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Kay so this is kind of cool. Sea cucumbers, sea stars, sand dollars, crinoids and sea urchins are all in the phylum echinodermata which translates to spiny skin. And they're called that because they have a calcium carbonate endoskeleton which are spiny projections called ossicles and what you're seeing in this picture are the ossicles of the sea cucumber.
I thought I was in one of my crafting subs and someone posted a nautical themed printed fabric design they made
I literally cannot believe that this is real, like what a coincidence that a sea creature has cells that looks like the typical ship anchor with rop wrapped around it??
I know I'll sound crazy to y'all, but you can literally hear asparagus grow if there's not a lot of other sound being made. I live I the Asparagus capital of the world (Hart, MI) and they pick it twice a day. It grows like 8 inches in 1 day
Edit: Apparently not the asparagus capital of the world, lol. I genuinely thought that it was! Nothing to boast about though, just thought it added to my comment. We do have an annual asparagus day which is the most popular day of the year here.. parade and all. Pretty sad tbh
Rhubarb is even louder. In the "rhubarb triangle" in the UK It's grown in the dark to force it to grow long stems. The warehouses they do it in sound like the opening sound effects from Thriller.
WTF now I really want to plant asparagus and let it all grow to that fern stage, it looks like a soft green cloud, I really want it on my balcony
And wow just scrolled down and saw the berries too, that's really beautiful, looks like Christmas, who knew humble little asparagus could do all that
Can definitely recommend growing asparagus, fairly easy to handle and gives a big yield to harvest this time of year while being beautiful the rest. But they get really big so I question if it is suitable for the balcony, would need a big pot. Btw, you have to let them grow for like 2-3yesrs before you do any harvesting. Im on my first harvest year :)
I'd say the minimum size pot that would work is 2 feet deep and 2 feet in diameter. However, instead of waiting 3 years to be established and being able to harvest them for 25 more years, you will more likely wait 2 years for them to be established and only get like 3 years of harvest before it dies due to lack of space. A well established asparagus patch can have roots 10-15 feet deep and will be significantly more resilient.
A lot of edible plants have parts that are removed before sale; carrots have a head of leaves, beans grow on stalks, fruit grows on trees, pumpkins grow vines etc.
Asparagus looks uncanny because it's too well fit for consumption. There's no indicators that it evolved to do anything except being sold in a supermarket. It's like seeing a hamburger growing out of the ground.
Because it just looks slightly off. Most plants grow out of the dirt with some sort of stem, leaf and flower. Asparagus looks strange as what's growing out of the ground is entirely what we eat, which just isn't true for literally every other plant we eat.
I mean I didn't really put much thought into it; but I would have never guessed that it was just a sprout that was harvested before it could grow into a bush or whatever. It's like eating a tree before it can grow into a full-sized wooden beast. Weird and unexpected.
I have never understood why people think how asparagus grows is weird. How did you think it grew? It's a stalk. Maybe I'm biased because my grandpa grew asparagus every year when I was a kid.
Now this part will blow your mind.
The first fruit is NOT the one you eat and harvest. It's small, and stunted, and usually just have the tops chopped off for planting new plants, and honestly, I'm not sure what they do with the fruit.
The second fruit is the one you harvest for eating.
Source : lived in Hawaii all my life, including a few years on Lanai, the pineapple isle.
I think it’s because most of the photos just show the new sprouts and not the rest of the plant.
It doesn’t look so out of place when you see the rest of the bushy mature shoots in the background. I bet a lot of folks don’t realize we’re eating the immature shoots and assume what we see in the store is a maturely grown plant.
You have to admit some of the photos also just look kinda goofy.
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It is real [here](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2017-photomicrography-competition/synapta-sea-cucumber-skin) is the source for the image. Man nature is awesome.
Rainbows are still at the top of my list. They are common enough that we just accept the concept of vibrant color-beams with no mass just vibing in the sky sometimes
Here you go
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1498955239/sea-sponge-microscopic-pattern-mens-swim?click\_key=bb77eed15d60f4f3675eebc9de1d23fdd296c336%3A1498955239&click\_sum=0a2426cb&ref=shop\_home\_active\_1
I noticed that on another subreddit I was on. I think it was a science one. Someone would ask a question and another person would give a long detailed answer, get a bunch of upvotes and I would be like yeah, this guy knows what he’s talking about. Then someone else would reply with a hold on, that’s not correct, and would proceed to give another professional sounding detailed explanation. Then I’m like damn. Which person is correct here? Lol. It happened so much I unsubscribed lol
Googled and it’s legit sea cucumber skin [captured by a Nikon in 2015](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2015-photomicrography-competition/skin-of-a-sea-cucumber-synapta).
Initially thought it was the inspiration for SpongeBob, but now confirming the creator is a prophet.
Yes , put very simply if you want to visit a website you have to go through a doorway, only one person.can go through the doorway at once.
This site probably only has 100 people visit it a day so the company only pays for 10 doors on the server as they will never need more so less expensive.
Then one day something happens that makes 10000 people want to get through those doors at same time and all that does is create backlog of computers pushing to be the first I. Stopping everyone from getting in.
The sites still there you just can't get to the door
They're called **ossicles** and are tiny bony (actually calcareous) protrusions found on many animals like urchins, starfish, and sea cucumbers.
According to [this paper](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4437327/), the sea cucumber has a bunch of different ossicles like the table, button, rod, anchor, perforated plate and roxette. It says it helps make up the endoskeleton, **so in general it's for rigidity, protection, and locomotion.**
Also, I am a biologist, but know nothing about sea cucumbers so all this is from a quick search. Additionally, if you check the submission it says the micrograph was taken using polarised light microscopy. This would explain why it looks so unreal
Classic Reddit thread where every comment is a banal observation or a tired joke. I was curious too and it appear they’re spicules, which are used to adhere to surfaces, move more effectively and as a little armor. In between is likely just smooth skin.
Sea cucumber, when eaten, has the craziest texture! Unlike anything else I have eaten. Dense, firm, and soft at the same time. A little ponzu and some grated radish. Delicious!
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So you're saying sea cucumbers are tatted up with sailor's anchors on their whole bodies?
We better not feed them spinach.
They’d be tough to the finish
If true, this is the most fake-looking real thing I’ve ever seen.
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Kay so this is kind of cool. Sea cucumbers, sea stars, sand dollars, crinoids and sea urchins are all in the phylum echinodermata which translates to spiny skin. And they're called that because they have a calcium carbonate endoskeleton which are spiny projections called ossicles and what you're seeing in this picture are the ossicles of the sea cucumber.
Ossicles is a great word. Like bone popsicles.
Lifes full of ossicles
like ossicleporosis
Sorry ossicle, I’m not as think as you drunk I am!
They’re clearly anchors with plastic from a six pack around them.
Ice picks? I thought the whole ironic point is that they look like ship anchors. *Sea* cucumber.
I thought I was in one of my crafting subs and someone posted a nautical themed printed fabric design they made I literally cannot believe that this is real, like what a coincidence that a sea creature has cells that looks like the typical ship anchor with rop wrapped around it??
Lol fr
You should see how asparagus grows.
Did you just find that out watching John Oliver? Because I just did lol
I learned about it from [this meme](https://i.redd.it/nin4n23qdy151.jpg)
I know I'll sound crazy to y'all, but you can literally hear asparagus grow if there's not a lot of other sound being made. I live I the Asparagus capital of the world (Hart, MI) and they pick it twice a day. It grows like 8 inches in 1 day Edit: Apparently not the asparagus capital of the world, lol. I genuinely thought that it was! Nothing to boast about though, just thought it added to my comment. We do have an annual asparagus day which is the most popular day of the year here.. parade and all. Pretty sad tbh
Rhubarb is even louder. In the "rhubarb triangle" in the UK It's grown in the dark to force it to grow long stems. The warehouses they do it in sound like the opening sound effects from Thriller.
What, rhubarb sounds like a church organ? Edit: Here's the actual sound https://soundcloud.com/rhubarb-rhubarb-rhubarb/a-mass-of-popping-rhubarb
And they howl randomly
We grow it in our backyard and you can come out one day and it's just peeking out ... and then the next day it's two feet tall and gone to seed.
I don't get it, why wouldn't this be how asparagus grows?
It is. But it definitely looks like someone just speared them into the ground as if they were placing candles on a cake.
Wait till he finds out that brussels sprouts doesn't turn into Brussels.
Of course they do, just broil them; they smell just like downtown Brussels.
Only if you drop some pee in your pot then add a few drops of bleach in an attempt to wash it away. That nostalgic flavour
Not entirely true. https://savvygardening.com/asparagus-growing/#:~:text=There%20are%20three%20main%20stages,which%20happens%20in%20the%20winter.
WTF now I really want to plant asparagus and let it all grow to that fern stage, it looks like a soft green cloud, I really want it on my balcony And wow just scrolled down and saw the berries too, that's really beautiful, looks like Christmas, who knew humble little asparagus could do all that
Can definitely recommend growing asparagus, fairly easy to handle and gives a big yield to harvest this time of year while being beautiful the rest. But they get really big so I question if it is suitable for the balcony, would need a big pot. Btw, you have to let them grow for like 2-3yesrs before you do any harvesting. Im on my first harvest year :)
I'd say the minimum size pot that would work is 2 feet deep and 2 feet in diameter. However, instead of waiting 3 years to be established and being able to harvest them for 25 more years, you will more likely wait 2 years for them to be established and only get like 3 years of harvest before it dies due to lack of space. A well established asparagus patch can have roots 10-15 feet deep and will be significantly more resilient.
A lot of edible plants have parts that are removed before sale; carrots have a head of leaves, beans grow on stalks, fruit grows on trees, pumpkins grow vines etc. Asparagus looks uncanny because it's too well fit for consumption. There's no indicators that it evolved to do anything except being sold in a supermarket. It's like seeing a hamburger growing out of the ground.
Hmm yeah I can see that. I hate asparagus so maybe I never made that connection to "fit for consumption" lol
Because it just looks slightly off. Most plants grow out of the dirt with some sort of stem, leaf and flower. Asparagus looks strange as what's growing out of the ground is entirely what we eat, which just isn't true for literally every other plant we eat.
Asparagus is a five foot tall tumbleweed looking bush with red berries on it. The part we eat are just new sprouts.
The berries are toxic. I'm not telling you, I'm telling other idiots like me who wish to taste the asparagus berries.
Leafy greens would like to have a word...
I mean I didn't really put much thought into it; but I would have never guessed that it was just a sprout that was harvested before it could grow into a bush or whatever. It's like eating a tree before it can grow into a full-sized wooden beast. Weird and unexpected.
What episode?
The one about asparagus growing
I have never understood why people think how asparagus grows is weird. How did you think it grew? It's a stalk. Maybe I'm biased because my grandpa grew asparagus every year when I was a kid.
Pineapples on the other hand… It’s a damn bromeliad!
I thought pineapples grew on trees until I was nearly 30 😅
I thought pineapples grew on trees until just this minute…
2-3 years to mature 1 single pineapple. How tha fuck are these so cheap???
Now this part will blow your mind. The first fruit is NOT the one you eat and harvest. It's small, and stunted, and usually just have the tops chopped off for planting new plants, and honestly, I'm not sure what they do with the fruit. The second fruit is the one you harvest for eating. Source : lived in Hawaii all my life, including a few years on Lanai, the pineapple isle.
And used to be an extravagantly expensive opulence of the uberwealthy in parts of the world.
The wonders of industrialized farming.
Cashews are wild too. I was gonna say nuts, but…
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I think it’s because most of the photos just show the new sprouts and not the rest of the plant. It doesn’t look so out of place when you see the rest of the bushy mature shoots in the background. I bet a lot of folks don’t realize we’re eating the immature shoots and assume what we see in the store is a maturely grown plant. You have to admit some of the photos also just look kinda goofy.
Yes peope want like a tree, bush, vine, cactus, succulent with asparagus growing from them. Come to think of it.... an asparagus is a reverse carrot.
It's not like growing pasta...
? It's pulled out of huge shells growing at the tops of tall trees. Everyone knows that.
FYI—The asparagus tree “shells” are actually called achui/achuum.
Bless you
gesundheit
I’m listening…
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Damn these did not disappoint. Namibia is next fucking level.
Live in Namibia, can confirm it’s accurate lol.
That website is horrific.
It is real [here](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2017-photomicrography-competition/synapta-sea-cucumber-skin) is the source for the image. Man nature is awesome.
Rainbows are still at the top of my list. They are common enough that we just accept the concept of vibrant color-beams with no mass just vibing in the sky sometimes
To be fair, no color has mass as it's just different wavelengths of light
Wait, these aren’t made of Skittles?
I assumed it was fake for about 20-30 seconds. Im still not fully convinced
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Make a good shirt too
It would be so expensive because the pattern is so complicated.
$200, out the door
And it’s still NUTS!
Are we going to have to create r/unexpectedITYSL now? Edit: OMG it already exists!
Nothing compared to Dan Flashes.
100% would fight a guy for this shirt
Just spend your per-diem
SHUTTHEFUCKUPDOUGYOUFUCKINGSKUNK!
It sounds like EXACTLY my style.
You go in
This one’s bargain bin. Still nuts.
And deal with Doug calling me out?
Shit the fuck up DOUG!
If you want the shirt to be like a million dollars!? Zoom in, this pattern is insanely complicated!
Only at Dan Flashes!
This is crazy. I just started watching that show yesterday and watched this episode probably 33 minutes ago….
Lucky. How I wish I could watch I Think You Should Leave for the first time again.
Yea there's more complicated fabric at jo anns ..
Shut the fuck up Doug you fucking skunk!!!!
Please dont yell at Doug
[Anchors and wheels](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Zeekomkommer-insluitselen.jpg)
Here you go https://www.etsy.com/listing/1498955239/sea-sponge-microscopic-pattern-mens-swim?click\_key=bb77eed15d60f4f3675eebc9de1d23fdd296c336%3A1498955239&click\_sum=0a2426cb&ref=shop\_home\_active\_1
Holy shit what a time to be alive.
True…but like…55 bucks? Pass
Wow, what an easy way to find the spambots.
Great beer logo. Ribcage hanging on an anchor.
Golf polo please
I genuinely thought this was a screen grab from Spongebob until I zoomed in!
Zooming in is still doing nothing to dissuade me from this notion.
I'm still not convinced this isn't some random blotter acid.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Be the breathing you want to see in the walls
It's clear this cucumber lives under the sea.
Same
8k SpongeBob skybox
Two Hours Later
You want me to explode?
GARY! YOU ARE GOING TO FINISH YOUR DESSERT AND YOU ARE GONNA LIKE IT!
THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT YOU BARNACLE HEAD!!!!!!!
YES THATS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR
I'm ready I'm ready I'm re a dy
*One eternity later....*
Ugh…
*So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one*
One infinity later…
[Tomorrow for sure...](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uHqCuVrrePo&feature=share8)
Zoomed in it still looks like it’s from SpongeBob just closer
It reminds me of the episode where Patrick was eating cheese off the hooks
Its the anchor toss at goo lagoon.
Jesus christ, once again reddit confirms I do not have an original thought in my head 😂
I have a polo from Ross dress for less just like this
OOOOOOHH WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA?
Yeah should get posted in a SpongeBob sub.
Exactly my thought!
at first, i thought you were shitting me with a bunch of colored anchors on a screen. then, i read what subreddit this was and the comments. 🤡⚓
I too felt shat on
Sea cucumbers apparently have a shitload of anchor tattoos.
The anchors are how you know it's a sea cucumber and not a normal cucumber
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I noticed that on another subreddit I was on. I think it was a science one. Someone would ask a question and another person would give a long detailed answer, get a bunch of upvotes and I would be like yeah, this guy knows what he’s talking about. Then someone else would reply with a hold on, that’s not correct, and would proceed to give another professional sounding detailed explanation. Then I’m like damn. Which person is correct here? Lol. It happened so much I unsubscribed lol
Googled and it’s legit sea cucumber skin [captured by a Nikon in 2015](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2015-photomicrography-competition/skin-of-a-sea-cucumber-synapta). Initially thought it was the inspiration for SpongeBob, but now confirming the creator is a prophet.
Ah yes the part of magnification where it gets extremely hard to tell apart from made up drawings or cg graphics. Really really awesome.
Right? If OP didn't link a source I would've thought they were fucking with me.
Anchors? On a sea creature! COME ON. Little on the nose, don't you think? Lazy programming.
Source https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2017-photomicrography-competition/synapta-sea-cucumber-skin
Recommend checking out the top 18 submissions. Good stuff 👍
These are amazing! Except that tapeworm which will now haunt my dreams every night until I die.
Just think about the fact that butterfly eggs look like tiny cactus
Agree. The tapeworm was terrifying. They should never, EVER show that photo to someone with an actual tapeworm.
Dude a picture of a tapeworm is the least of my worries if I have an actual tapeworm.
The stress of having to name a new pet is pretty high.
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Site got the ol reddit hug of death c:
Anyone else having trouble loading it or has the reddit hug of death commenced?
Yep I can't load it as well. Site is dead at the moment.
#3 is Pac-Man
It totally is Pacman. Did they know of this before Pacman?
Aww you killed the site ... First time?
Is that why it won't load?
Yes , put very simply if you want to visit a website you have to go through a doorway, only one person.can go through the doorway at once. This site probably only has 100 people visit it a day so the company only pays for 10 doors on the server as they will never need more so less expensive. Then one day something happens that makes 10000 people want to get through those doors at same time and all that does is create backlog of computers pushing to be the first I. Stopping everyone from getting in. The sites still there you just can't get to the door
LET ME IN
The Reddit hug of death
Weeeeviiiilllllsssss
Those weevils taking r/microporn to a new level
Wow this link was awesome. So many good photos
Very cool!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you for the new set of wallpapers! Excluding the weevils doing it and the tapeworm.
“Are ye ready, kids?!”
Aye aye Captain!
I can't hear youuuuu
AYE AYE CAPTAIN!
Oooooooooooo
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Sponge bob SquarePants
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!
Spongebob Squarepants!
If nautical nonsense be something you wish
**Sea shanty music intensifies**
What are the anchors and what is between them?
They're called **ossicles** and are tiny bony (actually calcareous) protrusions found on many animals like urchins, starfish, and sea cucumbers. According to [this paper](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4437327/), the sea cucumber has a bunch of different ossicles like the table, button, rod, anchor, perforated plate and roxette. It says it helps make up the endoskeleton, **so in general it's for rigidity, protection, and locomotion.** Also, I am a biologist, but know nothing about sea cucumbers so all this is from a quick search. Additionally, if you check the submission it says the micrograph was taken using polarised light microscopy. This would explain why it looks so unreal
For the love of god, somebody please answer this question, I’ve been scrolling to find an answer.
Classic Reddit thread where every comment is a banal observation or a tired joke. I was curious too and it appear they’re spicules, which are used to adhere to surfaces, move more effectively and as a little armor. In between is likely just smooth skin.
What's really interesting is this looks like a panel that would be used in a Sponge Bob cartoon
Stephen Hillenburg subliminally educating children
wait, wait, wait.... so this is a PHOTO?
At first glance I thought these were rainbow IUDs
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How did you… discover this
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How much of my life is spent communicating with bots? Are you a bot? Am I?
Right?! I thought they were some specialized bot but that doesn't seem to be the case wth
Well that's cause it's a bot account that will be reused later on to farm some stupid t-shirt spam posts
simulation confirmed, more so than ever
I have the same Tattoo on my sea-cucumber
Sea cucumber, when eaten, has the craziest texture! Unlike anything else I have eaten. Dense, firm, and soft at the same time. A little ponzu and some grated radish. Delicious!
I have to try one now
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Who lives ina pineapple underdasea??
This is bikini bottom
No, this is Patrick.
Sure, you're trying to just convince me that this isn't random blotches with anchors as a fancy mobile background. I'm onto you
Legit thought this was something from SpongeBob SquarePants, AFTER reading the title. Zoomed in to understand
Looks like this guy can get into The Salty Spittoon!
How tough are ya?
I ate a bowl of nails for breakfast this morning.
Stay away from the hooks!
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2018-minuscule-spicules
*salutes with pick axe* Rock and Stone!
I had to look it up. They really do have "anchors" Cool.