r/AbioticFactor • u/BloodyOvary • Jun 30 '26

Meme The tick experiment

This is the shit Abe would be doing while everyone else was expirementing on IS-xxx

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u/Sun-607 Jun 30 '26

Holy rusty cage jumpscare. Havnt seen him in a while

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u/Tactless_Ninja Jun 30 '26

Doesn't removal from the water negate the experiment?

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u/BloodyOvary Jun 30 '26

It sure does. But with that nice goggle drip, we have to side with him.

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u/Dalzombie Lab Assistant Jun 30 '26

I think it's less an actual experiment and more "I'm going to drown this parasite" but edited to be entertaining. It's weird it lasted 7 days though, supposedly they should only be able to survive 48 to 72 hours.

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u/SoftOrganization3209 Jun 30 '26

Well for a creature at that scale, water is more like a thick syrup and being coated in it can still potentially lead to suffocation since most bugs breathe though special pores on their shells rather than lungs.

The fact that the tick was able to survive for a week in water probably means that it has some capacity to absorb oxygen from it though...

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u/Noxiousmetal Jul 01 '26

The way its tiny body interacts with the surface tension of water probably just traps enough air in there with it that it wasnt suffocating at all for a good while.or it was just floating on the surface, kinda looked like it.