A real life pokemon: Pistol Shrimp

[washuguy]

BEHOLD!!! This thing has one of the best features on ANY animal or living creature I've ever seen... Be it creation or evolution, this thing is pretty cool.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKPrGxB1Kzc

[Shinji Kazuya]

Wow...
Yeah, that's one cool shrimp!

[Delete]

Temperature of the sun? Im calling BULLSHIT with capital letters.

[washuguy]

Temperature of the sun? Im calling BULLSHIT with capital letters.

probably, but i'm not getting hit by that thing... LOL

[Randomness]

Temperature of the sun? Im calling BULLSHIT with capital letters.

Lightning is around the surface temperature of the sun, but that's about the only terrestrial phenomenon with such ridiculous temperatures.

[washuguy]

Lightning is around the surface temperature of the sun, but that's about the only terrestrial phenomenon with such ridiculous temperatures.

PFFFT... As far as we know, we haven't discovered everything on this planet yet., which is why space travel is kind of ridiculous to me.

[Ryno]

Wow...
Yeah, that's one cool shrimp!

totally one sweet one

[NoiseHERO]

WHAT THE HELL!?

THAT CAN'T BE REAL!!

That shrimp is freakin' Colonel Mustang... or something.

[Ark22]

I want it.

[Split]

Wow...I want to eat one. Does that make me a bad person?

[Randomness]

PFFFT... As far as we know, we haven't discovered everything on this planet yet., which is why space travel is kind of ridiculous to me.

Well, a nuclear bomb might get up there at the center of the reaction. I don't know.

But seriously, you need such absurd amounts of energy to heat anything to that temperature that a shrimp would explode first.

[Ark22]

FAAALLLLCCOOOOONNNN BBBBBUUUUUUUUBBBBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Randomness]

FAAALLLLCCOOOOONNNN BBBBBUUUUUUUUBBBBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FAAAALLLCOOONNN.... SPLAAAAAAASSHH!

[Blitzkommando]

The temperature is rather exaggerated but it is capable of hitting over 5000K. It's due to the physics of the cavatation (collapsing of air bubbles underwater). Cavatation is pretty dangerous and can easily shatter, deform, pepper, or in other ways damage screws of ships and boats made from bronze or steel.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6855/full/413477a0.html

The shrimp in colonies apparently disrupt sonar and underwater communications due to the constant noise and vast numbers of individuals constantly 'shooting'.

[Sinue_v2]

Well since Blitzkommando beat me to it (damn you!), all I have to add is that the "Surface of the Sun" is actually much, much, colder than it's corona. It just sounds impressive. The surface temperature of the sun is around 5800k on average, and that little shrimp is (as said) capable of spiking temperatures in that ballpark. The corona reaches temperatures of several million kelvin.

Sooo... I'll just have to see your Pistol Shrimp and raise you an Axolotl!

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/IMAGES/axolotlface.jpg

Ambystoma mexicanum has the amazing ability to regenerate their bodies without scarring, including vital organs that typically don't regenerate... including eyes, whole limbs, and even significant portions of the brain. (Juan Enriquez (http://www.biotechonomy.com/juan.htm) commented they can lose half their brain and it'll regrow, "kind of like leaving congress") It's like the Wolverine of the animal kingdom in that regard. They've been a huge assistance in understanding regeneration and tissue engineering.

It's also a neotenic species, meaning it reaches sexual maturity without leaving the juvenile stage of their development. However they can be induced into maturing in the proper environment or with iodine injections. Which means, like Pokemon, they can evolve. Well, not really evolve, but they look different and sadly lose most of their amazing regenerative properties without gaining anything cool in return.

"Evolved" Axolotl.
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http://www.axolotl.org/images/animals/metamorphosed_wildtype_axolotl_g_hoar.jpg[/spoiler-box]



.....lol, mudkip
[spoiler-box]http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/axolotl-totally-looks-like-mudkip.jpg[/spoiler-box]


PFFFT... As far as we know, we haven't discovered everything on this planet yet., which is why space travel is kind of ridiculous to me.

But we don't need to know everything about out planet in order to venture out into space. Granted, the more we know, the better equipped we are to explore space... but with as vast as space is, we're not getting very out into it anyhow anytime soon. In many regards, it's easier to explore space than it is to explore the Earth... and we have plenty of time.

Besides, there's a LOT about our planet that we couldn't know without exploring other worlds - either physically, with robotic telepresence, or via telescopes. After all, the earth is a sample size of one, and in science, the larger your samples sizes - the better established your results will be.

Space exploration and terrestrial exploration go hand in hand.

[NoiseHERO]

Well since Blitzkommando beat me to it (damn you!), all I have to add is that the "Surface of the Sun" is actually much, much, colder than it's corona. It just sounds impressive. The surface temperature of the sun is around 5800k on average, and that little shrimp is (as said) capable of spiking temperatures in that ballpark. The corona reaches temperatures of several million kelvin.

Sooo... I'll just have to see your Pistol Shrimp and raise you an Axolotl!

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/IMAGES/axolotlface.jpg

Ambystoma mexicanum has the amazing ability to regenerate their bodies without scarring, including vital organs that typically don't regenerate... including eyes, whole limbs, and even significant portions of the brain. (Juan Enriquez (http://www.biotechonomy.com/juan.htm) commented they can lose half their brain and it'll regrow, "kind of like leaving congress") It's like the Wolverine of the animal kingdom in that regard. They've been a huge assistance in understanding regeneration and tissue engineering.

It's also a neotenic species, meaning it reaches sexual maturity without leaving the juvenile stage of their development. However they can be induced into maturing in the proper environment or with iodine injections. Which means, like Pokemon, they can evolve. Well, not really evolve, but they look different and sadly lose most of their amazing regenerative properties without gaining anything cool in return.

"Evolved" Axolotl.
[spoiler-box]
http://www.axolotl.org/images/animals/metamorphosed_wildtype_axolotl_g_hoar.jpg[/spoiler-box]



.....lol, mudkip
[spoiler-box]http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/axolotl-totally-looks-like-mudkip.jpg[/spoiler-box]

Is it legal to have these mudkips as pets cause I always wanted one.

Of course it isn't.

[Dragwind]

Behold... the beauty of evolution.

[Sinue_v2]

Is it legal to have these mudkips as pets cause I always wanted one.

Of course it isn't.

Why wouldn't it be? Of course it's legal, but as they're exotic and critically endangered, you'll only be able to get one that's been bred in captivity... and it'll probably be pretty expensive. Edit: They're pretty cheap, actually. $30~35 for juveniles, $90~100 for adults. It looks like you can also buy transgenic version that have fluorescent proteins make them glow under certain light conditions. (GFP makes the glow green like a Glo-stick under blue light) It'd be awesome to have one and feed it GloFish (http://www.glofish.com/).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uleb3MlZ4JU

If they make glowing Pistol Shrimp, I wonder if you could throw them into the same tank and have a IRL pokemon battle. Especially if you're super high at the time.

[SStrikerR]

I kinda want one, just to watch it do that over and over again.

Sadistic, I know.

But it's awesome.