mccJun 25, 2024

Wait what

EDIT: I should have included the link https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/

No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime

It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, it’s 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike.

The Atlantic
Show threadCat WestJun 26, 2024
@mcc How would hagfish get on the road?
Show threadmcc
@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
No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime

It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, it’s 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike.

The Atlantic
Jun 26, 2024 at 11:29amWeb
Show threadCat WestJun 26, 2024
@mcc I couldn’t get any links so the summary helps. And yuck!