mccWait what
EDIT: I should have included the link https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/
These things appear to be some kind of Dr. Who monster. I wonder how little framing I'd have to have done to convince you the above screenshot was faked/photoshopped
Kelson@mcc I was definitely not prepared for that
JP@mcc "a single hagfish can fill a 5-gallon bucket with slime, seemingly instantly" is an all time great sentence, partner and i still quote it to one another years later
@mcc basically their slime has incredible molecular properties, expanding ridiculously when released. when sharks try to chomp them, they get a choking mouthful of slime. A+ adaptation would slime again
Irenes (many)@jplebreton @mcc this sounds amazing
@mcc https://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2014/04/guelph_research.html curious as to what fruits the last 10 years of hagfish slime research has yielded
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKI had to convert that to litres to get an idea of the volume (not only are gallons an outdated unit over here, ours are *different* from the USA!) and its near enough the contents of a whole entire large bucket (20 litres) that I use for car detailing..
Arjen 
almibe
t s r o n o@mcc pretty sure if i saw that in person you could tell me you'd photoshopped reality & i'd believe you. unreal.
DHeadshot's Alt@mcc
I'm still not convinced it's real, though the reply made me more likely to do so...
I'm still not convinced it's real, though the reply made me more likely to do so...
Nathan Lorenz@mcc my incredulity meter went off the charts, I assumed it had to be faked. Delighted to have that headline be a true story.
The Doctor
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)@mcc The only time I heard the word “hagfish" was in the game “Dishonored” (where I imagined it was an old-timey sounding word they'd made up to support the atmosphere of this steampunk dystopia, as it's one of the unsatisfying-sounding canned foods you can find there as health items).
Thanks for letting me know that it's actually just a real thing they used because it sounds fitting.
Owen Nelson@mcc it's true. That's how the hagfish gets you.
Alex Zandra@mcc Yeah! Amazing stuff!
`Da Elf@mcc What new hell is This?
miunau@mcc hagfish are wild. they're making kevlar out of the goop
✧✦Catherine✦✧@mcc g o o p
bob
Marco Rogers@mcc I wasn't ready for this particular rabbit hole today. Fascinating and gross.
Sashin
Gum on China’s Shoe@ProfundumPhoto @mcc Closest you'll probably get is J-lube, which you can buy as a powder in five gallon buckets.
Michelle L-M
prozacchiwawa@mcc wasn't there a fringe episode about this?
ceartas
SofaKingHigh@mcc remember reading about this, I guess even in a wreck it could always be worse, could be a hag fish truck
Tom Armstrong
Floaty Birb@mcc the Atlantic's most normal take yet.
David PI would not want to explain how hagfish totalled my car to the insurance company.
Does destruction by hagfish count as an act of god?
EngelMichelman🐸 Antifaschist@mcc
Für Menschen, die so wie ich nicht so gut Englisch können:
"Wenn sich Schleimaale bedroht fühlen, sondern sie aus ihren Schleimzellen ein Sekret ab [...] Das Sekret besteht aus bis zu 15 cm langen, in Knäuel aufgewickelten Proteinfilamenten, die sich bei Kontakt mit Wasser explosionsartig aufwickeln, und aus Mucin. Der Schleim gilt als das effizienteste Bindemittel für Wasser in der Natur; 1 Gramm Sekret reichen aus, um ca. 10 Liter Schleim zu bilden, was einem Massenanteil von 0,01 % entspricht. Eine weitere Besonderheit ist, dass kein Energieeintrag zur Schleimbildung nötig ist, weshalb auch kaltes Meerwasser ohne Problem gebunden werden kann. Der Schleim ist jedoch sehr kurzlebig und nicht sonderlich stabil, weshalb man von Schleim spricht und von der Bezeichnung als Hydrogel absieht." Wikipedia
Für Menschen, die so wie ich nicht so gut Englisch können:
"Wenn sich Schleimaale bedroht fühlen, sondern sie aus ihren Schleimzellen ein Sekret ab [...] Das Sekret besteht aus bis zu 15 cm langen, in Knäuel aufgewickelten Proteinfilamenten, die sich bei Kontakt mit Wasser explosionsartig aufwickeln, und aus Mucin. Der Schleim gilt als das effizienteste Bindemittel für Wasser in der Natur; 1 Gramm Sekret reichen aus, um ca. 10 Liter Schleim zu bilden, was einem Massenanteil von 0,01 % entspricht. Eine weitere Besonderheit ist, dass kein Energieeintrag zur Schleimbildung nötig ist, weshalb auch kaltes Meerwasser ohne Problem gebunden werden kann. Der Schleim ist jedoch sehr kurzlebig und nicht sonderlich stabil, weshalb man von Schleim spricht und von der Bezeichnung als Hydrogel absieht." Wikipedia
Dieter Komendera@mcc “Hagfish produce slime the way humans produce opinions—readily, swiftly, defensively, and prodigiously.”
Sounds about right.
Aaruni Kaushik@mcc i think ive read this one. Wasnt it a case of someone transporting a bunch of things and they made this slime in self defence and the car bogged down? (Sorry for the vagueness, it must be at least an year ago that i read it)
@double_a_runi Yeah, there's some links in the article I screenshotted above https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/
Cat West@mcc How would hagfish get on the road?
@Catawu There's some links in the article I screenshotted https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/ but the short version is someone had a truck full of hagfish
@mcc I couldn’t get any links so the summary helps. And yuck!
Ian Davis@mcc
Why have I never heard of this before?
Rupert Reynolds@mcc Does the slime also melt car bodywork and distort it wildly out of shape? :-)
@mcc I thought that was what you were referring to!
Asharas@mcc "Hagfish produce slime the way humans produce opinions—readily, swiftly, defensively, and prodigiously."
😂
😂
cybik 
@mcc hagpocalypse.