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Blending in like a pro 🐙😶‍🌫️

This red octopus (Octopus rubescens) blends seamlessly into the sandy seafloor, patiently waiting for its next meal to wander by. Like other octopuses, it can rapidly change both its color and skin texture to match its surroundings, making it remarkably difficult to spot.

Red octopuses feed on mollusks, fishes, small crabs, and other crustaceans. Researchers have found that they spend their early lives drifting in the water column before settling onto the seafloor as adults.

gnotknormal

If I could body swap for a day (and know I wouldn't die) I would have to be an octopus for a day.

this post is too long but I will consume 400 other posts that take up far more space than the long post.

#urgh #dopamine I hate it #Gnot me

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digitaldiscipline

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

I guess on Tuesday I ask my therapist how I do let the stress pass through my body and let it go when every five minutes I'm reminded I'm about to be homeless 🥲

#need a fucking cuddle guys #Gnot me #life stuff

wiisagi-maiingan

Robbie Williams Angels + Sephiroth compilation AMV

#occasionally I think about things that I would like to see #but I'm too lazy to make it #and I sure as fuck ain't asking so #so I just put it in a Tumblr post and hope for the best #Gnot me

orpheusilver

peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it

orpheusilver

dont do this

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cryptcollector

I really hope its not too bad bc i actually love both components.

cryptcollector

it forms a dry skin at the top made of the sour pellets. not a great start.

cryptcollector

tastes really good actually. i also feel like i am about to explode.

cryptcollector

do not do this.

jenjensd

Unanimous consensus: Do not do this

Other people: Hold on I’m about to do this

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beeceit-deactivatingsoon-deacti

Rip to y'all, but I'm built different. Trying this tonight

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Best I can do with what I have (I'm at work rn)

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Oh that is a... fascinating smell

beeceit-deactivatingsoon-deacti

Don't do this

ab-arts

Alright now I’m curious

ab-arts

Didn't have strips so I made what I call battery acid cereal

ab-arts

Don't do this

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im gonna do it

bisexualjeans

someone tell me what happened to them a couple days after consuming this if it didn’t kill you

greg-jar-mp3

Science side of tumblr please explain

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So on another reblog chain it was explained by @rosespirit, their explanation below

I keep seeing this post going around so, for folks who want to know why not, here’s a chemist’s hypothesis:

-Human saliva has an average pH of ~6.7 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3800408/), which is pretty neutral.

-Monster energy has a pH of ~2.7 (https://patientconnect365.com/DentalHealthTopics/Article/Energy_Drinks_and_Your_Teeth_Should_You_Worry), which is quite acidic but not dangerous, except to your tooth enamel if consumed in large quantities.

-Rainbow sour belts contain malic acid (a common food additive as a potent acidifier and sour-flavor agent), citric acid (another common sour flavoring in pretty much everything) as well as ascorbic acid (aka vitamin C, used here mainly as a preservative). (https://candypros.com/products/sour-belts-bulk-rainbow)

-All of these acids when added to water would normally release their protons (H+ ions), thereby making the water solution more acidic. However, a chemical constant of these acids called the acid dissociation constant (pKa for short) indicates the pH of a solution at which acids are most likely to keep or release their protons. The pKa’s* of these acids are higher (3.4, 3.1, and 4.2 for malic, citric, and ascorbic acids respectively) than the pH of the solution (2.7), which essentially means that the acids can’t release their protons and all that acidic potential is trapped in the solid formulation of the candy.

-There’s also some evidence that sugar decreases the solubility of acids in water solutions (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3411471/ only sorbic acid is discussed here but it’s relatively structurally similar to the acids in discussion). The undoubtedly high sugar content of both the Monster and the candy therefore may contribute to the accounts of the sour crystals bubbling/floating on top of the solution instead of dissolving.

-Malic acid in particular is notorious for causing mouth irritation when eaten in high quantities.

-Thus, I can imagine that upon consuming the battery acid spaghetti, not only is the mix itself quite potently sweet/sour, but also the solid malic acid coming into direct contact with your mouth quickly becomes painful, and as the solution mixes with your (pH neutral) saliva the trapped acidity of the malic/citric/ascorbic acids is dumped into your mouth and esophagus, creating a sensation that I can only imagine is similar to consuming actual battery acid (pH = 0.8).

(*Each of these acids actually has multiple pKa’s corresponding to number of protons they’re able to donate, but really only the lowest pKa is useful here since once that one dissociates then all of the other ones are already dissociated too.)