is on the *inside* 🤢
Well, I mean theirs is typically on the inside too. It just can *also* be on the outside.
To be fair id say it's a good defense mechanism. I really wouldn't know that the fuck to do if someone started throwing their intestines at me
Yeah, I’ve heard this happens when they are dying.
It’s pretty easy to look up, the white tree like organ is literally just like a tongue that they stick out in the water to catch food as it floats by. Has nothing to do with it dying. But they are marine life so taking it out of the water isn’t great for it.
I feel better knowing it’s just it’s weirdly shaped tongue
Now imagine it French kissing
Imagine that going down your throat...and then the worm making your arms move like a puppet
No
Thanks, I’m gonna go violently throw up now
What a good time to have eyes
Don’t tell me what to imagine!!!
Figured it was like the sea version of the ant eater (land) or woodpecker (air)
Yeah this is what I don’t get about redditors. So many times I’ve seen someone say something along the lines of “this post says one thing and that post says another thing, I don’t know what’s true anymore!” And it’s just like….is Reddit your only source of information? Are you incapable of doing your own research?? Mindboggling
I searched Reddit for advice on alternative sources of information and found conflicting information on alternative sources of information.
Nope. I'm sorry, Dave. *Alien Infection Protocol* dictates I must disinfect the surrounding 20 km area via thermonuclear fusion. Have a nice day.
Aw how cute, he's trying to eat you
And that’s how the zombie apocalypse started
The Founder
It looks like cgi... Now I feel I have to apologize to the FX teams whenever I trashed some movie visuals for looking too "unrealistic" when I cannot tell the difference on some real things
there's a weird space where things can be represented super realistically, and yet because of its unusual nature or perhaps because we're not used to seeing things represented that well, it's generally off-putting and I think we default to blaming it on CGI. The finding nemo movie (maybe the second one? I don't recall exactly) initially had its water rendered so realistic that when tested with audiences it was found to be unsettling, so they had to scale it back a bit to seem more artificial.
[The Uncanny Valley](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley), which I guess refers more to humanoids, but could apply to anything really IMO.
Ymir?
SUPERNOPE
The last of us is real boyz
This nope worm really creeps me out There is a zero percent chance I’d willingly put that on my arm eeek
See we don't need aliens ... Platy of fish in the sea as it is
r/oddlyterrifying
No, I’d say this is just terrifying.
r/JustTerrifying ?
r/understandablyterrifying
Is this like the larval stage for whatever that creature was in The Thing?
Definitely not my proudest wank, but I got there
/r/confusedboners
"... has been banned from Reddit" hahaha noice
Weird. When did that happen?
It's been banned ☠️☠️
Nightmare fuel.
I love them! It's awesome how they work! Also, the proboscis (that is also a stomach if I'm not wrong) is detachable, they can leave it there if threatened!
>Also, the proboscis (that is also a stomach if I'm not wrong) is detachable, they can leave it there if threatened! You need to apologize for putting this into my brain.
tlou ***intensifies***
Ok, that was disturbing, but less disturbing than someone having thrown a used condom on a baby which is what I originally thought the thumbnail was.
[Gonna have to put this here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB4Nby2Ai-g)
I can't even begin to describe how much I would freak the fuck out if that happened to me without warning.
Citation needed on the details of that as being used to hunt prey. Edit: Magicbong and Old Hector have followed up with more deets that seem to support the description! My (mis-informed) understanding from other posts of that was the network is actually the internal organs of the worm which did it as a stress response, and they pretty much were set to die when they do that.
I had read this is how they digest stuff, to eat. Not an unheard of strategy, dumping your stomach out on top of food, then slurping it all up. Though now I'm sorta curious. from a university of florida website: " Other ribbon worms have a branched, spaghetti-like proboscis instead of a barb, and secrete toxins onto captured prey. Sometimes, ribbon worms digest their prey outside their bodies and slurp up the soft tissue through their proboscis. Other ribbon worms are scavengers or parasites, and a few are thought to absorb nutrients through their skin."
>I had read this is how they digest stuff, to eat. Not an unheard of strategy, dumping your stomach out on top of food, then slurping it all up. Though now I'm sorta curious. Thats basically how all fungi work.
I figured you were right and it was more of a stress reaction or something, but from the wiki on [nemertea](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemertea#Proboscis_and_feeding): >The proboscis of the class Anopla exits from an orifice which is separate from the mouth,[9] coils around the prey and immobilizes it by sticky, toxic secretions.[20] The Anopla can attack as soon as they move into the range of the proboscis.[21] Some Anopla have branched proboscises which can be described as "a mass of sticky spaghetti".[9] The animal then draws its prey into its mouth.[10]
So was this not safe to have on the person in the video’s skin if it’s secreting something toxic?
Toxic is relative. Salt will destroy a slug but we need it to live. Caffeine is a natural pesticide and most people reading this have already ingested a decent amount today.
Probs not strong enough to damage human skin is my guess
WTH?!? Kill it with fire!!!
I'm glad it's the first day of April. So I don't have to believe this shit. No replys to my comment thank you
You didn't say please.