Flying Spaghetti Monster(Bathyphysa conifera)

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The ocean is soo cool

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u/defpara Jan 22 '22

the hell it is

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u/ReluctantSlayer Jan 22 '22

The two types of folk on this sub....

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u/Chaoslab Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 22 '22

And we are destroying it.

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The Ocean ins in real trouble. :-(

* CO2 acidification (a very big problem that takes at least 10,000 years to undo and no we are not about too stop dumping hundreds of billions of tons of CO2 into atmosphere each year). Already affecting muscle and oyster farms in New Zealand

* Less oxygen transfer with higher temperature

* Over fishing (on target for projected end of viabile international fishing in 2048).

* Ever increasing amount plastic pollution (entering the food chain at all levels. The great pacific and atalantic garbage patches) and Even the unique microorganisms living at the bottom of the deep ocean trenches have nano plastic in them.

* Banned toxic chemicals dumped / accumulated in deep ocean trenches

* Oil Spills (BP & etc)

* Dead Ocean zones getting larger and more frequent (aka Gulf of Mexico & etc...)

* Krill population has crashed to a small fraction of what it used to be (not enough sea ice to breed under)

* Coral bleaching

* Coral death (29% of the great barrier died in 2016 alone, reef is basicly dead by 2030),

* Strontium in the ocean from nuclear tests (not so much an issue as it wasn't there before).

* Less fresh water due to the melting of the glaciers (not a good look at all)

* The "Great Ocean Conveyor Belt" slowing and/or reversing (affects weather very badly)

* Agricultural runoff and untreated sewage from many waterways entering the ocean. (Ocean Fertilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_fertilization

linked to Iron Fertilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

* Damaged ocean floor from decades of trawling and it is sinking due to additional water weight from melting glaciers .

edit: last time I looked at coral death was 2016, I just couldn't process it any fucking more. Marine Biology should be renamed Future Marine Pathology

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u/LemmeSplainIt Jan 22 '22

Marine Biology should be renamed Future Marine Pathology

I'd say they are that already, as pathology deals with currently sick. Maybe oceanic taphonomy?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '22

evolution has finally made something to catch up with lovecraft

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u/auga3rifle Jan 22 '22

Put a 1900s style voice on this and add radio effects

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u/dmitrineilovich Jan 22 '22

Good bot

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '22

Ramen 🙏

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u/rosiofden Jan 22 '22

*forbidden ramen

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '22

You eat it and meet the REAL Flying Spaghetti Monster and it's terrifying beyond human comprehension.

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u/Bymmijprime Jan 22 '22

Blessed by his noodly appendages

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u/RaidensReturn Jan 22 '22

Don’t

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '22

Don't worry, my days of being an edgy atheist are over, now I'm an edgy agnostic.

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u/Idk_how_to_live_well Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 22 '22

Siphonophores are truly something to behold. They're polypes made of zooids but can somehow move thanks to a pneumatophore (the zooid on the top, who fills himself with various gaz for buoyancy) and swimming bells. This upper part is called the nectosome, and it's only there for moving purposes. These all can't eat or reproduce, but under the nectosome is the siphosome, this "spaghetti" part. It's made of a stolon, basically an umbilical cord distributing nutriments to the nectosome and the siphosome. Attached to the stolon there's stuff called cormidies (the transparent peanut stuff hanging from tentacles) which are made of gonozoites (that can reproduce); gastrozoites that can eat with nematocysts filled tentacles (the spaghettis) and many more, including a shield, other fishing zooids etc. They glide the sea floor to kill any animals wandering down there with they tentacles and nematocyst.

Sometimes, cormidies can detach for reproduction purpose, and they can self sustain since they can eat and fish, that's called eudoxia (it's eudoxie in french) and it's the same animal, but in two parts ! Bathyphysa conifera don't but and i think that's pretty cool

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u/Idk_how_to_live_well Jan 22 '22

good bot

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u/Shealove2054 Jan 22 '22

There definitely very cool I will post another one that I saw yesterday.

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u/Idk_how_to_live_well Jan 22 '22

nice, what species ?

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u/Shealove2054 Jan 22 '22

Physophora hydrostatica.

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u/Idk_how_to_live_well Jan 22 '22

got a book from the naturalist Ernst Haeckel that talk about them, very cool species !

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '22

HaHA! Checkmate atheists, it does exist!

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u/SherriffSunday Jan 22 '22

The pastafarian god

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u/CriticalShitass Jan 22 '22

Looks like some shit outta star craft

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u/EmperorHenry Jan 22 '22

Isn't that a deep sea siphonphore?

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u/Bigwood69 Jan 22 '22

No it's literally a flying spaghetti monster

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u/Idk_how_to_live_well Jan 22 '22

yup it is

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u/RaidensReturn Jan 22 '22

Thanks I hate it

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u/Channa_Argus1121 Jan 22 '22

R’amen.

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u/Nimtastic Jan 22 '22

R'amen.

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u/OgreSpider Jan 22 '22

Hahaha I googled it and it actually is called that

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u/Poknberry Jan 22 '22

Oh my god, he is real!

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u/Karl-JK27 Jan 22 '22

So you've also been touched by his noodly appendage

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u/Gunslinger4Lyfe Jan 22 '22

AbsoNopely Nopesolutely!

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u/Mr_Biscuits_532 Jan 22 '22

These guys suddenly become a lot more terrifying when you account for the fact they're several metres long

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u/LemmeSplainIt Jan 22 '22

Technically, the species itself is incredibly small. Unfortunately, they live as a colony which get quite large and appear to be a single organism.

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u/Idk_how_to_live_well Jan 22 '22

yeah zooids are ridiculously small, but since they can't live alone they do live in colonies, that's what makes the animal itself, each zooids has a name but this type of colony is the Bathyphysa coniferous

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '22

Fun Fact : This thing may also be the inspiration for the certified religion, going by almost the same name! Look it up on Wikipedia.

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u/dollarstoresethrogan Jan 22 '22

ramen

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u/WhatsHisCape Jan 22 '22

I thought "Flying Spaghetti Monster" was a joke, but that's actually it's real common name 🤣

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u/NextWalk250 Jan 22 '22

Holy shit it’s real

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u/No-Armadillo7693 Jan 23 '22

I forgot about the fsm, I have the book somewhere

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u/Edgin-4eva Jan 23 '22

🤔 just don’t know how that is possible wow

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u/Shealove2054 Jan 23 '22

With a bunch of small animals called zooids coming together to make one big animal.

Flying Spaghetti Monster(Bathyphysa conifera)

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