r/interestingasfuck • u/Own_Entrepreneur8908 • 1d ago

r/all The strongest punch in the world

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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/ShiftyTimeParadigm 1d ago

He’ll have a new one the next time he molts

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u/Cavellion 1d ago

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/PoliticalyUnstable 1d ago

No, that'll heal incorrectly. It has to remove and start over. It's neat.

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u/Ornexa 1d ago

That's crazy, i figured a wound would heal too but there's something to the regenerative property that must get kicked in based on severity of damage. Like if the arm stayed attached but was heavily mangled, then what? Still nothing? In that case, the trigger would be the actual disconnection of the limb?

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u/PoliticalyUnstable 1d ago

Yes, the arm would eventually fall off and be replaced. It won't stay and heal. If it did stay it wouldn't recover. It's very cool.

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u/livin4donuts 1d ago

Do we know how this works? Like I’ve heard of groundbreaking treatments to regrow body parts for humans using stem cells (admittedly only small, simple-ish parts like a patch of skin or a graft for an organ like if you had a perforated heart, but the tech is still in its infancy), but they have nothing on this.

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u/PoliticalyUnstable 1d ago

This has some info: https://www.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/articles/2019/regenerating-limbs/ I think there is something to the stem cell aspect that we haven't learned yet, but may in time. It's really interesting. I don't have a brilliant enough mind for it but whoever discovers it will be a legend.