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[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 5 months ago

Then explain this photograph.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Checkmate, nerds

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 56 points 5 months ago

I'm not inside my skin. I am my skin.

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

You're a bundle of neurons piloting a skeleton inside a wetsuit

When you're in a Jaeger, you can fight the hurricane.

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I am not up my ass. I am my ass.

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[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 months ago

They have nerves throughout their shells and can feel even gentle touch.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Hell yeah time to pet some turts

[-] Baguette@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

I've seen turtles love getting brushed by a soft bristle stuff like toothbrushes plus you alao clean them

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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

Yeah? Then explain this, mister '''''''scientist'''''''

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

This is just yet another example of legacy media lying to us.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 26 points 5 months ago

So my head is not "inside" my skull but *is* my skull? Is the brain not a part of my head?

[-] PrimeErective@startrek.website 34 points 5 months ago

What part of you makes you? Is it just your brain?

Anyway, I think what they're getting at is that the shell is actually their spine, not like some extra thing that grows on top of their spine.

[-] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 11 points 5 months ago

Most ppl think they have a skeleton inside them. But If you think of you as your brain (as many would day). Then your actually inside your skeleton.

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago

Can you put any external part of yourself inside your skull? That's the difference.

[-] No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago

*shows toungue and puts it back in

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ooo, good point. But is it moving an internal part outside the skull? What's the default location of a tongue?? I'm lost in the science!

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

According to scientists, the default is outside
source

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[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago

I think the right analogy would be to say "you are not inside your skull, you are your skull". And I would count this as a more or less correct statement.

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[-] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

I feel like an annual reminder would be entirely sufficient, to be honest.

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[-] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 months ago

Idk I see a big cavity that would contain turtle...

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 17 points 5 months ago

That's tortoise silly billy

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

who should i trust? Nintendo or a random person on the Internet?

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[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 11 points 5 months ago

I learned from Franklin books and Mario games that you're wrong. A picture showing a clear cavity where a turtle could pop out won't convince me!

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Please don't tap/knock on turtle shells. It would be like someone knocking directly on your bones.

[-] YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

My bones are not weak, they can take it.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Your bones are not weak but its still not a good excuse to abuse a turtle by knocking on its shell.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Surviving and getting pissed off are totally different things that can happen at the same time...

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[-] Trashcan@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

That's neat and all. But how do they retract their heads?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

And feet, especially box turtles. Some species can indeed go inside their shells - while still being a part of the shell itself, of course.

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[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

They can feel touch through their shells

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago
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