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FP edit: *overly excited* FIRST FRONT PAGE
Thanks for the information fellow imgurians!
1) the oatmeal is only 1 person! A guy named Matthew Inman.
2) the mantis shrimp may not see an explosion of colors. I'm still in denial and want to scream "believe in magic you muggles" but science says that the mantis shrimp might use his many receptors to interpret colors much quicker.
Thanks for this super cool experience
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Repost but I made a reference to this in my secret Santa profile and I realized that it was worth being reposted.
Check out the oatmeal, those guys are amazing
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
Manhoarder
Wasn't there a study that said their color receptors are useless? They have them but they can only register a few.
alwaysupvotefuturama
I love the oatmeal and the mantis shrimp
SignificantDeficiency
OnetwothreeDEATH!
Hashbrown123
Damn fog crawlers.
OhGodImBatman
This is exploding kittens!
ThyDevilsAdvocate
Hmm I wonder what they taste like?
NinjaPiJunkie
Wouldn’t blood-soaked rainbows just be Fifty Shades of Red?
KawaNyx
If yall like this kind of info check out the manga Terraformars. Goes in depth on this in the context of human/animal hybrids
chevyzoner
Who else googled mantis shrimp right after?
UncleBiscuits
I've known about the mantis shrimp before this but I have not been presented with said information in such a humorous way before.
Snooj
FYI, The Oatmeal is one guy.
elisaDR
Wow. I had to google it to make sure. I did not know that. Thanks for this! My respect lvl for that dude went up with 176 fake internet pnts
MithNL
I will never not upvote this! The original comic is six and a half years old, I will never not upvote this!
Worrah
Had one in my Aquarium as a kid, had come with some live coral. Killed all my fish by cutting them in half. 1/2
Worrah
Had to bash it with sledgehammer to get rid of it. When is was dead a small white bug crawled out of it, straight out of a sci-fi movie 2/2
ImmortalChild
Damn. Mantis shrimp gives fewer fucks than a honey badger.
Soluxiis
They're also a pain in the ass to eat.
Gameking116
Been a long time since I’ve seen this posted. Still love it
GenghisKhanBathedInSherbetIceCream
I am Mantis Shrimp.
DeadnCold
Always upvote rainbow death shrimp.
MrBobSaget
I always upvote the oatmeal.
DjNeHi
I am officially claiming Rainbow Death Shrimp for a band name.
ishotjfktwice
You bastard beat me to it
allysuzumiya
Dibs on Sonoluminescence
zeacorzeppelin10
It's the under water version of ONE PUNCH
AlliNWhenPlaying
I actually think that pistol shrimp with it's biological plasma weapon is way cooler.
Chronoroth
All I can took away from this was that mantis shrimp can basically use kamehameha while under water.
elisaDR
Snort, that's a great mental picture, impossible to unsee! Thank you ?
Scuzzlebutt142
I believe the quote from ZeFranks Youtube Video on them is "That's some Mortal Kombat finishing move shit right there"
Kermodory
omg gij zijt zo cool <3
elisaDR
@kermodory maar jij bent sexy 《3
Kermodory
maar jij bent superstoer want je gaat gaan lopen
WolfofEdensGate
If you like Mantis Shrimp you should read "Fragment" by Warren Fahy
elisaDR
Ok thanks @WolfofEdensGate , scientist thriller, how does it read? Is it slow build or more of an high speed train?
WolfofEdensGate
1. Oh it's a high speed train. Essentially a newly discovered lost island containing a completely different evolutionary path.
WolfofEdensGate
2. Everything is evolved from mantis shrimp instead of fish and mammals
blackrasputin
Mantis shrimp probably can’t see colors we can’t. Instead it’s believed that they can only see 16 discreet shades and that’s it.
elisaDR
The science part in my head says: tell me more and starts researching. But the little voice in the back of my head goes: believe you muggle
SgtKashim
Basically - the reason we see orange/green/purple and other combined colors is our brain interpolates from the 3 primaries. Other animals
SgtKashim
with less powerful brains *may* not be able to interpolate the same way. Visual processing is ~30% of our brains, and a lot of that is
SgtKashim
extra stuff for good color processing. Granted, extra cone in *some* humans makes a big difference. Radiolab had a good episode on it:
SgtKashim
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/rippin-the-rainbow-an-even-newer-one
Patnard
I was waiting for the eipstein didn't kill himself at the end
darthstormer
Eipstein is the new Skyrim.
elisaDR
Damn... that would have been good... what a missed opportunity
Hoenheign
I was expecting it in the vision part like “and it can see the Epstein didn’t kill himself”
Lifeisharddeathissoftlol
You played yourself, you are the 'Epstein didn't kill himself' at the end. Lol
IamTheNesT
Maybe he was killed by a mantis shrimp ..
acompletelyrandomperson
And here it is!
Sverige1
I was waiting for the comment that said I was waiting for the Epstein didn't kill himself at the end
5m4llP0X
For further laughs I strongly suggest looking up ZeFrank's True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp.
Scuzzlebutt142
I think my favourite line is "That's some Mortal Kombat finishing move shit right there"
dylannelson34
Yes he’s a fing god
SunBrolem
I liked when the other shrimp just pulled its own arm off and gave it to the mantis shrimp like "Dont hurt me man just take it"
Sketchh
He’s the best in the biz
elisaDR
Dude... ?, "just like the modern clown, the mantis shrimp has a killer instinct". Loved it, many thanks. https://youtu.be/F5FEj9U-CJM
YourMoosieFate
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5m4llP0X
Very welcome. Didn't know if Imgur would hide my post if I posted a link.
vbbeast
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SevenAndTheRaggedLigar
Clowns have been scary since forever
TheEskimoJOE
SmokyDoggg
Humans:”There are colors we can’t even imagine” Also Humans: “If I can’t see it right now, it doesn’t exist”
headphonejunkie
How can we discover the existence of something we can't perceive?
SmokyDoggg
Then don’t outright deny its existence, keep an open mind and maybe one day we will discover it
SmokyDoggg
With advancing technology.For example for the longest time we thought atoms were the smallest particle and we keep finding smaller particles
drakeshayne
The Oatmeal is one of the best comics ever.
elisaDR
And marshal is pretty adorable too ?
drakeshayne
I'm not a fan of the show though I like Jason. I just love this gif.
DeepThoughtsByJackHandey
Turns out their color vision actually isn't all that great tho. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/42797-mantis-shrimp-see
WizeGuyThoughts
Is this the part where I write a comment about being color blind?
intjdude
It's hard to say what our brains would do with better color receptors. We have very flexible brains, we just need to figure out how to
intjdude
improve our eyeballs.
elisaDR
I had to google it, dead link. But that's pretty cool.
elisaDR
"they suspect the shrimps process color very quickly by setting up patterns of receptor excitation that correspond to certain colors."
elisaDR
"The color messages they're sending each other are something we don't understand, but they definitely use color to talk to each other,"
ButternutCrinklefries
They may still be able to see far more colours, just not necessarily in a bigger spectrum. Like they may see 1000000 shades of blue
Yurets1257
Not necessarily. It can be that they actually can't really interpolate,so having so many preceptors is the only option to distinguish colors
ButternutCrinklefries
That's fair :p more sensors and less computation
generalsplayingrisk
Learned in a biochemistry class that their color perception is actually even more alien: We only have 3 cones, but we see a range because 1
intjdude
Yeah, our brains could probably do amazing stuff if we could find a way to give it more visual inputs.
generalsplayingrisk
our brains interpret and hybridizes the various levels of each into new colors. The thing is, mantis shrimp are pretty dang dumb. I 2
generalsplayingrisk
mean they're fuckin shrimp for christ sakes, you'd expect it. So while they can see 16 distinct wavelengths, how much of the rainbow they 3
generalsplayingrisk
could see spanning between these wavelengths is uncertain, and they may see significantly less nuance in hue, kind of like how someone who 4
generalsplayingrisk
has trained their pallet to really savor foods might perceive more depth of flavor than some schmuck who had an additional taste sense. 5/5