4 billion years of fixing inorganic carbon in the biosphere. Sometimes mistakes O2 for CO2. Not as fast as some enzymes, but very abundant. Here, have some phosphoglycerates about it.

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  • RuBisCO@slrpnk.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Clueless about BiologyEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Sarlac that lost the ability to grow ‘roots’ and instead worked out venom and energy storage (fat and muscle) would outcompete and supplant the sarlacs still producing energetically-expensive, overly-complicated stasis bellies.

    What happens if they momentarily fail to keep their meals alive, do they starve or become poisoned by the rotting meat? Do they have issues keeping a varied diet alive? How do they maintain a net positive energy balance after producing all that is required to keep organisms alive? Why not stun them and stash them, like wasps and spiders? Why not fatten up like -gestures broadly at all life-. Fat requires very little maintenance.

    Could one, in theory, rescue one’s friends were they trapped in a sarlac?

    Sounds like an organism that would quickly be out of business were there any competition at all.

    edit: How do they handle the waste produced by the meals-in-stasis?

  • RuBisCO@slrpnk.nettoNo Lawns@slrpnk.net•Jimmy would rather see butterflies and eat fresh produce.English
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    3 months ago

    TONY! Love that man.

    Join our goddamned cult. Kill Your Lawn. Create habitat and eradicate the bland. Create a native plant or a vegetable garden in your front yard. Killing your lawn and growing native plants is the best way to learn to identify the plants that USED to grow where you lived before the commercial automobile slum cesspool (trademark) was built. But most importantly, kill the lawn within yourself.

    Even the video description is cool.