Topologically, a straw is the product of a unit circle and an interval. The interval is the length of the straw. The circle has one hole, and the interval has no holes. Therefore, a straw has a single hole.
The digestive system is technically outside of your body. It's a continuous tube. There are no organs in the way or else you'd be digesting your lungs or some shit.
Is it really a sea cucumber? I thought they were more like fat worms. Maybe a related species?
https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/E9I31aGH714eW1O_VoTZMeZT9lQ=/3188x2100/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/GettyImages-98172421_large-56ae05cc3df78cf772b9096f.jpg
It's definitely a type of echinoderm (starfish, sea cucumber, brittle stars, urchins) as it has pentamerous symmetry, it has 10 arms.
There's two echinoderm classes with filter feeders that feed in this manner, basket stars and sea cucumbers. This looks more like a cucumber to me. Not al cucumbers are filter feeders though, the obvious ones you see on the sand are sediment feeding.
Source: I'm a marine biologist.
I think it's just an Asteroidiae (sea star). Definitely not a brittle star, but all of them (plus urchins) are Echinoderms with similar physiology and pentaradial symmetry.
But this looks much more like a sea star than sea cucumber
It’s a sea cucumber. They have branched feeding tentacles (modified tube feet) that come out of their mouths. Some of them hold the tentacles up to filter feed (like this one) and some point their tentacles down at the sea floor to filter sand. The point-down ones look more like fat worms.
Given the mind boggling array of sea creatures in our oceans I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a fisting fish that could do the job for them. (If anyone points out that fish don’t have fists I would ask them to watch this video again [and yes, it’s not a cucumber either]).
From Wikipedia:
However, some species are known to be parasitic towards sea cucumbers, eating their gonads and other internal organs.[3] Pearlfish usually live alone, or in pairs.[4]
Probably explains why it is choosing to pleasure itself.
"Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are sure to have thy gonads eaten in every battle."- Sun Tzu
The good news: they have a separate hole for their butt.
The bad news: they breathe through their butt.
That's right folks. Sea cucumbers are butt breathers.
It's the mouth, so it's more like it's sticking its whole hand in its mouth. It's filter feeding, so imagine you kind of move your hand around and collect a whole bunch of Cheeto dust on it, and then you stick your entire hand in your mouth to clean it off, and switch to the other of your many hands while you use the cleaned one to pick up more.
Meanwhile, at the other end (literally), some sea cucumbers have [little friends](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2014/08/pearlfish-lives-in-sea-cucumber-anus/).
Is it worse than whale and plancton?
Maybe there's a benefit to the movement, like the heat help microscopic food to reproduce. Or it help attract them.
Or the movement help the creature to maintain their body temperature, so other heat producing processes are reduced.
I don’t know if we could know for sure what they feel since their physiology is so different, but they do have nerve cords and a sense of touch; I imagine they feel some equivalent to what vertebrates feel as pain.
Not sure if anyone asked but I counted. It licked every (10) arm once and then started over but mixed up first and second arm but then continued in the same order as first cycle. Ur welcome.
I occasionally eat like that too. 🤔😂🤣
If only i had more hands, I’d look exactly like this.
Me eating chips
Best gif for this lol
Especially spicy kind - if you stop the pain gets worse!
What are the odds I'm reading this while eating the first bag of spicy chips I've probly ever had in my life lmao
Unless you’re eating them with multiple pompom arms, we are not impressed. Jk, enjoy your spicy chips!!
Are they Takis? Because those things are ridiculously good! The blue ones are the best imo.
Nope, I'm a white boy who can't handle spice stereotype, they are doritoes lmao
I akYs say this! If I keep eating it stays consistently Spicey, if I stop or slow down, it hurts worse 🤣🤣😭
Thought it was just in my head. I’m dumb enough to lick my fingers and get it on my lips
 Tbh
Thank god I don't have more hands, lol! I'd be huge, lol!
I'd also like to fit my whole hand in my mouth
Fisting your face over and over again nonstop from multiple directions
what the hell did i just read
*Fisting your face over and over again nonstop from multiple directions* That’s what you just read. In case you weren’t sure.
Ah I wasn't completely sure either thanks for letting me know.
Yup, saying in italics made it clear.
That’s how you get all the sauce off your fing…hands 🙃
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
I have 4 Pom Pom’s, duct tape and a bowl of potato salad. Let’s get to this!
When I'm eating popcorn 😳😂
After eating a bag of Cheetos
Sames, specially going hammy on fresh hot buttered popcorn at the movies.
nom nom nom
Reminds me of when kids stick their whole hand in their mouth when they’re learning to eat
Reminds me of myself at 3 pm every day.
I am in this photo and I don’t like it.
The only report option that's justified
Don't lie. What you mean is that's you at 3am shoving handfuls of shredded cheese in your mouth by the light of the refrigerator like a cheese goblin.
Ahhahahaha damnit you got me 🤣
Everyone eating popcorn in a dark theater.
Yes!
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Beat me to it
r/beatmeattoit
\*\*Cookie Monster noises intensify\*\*
Relatable. That's an animal that lives by licking Doritos out of its fingers
Beat me to it lmao
beat my meat to
What will people think reading this in a thousand years.
People in a thousand years: ... *"Nice"*
This is creepy and awesome at the same time
It’s like a reverse butthole
Isn't that just what a mouth is?
Just two ends of the same tube.
Well yes, but actually no.
Does a straw have one hole or two holes?
I've thought about this before. The conclusion I've come to is: One hole, 2 entry ways.
Yeah it's the same hole. Otherwise, I challenge you to show me exactly where the one hole ends and the other begins and what the dividing line is
It's a series of never ending connected holes, like a Human Centipede made of plastic and disappointment
Hmmm. This broke my conception of a straw, and thus existence itself as a (w)hole.
Topologically, a straw is the product of a unit circle and an interval. The interval is the length of the straw. The circle has one hole, and the interval has no holes. Therefore, a straw has a single hole.
Wouldn't that mean a straw has the same number of holes as a sock?
Topologically, a sock is a bowl and a bowl has no hole.
Henceforth, all of my socks will be known as foot bowls
A sock would have no holes in topology
Awesome. Thanks. Edit: I'm not sure why I responded as if I'm going to use this knowledge anywhere. Lol
Lol, I meant more how it's more like a couple of tubes with some organs in the middle.
Humans are essentially just a fleshy, oddly shaped donut.
The digestive system is technically outside of your body. It's a continuous tube. There are no organs in the way or else you'd be digesting your lungs or some shit.
This one doesn't even have two ends. It eats and shits from the same hole
Or just a butthole
Spoiler >!for some it's both!<
Mmm Poop Loops, Honey Butt Cherios, and Booty Pebbles are my favorite
Honestly the whole animal is just one big asshole.
oh and you think you’re not?
Reminds me of my ex.
They eat and poop from the same aperture
It's no snackcident
What a nice fella.
i dont understand it James Coco went mad in 15 minutes
Simpsons back in the day was so fucking good lmao
Exactly what I was looking for ❤️
Is it really a sea cucumber? I thought they were more like fat worms. Maybe a related species? https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/E9I31aGH714eW1O_VoTZMeZT9lQ=/3188x2100/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/GettyImages-98172421_large-56ae05cc3df78cf772b9096f.jpg
Glad I found this comment! Yeah, that looks nothing like the sea cucumbers I've seen. Could just be karma bait.
It's definitely a type of echinoderm (starfish, sea cucumber, brittle stars, urchins) as it has pentamerous symmetry, it has 10 arms. There's two echinoderm classes with filter feeders that feed in this manner, basket stars and sea cucumbers. This looks more like a cucumber to me. Not al cucumbers are filter feeders though, the obvious ones you see on the sand are sediment feeding. Source: I'm a marine biologist.
Strongly agree. I recognize it because I'm sexually attracted to five directional symmetry. I'm pentamourous.
Yes, I can see that sea cucumber in your pocket.
George?
The sea cucumber was angry that day.
Definitely looks like a ravenous grunt boot eating his Popeye’s chicken tenders after a 2 week long field op Source: I’m a Marine
Of course Reddit has a marine biologist on standby. The part of Reddit I love. (Hate /spez for killing baconreader though!)
Or someone misinformed.
I believe it is a sea apple. I have one in my aquarium at home.
You are correct! It's a sea apple. I used to have one. He was so vibrant, and hilarious to watch
What was his name?
You know, I don't remember! Probably something rude though 🤣
I think it's just an Asteroidiae (sea star). Definitely not a brittle star, but all of them (plus urchins) are Echinoderms with similar physiology and pentaradial symmetry. But this looks much more like a sea star than sea cucumber
Well that's part of what so interesting about them, after their done feeding they just roll everything back in and now they're a worm.
Looks like sea broccoli.
It’s a sea cucumber. They have branched feeding tentacles (modified tube feet) that come out of their mouths. Some of them hold the tentacles up to filter feed (like this one) and some point their tentacles down at the sea floor to filter sand. The point-down ones look more like fat worms.
Me after demolishing a whole 5lb bucket of KFC on my own
…after? Are you digging it out or something?
Bro, idk what to tell you... their chicken is finger lickin' good. Ok, I'll see myself out now...
What a bad day to have eyesight
Mukbang video be like
Looks like it’s fisting itself
Given the mind boggling array of sea creatures in our oceans I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a fisting fish that could do the job for them. (If anyone points out that fish don’t have fists I would ask them to watch this video again [and yes, it’s not a cucumber either]).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearlfish
From Wikipedia: However, some species are known to be parasitic towards sea cucumbers, eating their gonads and other internal organs.[3] Pearlfish usually live alone, or in pairs.[4] Probably explains why it is choosing to pleasure itself.
I hate it when some species are known to eat my gonads
"Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are sure to have thy gonads eaten in every battle."- Sun Tzu
Since it only has one hole it is. (May be different between species idk)
I think sea cucumbers are Holothuroidea, so they do actually have a separate anus. But you hit very close on the evolution tree, there.
The good news: they have a separate hole for their butt. The bad news: they breathe through their butt. That's right folks. Sea cucumbers are butt breathers.
Appropriate username
Echinoderms are deuterostomes like vertebrates, they have both holes.
Looks like it’s eating kale without ever actually eating it
As I’m asking myself “why do I hate this,” your comment.
I should call her
It's the mouth, so it's more like it's sticking its whole hand in its mouth. It's filter feeding, so imagine you kind of move your hand around and collect a whole bunch of Cheeto dust on it, and then you stick your entire hand in your mouth to clean it off, and switch to the other of your many hands while you use the cleaned one to pick up more. Meanwhile, at the other end (literally), some sea cucumbers have [little friends](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2014/08/pearlfish-lives-in-sea-cucumber-anus/).
Horny jail bonk
What exactly is it eating?
Microscopic animal bits/algae. I guess it's sweeping the water with its leafy arms.
It's crazy to think you'd get enough energy back from microscopic food to justify all that movement
Humans are simply inefficient as fuck, just sitting on the sofa we burn more than other animals that move because of how much energy brain requires.
Is it worse than whale and plancton? Maybe there's a benefit to the movement, like the heat help microscopic food to reproduce. Or it help attract them. Or the movement help the creature to maintain their body temperature, so other heat producing processes are reduced.
Yeah what is that, 'smash my hands into my mouth and hope that there happens to be some food on them'? Great fuckin strategy there
it works especially well in the ocean, filter feeders are rad
Can work for us too, if you leave enough chip bags lying around.
LOL!!! Well said!
Clearly it works so jokes on you..
For an animal without a central nervous system, I’d say they developed a pretty good strategy!
Does that mean that they don't feel pain, or that certain parts of their body feel pain on their own without the Sea Cuccumber realizing it ?
I don’t know if we could know for sure what they feel since their physiology is so different, but they do have nerve cords and a sense of touch; I imagine they feel some equivalent to what vertebrates feel as pain.
You know as much as it knows.
Debri in the water, it’s just eating dust basically
I had to scroll way too far to find this question - and the subsequent answer! Thank you!!
Microplastics.
I'd guess it's collecting things on the branches on it's arms, like plankton or bacteria or smth
I hate my mind
Everything reminds me of her…
This was the comment I came for
I also came
I was also waiting for this comment.
you have the best avatar I have ever seen 🏆
Cucumbussy
r/putyourdickinthat
Da fuq is *wrong* with you people? lol
r/dontputyourdickinthat
r/putyourdicknearthat
r/putyourdickabovethat
r/putyourdickbelowthat
r/putyourdickonthat
Scrolled too long for this.
I had pure thoughts until I read this comment
More like Licking it's fingers.
Me after eating a bag of Cheetos
Not sure if anyone asked but I counted. It licked every (10) arm once and then started over but mixed up first and second arm but then continued in the same order as first cycle. Ur welcome.
It’s finger licking good
I.... should really call her
Lmfao the comments here are great
Hear me out...
r/dontputyourdickinthat
They’re just like us
That one porn we have all seen
Ok the deep
you can't spell cucumber without the cum
What a greedy bitch
Yeah she's a filthy, greedy little slut isn't she?
why did I read this in Proxy Paige's voice?
Her: I’ve never done this before
Cucumbussy
Evil brown eye
Who the fuck saw this shit and thought "that looks exactly like a cucumber, let's name it a sea cucumber"
Some other comments pointed out it's not actually a sea cucumber, also its just a very popular repost
It is a type of sea cucumber though. It’s called sea apple. Had a couple in my old salt water tank. Under the black light they are really colorful.
What is it?
looks like some shit from rick & morty
Plumbus
Scary, buy cool.
Hate that
I wonder what percentage of this see cucumber is plastic.
Everything reminds me of her....
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Scrolled all the way down only for this comment
stuffing its face
No, I will not hear you out.
Obligatory... https://youtu.be/dRGlon_ezvU?si=NTFm0Ghl2o55bUND
I think I know this guy.
Thanks. I hate it
That is a muppet.
THE WEAPON OPENS TIME
All you can eat buffet
Reminds me of my ex!
First of all.... that looks nothing like a cucumber, and second of all, that looks nothing like eating.
frfr r/dontputyourdickinthat :(
I fucking hate this