Then the venomous species says to predators : dont eat me please. And they behave that way too. But they choose to eat others when they are hungry. So it is foul play.
the inverted process of producing toxin and producing the normal constructive food for other animals, is the meaning of survive, food and venom. It is very strategical about venom. The human protein, carbohydrate, and fat is what the body is made from. But if species does not do anything about this, then they will attract other animals to prey on them. eventually they reverse the process of feeding, and produce venom.
If humans are unable to hunt for food, they will evolve glands that produce venom, and they will hunt more easily, that is how vampires extinct, because humans don't accept humans who have fangs and eventually all humans are civilized.
Thanks for posting these djarm67. This documentary was really informative and interesting - although I must say that I am really, REALLY itchy now. lol I think this is the first time I've ever felt sorry for a cockroach. Hopefully, our researchers and governments won't do the wrong sorts of things with this new understanding of venom.
Lol cone snails are regulated? I can go out in my backyard, take a sample of dirt from my shovel to get endospores from Clostridium Botulinum. Then I could grow them in tubes and extract Botulinum toxin - less than 1 thousand of a gram and your dead from respiratory failure - bacteria are underrated :(
Bacteria aren't very mobile and the effort you would have to go through would be the equivalent of setting up a drug lab. So might as well set up a meth lab because you can make more money.
Botulinum toxin does not kill you within 4 minutes, and death rate from botulism is 15%, not 70%. Also, respiratory failure does not necessarily mean death, a person can be put on artificial ventilation until the toxin is metabolised.
I thought a snakes venom gland was supposed to be a "biowarfare factory", so why is a "potential bioweapon" snail more impressive? They need to control their adjectives a little better.
I did consider mentioning him in my post for better effect.
This is the second time in a few days that I have found out how hard it is to exaggerate the stupidity of fundamentalists and creationists. Maybe I shoud stop trying...
I thought that this series was a good illustration of some of the aspects of evolution and it started me thinking about how creationists react to this sort of thing...
It's hard to be funny. Maybe I should have mentioned Comfort...
We couldn't pick up on the sarcasm, remember, if you think its stupid...Creationists have still said way stupider. You can't use hyperbole to mock them.
This is like a good book. I only planned on watching one or two but I couldn't pull myself away and ended up watching all five. Now to get my two hours of sleep :)
matter/antimatter annihilation matrix, it kinda breaks a few thousand international and environmental laws, thats why it can only be operated in space. however i am yet to design, build, test, and use this device. also seeing as how i am made of matter such a device could prove "interesting" to my health.
hypothetically speaking (since we don't actually have any to show (unless I missed a memo somewhere :p)). But unless a poison could only affect things that we don't consist of, it would do nothing?
It's an assertion, but with sound logic behind it. If it's wrong it would be a very big surprise given what we know. Venoms are poisonous because they are highly refined to do a specific task. The taipan venom in this film is aimed at clotting blood, for example, but if it bites a tree... no blood, no effect. It needs clotting agents to work.
A silicon based life form will have venom honed to shut down the functions of other silicon based lifeforms. We would be safe from such toxins.
Think of a computer virus. It is honed to attack a security flaw in windows XP. It won't work on a Mac or on Linux and they are closely related products.
If someone told you a computer virus had infected a steam engine, you'd be completely non-plussed because there is no way for it to happen.
We also wouldn't be able to eat silicon based life either (atleast, not get nutrition from it) because it wouldn't have any of the proteins or vitamins we need.
Actually if a creature had a REALLY exotic biochemistry, its venom could still be deadly to us, but in a completelly different way to how it kills its intended target. Consider an alien that used ammonia as its solvent, while we almost certainly wouldn't have the particular biochemical pathway that the venom usually attacks, you still wouldn't want a direct injection of ammonia.
How am I wrong, I was referring to the fact that they wither and weaken due to microgravity environment?
If you mean, because you wouldn't feel the effects, well that is true, until you try to enter a normal gravity enviroment again, but it would still suck.
Wow a very interesting show! It is a very interesting topic. As bad as it sounds I am really interesting in the very deadly things like venom and such. I only hope that I could do research on these things one day. Again, great show, I really enjoyed watching it!
man dont fuck with snails
HorrorMovieReviewGuy 2 weeks ago
Then the venomous species says to predators : dont eat me please. And they behave that way too. But they choose to eat others when they are hungry. So it is foul play.
icemindreallife 1 month ago
the inverted process of producing toxin and producing the normal constructive food for other animals, is the meaning of survive, food and venom. It is very strategical about venom. The human protein, carbohydrate, and fat is what the body is made from. But if species does not do anything about this, then they will attract other animals to prey on them. eventually they reverse the process of feeding, and produce venom.
icemindreallife 1 month ago
If humans are unable to hunt for food, they will evolve glands that produce venom, and they will hunt more easily, that is how vampires extinct, because humans don't accept humans who have fangs and eventually all humans are civilized.
icemindreallife 1 month ago
thats how awesome us humans are we can take all the venoms and turn them into something beneficial, we are the ultimate lifeforms >8D
TheGeckoNinja 5 months ago
Thanks again DJ.
Pazma1 6 months ago
Radioactive scorpion venom you say?
palmer045 9 months ago
what kills us cure us. gotta love nature.
111E982a 10 months ago
The one snail to rule them all is the Cone-snail
LadyBarricade 1 year ago
Fuck these snails.
Kill them all, with fire.
glowerpower 1 year ago
@glowerpower They live under water, good luck using fire.
f00tstep 10 months ago
Thank you for the post
Ultra4 2 years ago
Thanks for posting these djarm67. This documentary was really informative and interesting - although I must say that I am really, REALLY itchy now. lol I think this is the first time I've ever felt sorry for a cockroach. Hopefully, our researchers and governments won't do the wrong sorts of things with this new understanding of venom.
M0US3P0T4TO 2 years ago
Thank you so much for UPLOADING these VIDS.
Peace & Happiness
tenshady 2 years ago
Lol cone snails are regulated? I can go out in my backyard, take a sample of dirt from my shovel to get endospores from Clostridium Botulinum. Then I could grow them in tubes and extract Botulinum toxin - less than 1 thousand of a gram and your dead from respiratory failure - bacteria are underrated :(
xxDickBonesxx 2 years ago
Bacteria aren't very mobile and the effort you would have to go through would be the equivalent of setting up a drug lab. So might as well set up a meth lab because you can make more money.
madzyzome 2 years ago
Botulinum toxin does not kill you within 4 minutes, and death rate from botulism is 15%, not 70%. Also, respiratory failure does not necessarily mean death, a person can be put on artificial ventilation until the toxin is metabolised.
OktoberSunset 2 years ago
Radioactive scorpion venom :)
That sounds like it would definitely kill something.
Ypthor 2 years ago 2
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing. You might want to patrol the comments for trolls though. I hate trolls -_-
happysplodie 2 years ago 2
This has been flagged as spam show
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fyourcouchnigga 2 years ago
I thought a snakes venom gland was supposed to be a "biowarfare factory", so why is a "potential bioweapon" snail more impressive? They need to control their adjectives a little better.
metalorg 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing, great videos!
tbillinger 2 years ago 3
amazing series, ill admit.
thanks so much :)
paritoshmehta123 2 years ago 3
i remember doing a project about cone snails in high school and thought it was one of the most interesting animals alive!
PikminDS 2 years ago 2
Thanks for posting!
nevinyrralsdisk 2 years ago 3
cool show
Frances3654 2 years ago 3
Great series, thanks for posting it! (Though I was hoping they'd talk about Frys research of Colubrids...:)
aameenah 2 years ago 4
Alas, whenever you discuss snake venom, you invariably spend the time on vipers, elapids and occasionally hydrophiids. Boomslangs are so under rated.
djarm67 2 years ago 2
Great series. Thank you.
buzzausa 2 years ago 6
When I evolve, I shall fly with my hover penis and have some type of beer cooler hands.
UbeefHooked 2 years ago
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Echo5joker 2 years ago
Great video series! Thanks for posting!
NisseHult101 2 years ago 2
I note that these brain dead scientists are still harping on about evolution even though that theory has been well and truly debunked.
(I doubt if people will understand this. Never mind...)
RONLAST 2 years ago
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seededfury 2 years ago
Evolution Debuked? By who?....Kent hovind?
revolvingdoo 2 years ago
I did consider mentioning him in my post for better effect.
This is the second time in a few days that I have found out how hard it is to exaggerate the stupidity of fundamentalists and creationists. Maybe I shoud stop trying...
I thought that this series was a good illustration of some of the aspects of evolution and it started me thinking about how creationists react to this sort of thing...
It's hard to be funny. Maybe I should have mentioned Comfort...
RONLAST 2 years ago
@RONLAST
Your comment was tame by creationist standards. You'll have to do better than that.
Saktoth 2 years ago
We couldn't pick up on the sarcasm, remember, if you think its stupid...Creationists have still said way stupider. You can't use hyperbole to mock them.
revolvingdoo 2 years ago
My Sarcasmometer's been broken ever since I stumbled onto EdwardCurrent's channel.
evilotakuneko 2 years ago
@ronlast
Your post is patronising and dishonest.
pete975 2 years ago
@RONLAST Don't feed the troll.
naughtypagan72 2 years ago
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evilotakuneko 2 years ago
This is like a good book. I only planned on watching one or two but I couldn't pull myself away and ended up watching all five. Now to get my two hours of sleep :)
WaxItYourself 2 years ago
fuck you nature im going to live out in space where you can't get me
thisis3d 2 years ago 2
what makes you think you're safe in space? ;)
don't be surprised if silicon-based poisonous lifeforms get you :P
Sutskoen 2 years ago
matter/antimatter annihilation matrix, it kinda breaks a few thousand international and environmental laws, thats why it can only be operated in space. however i am yet to design, build, test, and use this device. also seeing as how i am made of matter such a device could prove "interesting" to my health.
thisis3d 2 years ago
@Sutskoen
Poisons from a silicon based lifeform would be harmless to carbon based life. The toxins have to based in a similar protein history.
AnonEyeMouse 2 years ago 2
isn't that just an assertion you make?
hypothetically speaking (since we don't actually have any to show (unless I missed a memo somewhere :p)). But unless a poison could only affect things that we don't consist of, it would do nothing?
Sutskoen 2 years ago
It's an assertion, but with sound logic behind it. If it's wrong it would be a very big surprise given what we know. Venoms are poisonous because they are highly refined to do a specific task. The taipan venom in this film is aimed at clotting blood, for example, but if it bites a tree... no blood, no effect. It needs clotting agents to work.
A silicon based life form will have venom honed to shut down the functions of other silicon based lifeforms. We would be safe from such toxins.
AnonEyeMouse 2 years ago
Think of a computer virus. It is honed to attack a security flaw in windows XP. It won't work on a Mac or on Linux and they are closely related products.
If someone told you a computer virus had infected a steam engine, you'd be completely non-plussed because there is no way for it to happen.
We also wouldn't be able to eat silicon based life either (atleast, not get nutrition from it) because it wouldn't have any of the proteins or vitamins we need.
AnonEyeMouse 2 years ago
Actually if a creature had a REALLY exotic biochemistry, its venom could still be deadly to us, but in a completelly different way to how it kills its intended target. Consider an alien that used ammonia as its solvent, while we almost certainly wouldn't have the particular biochemical pathway that the venom usually attacks, you still wouldn't want a direct injection of ammonia.
Aletheophile 2 years ago
You are right on this, but it wouldn't be the venom's evolved tactic that killed us, just the reaction to its component parts.
In that regard it could kill us with it's breath or farts or even just touching it's skin.
AnonEyeMouse 2 years ago
yeah, I can't help but admit that it'd be unlikely that silicon-based poisons would likely not affect us.
My main point at first was that the guy I responded to, was not safe in space :P
Sutskoen 2 years ago
Agreed, being that close to vacuum and having all of your muscles and bones wither and weaken seems about as bad as being slowly poisoned.
AnonEyeMouse 2 years ago
Now I have to say that you're wrong :p muscle and bone tissue would only wither because it's not as needed, without any force exerted or needed.
It would probably suck pretty hard to go planetside, after a decade in space, with no exercising equipment :P
Sutskoen 2 years ago
How am I wrong, I was referring to the fact that they wither and weaken due to microgravity environment?
If you mean, because you wouldn't feel the effects, well that is true, until you try to enter a normal gravity enviroment again, but it would still suck.
AnonEyeMouse 2 years ago
@thisis3d In space no one can hear you scream :p
naughtypagan72 2 years ago
Thanks for uploading these djarm! I love watching this stuff.
freedom0f5peech 2 years ago
too bad the blue ringed octopus didnt get any love...
BobChaos23 2 years ago
Wow a very interesting show! It is a very interesting topic. As bad as it sounds I am really interesting in the very deadly things like venom and such. I only hope that I could do research on these things one day. Again, great show, I really enjoyed watching it!
fatmon 2 years ago
Thank you djarm67.
deadman12078 2 years ago 7