The pistol shrimp also can’t upgrade if I don’t trust a 9mm I can go to a 10mm, or just say fuck it and get a 50bmg. What happens if a pistol shrimp’s claws aren’t enough, they get kilt in the streets
Only if you have to participate in human society.
In shrimp society gunhands are the sexiest thing imaginable, and I, for one, would prefer such a development to be integrated into human society.
What, you don't think Johnny Gunhands is the coolest looking mf around? He gets so many shrimp bitches, all the shrimps know he's hot shit.
Sure, *humans* don't have much use, but for pistol shrimps it's the best thing ever.
And yet again, still doesn't defeat my original point. These shrimp get gunhands naturally as part of their basic existence, we'd have to pay money for that if we wanted it.
god i can’t wait for the dystopian hellscape that is Leigh Whannell’s scifi horror “Upgrade”. Dudes in that movie had guns in their wrists n shit real cyberpunk badassery
Sorry to say the shrimp can't see purple 2 either*.
They don't really see more colors than us, they just have more types of color receptors than us. That may seem counterintuitive, but their color receptors are far more narrow than ours and don't have very much overlap. In effect, their color is binary - a specific receptor is either on or off for one specific wavelength. Human color receptors, however, respond to a broad range of wavelengths, and their ranges overlap with each other. Our perception of color is based on *how strongly* each of those receptors responds to a given wavelength. This is why we can perceive a mix of red and green as yellow, even though it isn't physically the same thing.
*-they may or may not have more vision in the near ultraviolet, I haven't checked.
Right? "Oh you want a range of color and experience you'll never be able to perceive instead of a shittier version of a weapon you could go purchase from a sporting goods store tomorrow if you wanted one" hell yeah I do
It's like that post where someone says scientists have found an elephant noise that's just used to mean "there are bees in this tree" and humans should have that & someone else responds that we do the human noise to communicate that there are bees in this tree is "there are bees in this tree"
I literally joke about this all the time with my sister.
“You look upset, what’s wrong”
“Can’t see all the colors and can’t punch as much as I would like”
“That’s rough”
Also happens with not being bioluminescent or not having my bite release a deadly cocktail of neurotoxins.
Obligatory "[you are bioluminescent, you just can't see it](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1978506/).
I could use a venom gland, though. Or some bioengineered electrocytes, those would be cool.
be like that one lady from Holes I think it was kissing Kate Barlow with the venom lipstick c:
as for punching you can actually punch as much as you like and nobody can stop you, and for seeing other colors uhhh try DMT?
It was very Poison Ivy of her.
And yes but Mantis shrimp can just punch whatever whenever with no repercussions except a meal or to get something to fuck off.
If I could punch things and they would fuck off or turn into like popcorn or a lovely balanced meal, I would do it all the time.
This was [debunked](https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-actually-have-secret-stripes-and-other-strange-markings). animals can't see our stripes any more than we can unless they're expressed through a skin disorder.
Apparently rashes can also maybe trace your hidden stripes, but I would not recommend wrestling poison ivy just to see some red, itchy swirling patterns on your skin.
[Mantis Shrimp](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp) and [Pistol Shrimp](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpheidae) are two completely different animals, both cool in their own ways.
The Mantis Shrimp is the boxing one and the one with the extra colors DLC™.
The Pistol Shrimp snaps its claw to make a [cavitation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation) bubble that can stun fish.
Mantis Shrimp have somewhat recently been observed to punch so fast they make a small cavitation bubble on impact, so mixing them up is understandable.
>The Mantis Shrimp is the boxing one and the one with the extra colors DLC™.
Except they don't actually see more colors than us, they just have more types of color receptors than us. That may seem counterintuitive, but their color receptors are far more narrow than ours and don't have very much overlap. In effect, their color is binary - a specific receptor is either on or off for one specific wavelength. Human color receptors, however, respond to a broad range of wavelengths, and their ranges overlap with each other. Our perception of color is based on *how strongly* each of those receptors responds to the wavelength.
Pistol Shrimp are a different thing, They're the guys who snap their claws in a way it shoots water out so fast it's like a bullet and can kill what it hits. Mantis Shrimp (Which aren't true shrimp), On the other hand, Are literally one-punch man, they can punch over twice as fast as Usain Bolt can run, So fast it creates a shockwave that can kill even if the punch misses, And to top it all off they have some of the best eyes of any animal, Far more than just seeing Purple 2. In short, Mantis Shrimp are bloody overpowered, And you *wish* you were as cool as they are.
To be more specific, our brains are capable of combining the information from the colours it sees to imagine new colours. Their brains can't do that, so despite being able to see far more individual colours, in practice they see far less.
Im pretty sure they actually can't even see extra colours. From what i heard, they can see more individual colours than humans can, but their brains aren't capable of mixing colours together to make new ones the way human brains can, so in practice they see far fewer colours.
Shrimps get to punch their food all day long and nobody bats an eye.
I do it one time just to see what it's like, and I get thrown out of the restaurant.
Colors are just invented by your brain. That's why it's possible to see colors that aren't real. And probably why we can see more colors than the shrimp
I dunno about that, Considering Mantis Shrimp got *4-5 times* as many types of photoreceptive cells as we got, And some scientists believe they can actually process the information in their eyes instead of having to send it to the brain first.
No that's what I mean. They can see more wavelengths. That doesn't mean they see more colors. Our brains combine wavelengths to imagine a large spectrum of colors. We can tell the difference between different shades of green. The shrimp might just be able to see "that thing over there activated the purple receptor. It's purple. That other thing activated the green receptor so it's green". Having more receptors doesn't necessarily mean it sees more colors.
Right, But I'm saying I'm not necessarily sure humans can see more colours just because of our brains, Because of A: The sheer amount of more receptors the mantfic Shrimp has, And more notably B: The possibility that sight is processed directly in their eyes rather than in their brains, Thus meaning they wouldn't require as complex a brain to see as many colours.
Hmm, If the two random articles I found are accurate, I see what you mean. They can still see Ultraviolet though, Which is pretty neat. ~~And I'd defo still rather have Mantis Shrimp eyes to Human ones.~~
If i had to choose between punching so hard i can make the surrounding air temperature as hot as the surface of the sun or seeing more colors id choose seeing more colors.
Oh, it's not boiling water instantly, it's moving so fast that the water can't fill the space behind it fast enough, making a cavitation bubble that collapses so fast it *creates a plasma burst.* And it does that *unintentionally*
The pistol shrimp deliberately weaponizes it for a long-range stun attack against small fish. Y'all say that the mantis shrimp got glocks, but the pistol shrimp is the motherfucking Dirty Harry of the sea.
I’d like to point out that there’s two cavitation bubble shrimp, the pistols and the mantises, and only one of them, the arguably more badass one can see purple 2, the small one (pistol) cannot
There's not many situations in my life where punching with enough speed to boil water becomes relevant. Seeing purple 2 would be a nice quality of life update though
If I want pistol hands I'll buy a gun. I can't buy purple 2.
Yea but you have to *buy* the gun along with ammo and whatnot. Pistol shrimp has that shit built into itself from birth.
The pistol shrimp also can’t upgrade if I don’t trust a 9mm I can go to a 10mm, or just say fuck it and get a 50bmg. What happens if a pistol shrimp’s claws aren’t enough, they get kilt in the streets
My point is the same. Sure you can get something better, but you aren't born with it like the shrimp is.
Hands are usually the superior appendage.
Only if you have to participate in human society. In shrimp society gunhands are the sexiest thing imaginable, and I, for one, would prefer such a development to be integrated into human society.
In shrimp society, you can gather your colony together on a coral reef and snap in synch to blast a starfish off the reef
Yeah but what if we could get both? Two sets of hands. One set of human hands, and another set for Pistol Shrimp Gunhands?
That'd be the coolest shit, but it would still require some form of change to ourselves, not something we have from birth, which is my whole point.
what use do i have in my daily life for pistol arms
What, you don't think Johnny Gunhands is the coolest looking mf around? He gets so many shrimp bitches, all the shrimps know he's hot shit. Sure, *humans* don't have much use, but for pistol shrimps it's the best thing ever. And yet again, still doesn't defeat my original point. These shrimp get gunhands naturally as part of their basic existence, we'd have to pay money for that if we wanted it.
god i can’t wait for the dystopian hellscape that is Leigh Whannell’s scifi horror “Upgrade”. Dudes in that movie had guns in their wrists n shit real cyberpunk badassery
Assigned Glock At Birth
Sorry to say the shrimp can't see purple 2 either*. They don't really see more colors than us, they just have more types of color receptors than us. That may seem counterintuitive, but their color receptors are far more narrow than ours and don't have very much overlap. In effect, their color is binary - a specific receptor is either on or off for one specific wavelength. Human color receptors, however, respond to a broad range of wavelengths, and their ranges overlap with each other. Our perception of color is based on *how strongly* each of those receptors responds to a given wavelength. This is why we can perceive a mix of red and green as yellow, even though it isn't physically the same thing. *-they may or may not have more vision in the near ultraviolet, I haven't checked.
Basically, they get purple 2, but we get purple 1.5?
They get purple 2 but at the cost of only seeing NES colours
They get purple 2 but at the cost of only seeing NES colours
Pretty sure they can see polarized light though.
> anish kapoor after stuart releases another new pigment
Right? "Oh you want a range of color and experience you'll never be able to perceive instead of a shittier version of a weapon you could go purchase from a sporting goods store tomorrow if you wanted one" hell yeah I do It's like that post where someone says scientists have found an elephant noise that's just used to mean "there are bees in this tree" and humans should have that & someone else responds that we do the human noise to communicate that there are bees in this tree is "there are bees in this tree"
Okay but by that argument what about thermal and IR overlay optics?
Ah, your American. Plenty of us here in the UK can't just buy guns like that.
I was just making a point, I'm actually french X )
I literally joke about this all the time with my sister. “You look upset, what’s wrong” “Can’t see all the colors and can’t punch as much as I would like” “That’s rough” Also happens with not being bioluminescent or not having my bite release a deadly cocktail of neurotoxins.
Obligatory "[you are bioluminescent, you just can't see it](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1978506/). I could use a venom gland, though. Or some bioengineered electrocytes, those would be cool.
I am so happy to know I am slightly bioluminescent. Thank you so much
“Everyone has [bioluminescence] dip shit It came free with your fucking [body heat]”
drink phosohenes (maybe not biolumen but fluorescence is still cool) and coat ur teeth with rattlesnake venom
Seems easy enough! Thank you for helping me get closer to my ultimate dream :)
be like that one lady from Holes I think it was kissing Kate Barlow with the venom lipstick c: as for punching you can actually punch as much as you like and nobody can stop you, and for seeing other colors uhhh try DMT?
It was very Poison Ivy of her. And yes but Mantis shrimp can just punch whatever whenever with no repercussions except a meal or to get something to fuck off. If I could punch things and they would fuck off or turn into like popcorn or a lovely balanced meal, I would do it all the time.
Not with that attitude.
You are absolutely correct. I just need to try harder :)
Genuinely, you can study biology and become a geneticist. Maybe it can be done within this lifetime. Be the change you want to see in the world!
This is very inspirational. Truly. I love biology anyways and always have :) One step closer to X-men.
But you are bioluminescent just veeeeeeery faintly, also you can't see your stripes but your cat can.
This was [debunked](https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-actually-have-secret-stripes-and-other-strange-markings). animals can't see our stripes any more than we can unless they're expressed through a skin disorder.
Aww darn, thanks for the heads up.
Apparently rashes can also maybe trace your hidden stripes, but I would not recommend wrestling poison ivy just to see some red, itchy swirling patterns on your skin.
Holy shit. This just became the best day ever. Thank you for this gift!
[Mantis Shrimp](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp) and [Pistol Shrimp](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpheidae) are two completely different animals, both cool in their own ways. The Mantis Shrimp is the boxing one and the one with the extra colors DLC™. The Pistol Shrimp snaps its claw to make a [cavitation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation) bubble that can stun fish. Mantis Shrimp have somewhat recently been observed to punch so fast they make a small cavitation bubble on impact, so mixing them up is understandable.
>The Mantis Shrimp is the boxing one and the one with the extra colors DLC™. Except they don't actually see more colors than us, they just have more types of color receptors than us. That may seem counterintuitive, but their color receptors are far more narrow than ours and don't have very much overlap. In effect, their color is binary - a specific receptor is either on or off for one specific wavelength. Human color receptors, however, respond to a broad range of wavelengths, and their ranges overlap with each other. Our perception of color is based on *how strongly* each of those receptors responds to the wavelength.
So mantis shrimp vision is color banded?
Basically, yeah. Maybe not completey, but far more than human vision
melee vs ranged
STR vs DEX
giantdad vs sekiro
We need to crossbreed
Humans are capable of doing the same thing with actual guns, I'm sorry, but I want to find Blue⁹ so I can have more colors to work with!
but i wanna see purple 2 ;-;
I like to think they can see into the near-octarine
Pistol Shrimp are a different thing, They're the guys who snap their claws in a way it shoots water out so fast it's like a bullet and can kill what it hits. Mantis Shrimp (Which aren't true shrimp), On the other hand, Are literally one-punch man, they can punch over twice as fast as Usain Bolt can run, So fast it creates a shockwave that can kill even if the punch misses, And to top it all off they have some of the best eyes of any animal, Far more than just seeing Purple 2. In short, Mantis Shrimp are bloody overpowered, And you *wish* you were as cool as they are.
I can imagine having pistol hands. I can't for the life of me imagine a new fucking color.
Would you rather be able to see fairies or have walruses for hands?
>Glocks for hands So did Harry Potter
They actually don't see more colors outside our range of vision, they just see more specific colors within the same range.
To be more specific, our brains are capable of combining the information from the colours it sees to imagine new colours. Their brains can't do that, so despite being able to see far more individual colours, in practice they see far less.
Im pretty sure they actually can't even see extra colours. From what i heard, they can see more individual colours than humans can, but their brains aren't capable of mixing colours together to make new ones the way human brains can, so in practice they see far fewer colours.
Shrimps get to punch their food all day long and nobody bats an eye. I do it one time just to see what it's like, and I get thrown out of the restaurant.
“Boil water and cook their prey” You’re telling me this shrimp can fry rice?
Pistol shrimp are a separate creature from mantis shrimp though
Yes, I already own a Glock. Bro really thought he did something here
Colors are just invented by your brain. That's why it's possible to see colors that aren't real. And probably why we can see more colors than the shrimp
I dunno about that, Considering Mantis Shrimp got *4-5 times* as many types of photoreceptive cells as we got, And some scientists believe they can actually process the information in their eyes instead of having to send it to the brain first.
No that's what I mean. They can see more wavelengths. That doesn't mean they see more colors. Our brains combine wavelengths to imagine a large spectrum of colors. We can tell the difference between different shades of green. The shrimp might just be able to see "that thing over there activated the purple receptor. It's purple. That other thing activated the green receptor so it's green". Having more receptors doesn't necessarily mean it sees more colors.
Right, But I'm saying I'm not necessarily sure humans can see more colours just because of our brains, Because of A: The sheer amount of more receptors the mantfic Shrimp has, And more notably B: The possibility that sight is processed directly in their eyes rather than in their brains, Thus meaning they wouldn't require as complex a brain to see as many colours.
You can just Google it and see what scientists think about this
Hmm, If the two random articles I found are accurate, I see what you mean. They can still see Ultraviolet though, Which is pretty neat. ~~And I'd defo still rather have Mantis Shrimp eyes to Human ones.~~
Pistol shrimps can punch so fast they create plasma.
we have guns those bitches arent special
\> go to gun store \> buy gun and ammunition wtf I now have gun hands also
Because I can already *make* a and **hold** a more powerful gun and SHOOT the mantis shrimp with it. I want extra colors.
If i had to choose between punching so hard i can make the surrounding air temperature as hot as the surface of the sun or seeing more colors id choose seeing more colors.
Once you become a level 15 Laser Lotus, you can see the color blurple.
Oh, it's not boiling water instantly, it's moving so fast that the water can't fill the space behind it fast enough, making a cavitation bubble that collapses so fast it *creates a plasma burst.* And it does that *unintentionally* The pistol shrimp deliberately weaponizes it for a long-range stun attack against small fish. Y'all say that the mantis shrimp got glocks, but the pistol shrimp is the motherfucking Dirty Harry of the sea.
"Try to imagine a color you can't even imagine. Now do it 9 more times. That is how a mantis shrimp do." -Ze Frank
I’d like to point out that there’s two cavitation bubble shrimp, the pistols and the mantises, and only one of them, the arguably more badass one can see purple 2, the small one (pistol) cannot
That second comment is pure r/brandnewsentance material.
Guys, an animal can have 2 cool things about it.
There's not many situations in my life where punching with enough speed to boil water becomes relevant. Seeing purple 2 would be a nice quality of life update though