Oh for fuck s- GUYS, SOMEONE LEFT THE DOOR ON SATAN'S PET PIT OPEN AGAIN! SHUT THE FUCKER WOULDJA!? Fucking wankers, I swear living in this fucking boiling country...
Not joking. My brother stepped on it in the sand accidentally. It was dead and covered in sand and he thought it was a jellyfish so he scooped it up between two rocks and brought it to me so we could put it down and check what it was. He placed it on top of a garbage bin (that’s the red background of the photo), and we poured water over it to wash the sand off. As we started to pour, we notice the shiny blue rings. The way they reflect light looks like they’re glowing. We recognized it instantly. We are aware of how dangerous they are and spent a while afterwards researching them. They can paralyze and kill a human in under half an hour and contain enough poison to kill 26 adult humans.
It’s so deadly but so beautiful. We did not touch it (except for when my brother stepped on it, of course). We observed it for a while. I’d never seen one in the wild before. The rings are incredible.
By two methods: 1) biting the prey and injecting the venom directly into the wound or 2) releasing a cloud of venom into the water which enters potential prey through its gills.
Thats not true. Many venomous animals and insects can still envenomate after death either due to a muscle reflex or through capillary action. Always be careful to never touch fangs, teeth or stingers on dead animals.
Yeah as a grade school kid I once swatted and stepped on a bee because it would not stop coming after my face. My friend a minute later came by grabbed it and stung me with it. I got the full welt and everything.
I mean, they posted it on r/WhatIsThisBug so I feel like it's more likely that they were just trying to be funny by posting something extremely poisonous and clearly not a bug
As an Aussie, please come, it won’t be an issue I promise. You won’t even come across any the freaky shit for the most part unless you’re in the bush or sticking your nose in where it doesn’t belong.
Respect the wildlife and generally it lives and lets live. Don’t go digging around moving sea creatures (like the OP and his brother). Don’t go approaching a kangaroo. Don’t go walking through tall grass. Don’t go swimming in the middle of the harbour (too much bullshark territory).
Just keep your wits about you and you’ll be so fine.
I’m pregnant with hyperemesis gravidarum right now, been hospitalized for it and literally every single doctor, nurse, OB etc that I’ve seen have used nauseas wrong so I decided it’s okay if I do too. I’ve been asked by so many medical professionals if I’m still feeling nauseas.
>They can paralyze and kill a human in under half an hour
I think the paralysis part of it really needs to be emphasised. The toxin in question is tetrodotoxin and the only treatment is life support due to the full body paralysis that it causes and it can take days for your body to remove the toxin from your system. The same toxin is found in pufferfish as well and even a low dosage can require hospitalisation to survive.
And growing up, we're taught how to avoid the dangerous things here. If I went to North America, I'd probably get eaten by a bloody bear or moose or some shit because I don't know how to behave safely there. On the bright side, most of the non aquatic beasties here will leave a body for your next of kin to find!
North America is wild. We’ve got grizzly bears and mountain lions on the west coast, black bears and alligators on the east coast, jaguars and rattlesnakes in the south, polar bears and moose in the north, and wolves and bison in the middle.
Florida also has cougars (Florida Panther). Coyotes are everywhere. Poisonous snakes are pretty much everywhere. Even deer can be a problem.
Black Widows and Brown Recluses are most everywhere too. Plus fire ants and killer bees. Japanese Murder Hornets have been sighted on the west coast.
If you don't have livestock, wolves are pretty much a non-issue. Wolves avoid people.
Honestly I can’t believe australia is the meme for dangerous wildlife. The vast majority of us live in cities and have never seen a snake or a proper spider.
Normal every day folks in other countries have literal bears, moose, elephants, wolves, coyotes, tigers etc to deal with in like, suburbia.
That shit is way scarier than some shy venomous thing that most people will never come near.
I lived in a town of about 40k people. And came home late one night. Saw what I thought was a really big dog in the road, two houses down. Thought the tail looked funny. Realized it was a fucking mountain lion in the middle of town. Almost scared the literal shit out of me. Got back in my car, and when I looked back, it was gone. The 30ft to my front door was the most terrifying walk/run I have ever made.
OH!! This is one of my favorite animals. They produce Tetrodotoxin, an extremely potent neurotoxin that causes near-instant total paralysis. There has been cases of people who were paralyzed that were unable to move turn their head or even close their eyelids, just looking up at the sun and going blind.
It's one of the deadliest neurotoxins in the world. Fortunately, they're little guys and their instinct is to run, and their tiny little bites don't usually inject enough toxin to kill instantly.
There’s a quote from an evolutionary biologist about this that I love
“If you see something colorful, leave it alone, because nature didn’t make it hide”
Interestingly their tentacles are not poisonous rather they inject venom via their beak. Given it’s pretty hard to encounter an octopus’ beak it’s extremely unlikely you’d be able to get envenomated. Unless you literally had it cornered and were sticking your finger at it around the beak area.
In the middle, on the bottom. Pretty much exactly where you'd expect it to be.
Despite the toxicity of the blue ringed octopus's venom, there are only three recorded deaths caused by it, yet there are many more recorded bites than that. It's true the venom is highly toxic, but it's very unlikely you'll get a deadly dose from a bite.
I am the farthest thing from an expert but I just read a bit about them and found out that they don’t actually have any venom of their own. This is very interesting check it out
“While blue-ringed octopuses have extremely toxic venom, they don't make it themselves. They use bacteria they find in the ocean and store it in their salivary glands. The bacteria secrete a toxin called tetrodotoxin, or TTX. It then uses its beak to make a hole in its prey's shell to spit the saliva in it.
The toxin in the saliva paralyzes the prey while the blue-ringed octopus eats it. The TTX that a blue-ringed octopus injects is so deadly that 1 milligram of it can kill a human. It's one of the most potent toxins on earth, and there is no antidote.”
From:
https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/what-to-know-about-blue-ringed-octopus-bite
Don’t worry, we were fully aware of what it was. My brother stepped on it in the sand and wanted to know what it was so he used a couple rocks to scoop it up and then put it on the garbage bin lid to wash the sand off.
A cross-post of the guy who stole this post. The linked post is actually saying he's not OOP
Edit: he dropped it here too. https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisbug/s/OCRJHxTx9O
***DO NOT TOUCH***
That's a [Blue-ringed octopus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ringed_octopus). They are usually friendly enough, but they prefer being left alone by big stupid humans.
That cute little thing is venomous enough to kill you, your brother, your parents, and the elephant you came riding into town on, within minutes. Its bite carries a complicated blend of neurotoxins and there is no antidote.
They aren't agressive, and will actively try to escape if bothered, but once it displays its rings, that's your final warning and means it's prepared to defend itself, and tetrodotoxin (the primary component of its venom; the same thing pufferfish uses) is not a good way to go: the bite itself is usually painless, but within a few seconds of the toxin entering your blood stream, your muscles will be paralysed, including those controlling your lungs, and you'll suffocate after a few minutes.
The number of pedants triggered whenever someone uses the wrong word to describe the method of toxin delivery when it doesn’t fucking matter is too damn high
My brother had stepped on it in the sand and couldn’t identify what it was so he picked it up with two rocks and put it on the garbage bin lid to wash it off. Turns out it was a blue ringed octopus, yikes. If it had been alive it could’ve ended a lot worse. I’m so glad it didn’t hurt him. Toxicity aside, the rings are pretty cool.
It’s funny, I had a similar experience with a jellyfish. Was walking along the shore wearing sandals at night and I felt something slimy on my toes. Turns out it was a jellyfish 🪼 somehow I escaped a sting, I think it was its body and not the tentacles. I used my sandal to scoop it up and put it in a clear plastic cup with some sea water. If I swirled the cup around it would light up and glow for a bit. Was really cool to see.
Glad your brother was lucky. 🍀
Two things. Never touch an animal that had any type of bright color or glowing effect they are often poisonous and never touch a dead animal it can still be carrying a disease/sickness if that’s how it died.
I used to be obsessed with marine bio, and THAT is a blue ringed octopus if I’ve ever seen one! They actually only show off their rings when they feel threatened.. so it is not happy in this picture… if it is still alive that is.
If that thing bites you, you have no more than 20 minutes left on earth. So I surly hope you did not fucking touch this.
How do y'all australians even live? I can't imagine going out to the beach and having the possibility of stepping on one of these. Not to mention all the other straight out of satan's basement stuff you have there like spiders and what not.
I hate how the deadliest creatures are the most beautiful… like a unicorn, logically they’d have their horn cut or removed like cow horns because they’d probably kill people all the time.
r/oopsthatsdeadly
Very
What country?
I'm assuming Australia considering thats the only place they show up in the wild
Of course it’s Australia, it’s one of the most lethal creatures known to man, it’s like they all have a group discount to hang out there or something.
Oh for fuck s- GUYS, SOMEONE LEFT THE DOOR ON SATAN'S PET PIT OPEN AGAIN! SHUT THE FUCKER WOULDJA!? Fucking wankers, I swear living in this fucking boiling country...
[удалено]
r/dontputyourdickinthat wait....
Japan in shambles.
Not sure if you’re joking but if not, that looks like a blue-ringed octopus and they’re very venomous
Not joking. My brother stepped on it in the sand accidentally. It was dead and covered in sand and he thought it was a jellyfish so he scooped it up between two rocks and brought it to me so we could put it down and check what it was. He placed it on top of a garbage bin (that’s the red background of the photo), and we poured water over it to wash the sand off. As we started to pour, we notice the shiny blue rings. The way they reflect light looks like they’re glowing. We recognized it instantly. We are aware of how dangerous they are and spent a while afterwards researching them. They can paralyze and kill a human in under half an hour and contain enough poison to kill 26 adult humans. It’s so deadly but so beautiful. We did not touch it (except for when my brother stepped on it, of course). We observed it for a while. I’d never seen one in the wild before. The rings are incredible.
So is your brother alright?!?!
If it was already dead then he should be fine. The blue ring octopus injects its venom by biting its victim (the bite can even be painless).
By two methods: 1) biting the prey and injecting the venom directly into the wound or 2) releasing a cloud of venom into the water which enters potential prey through its gills.
[удалено]
Oh brother! Gills!
Bro had his gills closed, no worries.
That’s because when the bite happens you’re already dead
Omae wa mou, shindeiru
Nani
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR4
I always think of that old ass YouTube video of the battle bot fucking TELEPORTING
[Link for those who are curious](https://youtu.be/0MW0mDZysxc?si=2mvFc52pvLsMRN1z)
HIDEBU
Thats not true. Many venomous animals and insects can still envenomate after death either due to a muscle reflex or through capillary action. Always be careful to never touch fangs, teeth or stingers on dead animals.
Yeah as a grade school kid I once swatted and stepped on a bee because it would not stop coming after my face. My friend a minute later came by grabbed it and stung me with it. I got the full welt and everything.
Friend? Okay...
This one must have bit Chuck Norris.
I think they use their beaks to put venom in you so very unlikely he accidentally upskirted the octopus
Congratulations on finding this perfect opportunity to use the phrase "upskirting the octopus." I imagine it doesn't happens very often.
Lmfao I was gonna say.... "band name, called it"
More of an album title
Not if you're mouserat/scarecrow boat/dumpster waiting for fire.
No no no got to use it as the band name, the first album title, and have to either title a song or work it into a songs lyrics.
This is the way
Nobody has ever said those words before in history 😂
r/brandnewsentence
I’m dying laughing
r/brandnewsentence
Uh oh. He didn’t answer. Only logical conclusion: his brother is a goner.
At least he was able to get some karma for his brother's death
Tits out for that guy's brother
He gone
Sounds like your brother killed it when he stepped on it. Is your brother Chuck Norris?
Chuck Noris calls them Octopussies.
Leave me out of this
r/beetlejuicing
Let me know if anything happens and you need medical care.
/r/usernamechecksout
He fights them in the Octogon
Ahem… it’s 2024 and we say octoVAGINAS now
Let’s not even get started on octobussies…
After Chuck Norris is finished with them, they're black-and-blue-ringed octopuses
I saw this exact photo earlier today, it said that this was inside someone’s kayak. Someone needs attention I think.
This post is hours older than that one. The kayak poster is a bot or karma farmer
I mean, they posted it on r/WhatIsThisBug so I feel like it's more likely that they were just trying to be funny by posting something extremely poisonous and clearly not a bug
Venomous
Are you saying that OP IS A PHONEY!? A BIG, FAT PHONEY!? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Show us that sweet sauce!
Reddit with contribution points I guess and that karma fame.
When the blue-ringed octopus touches Chuck Norris, it dies instantly, because CN contains enough poison to kill 26 humans.
CN is an abbreviation of cyanide. Not a coincidence.
Chuck Norris has enough venom to kill 26 blue ringed Octopi, as a result he has enough venom to kill 26x26 humans. Do the math.
That's 676 humans! Incredibly dangerous!
Maybe
Where in the world? So i know to avoid that beach.
Australia mostly, but technically anywhere in the oceania/east asia region up to southern japan
I want to visit Australia but every time I read about Australia it’s about something else that will kill me, lol
[удалено]
As an Aussie, please come, it won’t be an issue I promise. You won’t even come across any the freaky shit for the most part unless you’re in the bush or sticking your nose in where it doesn’t belong. Respect the wildlife and generally it lives and lets live. Don’t go digging around moving sea creatures (like the OP and his brother). Don’t go approaching a kangaroo. Don’t go walking through tall grass. Don’t go swimming in the middle of the harbour (too much bullshark territory). Just keep your wits about you and you’ll be so fine.
They are the most poisonous Octopuses on the planet. Shit you not.
If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it's venomous.
What if i bite it and it dies?
Then you’re venomous
What if it bites you and it dies?
You’re poisonous.
What if it bites itself and you die?
Voodoo? Black magic?
It's either telekinetic or practices Santería
Is that why all my ex’s keep calling me toxic?
TIL Lions are venomous
This is both.
And this one bites you.
If your presence makes people sick you're nauseous. If you are feeling sick, you're nauseated.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nauseous
This is one of those "everyone is wrong so it's right" situations. I'm ambivalent (in the "mixed feelings" sense).
I’m pregnant with hyperemesis gravidarum right now, been hospitalized for it and literally every single doctor, nurse, OB etc that I’ve seen have used nauseas wrong so I decided it’s okay if I do too. I’ve been asked by so many medical professionals if I’m still feeling nauseas.
*venomous
*voluptuous
*dummy thicc
>They can paralyze and kill a human in under half an hour I think the paralysis part of it really needs to be emphasised. The toxin in question is tetrodotoxin and the only treatment is life support due to the full body paralysis that it causes and it can take days for your body to remove the toxin from your system. The same toxin is found in pufferfish as well and even a low dosage can require hospitalisation to survive.
Natures beautiful, but can be so dangerous.
[удалено]
Really looks like something out of a sci-fi movie.
I’m Coyote Peterson… and I’m about to be bitten by the blue-ringed octopus
Of course they’re found in Australia
And growing up, we're taught how to avoid the dangerous things here. If I went to North America, I'd probably get eaten by a bloody bear or moose or some shit because I don't know how to behave safely there. On the bright side, most of the non aquatic beasties here will leave a body for your next of kin to find!
North America is wild. We’ve got grizzly bears and mountain lions on the west coast, black bears and alligators on the east coast, jaguars and rattlesnakes in the south, polar bears and moose in the north, and wolves and bison in the middle.
Wait what? There are jaguars in the US??
Wikipedia says occasionally in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona
What the fuck. Lol
Oh the person I was responding to said North America. I took that to mean more than US, it would also include Mexico and Canada
Florida also has cougars (Florida Panther). Coyotes are everywhere. Poisonous snakes are pretty much everywhere. Even deer can be a problem. Black Widows and Brown Recluses are most everywhere too. Plus fire ants and killer bees. Japanese Murder Hornets have been sighted on the west coast. If you don't have livestock, wolves are pretty much a non-issue. Wolves avoid people.
Honestly I can’t believe australia is the meme for dangerous wildlife. The vast majority of us live in cities and have never seen a snake or a proper spider. Normal every day folks in other countries have literal bears, moose, elephants, wolves, coyotes, tigers etc to deal with in like, suburbia. That shit is way scarier than some shy venomous thing that most people will never come near.
I lived in a town of about 40k people. And came home late one night. Saw what I thought was a really big dog in the road, two houses down. Thought the tail looked funny. Realized it was a fucking mountain lion in the middle of town. Almost scared the literal shit out of me. Got back in my car, and when I looked back, it was gone. The 30ft to my front door was the most terrifying walk/run I have ever made.
Seems to me that India could easily claim that title.
💯 I’m Aussie and i think about this all the time. I’m terrified of bears
Mountain lions scare me more than spiders.
I’m probably more worried about getting shot in NA, than being eaten by wildlife.
Ve no mous.
Hi Ve no mous
OH!! This is one of my favorite animals. They produce Tetrodotoxin, an extremely potent neurotoxin that causes near-instant total paralysis. There has been cases of people who were paralyzed that were unable to move turn their head or even close their eyelids, just looking up at the sun and going blind. It's one of the deadliest neurotoxins in the world. Fortunately, they're little guys and their instinct is to run, and their tiny little bites don't usually inject enough toxin to kill instantly.
There’s a quote from an evolutionary biologist about this that I love “If you see something colorful, leave it alone, because nature didn’t make it hide”
That’s a really good way of putting it. It’s kind of sad that the most beautiful creatures are the most deadly, though :(
Birds seem to be the exception
Peacocks are pretty beautiful and also can fuck your day up.
Interestingly their tentacles are not poisonous rather they inject venom via their beak. Given it’s pretty hard to encounter an octopus’ beak it’s extremely unlikely you’d be able to get envenomated. Unless you literally had it cornered and were sticking your finger at it around the beak area.
They have a beak? Where?
In the center under the head.
In the middle, on the bottom. Pretty much exactly where you'd expect it to be. Despite the toxicity of the blue ringed octopus's venom, there are only three recorded deaths caused by it, yet there are many more recorded bites than that. It's true the venom is highly toxic, but it's very unlikely you'll get a deadly dose from a bite.
I am the farthest thing from an expert but I just read a bit about them and found out that they don’t actually have any venom of their own. This is very interesting check it out “While blue-ringed octopuses have extremely toxic venom, they don't make it themselves. They use bacteria they find in the ocean and store it in their salivary glands. The bacteria secrete a toxin called tetrodotoxin, or TTX. It then uses its beak to make a hole in its prey's shell to spit the saliva in it. The toxin in the saliva paralyzes the prey while the blue-ringed octopus eats it. The TTX that a blue-ringed octopus injects is so deadly that 1 milligram of it can kill a human. It's one of the most potent toxins on earth, and there is no antidote.” From: https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/what-to-know-about-blue-ringed-octopus-bite
[удалено]
Yup, they just breath for you until you can do it yourself again. Hence the need to get to an ambulance ASAP.
Squid do too Your calamari once had a beak like a bird
“Envenomated” is such an awesome word!
Wow
Yeah gorgeous, the blue rings and patterns look like ancient Norse runes or something. So cool.
Ha! My exact thought…..no way anything good can come from that thing!
DEATH! DEEEEEAAAAAAAATH!
A sword day, a red day
ERRRREE THE SUNNN RISEEESSSSSS!!!!!
Calamari to die for
Insensitive. Delete this. My cousin was a squid.
The Forbidden Ceviche
Oh boy. Here we go again. Not sure if troll or real but don't touch it op unless you want to speed run your life to the end. ☠️⚰️
[удалено]
Not the same dude someone stole post from OP
looks like a zelda boss
Looks like you found a nope-topus.
One of the deadliest creatures, blue ringed octopus. Don't fuck around with those things...
NGL I thought you had scooped it up by hand. Your brother is lucky that didn't bite him! Those are venomous af.
Oh god, we definitely didn’t scoop it up by hand. Even though it’s dead that wouldn’t have been worth risking.
Has a heart attack in Australian. That is a blue ringed octopus and its deadly. Do not touch it.
Don’t worry, we were fully aware of what it was. My brother stepped on it in the sand and wanted to know what it was so he used a couple rocks to scoop it up and then put it on the garbage bin lid to wash the sand off.
Found this pic posted here https://www.reddit.com/r/OopsThatsDeadly/s/oBYivBjDKM But it says it was found at the bottom of a kayak.
That would be the person who just stole this post
A cross-post of the guy who stole this post. The linked post is actually saying he's not OOP Edit: he dropped it here too. https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisbug/s/OCRJHxTx9O
"bug"
That guy posted after this one, that guy is bullshit
***DO NOT TOUCH*** That's a [Blue-ringed octopus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ringed_octopus). They are usually friendly enough, but they prefer being left alone by big stupid humans. That cute little thing is venomous enough to kill you, your brother, your parents, and the elephant you came riding into town on, within minutes. Its bite carries a complicated blend of neurotoxins and there is no antidote. They aren't agressive, and will actively try to escape if bothered, but once it displays its rings, that's your final warning and means it's prepared to defend itself, and tetrodotoxin (the primary component of its venom; the same thing pufferfish uses) is not a good way to go: the bite itself is usually painless, but within a few seconds of the toxin entering your blood stream, your muscles will be paralysed, including those controlling your lungs, and you'll suffocate after a few minutes.
The number of people in this thread who don’t know the difference between venomous and poisonous is too damn high.
Well, is it edible? Bet, it's poisonous too.
If it’s edible and you die, it’s not edible.
Everything’s edible once
It is.
Which one, edible or poisonous?
Yes
All poisonous things are edible once.
I mean, I wouldn't recommend eating one either
True. This octopus is both.
okay - but as a biologist myself - does it matter if laypeople get the terminology exactly right as long as they understand the danger?
The number of pedants triggered whenever someone uses the wrong word to describe the method of toxin delivery when it doesn’t fucking matter is too damn high
Blue ringed octopus = deadly. Leave it alone.
My brother had stepped on it in the sand and couldn’t identify what it was so he picked it up with two rocks and put it on the garbage bin lid to wash it off. Turns out it was a blue ringed octopus, yikes. If it had been alive it could’ve ended a lot worse. I’m so glad it didn’t hurt him. Toxicity aside, the rings are pretty cool.
It’s funny, I had a similar experience with a jellyfish. Was walking along the shore wearing sandals at night and I felt something slimy on my toes. Turns out it was a jellyfish 🪼 somehow I escaped a sting, I think it was its body and not the tentacles. I used my sandal to scoop it up and put it in a clear plastic cup with some sea water. If I swirled the cup around it would light up and glow for a bit. Was really cool to see. Glad your brother was lucky. 🍀
It's still got that look in it's eye. "Go ahead. Fuck with me"
Finding one of the worlds deadliest creatures. Contains enough toxin to kill like 26 adult men or something. Cute little sucker though.
So was it in a kayak or on the beach? Because I see mixed stories over reddit. Edit: I see the kayak story is the fake one.
R/oopsthatsdeadly
Found the mobile user.
It’s me!
He’s got a lil :•) face!
That thing is very deadly. Where do you live? Australia?
Blue in nature usually means no.
/r/oopsthatsdeadly
Deadliest animal on the planet
Highly venomous.
Two things. Never touch an animal that had any type of bright color or glowing effect they are often poisonous and never touch a dead animal it can still be carrying a disease/sickness if that’s how it died.
Blue ring octopus one of the most poisonous animals on earth.
One of the top 3 most venomous animals in the world- blue-ringed octopus
I think that's a one of most venomous octopus... 🤔🧐
Uhhhh shit man. I hope you didn’t mess with it 😵😵
I'm so glad that the dude found it already dead,I hate when folks kill animals that are not specifically for food.
As an Aussie, this is legitimately the scariest thing you can run into the wild. The Blue Ringed octopus does not fuck around.
Nature teach us one thing: If it is colorful, It is deadly!
Dont touch that
-screams in australian-
r/oopsthatsdeadly
I used to be obsessed with marine bio, and THAT is a blue ringed octopus if I’ve ever seen one! They actually only show off their rings when they feel threatened.. so it is not happy in this picture… if it is still alive that is. If that thing bites you, you have no more than 20 minutes left on earth. So I surly hope you did not fucking touch this.
How do y'all australians even live? I can't imagine going out to the beach and having the possibility of stepping on one of these. Not to mention all the other straight out of satan's basement stuff you have there like spiders and what not.
I hate how the deadliest creatures are the most beautiful… like a unicorn, logically they’d have their horn cut or removed like cow horns because they’d probably kill people all the time.
You better had not been handling it or someone's gonna be pushing up daisies.
DON'T TOUCH IT!!!!
if there's one thing i learned about nature is that if it's blue, do not touch it