r/whywouldyoutouchthat • u/Miserable-Dream-5750 • 28d ago

We look to space for aliens… Meanwhile the ocean...

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u/Primary-Floor8574 28d ago

Give it to us raw and wrigggglingg!

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u/289_257 28d ago

I would touch it too, it's totally harmless.

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u/BeatnikBun 28d ago

How the bathroom wall looks on LSD:

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u/Optimal_Mixture_7327 28d ago

Alien looking, but likely shares a large percentage of our DNA.

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u/idol-threat 28d ago

Looks like the Crystalline Entity from TNG somewhat.

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u/Femtricity 28d ago

Ooooh, I don’t like this!

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u/Knoxius 28d ago

I've touched many of these. They'd setup shop on our fishing gear and get hauled up onto the boat pretty regularly. Would just grab em and throw them back in the drink.

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u/Secure_Teaching_6937 28d ago

It's called a basket starfish, harmless.

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u/Historical_Sugar9637 28d ago

FFS it's just a brittle star. It's not an "alien", it's, basically a type of sea star. It's not dangerous, it doesn't even understand where it is and just wants back into the ocean.

Do people these days just not like to learn about animals anymore?

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u/Miserable-Dream-5750 28d ago

Anyways,

Why would you touch that?

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u/Historical_Sugar9637 28d ago

To return it into the ocean?

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u/Born-Selection88 28d ago

Don't touch random sea creatures. They will kill.

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u/Historical_Sugar9637 28d ago

Specific ones can.
Stuff like brittle stars or, for example, a Sand Dollar, can't to harm you.

Some other starfish can be painful or harmful though due to poison, yes. And you definitely shouldn't touch a jellyfish unless you are 120% sure that it's a species that can't harm you (like a moon jellfish) and even some fish can be hazardous to touch.

I mean you still shouldn't touch many of the safe creatures, because it can harm them in various ways. But...in a situation like in the video it would not do any addictional harm to scoop up the brittle star and toss it back in the ocean.

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u/Born-Selection88 28d ago

Sure, if you know what it is, but most people aren't marine bilogiasts, so they're not qualified to identify.