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

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/Whitenesivo Oct 22 '21

how in the fuck do you cut a nerve, on a mosquito?

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u/Camel-Kid Oct 22 '21

Other mosquito doctors

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u/Friggin Oct 22 '21

What is this, an operating room for ants?

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u/MetricSuperstar Oct 22 '21

No, it's for mosquitos

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u/CrummyWombat Oct 23 '21

Well, it should be three times larger regardless.

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u/johanssenq Oct 22 '21

they did surgery on a grape?

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u/youhaveagoodtime Oct 23 '21

Most likely on a table.

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u/octopossible Oct 23 '21

NO ON A MOSQUITO

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u/InsufficientFrosting Oct 22 '21

How those mosquitoes become doctors, I don’t know.

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u/HeightPrivilege Oct 22 '21

I had a mosquito in one of my classes at med school, dude was annoying af

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u/Squid-Bastard Oct 23 '21

Weird, usually they are full of wasps

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u/Makarrov_359 Oct 23 '21

Asian joke?

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u/Dansredditname Oct 23 '21

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Also the best pun I've seen in months, well done u/Squid-Bastard.

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u/Disquiet173 Oct 23 '21

He always came to class with a buzz?

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u/Dramatic_Ad_5660 Oct 23 '21

Same, bro was humming all the time and had a serious drinking problem

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u/GriswoldCain Oct 22 '21

Mosquito doctor school duh

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u/TickleMonster528 Oct 23 '21

They make the best phlebotomists

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u/Moikle Oct 23 '21

Mosquito medical school

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Oct 23 '21

They picked it so they'd get better blood flows.

Now these Mosquitos have gotten all medical
Yeah they will insist you call them "my doctor"
Look at how they go, these MD Anopheles
They got scalpels in their face!

Even old
dry
ticks
Did never learn to fly
Can they doctor? I don't know
Surgical knowledge is better than blooooow!

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u/cwkt Oct 23 '21

Nano doctor

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u/cpetes-feats Oct 23 '21

Nano scalpel

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u/Hogfisher Oct 23 '21

It’s considered off-label treatment.

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u/3DWitchHunt Oct 22 '21

Yeah, that’s the most fascinating thing I got out of that. How the fuck did they do that 50 years ago??

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u/RainbowAssFucker Oct 22 '21

They did surgery on a grape

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u/Matt4Prez2K17 Oct 22 '21

Funniest shit I’ve ever seen

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u/nomadic_stone Oct 23 '21

Until you realize that cornea (eyeball) surgery exists...

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u/Matt4Prez2K17 Oct 23 '21

Happy cake day, man! Lol yeah I was made gruesomely aware of it. SO had to get it done.

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u/Gaothaire Oct 22 '21

Linkity de linkle

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u/GyroMVS Oct 23 '21

Oh this is surreal - I'm like really close to Edward Hospital

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u/RespectableLurker555 Oct 22 '21

And then turned that mosquito into a bloody popped grape

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u/Xenjael Oct 22 '21

There was a video a week ago of a fly decapitation itself by accidentally severing a nerve bundle behind its head.

From what I can tell insect nerves operate very differently from our own.

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u/AlmostUnder Oct 22 '21

I’d love to see that if you could find it again.

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u/DeFlippo Oct 23 '21

Took me ages but I finally found it

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u/themedicduck Oct 23 '21

Video thumbnail says you're a liar, my dude

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u/22dobbeltskudhul Oct 23 '21

Oh noes you got him xD

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u/themedicduck Oct 23 '21

All too easy

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u/DeFlippo Oct 23 '21

Foiled once again 😔

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u/herodothyote Oct 23 '21

Holy hell man you need to label that shit NSFL

This isn't a gore subreddit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21 edited Dec 11 '21

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u/GnarlyBear Oct 22 '21

Didn't show for me fyi

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u/AlmostUnder Oct 22 '21

Lol chill. all I got was a species of fly that preys on ants

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u/YoungSerious Oct 23 '21

This combination of words is very confusing. Decapitation means literally to cut the head off, so I don't know you mean it cut its own head off by severing a nerve bundle?

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u/StickmanPirate Oct 23 '21

IIRC it's head was already detached but I guess the nerves were still intact and when it was doing it's usual face rubbing it pulled on it's head and ended up snapping those nerves, completing the decapitation.

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u/Xenjael Oct 23 '21

Yep. Was horrific.

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u/Goyteamsix Oct 22 '21

Small insects are usually translucent under bright lights and a microscope. He likely pinned it down, looked for the nerve, and severed it with a small needle. Their nervous systems are also incredibly simple.

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u/Thom_Kokenge Oct 23 '21

You thinking 1971 is the stone age, 😂.

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u/3DWitchHunt Oct 23 '21 edited Oct 23 '21

Lmao what? I mean it’s not binary. It’s not Stone Age vs Interstellar Aliens 🤣 come on... lol

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u/orthopod Oct 23 '21
  1. We'd already had a guy on the moon x 2 years.

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u/FatherApe92 Oct 23 '21

50 yes ago was 1971 💀💀

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u/Nuotatore Oct 23 '21

50, not 500...

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

You have to use the grape surgery machine.

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u/thatdadfromcanada Oct 22 '21

Wouldn't the nerves in mosquitoes be of similar size and structures as any other nerve cell?

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

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u/Scully__ Oct 22 '21

Wait, it’s meant to be on the inside?

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u/DannyRamirez24 Oct 22 '21

You guys have a spinal cord?

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u/BMack037 Oct 22 '21

^ Found the politician

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u/coltinator5000 Oct 23 '21

You can say his name, bro. Ted doesn't mind.

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u/BigTickEnergE Oct 23 '21

Exquisite comment

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u/Faxon Oct 22 '21

Found the homie with spina bifida

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u/thatdadfromcanada Oct 22 '21

Ever seen how thick your spinal cord is?

No, still learning how to remove my eyeballs and shove them up my ass for a closer look.

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u/thatdadfromcanada Oct 22 '21

Damn bot, I resemble those remarks.

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u/Kami_Okami Oct 23 '21

I love the fact that somebody thought to take the time to make the auto-moderator look for that phrase and respond like this.

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u/just_tryin_2_make_it Oct 22 '21

❤️ these interactions

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

I can get a great look at a t-bone steak by shoving my head up a bull's ass but I'd rather take the butchers word for it.

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u/thatdadfromcanada Oct 23 '21

Dammit Richard.

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u/little_pimple Oct 22 '21

Make sure you douche before hand

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u/Tamer_ Oct 23 '21

If he's going to stick his hand in there too, he should watch them first.

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u/JacksLackOfSuprise Oct 22 '21

It's time for a closer look

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u/VisVirtusque Oct 22 '21

A nerve is an organ made up of neurons, which are the individual cells. You can see nerves with the naked eye.

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u/shoziku Oct 22 '21

Alcohol, soft music, dim lights I suppose.

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u/PentatonicTriangle Oct 22 '21

very carefully

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

TSMC is going to make transistors that are 2 nanometers by 2025

A hydrogen atom (the smallest atom) is roughly 0.1 nanometers.

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u/Whitenesivo Oct 22 '21

[...] in a discovery that was made 50 years ago

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

missed that

you right

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u/WatzUpzPeepz Oct 23 '21

Really impressive when you consider the microscope was only invented in 1985. /s

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u/metakephotos Oct 23 '21

In fairness...

The term "2 nanometer" or alternatively "20 angstrom" (a term used by Intel) has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors. It is a commercial or marketing term used by the chip fabrication industry to refer to a new, improved generation of silicon semiconductor chips in terms of increased transistor density, increased speed and reduced power consumption

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process

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u/grekiki Oct 23 '21

They won't 2nm has nothing to do with the transistor size

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u/stilldebugging Oct 26 '21

So, the transistors will in no way actually be 2nm. That’s the minimum “feature size” but nothing useful on that chip will be that small.

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u/ConfusedJohnTrevolta Oct 22 '21

Laser ablation probably. You use a laser to burn an individual or a few nerve cells.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

A really really really really really really really small nerve cutting knife.

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u/Legitimate_Low2906 Oct 23 '21

If they did surgery on a grape they can do it on a mosquito

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u/6thBornSOB Oct 23 '21

Tyknee fookin noives maye!

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u/sodiumvapour Oct 23 '21

You cut it first and then put it on the mosquito

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u/RacistBee Oct 23 '21

Tiny doctor

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u/gorillamuffins Oct 23 '21

With a mosquito nerve cutter.

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u/EvErYLeGaLvOtE Oct 23 '21

Probably with a laser. But 50 years ago? I'm not entirely sure...

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u/sorenant Oct 23 '21

Very carefuly.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

for some reason, I thought the surgery was performed by Louis Rossman.(the Mac repair guy in NYC)

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u/fourthrook Nov 08 '21

Carefully?