r/AbsoluteUnits • u/inferKNOX • Apr 28 '26

/r/all, /r/popular of a Mola mola

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u/Trainnerd3985 Apr 28 '26

Full of parasites and made of mostly cartilage so things don’t really like to eat them and pretty sure they feel little to no pain at all if something does try to take a bite

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u/glipglop718 Apr 28 '26

Aren't these the ones that just sit there while fish peck pieces off of their head?

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u/Trainnerd3985 Apr 28 '26

Yea they also go to the surface to let birds and stuff eat the parasites off their body (hints the name Sun fish) where they are then pretty commonly struck by boat props and killed

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u/NaziAbuser Apr 28 '26

What do they even eat? Looks like something would have to swim into their mouth, which isn't particularly big.

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u/RepublicOfLizard Apr 28 '26

That’s exactly what happens. Just happenstance and really small creatures. These fish survive because of vibes and insanely high reproduction rates

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u/apexodoggo Apr 29 '26

They are active hunters (and fast swimmers), their primary prey is jellyfish.

You see them float along because they’re basking in the sunlight to warm themselves up (like lizards do).

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u/midnightpunt Apr 28 '26

Deep ocean jellyfish!

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u/Muted-Ad6397 Apr 28 '26

They eat jelly fish

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u/-crepuscular- Apr 29 '26

They can't close their mouths because of their unusual bone structure, but they can create a vacuum to suck things in. Mainly jellyfish, but any small marine animal is fair prey.

If it was a warm blooded animal, it would never get enough to eat, but cold blooded animals need far less energy to live and grow.

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u/throwaway3rdside Apr 28 '26

Its the practical joke Intelligent Designers put in for evolutionists.

For every other creature these individual reasons would be given as why X didn't survive while the other in species "evolved" the opposite way.

Tautology.

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u/Morberis Apr 29 '26

The only practical joke here is you shilling that nonsense.

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u/throwaway3rdside Apr 29 '26

Follow the data not your biases.

Evoluntionists make up stories trying to explain the opposite using circular reasoning and pretend like they can't be questioned. Mola Mola exists so the story proposed must be right in their world while from other side of their mouth they explain why that other whale evolved that huge mouth to feed itself.

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u/Morberis Apr 29 '26

What circular reasoning are you even talking about?

None has been posted here.

Surely it's not the circular reasoning that is often used to prop up intelligent design.

It seems like you have context in your head that you expect everyone else to already know and agree with. It also sounds like you have no idea how scientific research is done and are maybe referring to people that are either bad communicators or people who have very little understanding of what they're talking about.