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    Paris zoo unveils the "blob", an organism with no brain but 720 sexes

    A Paris zoo showcased a mysterious new organism on Wednesday, dubbed the "blob", a yellowish unicellular small living being which looks like a fungus but acts like an animal.This newest exhibit of the Paris Zoological Park, which goes on display to the public on Saturday, has no mouth, no stomach, no eyes, yet it can detect food and digest it.
    The blob also has almost 720 sexes, can move without legs or wings and heals itself in two minutes if cut in half.
    "The blob is a living being which belongs to one of nature's mysteries", said Bruno David, director of the Paris Museum of Natural History, of which the Zoological Park is part.
    "It surprises us because it has no brain but is able to learn (...) and if you merge two blobs, the one that has learned will transmit its knowledge to the other," David added.
    The blob was named after a 1958 science-fiction horror B-movie, starring a young Steve McQueen, in which an alien life form - The Blob - consumes everything in its path in a small Pennsylvania town.
    "We know for sure it is not a plant but we don't really if it's an animal or a fungus," said David.
    "It behaves very surprisingly for something that looks like a mushroom (...) it has the behavior of an animal, it is able to learn."

    https://news.yahoo.com/paris-zoo-unv...170502834.html


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    From the comments..

    "an organism with no brain but 720 sexes" They nicknamed it 'the millennial'
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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    From the comments..

    "an organism with no brain but 720 sexes" They nicknamed it 'the millennial'
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

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    What're the odds that the blob will have more rights than an unborn child...?

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    But will this creature do everything in its power to trample over our rights?
    "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."

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    I have so many questions.

    1) Is this a serious thing that real scientists are studying, or just some sideshow nonsense that a zoo is putting on display and making ridiculous unsubstantiated claims about?
    2) If the former, then why does this article not delve into it a bit deeper and report on what scientists are seriously studying it, and instead only talks about it being on display at a zoo?
    3) Where did it come from?
    4) How do they know it has 720 sexes? And what does that even mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Nope. I don't even think The Blob would hit that.

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slave Mentality View Post
    Nope. I don't even think The Blob would hit that.

    Hey being that UNattractive takes hard work.
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    "It's unicellular...

    And can move without legs or wings"

    DUUUUUUHHHHHHHHH
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Kill it with fire.
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