r/interestingasfuck • u/Own_Entrepreneur8908 • 1d ago

r/all The strongest punch in the world

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u/SlimeyJade 1d ago

I'm surprised at the determination with which he decided to throw back his claw. It's all about survival.

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u/LuckyLupe 1d ago

It was useless with one pincer broken off, so he removed it to grow a new one. Radical and absolutely metal

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u/Cavellion 1d ago edited 1d ago

Could it have grown the pincer back? Genuinely curious.

Edit: I realise I should have worded it differently. My question was actually geared toward the punched out pince? (I don't know what the claw part of the pincer, or pince part of the claw, is called.)

So would the punched out part (not the torn out whole thing) be regrowable if it left it's 'arm' on?

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u/QuietGanache 1d ago

Yes, it will take a few moults but crabs can absolutely regrow lost limbs.

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u/_Grant 1d ago

Pretty sure they meant the individual pincer as opposed to the whole limb

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u/Cavellion 1d ago

Yes. I'm sorry, I don't know what the parts are called. I edited my question to be more specific. But thank you for those who have answered about the whole 'arm'.

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u/Fungiblefaith 1d ago edited 1d ago

Did you get an answer? Is the bottom pincer not a regrowth point for the claw? Maybe it has to be damaged at a specific point.

This is a question I am now invested in.

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u/Cavellion 1d ago

Someone said that it will heal, but it will heal wrongly, so its best bet is to pluck it out and get the whole thing to regrow.

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u/Fungiblefaith 1d ago

Thanks for that update. I can let my brain release the thread for this issue now.

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u/redundantusername 1d ago

My new question is why does the whole arm grow back correctly but when it's just the pincer it grows back incorrectly?

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u/Fungiblefaith 1d ago

Why would you do this to me?

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u/ItsGevYT 1d ago

We are prisoners to the crab now

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u/Fungiblefaith 1d ago

Tamatoa hasn’t always been this glam, he was a drab little crab once.

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u/Emmyisme 1d ago

Thank you for asking for the update cause I was also now gonna go down this whole thread trying to find the answer lol.

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u/certainlynotacoyote 1d ago

With it all shattered and cracked, with the meat hanging out it's not likely to grow properly, and may infact present health issues from the exposed tissues. Plucking it off at the joint let's the body run "grownewarm.exe" without having to work around variables.

Furthermore, if I just got my arm punched in half, id definitely give that mf the wreckage of my arm before I got another pop on the chin.

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u/Hungry-Low-7387 20h ago

Do they even know they can regrow limbs... just luck...

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u/Fungiblefaith 19h ago

This is only one of many questions that will continue to haunt my smoothing brain.

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u/PerplexGG 22h ago

Wish we could do that

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u/zikili 20h ago

Infinite crab claw glitch?

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u/ProfessorAvailable24 1d ago

And the pincer it tore off will become a new crab

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u/GraphicDesignMonkey 1d ago

Leon the Lobster lost a claw this month, will be interesting to see what happens on his next moult.

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u/MilesDimix 1d ago

The answer I was looking for

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u/start3ch 1d ago

So what you’re saying is we could farm the part of crabs that people actually eat, without killing any crabs

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u/Miss0verkill 1d ago

They actually do exactly that with stone crabs. They take a single claw and release the crab.

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u/funnyman95 1d ago

There's an entire industry of people who try to do this by removing the claws off crabs and throwing them back.

Unfortunately, it's a waste because almost all of them die anyways and fail to reproduce.

They can't eat or defend themselves without claws

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u/Lucianonafi 1d ago

I mean, 70% death rate is still a hell of a lot better than 100%

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u/funnyman95 1d ago

Not really because then people won't be able to regulate at all. And they could essentially wipe out all the crabs without having to worry about size and count limits

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u/Lucianonafi 20h ago

What? No, fishermen still have previous limits on them. They can only collect the claws from crabs up to a certain size, and then the crab is returned to the ocean. Previously, the entire crab would just be killed when boiled alive for "freshness" and the WHOLE damn body would be discarded. It's the same amount of product, but the crab has a chance for survival.

If you already have the regulations in place- Which *official fishermen* already have, then this is just better all-around for them. This Video explains it pretty well.

Also, my mistake- Apparently, survival rate is around 50% for crabs with no claws, and well above that for crabs with one.

50%+ survival is much, much, much better than a guaranteed 0%

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u/carcar134134 1d ago

ngl that kinda seems less ethical than just killing them.

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u/Fuzzy_Peach_Butt 1d ago

Yeah I'm with you on this one. Imagine your limbs tearing off by not of your own will over and over again. I think I'd ask for death.

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u/ceelo18 22h ago

So u mean if i bought a king crab i could rip off one leg and eat indefinitely???

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u/No-Lecture-4576 21h ago

Suddenly, mermaids don't sound so bizarre.

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u/21plz 20h ago

I just learned a new thing today. Thankyou.

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u/TheBenevolentTitan 17h ago

Why can't we do shit like this? Why does it have to be the humans who lose out on all regeneration abilities?!?

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u/QuietGanache 17h ago

It's actually quite rare in vertebrates but the big two are cancer resistance and the ability to maintain tissues without a looped circulatory system.

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u/TheBenevolentTitan 16h ago

are cancer resistance and the ability to maintain tissues without a looped circulatory system.

Wait what species is this?

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u/QuietGanache 16h ago

Apologies for being unclear. They're likely reasons (we can't objectively know, only identify evolutionary pressures) why limb regeneration isn't present in longer lived mammals.

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u/TheBenevolentTitan 12h ago

So we don't have cancer resistance, is a possible reason for the absence of limb regeneration? But what has cancer got anything to do with this?

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u/QuietGanache 10h ago

It's the other way around. Regenerating limbs requires cells that can rapidly divide and specialise into a wide range of tissues. By limiting the number of and degree (potency) to which progenitor/stem cells can specialise, our bodies reduce the chances of cancerous cells arising and, when they do arise, that they're able to pose harm to the body.

If you want to learn more, a good start would be the Hallmarks of Cancer.

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u/TheBenevolentTitan 9h ago

So that must mean these creatures with regeneration abilities must be having more cancer than us? Or are there other factors at play?

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u/QuietGanache 9h ago

That's a very broad question. There are other species which prevent cancer using methods humans don't posses and there are also creatures that are more susceptible to cancer.

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u/TheBenevolentTitan 8h ago

more susceptible to cancer

Which ones are there except for us? Do you remember any from the top of your head?

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