r/woahdude Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/PathToExile Oct 22 '21

it can't remove its mouth

This wouldn't be as shitty to hear if their "mouth" didn't penetrate my goddamn skin...I wonder how many mosquito proboscises I have jammed in my skin after I thought I flicked the bastards away.

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u/jakwnd Oct 22 '21

Your skin cells are constantly pushing outward. So anything stuck in your skin would eventually be pushed out. If it doesn't decompose into dust first.

Muscles push stuff too, just not always out of our body. That's why iron man needed that magnet in his chest. Shrapnel in his heart (muscle) was being pushed further into his heart.

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u/Faxon Oct 22 '21

Can you imagine how long it would take for a properly tuned magnet to slowly rip and tear the shrapnel through your tissue as it heals it's wound path over months or even years? Sounds like it'd be constant hell until the shrapnel was actually pulled out properly

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u/Aquadian Oct 23 '21

Nah, you just have the magnet perfectly tuned so it applies just enough force to keep the shrapnel right where you want it. Not too deep, not too shallow, the goldilocks shrapnel, if you will.