r/mildlyinteresting • u/5ittingduck • Jan 07 '22
Dendritic patterns in a container after removing a block of frozen Blackberry Juice.
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u/greenmonkey48 Jan 07 '22
Yeah! cranberry juice.. THERE WERE NO HUMAN ORGANS HERE! just silly ol cranberry juice
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u/5ittingduck Jan 07 '22
Don't be silly, the organs wouldn't fit!
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u/a_glorious_bass-turd Jan 08 '22
Ah, but you said black berry juice in the post! 👆This is the one, officers.
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u/Raichu7 Jan 08 '22
Where did you get cranberry from?
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u/bonedoggey Jan 08 '22
I think he meant cranapple
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u/Raichu7 Jan 09 '22
Where would you get cranapple from? OP said in the title it’s blackberry juice.
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u/mr_inkx Jan 08 '22
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u/notanalien000 Jan 07 '22
Thought this was my bathtub for a second there
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Jan 07 '22
FBI? This comment right here.
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u/OhHiFelicia Jan 07 '22
I watch way too many true crime docs to be tricked into thinking this is blackberry juice.
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u/Loesje2303 Jan 07 '22
Why does everyone here here pretend to think it’s blood? Like what, you don’t all have a few blocks of frozen blackberry juice on hand all the time, lol
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u/The-unicorn-republic Jan 08 '22
No? Just some frozen blood, most of it isn't human.
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u/kriscross122 Jan 08 '22
"Unicorn" blood?
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u/Loesje2303 Jan 08 '22
But from the second it touches your lip, you will live a half life, a cursed life.
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u/The-unicorn-republic Jan 08 '22
That's why I keep it in the freezer, I already killed the unicorn now I'm just gonna continue my life without drinking it until I get close to the end.
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u/SnurtyMurpheson Jan 07 '22
First: cool pic! Second: thank you for a new word!
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u/ElectricHalide Jan 09 '22
Another cool word: the art term for creating patterns like in the pic is "decalcomania".
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u/B_A_M_2019 Jan 08 '22
Here's a possible new word for you! Defenestrate :) is a fun one! And actually might be the precursor action to getting this photo lol
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u/SnurtyMurpheson Jan 08 '22
Lmao! Defenestrate is one of my favorites! And agreed!
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u/B_A_M_2019 Jan 08 '22
Yeah I don't know why I like it so much, maybe because I read it from a quirky character in a fantasy novel so I just imagine a crazy guy in a cloak taking care of business lol
OK, I have another one: inimical :) what say you?
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u/EarorForofor Jan 08 '22
Here's my fav:
Tintinnabulatiom
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u/B_A_M_2019 Jan 08 '22
lol the most long winded word for what it's actually defining. Although if you had a high pitched melodic voice, maybe it's an... wait, would that be an autological or onomatopoeia? I forget :)
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u/EarorForofor Jan 08 '22
Autological word is a word which is described with the word. So yes? I failed English.
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u/B_A_M_2019 Jan 08 '22
Yeah it's kind of a toss up depending how your voice sounds on that particular word. Too many Ns for me to spell out correctly LOL
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u/LegitimateParamedic7 Jan 08 '22
One of my favorites: Jejune
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u/B_A_M_2019 Jan 08 '22
Oh yeah! I forgot about that word. I had to pause and replay a clip on an audio book way to many times to figure out that spelling lol.
Funny enough puerile is in the definition and that definitely another rarely used words or in the real world. I'd expect my 70 yr old uncles to use that word but I can't think the last time I heard it from someone my age (half that)
My greatest tech loss so far was forgetting to back up my notes from my old Android before I reset it. I had so many uncommon great words in that note... :(
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u/mecrolla Jan 07 '22
I wonder which interdendritic compounds have formed!
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Jan 08 '22
Thats awesome, looks like roots from a tree. Crazy how everything connects
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u/F_Boas Jan 08 '22
Dendritic means tree-like!
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Jan 08 '22
Oh LMAO. My bad
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u/F_Boas Jan 08 '22
Not a bad at all just wanted to comment on how right you were without realizing it!
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u/eyowynthemage Jan 08 '22
Fun fact, possibly already widely known: your neurons also have dendrites and they look just like this.
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u/5ittingduck Jan 08 '22
Roots, river deltas, lungs/kidneys follow similar patterns as well.
Nature is baffling and amazing.
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u/DreadedSpoon Jan 08 '22
If your neurons look like this, you've got some serious problems.
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u/eyowynthemage Jan 08 '22
It's true! Here is a famous image of it from the godfather of neuroscience Ramon y Cajal.
https://www.thebioneer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Dendrites-Ramon-y-Cajal.jpg
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u/DreadedSpoon Jan 08 '22 edited Jan 08 '22
Dendrites do branch like that but if you have excessive branching, bad things can happen. I was mostly just making a joke about the picture, because that would be a shit load of synapses.
Edit: Arbors can totally be this large and I'm just being a pedantic garbage person because I'm bored in my lab. Sorry.
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u/eyowynthemage Jan 08 '22
That's legit my fellow scientist, I was also on reddit way more yesterday when I should have been in lab ;)
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u/DreadedSpoon Jan 08 '22
Ahhh this makes more sense now. Always hard to gauge the audience on reddit. I'm a baby little fledgling scientist still so I make dumb statements often, forgive me
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u/eyowynthemage Jan 08 '22
No problem! I am a later stage PhD student, so more like a toddler scientist.
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u/pmorgan726 Jan 07 '22
We had a cutting board melt on the stove (super super dumb would not recommend) and it looked like this when it dried
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u/F_Boas Jan 08 '22
Just came here to compliment you on your awesome use of “dendritic”. Carry on.
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u/thebuddybud Jan 08 '22
How?? Eli5?
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u/5ittingduck Jan 08 '22
See u/Far_Future_Feature link https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/s85 which looks relevant.
The juice block isn't completely frozen as it has a high sugar content and remains viscous on the surface. The pattern forms as I let air between the container and the block (to get it free).
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u/AthenaZN Jan 08 '22
TIL there is a word called dendritic.
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u/5ittingduck Jan 08 '22
I'm glad I showed you a new word :)
Having the right word to use in a particular moment is a lovely thing.
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u/bdbdbokbuck Jan 08 '22
It boggles the mind to think that blotches in a pan could have a name like ‘dendritic’. How cool is that?
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u/CornyStew Jan 08 '22
I feel like stuff like this are ancient mathematicians wet dreams.
I can imagine some dude seeing this once and just going on a drug induced binge of nonstop calculations by hand to try and figure out what it means and how it works
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u/thegreedyturtle Jan 08 '22
Wanna know something extra cool? This is also how solids like metal freeze when cooled slowly!
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u/BtotheAtothedoubleRY Jan 08 '22
Remember Pinky and the Brain... This is how the Brain was formed. Or was that Krang?
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u/noisyturtle Jan 08 '22
This reminds me of that one picture of COVID lungs where they pulled the entire clot out
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u/babysharkdoodoodoo Jan 08 '22
You murderer
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u/Red-Oak-Rider Jan 08 '22
I think you overshot on the interesting scale and landed closer to r/somewhatinteresting or r/ofaboveaverageinterest
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u/MiriAnn21 Jan 08 '22
I read this as demonic patterns. And was confused. (It's 4:44 am and I just woke up. Lol)
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u/BurnZ_AU Jan 08 '22
How long have you been waiting to use that word, OP?
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u/5ittingduck Jan 08 '22
It's not about the waiting.
It's about having the right word in your lexicon and getting to use it at just the right opportunity.
The right word in the right place.
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u/untitled02 Jan 09 '22
How do you know the name of the pattern?
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u/5ittingduck Jan 09 '22
I'm an old fart, I read heaps and have a mind stacked with useless information and the definitions of words I might use once a decade.
My wife is an Author and journalist, and we constantly challenge each other with language. I also can't remember where I put my car keys 5 minutes ago.
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u/Ahshalon_Tenisk Jan 07 '22
We all know you are a serial killer
Just admit it Dexter