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[–] orenj 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So does the mother cell no longer exist, or is she her own daughters and still totally the same amoeba lady, just twice?

[–] grandma@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This better not awaken anything in me

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

Narrator: It will.

[–] aciddev@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 hours ago

We always love when woman turns into women.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Beautiful, but the hair things, esp. 3 and 5, dont line up with what I remember from bio

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 5 points 13 hours ago

I feel like this makes everything more confusing. You cannot really follow the hair pins through time because the person takes them out of their hair at one time and the alignment isn't in the hair. And step 4 confuses what it says (the sister chromatides almost divided) with what it actually shows (the cells almost divided).

[–] tod@slrpnk.net 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

ew, a woman? on the internet? weird (/s)

god forbid a girl have some fun on the internet (smh)

[–] tod@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

i'll allow it but try not to get progesterone on everything

spills bottle

what did you say?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can't do this and not say cleavage. C'mon!

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

They're minerals, Marie!

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

...what? I think you might commented on the wrong post

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

The pinching of the cytoplasm when it starts to split in mitosis is known as cleavage.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I think you might have failed biology class :-|

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 10 hours ago

easy there, honest mistake

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 22 hours ago

Dang, it's been too long. I shoulda figured out the joke, but the memory was recessive.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 70 points 1 day ago

The hair clips are a nice detail.

[–] Keegen@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thank you, what an awesome artist. they're also on bluesky!

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Is it gay if it's cytokinesis?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

history will say they were roommates

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... and that's how a slime girl is 'born'.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

you just insulted my entire race!

... but also, yes

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Dub ist eine ... schleimfrau?

Ein ... ... glibberwesen?

... And that's the extent of my German.

I will now return to 'Gorlami'.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

sometimes i feel like it, but not currently actually.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Hah!

Are... was I even close to how you'd say 'slime girl' in... what my ancestors call 'Pennsylvania Dutch'?

('Deutsch', eh too hard to spell, lets go with 'Dutch', to mean German. ... yeah.)

Slime-woman?

Goop-person/being?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

you were surprisingly accurate even

Dub ist

It's "Du bist" though - you are

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, whoops!

An actual rookie mistake, hahaha!

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

no, a rookie mistake would be to move diagonally when you can only move straight

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Hrm.

I think I'll try spinning, thats a good trick!

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

fun fact: when a rook spins, it's still in the same configuration afterwards, no matter what angle it spins by. This is because rooks fulfill the S(2π) supersymmetry and when you rotate them, it's still the same state. This is why rooks don't lose any energy when they spin around! In fact many say they have their round shape due to being molded while spinning, similar to a potter's wheel. Anyways that gains them their special power which is they can store large amounts of magnetic energy in the field due to circular currents flowing inside them without actually experiencing any resistance. They can then use that magnetic field to power something similar to a magnetic coil gun similar to how a medieval fortress might have shot arrows down from the tower, which gives them their long range and makes them so scary.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

(I have no idea what i'm talking about.)

And yet I actually follow what you are saying, silly it may be, it is... theoretically, technically sound.

So for spinning rooks, (especially when accelerated to rotational velocities experienced in a coil gun), to avoid the gimbal lock problem, you can use quaternions to represent their actual orientation, which... more or less, is complexifying their 3D orientation vector into being a 4D object, manipulating it in 4 space, and then solving or reducing the 4D object back to its 3D shadow/original self, to know its 3 space orientation.

This is particularly helpful when playing any kind of chess that involves more than 2 dimensions, as well as keeping track of long distance ballistic deviation due to projectile wobble, and/or a ballistic trajectory through different ambient pressure/resistance/drag-inducing gradients.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

So sad that Abbey & Brittany are stuck at stage 4.

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Love the Junji Ito reference

[–] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

That's adorable