Timeline for Exploding vertebrates
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Apr 10, 2019 at 2:03 | vote | accept | The Square-Cube Law | ||
| Jan 23, 2019 at 17:34 | comment | added | Alexander | Skunks can do essentially the same defensive action without exploding. | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 15:58 | comment | added | JBH | I can't find a citation that says the ant splashes fluid explosively. I can find a lot of citations that are trying to make the issue sound more dramatic than it is. Thanks for clarifying: biological explosive decompression. (For the record, I don't care which it is, I just wanted the clarification.) | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 15:56 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | @JBH the ant spladhes fluids explosively around. I'm looking for something like that. | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 15:53 | comment | added | JBH | Colobopsis ants "explode" in a minimalist sense of the term: their skin tears to expose their insides. They do not explode in the Hollywood sense of the term: the insides become the outsides with such force that Vin Diesel is thrown backwards. Are you literally looking for what the Colobopsis ants do? flex so hard their skin tears? Or are you looking for the Hollywood solution? (Ironman comes to mind... "Can you regulate?") | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 15:40 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | VLAZ | I'm talking about terrorists. Technically, they would count as vertebrae exploding. The evolution is us being intelligent. The mechanism is explosives worn on the body. | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 15:33 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | @vlaz I've never seen anyone blow up like that. Can you provide a link? | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 15:28 | comment | added | VLAZ | Uh, there is a rather prominent example of humans doing this... | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 15:24 | history | asked | The Square-Cube Law | CC BY-SA 4.0 |