Uncrushable, iron-clad, diabolical beetle

[nilprenia]

Meet the Diabolical Ironclad Beetle. It’s Almost Uncrushable. (Published 2020)

Just about any other living thing would be liquefied at the forces this insect can withstand.

www.nytimes.com

 

[IdleRich]

I was gonna start a thread on this - apparently it can survive being run over by a car.

 

[catalog]

Nilprenia explain your name pleasethankyou

 

[nilprenia]

Nilprenia explain your name pleasethankyou

Misremembered a word I read... Don't remember what the actual spelling was or what it referred to. Just first thing that popped in my head for a unique handle

 

[luka]

That is one of the signs you're an indigo child has anyone ever suggested you might be an indigo

 

[nilprenia]

That is one of the signs you're an indigo child has anyone ever suggested you might be an indigo

Dunno what that means

 

[luka]

Dunno what that means

 

[Mr. Tea]

Nilprenia explain your name pleasethankyou

It's when you're clean out of prenia.

 

[nilprenia]

It's when you're clean out of prenia.

Possibly related to prehnite, the stone of unconditional love, or to phrenic, from the mind. Open to interpretation

 

[woops]

Possibly related to prehnite, the stone of unconditional love, or to phrenic, from the mind. Open to interpretation

open to interprenia

 

[Mr. Tea]

open to interprenia

But worth straightening out in the preniauptial agreement.

 

[nilprenia]

open to interprenia

Welcome to Pren-a-Manger. We have cold sandwiches or we still have some hot wraps left if you'd like

 

[woops]

preniauptial agreement.

an example of "capitalism and schizo prenia"

 

[nilprenia]

People used to think the mind was in the diaphragm. Crazy right?

 

[woops]

thank goodness for the body without organs

 

[Mr. Tea]

Related to the actual thread topic: there's a kind of deep-sea snail with a shell that includes a layer of iron:

Scaly-foot gastropod - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[nilprenia]

Open the article and take a look at the cross section of this creature's exoskeleton though. Fascinating stuff

 

[woops]

new meal ideas for @IdleRich

 

[nilprenia]

Related to the actual thread topic: there's a kind of deep-sea snail with a shell that includes a layer of iron:

Scaly-foot gastropod - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Biomineralization is a really interesting topic. There are micro-organisms that can metabolize and precipitate arsenic and antimony minerals, even

 

[Mr. Tea]

Biomineralization is a really interesting topic. There are micro-organisms that can metabolize and precipitate arsenic and antimony minerals, even

Bacteria with ferrite particles so they can sense the geomagnetic field.