Cut my worm in to pieces
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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I had trauma watching the pain Olympics as a child. I would rather not see it again.
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I still can’t believe that was real lol. We had it good back then with lemon party, blue waffle, and meat spin xD
Too bad they don't know how to not dry up on the sidewalk yet
Worm of Theseus?
It's the opposite of a worm of Theseus. Each individual part becomes a new whole.
Is each a clone of the original with the same memories? Or are they their own “personalities”?
This piqued my curiosity so I dug into it a bit on Wikipedia. Most worms are dumb as fuck, roundworms are about as dumb as they come with total neuron counts for a roundworm being comparable to a microscopic tartigrade (300 vs 200). Most of this is located in the head of the worm in a brain like structure though, so I'm betting the clones develop their brains independently with no information transfer. I doubt there's a ton of learning/memory forming going on at all though, based on how simple worms are, so it's probably functionally identical. I would be surprised if most worm species exhibit any kind of learned behaviors ever.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons
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Jesus christ, man, the implications! Fucking bobverse shit right there.
I would imagine only the original retains memories
Salt, sun, dryness and especially FIRE are needed to kill them, they’re invasive, endanger local flora/fauna and don’t have enough natural predators.
So fire it is.
I think vinegar will do
No! FIRE!
Napalm or thermite, just to be safe
What about termites?
You might be surprised how much thermite won't be impressive here. Napalm sure, sticky fire everywhere. Thermite is hard to put everywhere and really doesn't want to light. Hard enough I'm not sure I have anything in my house that could, although idk how hot a lithium fire gets. Probably not even close.
Just use black copper oxide instead of iron oxide for your thermite then. That'll just spontaneously ignite and explode.
So you’ve chosen the blowtorch I see
Add a little salt
The only solution is exterminatus.
The Emperor protects.
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