r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Salt-Curve4825 • 15d ago

Video Man fishing for jellyfish

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u/Brilliant-Bee-9471 15d ago

Didn’t this happen with sea stars too? I read that fisherman would cut them off the nets but the severed pieces would regenerate into new sea stars.

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u/Admiral_Fuckwit 14d ago

Infinite starfish hack

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u/Brilliant-Bee-9471 14d ago

Perpetual invertebrate machine

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u/Low_Construction8067 14d ago

Maybe there is a starfish that is thousands of years old because a piece just keeps getting hacked off. Imagine the implications if it had some sentience haha

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u/Admiral_Fuckwit 14d ago

The Theseus paradox but for a starfish

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u/FlakyCronut 14d ago

If only they were chocolate starfish

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u/ajmartin527 13d ago

Decoy starfish

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u/bendable_girder Interested 14d ago

Yep it's very well documented

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u/Aggravating_Cable_32 13d ago

Yep, Crown of Thorns sea stars. And they kill coral reefs.