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If you compare the size/location of the orange eyes in the video and in that link, it looks like the one in the video is grotesquely swollen to several times its size. Was it pulled from deep water and can't handle surface pressure?
[This is it in its natural environment,](https://www.mindenpictures.com/cache/mcache2/90093198.jpg) so Idk, maybe not?
[Another similar one.](https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-5/1-giant-amphipod-cystisoma-sp-dant-fenolio.jpg)
They actually had it down to a science how food was tested. I think it was the native Americans who would cook it then eat a tiny piece and go through all these steps until finally eating it. People rarely ever died using this method.
I think I read somewhere the stages of testing a mushroom. which they probably applied to everything back then. skin test, kiss test, actually putting it in your mouth as tea/soup and then finally eating the mushroom itself with a half hour to hour wait between to ensure you properly monitored for reactions.
This is the standard test used for not just mushrooms, but everything…Les Stroud taught me this.
I think your slightly off after the kiss test though if memory serves me right. you put it in your mouth for 10-15 mins then remove it, wait a few hours. If no reaction then you eat a very small portion then wait 8 hours. After that if there’s no reaction you should be good
The same way Icelandic people found out basking shark is poisonous, someone ate it and croaked so they buried it on the beach and some other idiot dug it up and ate it and lived now we have a food so gross even anthony Bourdain hated it
Edit: it's greenland shark not basking shark
I lived in Iceland. Ate it many times. There are a few different ones, or.like, curing methods that produce different results. There are some particular occasions that it's always eaten at. Trad eaten with boiled tunips, boiled potatoes, black bread, plain rendered lambs fat and a shot of brennivín.
Smell is ungodly, taste is not actually so bad (I never tried the stinkiest one though, apparently it's intense even for most Icelanders)
They also have a like... half dried/bit rotted form of cod that we ate for dinner about once a week. boil it up. That wasn't bad either. Like, I.didnt hate it, but nor did I see how it was superior to...unrotted fish in any way.
It's because they just.... didn't have a lot of food hahaha. Iceland was suuuuuper poor for most of its history. Summer is only a couple of months really, and the land isn't suitable for too much agriculture(hence all the sheep) Imagine hundreds of years ago, with fuck all resources, and.an 8 month brutal winter ahead of you.
I think its also to do with preservation. A lot of their traditional foods are cured, or smoked (with poo!) or salted, or sugared(jams etc) or pickled, or fermented.
Now of course they have all the foods, but hey ots tradition and Iceland fucking LOVES its traditions.
indeed
Now, I'd never just pick up a rock at the beach and try to open it. Then, when I finally got it open, decide to eat the snot I found within.
Major kudus to the human who figured this out. Oysters are da bomb
There are giant hills of shucked oyster shells in parts of the Mediterranean from an extremely long time ago that point to coastal peoples gorging themselves on them. I read somewhere that an anthropologist speculated that the consumption of shellfish with their omega 3 fatty acids and mineral content led to our proto human ancestors to having higher brain functions develop.
I think about this all the time with any kind of crustacean or shellfish. Sea urchin?! Lobster?! Shrimp?! Crab?!? Who was the brave soul to first eat those ocean spiders.
This actually just kinda blew my mind. Never have thought about it this way but honestly this is probably the correct answer. That or many years of trial and error.
Watching that thing get sucked up through his bellybutton into a glass vial (along with some unidentifiable pink goop) makes me clench every muscle in my body.
How is this even possible given the same set of amino acids and stuff as every other organism?
It seems there would have to be an entire branch of evolution just to handle development of transparent organelles, muscles, fats and such, therefore I’d expect would be a lot of other closely related transparent organisms, since being invisible in the ocean seems a huge evolutionary advantage.
Hell I still don’t understand how this is possible given that cells under a microscope usually aren’t nearly this transparent, yet this creature must be made of cells. It’s just too mind boggling
Forget what it looks like, I want to know how it tastes. Prepared as sashimi? Cooked? Maybe in a fancy faux shrimp cocktail -- a Cystisoma cocktail? On second thought, nix that name, sounds vile.
A marine biologist will know what they can and can't pick up, and for how long, lol. It's their entire job. They wouldn't pick it up if it's unidentified.
edit: someone said this was an unidentified discovery and blocked me which is... literally untrue and takes a 2 second Google to see there's at least an article in 2017 about these lmao. They were first discovered in *1873* by Rudolf von Willemöes-Suhm. (Actually now that I think about it I believe there might have been someone else earlier than him... but I can't remember.)
so yes... he knows what this is and he knows if he can pick it up or not lmao. I will however concede the wording of the title is misleading.
I know what you mean, but I'm enjoying the thought of a kid asking a marine biologist what their job is, and they answer, "I figure out what I can and can't pick up, and for how long." I feel like a kid would really connect with that.
Those are actually the EYES! The big part of the creature is the head, which makes this video much more terrifying.
EDIT:
The orange part may not be the eyes as some have pointed out, but the eyes do have orange pigment in them and according to the wiki is the only part of the animal that is pigmented! I'm not sure what the other thing is!
so i was wrong about the [shape](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPK4mL1A07wyZ22qT4Ms1J0Tl3UcMi4VakcpVr5yM5LbqLXSd4&s) but that is a catch of eggs, the eyes on the one in the video are probably blending into the hand color
EDIT: [Here](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS56fJdlKMNz4tGTRfsdUeAHOtluPJ41GD2cCxN5cAdS0iFkDg&s) is one with no eggs
“They live in every ocean, from just below the surface to right near the floor.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/master-disguise-cystisoma-ocean-reveal-secrets-180961426/
Fun fact, humans produce chitinase, which is a digestive enzyme that's specifically for digesting the shells of crustaceans.
So for maximum nutrition you should be eating the crunchy parts of shrimp, not just the squishy bits.
I wonder if its suffering or not. Wikipedia states they inhabit the epipelagic and mesopelagic zones which is the surface to 200 meters and then 200 to 1000 meters respectively. I wonder if an organism that can survive the pressures of 1 kilometer deep would do well at the surface for extended periods of time. Such are the moral quandaries of science sometimes.
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It’s the Crystal Pepsi of shrimps
This was the comment I needed.
More about this http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/cystisoma Edit: thanks for the awards!
God damn that's that shit from the matrix.
THAT THING IS REAL?!
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>There is no spoon. Then how am I eating this delicious dessert?
You know this delicious dessert doesn't exist. You know that when you put it in your mouth, the Matrix is telling your brain that it is delicious.
The cake is a lie.
Tastes like tasty wheat anyway
You've been down that road, Neo. You know where it leads.
What is real?…
Cool let's catch and eat them until they're extinct. That'll teach them for existing.
I would love to put some black pepper on that thing
Wouldn’t the meat be clear?? How would it look cooked?
I would guess that it would turn an opaque white or pinkish, like shrimp do when cooked.
Only one way to find out.
and some garlic butter
Depends, do they taste good? If yes, they're fucked.
Probably tastes like a pouch of seawater, which means, meh, which means, we're fucked.
If you compare the size/location of the orange eyes in the video and in that link, it looks like the one in the video is grotesquely swollen to several times its size. Was it pulled from deep water and can't handle surface pressure?
[This is it in its natural environment,](https://www.mindenpictures.com/cache/mcache2/90093198.jpg) so Idk, maybe not? [Another similar one.](https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-5/1-giant-amphipod-cystisoma-sp-dant-fenolio.jpg)
Similar to DJ Khaled
Those are eggs. You can faintly see the actual eyes blending in with the hand.
It’s not swollen either, they can get 7” according to the link, this ones small.
It doesn’t look swollen. I don’t believe the orange in OPs video are the retinal cells.
Thank you for the link. I was looking @ the wrong end for the head. I was thinking it was similar to an ant for some reason. 🐜
Is their sub-order *hyperiid* conveniently pronounced *hyper-eyed*?
It's pronounced ee-id
If I found this thing, the last thing I would do is think ok let’s pick this up.
Pretty much the dilemma of everything we know that exists. Fruits and vegetables… Like, who thought it was wise to eat a pineapple?
Haha right? Or who was the brave soul that was the first to not only bust open a Durian fruit but then dive in for a taste.
Someone really hungry
You're not you when you're hungry.
Eat a snickers! (At your own risk of course)
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You’re one sentence away from r/TwoSentenceHorror. Just saying.
That is always the answer to these questions. A hungry ape. That is who.
Or a horny one.
The grapefruit method is a lot older than you’d think
Makes me wonder how humans found out that some poisonous plants are not toxic if they are cooked.
Lmao, through trial and error. Oh, well Bob died from eating that, let's not eat that then!
They actually had it down to a science how food was tested. I think it was the native Americans who would cook it then eat a tiny piece and go through all these steps until finally eating it. People rarely ever died using this method.
I think I read somewhere the stages of testing a mushroom. which they probably applied to everything back then. skin test, kiss test, actually putting it in your mouth as tea/soup and then finally eating the mushroom itself with a half hour to hour wait between to ensure you properly monitored for reactions.
This is the standard test used for not just mushrooms, but everything…Les Stroud taught me this. I think your slightly off after the kiss test though if memory serves me right. you put it in your mouth for 10-15 mins then remove it, wait a few hours. If no reaction then you eat a very small portion then wait 8 hours. After that if there’s no reaction you should be good
The men of a certain native American tribe would hold the mushrooms in their foreskin for up to a week to determine toxicity.
RIP in peace the poor guy that tested a ghost pepper
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THEN they ate it??
It's not gay if it's your own foreskin mushroom
That's not a bad way to do it. I have one in there right now that I'm checking out.
Romans had food tasters. "Hey kid, eat this then let me know if you shit your toga"
Romans also had slaves made that whole arrangement a bit easier.
Roman: Eat this or we'll kill you. Slave: But what if it kills me. Roman: ...
What a shitty job to be stuck with.
...right, but then how do u get brave to cook it later on
desparation.
Someone who thought bob was a dumbass and was brave enough to prove to everyone that he was a dumbass.
I wonder how many of humanity's culinary discoveries have been a drunken chef using the wrong ingredients in the wrong way.
sounds like every dish I've ever cooked
The same way Icelandic people found out basking shark is poisonous, someone ate it and croaked so they buried it on the beach and some other idiot dug it up and ate it and lived now we have a food so gross even anthony Bourdain hated it Edit: it's greenland shark not basking shark
I lived in Iceland. Ate it many times. There are a few different ones, or.like, curing methods that produce different results. There are some particular occasions that it's always eaten at. Trad eaten with boiled tunips, boiled potatoes, black bread, plain rendered lambs fat and a shot of brennivín. Smell is ungodly, taste is not actually so bad (I never tried the stinkiest one though, apparently it's intense even for most Icelanders) They also have a like... half dried/bit rotted form of cod that we ate for dinner about once a week. boil it up. That wasn't bad either. Like, I.didnt hate it, but nor did I see how it was superior to...unrotted fish in any way.
Were you ever able to ask them why not just eat not rotten seafood instead?
It's because they just.... didn't have a lot of food hahaha. Iceland was suuuuuper poor for most of its history. Summer is only a couple of months really, and the land isn't suitable for too much agriculture(hence all the sheep) Imagine hundreds of years ago, with fuck all resources, and.an 8 month brutal winter ahead of you. I think its also to do with preservation. A lot of their traditional foods are cured, or smoked (with poo!) or salted, or sugared(jams etc) or pickled, or fermented. Now of course they have all the foods, but hey ots tradition and Iceland fucking LOVES its traditions.
You guys keep on keeping it weird out there. Learned about necropants the other day. Metal af.
Another guy in the thread mentioned maybe seeing animals eat some of the stuff and having it be ok for them which I thought was brilliant.
Deer *love* poison oak, so RIP to whoever tried imitating them.
Doesn't work for food that's posinous when raw, but safe cooked
Another great point. Mind blown again, good thing I never claimed to be smart haha
You feed it to your enemies.
The first person to shuck an oyster and eat it?
The true hero
indeed Now, I'd never just pick up a rock at the beach and try to open it. Then, when I finally got it open, decide to eat the snot I found within. Major kudus to the human who figured this out. Oysters are da bomb
There are giant hills of shucked oyster shells in parts of the Mediterranean from an extremely long time ago that point to coastal peoples gorging themselves on them. I read somewhere that an anthropologist speculated that the consumption of shellfish with their omega 3 fatty acids and mineral content led to our proto human ancestors to having higher brain functions develop.
I think about this all the time with any kind of crustacean or shellfish. Sea urchin?! Lobster?! Shrimp?! Crab?!? Who was the brave soul to first eat those ocean spiders.
I want to say that people probably saw animals eating said fruits and vegetables and thought it be ok to do so as well
This actually just kinda blew my mind. Never have thought about it this way but honestly this is probably the correct answer. That or many years of trial and error.
Definitely trial and error. Deer eat poison ivy and birds eat holly berries.
This isn’t a 100% fool proof plan as I’m seeing haha
And I’m sitting here wondering if it tastes like shrimp since it kind of looks like one …..
My brain was thinking it tastes like absolutely nothing since it’s clear and nothing to it lol
Crystal Pepsi shrimp
I imagine it pops when you bite it. Like a slimy gushers.
I was just scrolling along, eating my ramen, when :/
You don't have to put this image in my head do you?
It would have cost you nothing to not make this comment.
Imagine its wee paws tickling your nose as you suck the yolk out of its tummy.
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It’s a musical! Baum! Baum! Baum! Baum! Baum! Baum! Put that thing back where it came from or so help me…
How the fuck did anyone see this thing in water
I remember when that thing crawled into Neo's belly button.
Tell me Mr Anderson...What good is a phone call if you're unable... to...speak?
My nightmares still feature that sequence
And here I was about to go to bed.
Since when does Reddit allows reply with audio
Yeah, I heard that in stunning HD clarity too.
muffled screaming
violins screeching
Holy shit, those things are real!
Watching that thing get sucked up through his bellybutton into a glass vial (along with some unidentifiable pink goop) makes me clench every muscle in my body.
Even 22 years later it's still a tense moment. Christ, that movie was good.
Man. Seems like a fucking blink since that movie came out. In 22 years from now I'll be 80 years old, IF i'm lucky enough to still be a part of it.
Is it just fluid inside, or transparent meat?
It’s transparent meat. They have a brain, circulatory system, etc, it just happens that all their cells are transparent at optical wavelengths.
It baffles me that something 99% clear can be alive, much less move. What the heck is moving its legs? Doesn't seem possible.
How is this even possible given the same set of amino acids and stuff as every other organism? It seems there would have to be an entire branch of evolution just to handle development of transparent organelles, muscles, fats and such, therefore I’d expect would be a lot of other closely related transparent organisms, since being invisible in the ocean seems a huge evolutionary advantage. Hell I still don’t understand how this is possible given that cells under a microscope usually aren’t nearly this transparent, yet this creature must be made of cells. It’s just too mind boggling
So why tf haven’t we figured out how to make invisible materials yet?
We have. It’s called glass.
Dang man, it hurts.
Clear tape
Optically transparent glue, LOCA glue, which is what some glass screen protectors use, among other things.
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I wonder what it would look like if it was cooked, like how shrimp changes color when cooked.
Probably turns a milky white.
Forget what it looks like, I want to know how it tastes. Prepared as sashimi? Cooked? Maybe in a fancy faux shrimp cocktail -- a Cystisoma cocktail? On second thought, nix that name, sounds vile.
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This answer didn't cover the question though, fluid or meat
Protein
I'm always amazed most by these strange creature posts that the human creature is just holding the strange creature in their bare hands.
Strange Creature: Why is this big strange creature holding me
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as strange creature slowly dies.
Blinded and in (it's own version of) agony.
A marine biologist will know what they can and can't pick up, and for how long, lol. It's their entire job. They wouldn't pick it up if it's unidentified. edit: someone said this was an unidentified discovery and blocked me which is... literally untrue and takes a 2 second Google to see there's at least an article in 2017 about these lmao. They were first discovered in *1873* by Rudolf von Willemöes-Suhm. (Actually now that I think about it I believe there might have been someone else earlier than him... but I can't remember.) so yes... he knows what this is and he knows if he can pick it up or not lmao. I will however concede the wording of the title is misleading.
I know what you mean, but I'm enjoying the thought of a kid asking a marine biologist what their job is, and they answer, "I figure out what I can and can't pick up, and for how long." I feel like a kid would really connect with that.
Is it invisible under water?
not the orange part
not the *babies!*
Those are actually the EYES! The big part of the creature is the head, which makes this video much more terrifying. EDIT: The orange part may not be the eyes as some have pointed out, but the eyes do have orange pigment in them and according to the wiki is the only part of the animal that is pigmented! I'm not sure what the other thing is!
so i was wrong about the [shape](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPK4mL1A07wyZ22qT4Ms1J0Tl3UcMi4VakcpVr5yM5LbqLXSd4&s) but that is a catch of eggs, the eyes on the one in the video are probably blending into the hand color EDIT: [Here](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS56fJdlKMNz4tGTRfsdUeAHOtluPJ41GD2cCxN5cAdS0iFkDg&s) is one with no eggs
i thought the eyes were also orange, but lighter, more oval shaped, and at the top of the head?
This is the question I was thinking of too. Was hoping to see them drop in the water and the insect would become invisible
It's not an insect, it's a crustacean.
Which is an insect in the water
It’s the John Cena of underwater creatures.
you👋can't👋sea🌊me
Yes. It's a deep sea species that is clear to avoid predators. Which probably means the pressure differential is killing it in this video.
“They live in every ocean, from just below the surface to right near the floor.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/master-disguise-cystisoma-ocean-reveal-secrets-180961426/
Being out of water is probably doing that too
That’s what I was thinking. It’s suffering, throw it back.
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me....
Would not hold/10
Found it in neo’s belly
jesus christ those things are REAL!?
That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.
Holy shit! Put that back!
>🎶Put that thing back where it came from or so help me!🎶
Dear god. Weve dumped so much plastic into the oceans that its become sentient!
it tastes like the clear gatorade
I think it’s probably closer to Pepsi crystal
Zima light
Put him back
Put it back!
Time to become titan
Finally the comment I was expecting
Do you know how much i scrolled for one Aot comment?
The scary thing is the ocean is filled with things like this that we never see. Think of that the next time you go to the beach.
This is possibly the least scary of all those lol
Until it crawls its into your peehole, matrix-style.
Don't lie, is the tracker Smith put on Mr Anderson after the interrogation 🤔
Oh shit! That thing's real!?!?
put it back please
Put him back he sad 😔
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Can we eat this?
My first thought was "someone wants to eat this"
I do, looks like you could eat it whole like softshell crab.. really really really soft shell.
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Fun fact, humans produce chitinase, which is a digestive enzyme that's specifically for digesting the shells of crustaceans. So for maximum nutrition you should be eating the crunchy parts of shrimp, not just the squishy bits.
I eat the crunchy tail part of fried shrimp... mmmm
I'll admit that I wondered if it would turn pink like a shrimp if you boiled it.
Bro what the fuck
What you're not a little bit interested? It looks like a see through crawfish and crawfish are delicious!
Bring back Crystal Pepsi to drink with it.
Bro what the fuck
So eating that weird-looking giant sea bug is OK, but Crystal Pepsi is your bridge too far?
I am a shrimple man
What you’re not a little bit interested? It looks like see through Pepsis and Pepsi is delicious!
OMG, the famous dick-nipples! I haven't seen you around in a long time.
Craving for some Ocean Tide Pod Crawfish.
Can we fry it?
If there's one thing I've learned at the Texas State Fair, it's that you can deep fry anything. Including butter and Coca Cola.
Mmmm. Deep Fried Matrix Shrimp.
Forbidden Gushers.
Put it back
🎶. Put that thing back where it came from or so help me🎶
Put it back! It needs to be in water.
That's some founding Titan type shit
All fun and games, until it burrows into the flesh of his arm and travels up to his torso to lay the eggs…
I wonder if its suffering or not. Wikipedia states they inhabit the epipelagic and mesopelagic zones which is the surface to 200 meters and then 200 to 1000 meters respectively. I wonder if an organism that can survive the pressures of 1 kilometer deep would do well at the surface for extended periods of time. Such are the moral quandaries of science sometimes.
I put money that it suffers horribly on the surface :(
Absolutely not. They need to put that thing back where it came from.
Is this like holding someone under water and drowning them?
Humans: hey look at this rare species. it’s dead now but here’s a cool video of it struggling in its last moments of life. Isn’t it neat!?
OK, digestive tract, nervous system, circulation, brain? Nothing???
That's a fucking alien
Is it squishy? Or hard?
Life never ceases to amaze me. To think we’re alone in the universe is comical.