This gag also appeared in a 1990s In Living Color sketch about a juicer infomercial.
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Let us all know how that works out for you.
Sometimes you just have to. Just not for too long.
become solar panel
…and eat mushrooms
This is just “On Ilkley Moor Baht Hat”. Ye’d lose more heat than that too - it’s well parky up there.
Me when my gf asks "would you still love me if I was a worm?"
No. You would be too powerful for me; mo way to make that ethical. Did you not read 'dune'?
A single gram of uranium contains about 20,000,000,000 calories of energy. That's enough calories to keep you alive for about 27,000 years. Eat uranium to become immortal.
You'll only have to eat it once for the rest of your life!
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
Where have all the flowers gone?
Worms don’t eat dirt. They eat detritus and poop dirt.
Genuinely curious - what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
e,t,u and s
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Very helpful, thank you!
He picked off the decomposing organic debris from the word and pooped the letters out. Now if only we knew what detritus was.
what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
They're pretty similar but it seems:
Detritus - fragments of materials that have disintegrated or worn away.
Dirt - Unclean matter, soil or grime.
Close because I'm pretty sure soil is broken down rocks and stuff.
Well, now that I’ve reviewed up the definition of detritus, not a whole lot.
😂 I would say that detritus is coarser and implies the sense being recognizeable as having been part of a larger whole.
I meant it in the sense of organic debris: leaf litter and such. I think of dirt as being finer and relatively uniform. Water + dirt = mud. Water + detritus = clean detritus.
What I meant was that worms sustain themselves on organic material, and, after they break it down, it is more incorporated in to the soil.
Theres is a whole other discussion to be had whether dirt ≈ soil…
That's actually a very difficult question. In the context if worms and the ops post I think the best definition would be one of energy availability. Detritus would have lower entropy allowing the worms to more easily extract energy. Dirt would have a much higher entropy as many of the complex molecules in the detritus have been broken down into more smaller fragments.
I'll take a shot. "Detritus" is the easier part: it's decaying plant and animal matter. So the worms are eating leaves and stuff after it's started breaking down.
"Dirt" is a little more difficult because it doesn't have as crisp of a definition. Usually when people say "dirt" in this context, they mean "soil," but that's only a little better. The relevant definition for soil is, "the upper layer of earth that may be dug or plowed and in which plants grow."
That detritus gets broken down by bacteria and becomes soil even without worms, but worms do basically the same thing faster. Plus their moving around helps loosen the soil, which also is helpful for growing plants.
More available/easily digestible nutrients probably. Stuff like decomposing leaf litter, dead plants, other animal excrement.
Disclaimer this is a pure guess.
I mean eating only dirt would probably kill you, and (if you believe in that sort of stuff) then you can ascent beyond the corporeal.
And then lose 90% of that pure energy as heat
by doing this you become the worm.
chicken now try to eat you
The Golden Path
That would explain a lot : Leto II became a worm because he ate dirt (spice - and a worm BTW)
I'm already doing this my diet is mostly coffee... And before I hear all you say coffee isn't dirt... I can assure you it was GROUND this morning 🤪
Worm no eat dirt, worm make dirt.
Plants.
Yes, this is genuinely why being vegetarian is good
Trying to picture the size of the bird that eats you
it's also dirt cheap