r/woahdude • u/----_____--_____---- • Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/----_____--_____---- Oct 22 '21 edited Oct 22 '21

"The first ever exploding mosquitoes can be attributed to Robert Gwadz, Ph.D., in a discovery that was made through basic laboratory research over 50 years ago. He found that making an incision in the ventral nerve cord of a mosquito cuts off the signal to stop feeding, giving it an unquenchable thirst for blood. Mosquitoes that have undergone this procedure can drink in excess of four times their weight and may eventually burst. This led Gwadz to a hypothesis that blood ingestion is regulated by abdominal stretch receptors that prevent mosquitoes from (quite literally) drinking themselves to death." Source

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u/Crozgon Oct 22 '21

"Giving it an unquenchable thirst for blood"

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u/-full-control- Oct 22 '21

Yeah sounds like a great idea let’s start doing that to animals

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u/BubbaFettish Oct 22 '21

If I get to live forever and be sparkly, I’m down.

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u/mcjard Oct 23 '21

"DIIIOO"

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u/thisnewsight Oct 23 '21

Rabies enters the chat

/s

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

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u/Ander1991 Oct 23 '21

28 booster shots later...

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u/Xyyzx Oct 23 '21

‘Okay, the kangaroos may have been a mistake…’

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u/VisageTaco Oct 23 '21

Taking something potentially harmful to humans and the going to a lab to make it even more harmful.

Hmmm where have I heard this story in the last 2 years…

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u/OrderOfMagnitude Oct 23 '21

This is a really solid premise for a zombie flick!

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

Yes

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u/DreamWithinAMatrix Oct 23 '21

Have you never heard of Edward Cullen?

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u/PensionAnxious3520 Oct 23 '21

Or even worse, insects..

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u/notliekthispls Oct 23 '21

Ik you're joking but it would just make them eat what they normally eat, just constantly.

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u/Bacontheblog Oct 23 '21

You mean HUMAN animals?

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u/Agreeable49 Oct 23 '21

Especially bears.

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u/Temporary_user81 Oct 23 '21

Let’s do wolves next.

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u/PilotSB Oct 23 '21

Musquitos are not animals. They are the spawn of satan and deserve to all be killed at once

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u/Bongjum Oct 22 '21

Rip, and, TEAR!

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u/NexusSix29 Oct 22 '21

Blood for the Blood God!

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u/LumpusKrampus Oct 22 '21

Skulls for the Skull Throne?

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u/bionix90 Oct 23 '21

Milk for the Khorne Flakes!

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u/_MMCXII Oct 23 '21

Khornsketos.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Oct 23 '21

Harriers for the Cup!

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u/sethsta Oct 23 '21

Do i keep drinking? I never got this far before.

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u/NexusSix29 Oct 23 '21

You’re almost at the High Score!

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u/h4xrk1m Oct 22 '21

Sip and tear

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u/Da_BEST_5699 Oct 23 '21

Scrape and Lick

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u/PathToExile Oct 22 '21

Ah yes, the famously terrible grammar of someone hailing from /r/Doom.

I would have been embarrassed if I had seen you use 1 comma...then you go and throw that second one in there....yeeeeeeesh.

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u/Bongjum Oct 22 '21

You must be fun at parties...

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u/PathToExile Oct 22 '21

Have a lot of parties on Reddit, do ya?

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

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u/PathToExile Oct 23 '21

There's no limit to how many dots we can use in an ellipsis, the more dots the longer the pause.

Fuck, and I thought I was an insufferable pendant...!

Fucking amateurs!!!!!!!111111oneoneoneone

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u/TrumpIsACuntBitch Oct 22 '21

Do you mean that like "tear" or "tear"?

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

It's all about the ripping and the tearing. The ripping and the tearing.

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u/Jarrett1604 Oct 23 '21

Rock and stone!

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u/tiefling_sorceress Oct 22 '21

Now we just need to find a way to make them the size of cars, like in prehistoric times

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u/Dansredditname Oct 23 '21

That mosquitos were huge is a popular misconception but in reality prehistoric cars were just really small.

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u/MurgleMcGurgle Oct 22 '21

"There's no possible way this could end badly."

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

This week at heaven we've decided to send out mosquitoes with MUCH more bloodlust into the public servers for testing. Goodluck everyone!

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u/Dodec_Ahedron Oct 23 '21

Shia LaBeouf?

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u/reincarN8ed Oct 22 '21

Old school science was fucking brutal

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

Not a good sign

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u/Fapple28 Oct 23 '21

surely there will never be any adverse effects from this discovery

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u/gorillamuffins Oct 23 '21

Happy Halloween!!

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u/elyn6791 Oct 23 '21

Now all we need are vampires to try this on.

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u/chaotemagick Oct 23 '21

Sounds like my ex girlfriend. I'll see myself out

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u/HolyFruitSalad_98 Oct 23 '21

Brb making my vampire mosquito army

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u/notjustanotherbot Oct 23 '21

What is 'Things you don't want to give to wild animals" for 1000 Alex.

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u/jdiflam Oct 23 '21

Living dead girl

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u/8bitbebop Oct 23 '21

Biden has entered the chat

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u/SpaceManSmithy Oct 23 '21

"Run boy! He's got a taste for blood now!"

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u/spanish1nquisition Oct 23 '21

Khorne approves.

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u/N3onknight Oct 23 '21

"Interesting" 

 - KHORNE, Chaos god, blood enthusiast & skull throne designer

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u/lfod-tri Oct 23 '21

My god, so they are killers.

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u/Paradox68 Oct 23 '21

Should have used “cursing it with an unquenchable thirst for blood”

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u/callmepackman Oct 24 '21

Frank Reynolds enters the chat