Imagine if human digestion worked this way. Next to every drinking fountain would be a purge trough.
Unfortunately if can also lodge inedibles in their throat such as plastic wrap.
So if they can’t swallow something do they just die
Sspine doesn’t make sense here at all. I assume OP meant esophagus/ gullet.
It says spines, rather than spine. The esophagus is covered in spines (think like the spines on a porcupine, not a backbone).
Those “spines” are called papillae, for anyone wanting specifics.
Seems like they meant spines to me? As in those little spikey spines pointing backwards down the esophagus?
And plastic bags keep them from being able to vomit out the water.
Isn’t nature beautiful
😭
Wouldn’t a reverse filter mix things together
I think a reverse filter would only let large particles through while retaining the ones to small to pass through it.
That’s still just a filter. A filter is something that separates and divides a mixed group into specific categories. So a reverse filter would be the opposite of that. Something that takes separate groups and mixes them together.
This would have been a useful upgrade during Uni…
Purge the booze, keep the snacks. Yeah that’s handy.
Other way around.
Booze the purge, snack the keeps?
No no no
Snack the keeps, booze the purge
That’s what they meant
I thought they were implying “Purge the keep, snack the booze.”
Maybe it could’ve been “Yeah the booze. Purge the snacks. Keep that’s handy”
That must feel so good
They’re filter feeders? Like whales, but the teeth are in the neck?
So do they just have no gut acid? How quickly does that regenerate if you’re giving your stomach a seawater oral enema every time you eat.
Well, our stomachs are not at full acid all the time, only when we eat. I imagine it’s pretty similar.
Reverse filter is a strainer or sieve.
Strainers and sieves are filters. A filter is a filter. A reverse filter is still a filter. Direction doesn’t make a difference because direction is subjective.
Wouldn’t check valve be more accurate?
It only stops solids above a certain size, so a filter is more accurate. Check valves generally stop everything or all of a class of things, the turtle passes all liquid and some solids
Our heart valves are check valves
A class of things = large solid objects like jellyfish and food?
Maybe, I’m no linguist or expert. Small jellyfish will go out with the water
I mean you’re right. The idea is filtration by size exclusion but only in one direction.
Now that’s classy
An odd dragon
