Spiders Or Worms?

Ever seen proteins go rogue? That's prion diseases in a nutshell! The meme shows the terrifying domino effect where one tiny misfolded prion protein (PrP) triggers a catastrophic chain reaction leading straight to death. It's like that one weird-shaped cookie that ruins the entire batch, but instead of disappointing your taste buds, it melts your brain! These microscopic troublemakers are basically protein zombies - they touch normal proteins and convert them into more misfolded monsters. No wonder they're nicknamed "the origami of doom" in research circles!

While humans are busy dreaming up sci-fi immortality schemes, jellyfish are over here like "been there, done that." The immortal jellyfish ( Turritopsis dohrnii ) literally laughs at death by reverting from adult to polyp stage whenever it feels like it. Humans with their fancy labs and CRISPR technology are still trying to figure out how not to die, while this brainless blob of sea goo just casually reverses its life cycle. Evolution really handed out biological cheat codes to the most random creatures. Next time you're worried about aging, remember there's a jellyfish out there that's potentially older than your great-grandparents and has the biological complexity of a wet napkin.

Nature finds a way... even with your PlayStation! This brilliant mod transforms a PlayStation console into a crab-like creature, perfectly illustrating carcinization—the evolutionary phenomenon where various crustacean species independently evolve into crab-like forms. Biologists call this "convergent evolution," but gamers call it "what happens when you leave your console alone with too many seafood-themed games." Next up: your router evolving into a horseshoe crab and your microwave becoming a trilobite. The circle of tech-life continues!

The emotional journey of species discovery varies wildly by profession! Biologists get that dopamine hit of scientific glory. Scuba divers are like "cool, but will it eat me?" And astronauts? Pure existential terror. Nothing says "we might not be alone after all" quite like finding life where humans have no business surviving. The deep ocean is scary enough, but space? That's a whole new level of "please don't have tentacles." No wonder NASA has protocols for extraterrestrial microbes—they've seen the same sci-fi movies we have!

The perfect evolutionary mic drop! This person is making a Lamarckian argument (that we'd evolve masks if we needed them), completely missing how natural selection actually works. Evolution doesn't respond to "needs" - it's about random variations and differential survival rates over countless generations. The reply is brilliantly pointing out this flawed reasoning by asking about shoes. By that same logic, shouldn't humans have evolved built-in shoes after thousands of years of needing foot protection? Nope, because that's not how Darwin's natural selection works! Lamarck believed organisms could pass on acquired traits (like if you lift weights, your kids would be born stronger). Darwin showed it's actually about genetic variations being selected over time. No amount of mask-wearing will give your kids built-in N95s!

The person who made this meme is experiencing a classic marine biology confusion moment! Jellyfish don't have lungs or gills - they absorb oxygen directly through their thin outer membrane via diffusion. They don't "breathe" like we do at all! It's like wondering how trees survive without eating lunch. Different biological systems, different rules! The creator's progressive confusion across the panels perfectly captures that moment when your brain refuses to let go of a fundamentally flawed premise. Next up: "How do bacteria reproduce without dating apps?" 😂