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Written by Tyler K. Nothing on 2024-12-30 at 20:11

Well, this is fascinating! The city of Poznan, Poland uses eight clams to control their water supply. When the water is clean, they remain open, but close when contaminated, closing a sensor harmlessly glued to their shell. Computers do the rest. After three months, the clams are returned to their original home and replaced with new clams. #science #health #clever https://kottke.org/24/12/eight-clams-control-this-polish-citys-water-supply

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Descendants

Written by Perfect Tommy on 2024-12-30 at 21:15

@tylerknowsnothing very cool :) reminded me of this video about it. Life is the most amazing sci-fi machine, so far ahead of any technology we mere monkeys can build.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0RkEs3Xwf0

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Written by Rodelinda on 2024-12-30 at 21:34

@tylerknowsnothing @dangrsmind Not to be confused with the three seashells.

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Written by Tyler K. Nothing on 2024-12-30 at 22:49

@Rodelinda @dangrsmind 🤣 How TF do those things work!!?? LOLZ

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Written by Rodelinda on 2024-12-30 at 22:49

@tylerknowsnothing @dangrsmind The world may never know.

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Written by F4GRX SÃ©bastien on 2024-12-31 at 10:09

@Rodelinda @tylerknowsnothing @dangrsmind an explanation was given later. First use two, then scrap the rest with the third one.

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Written by Tyler K. Nothing on 2024-12-31 at 16:11

@f4grx @Rodelinda @dangrsmind I think I was happier with the mystery! 🤣

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Written by F4GRX SÃ©bastien on 2024-12-31 at 17:16

@tylerknowsnothing @Rodelinda @dangrsmind 😂

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Written by myrmepropagandist on 2024-12-30 at 21:41

@tylerknowsnothing

Oligarchy! or maybe... Bivalvegarchy!

The clams are too powerful!

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Written by Darwin Woodka on 2024-12-30 at 21:51

@tylerknowsnothing but what do they get paid

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Written by Tyler K. Nothing on 2024-12-30 at 22:50

@darwinwoodka Like most other workers in the world, I doubt it :(

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Written by Joseph Meyer on 2024-12-30 at 22:02

@tylerknowsnothing Nice. Some of my ancestors came to the USA from Poznan in the 1850s.

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Written by manisha on 2024-12-30 at 22:03

@tylerknowsnothing whoa ..

[#]biotech #ClamFacts #NatureBasedSolutions

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Written by Jordi (Angry Pronking) on 2024-12-30 at 22:12

@tylerknowsnothing

Just saw this on an episode of QI. Very cool.

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Written by FiXato on 2024-12-31 at 02:11

@Jorsh for me it was an episode of #TomScott: https://youtu.be/i0RkEs3Xwf0

@tylerknowsnothing

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Written by sb :wq on 2024-12-30 at 22:19

@tylerknowsnothing

I love seeing problem solving utilizing elements in your environment. Why go to crazy lengths to engineer something when a clam will do it for you?

Often the simplest solution is the best.

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Written by TTimo on 2024-12-30 at 22:22

@tylerknowsnothing I visited Poznan once. I can't tell you anything about the water, I drank beer the whole time.

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Written by Amro has been on 2024-12-30 at 22:43

@TTimo @tylerknowsnothing Poznan is nice. Quite some lokale breweries there. But never thought of it as a forward looking city that would work with clams 🤔

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Written by Tyler K. Nothing on 2024-12-30 at 22:51

@TTimo Great strategy! 🍻

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Written by PhilSalkie on 2024-12-30 at 22:31

@tylerknowsnothing

I can just imagine the clam conversations once they're returned.

"Hey, Dave! Where ya been? We were looking all over for you!"

"Joe, you'll never believe it - I'm not sure I believe it myself. I was captured by aliens and put in a tank with weights and levers glued to my shell..."

"Dave, I think you've been hitting the old cocktail sauce a bit too hard!"

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Written by myrmepropagandist on 2024-12-30 at 23:13

@tylerknowsnothing

"Eight Clams Control This Polish City's Water Supply"

This was a really good article, but I was sort of hoping it would be more of an exposé of the big powerful clams who control the whole city: with a biographies about them featuring an inset little portrait of each clam in their, feather boas, designer clothing, top hats and monocles.

"These are the clams who make or break you in this town."

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Written by RanaldClouston on 2024-12-30 at 23:17

@futurebird @tylerknowsnothing they couldn't publish that article, even though they wanted to, because extraordinary clams require extraordinary evidence

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Written by myrmepropagandist on 2024-12-30 at 23:17

@RanaldClouston @tylerknowsnothing

Good lord. Have you no mercy????

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Written by Tyler K. Nothing on 2024-12-31 at 00:54

@futurebird @RanaldClouston Nope. 🤣🤣🤣

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Written by Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: on 2024-12-31 at 00:17

@RanaldClouston @futurebird @tylerknowsnothing It all hinges on that, doesn’t it? That and the jokes being calcified

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Written by Tuckers Nuts Resist! 😈 on 2024-12-31 at 00:48

@adamshostack @RanaldClouston @futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

🥥 You jokesters are relentless, Adam.

Pleez, have mercy. 🥥

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Written by cuan_knaggs on 2024-12-31 at 12:18

@RanaldClouston @futurebird @tylerknowsnothing well played sir. well played

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Written by Justin Myers on 2024-12-31 at 14:10

@RanaldClouston @futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

Bravo! 🙌🏼👏🏼

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Written by FediThing 🏳️‍🌈 on 2024-12-30 at 23:18

@futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

Would love to know reaction of @dantheclamman to this scenario 🤣

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Written by Dr. Dan Killam on 2024-12-30 at 23:36

@FediThing @futurebird @tylerknowsnothing i am sworn to secrecy! Clamerta!

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Written by Janne Moren on 2024-12-30 at 23:27

@futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

The criminal clam underworld; you don't wanna try to mussel in on their territory, that's for sure.

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Written by DeterioratedStucco on 2024-12-31 at 00:22

@jannem @futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

Could definitely get you into deep water.

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Written by Amro has been on 2024-12-31 at 00:32

@jannem @futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

Not all clams! There are some real pearls among them

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Written by John Maxwell on 2024-12-31 at 00:51

@jannem @futurebird @tylerknowsnothing You could end up sleeping with the seagulls like that.

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Written by Tyler K. Nothing on 2024-12-31 at 00:54

@jannem @futurebird 🤣🤣🤣

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Written by Paul_IPv6 on 2024-12-31 at 00:32

@futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

LOL.

i hear the journalist tried to get interviews with them but their sources kept clamming up. ;)

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Written by Maddad ☑️ on 2024-12-31 at 00:37

@futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

😂 and what about the exclusive private clubs they hang out at...

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Written by myrmepropagandist on 2024-12-31 at 00:37

@maddad @tylerknowsnothing

You see! That's what I want to know!

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Written by Maddad ☑️ on 2024-12-31 at 00:41

@futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

The problem is that when ever they are asked about these things, they just clam up...

😂 🤣 😂

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Written by John Maxwell on 2024-12-31 at 00:54

@maddad @futurebird @tylerknowsnothing Ah yes. The infamous Clams Casino.

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Written by Maddad ☑️ on 2024-12-31 at 00:56

@jmax @futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

They were great times until the Seahorses tried to Mussel in 🤭

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Written by Tyler K. Nothing on 2024-12-31 at 03:37

@maddad @jmax @futurebird 🤣🤣🤣

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Written by Tuckers Nuts Resist! 😈 on 2024-12-31 at 00:46

@futurebird @tylerknowsnothing

🥥 Sounds like that article may have been a propaganda PR piece from Big Clam, Myrmepropagandist. 🥥

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Written by Captain of the SS El Faro on 2024-12-31 at 01:00

@futurebird @tylerknowsnothing [New Jersey accent] Look buddy, you know it, I know it - this city runs on clams - now hand them over

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Written by Andrew Pontious on 2024-12-31 at 01:07

@futurebird @tylerknowsnothing @skinnylatte Begging to be made into a "weird" #TTRPG one-shot.

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Written by Lee on 2024-12-31 at 01:51

@tylerknowsnothing #clams #science #water

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Written by Henry Wilkinson on 2024-12-31 at 03:13

@tylerknowsnothing Clamputer

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Written by Tyler K. Nothing on 2024-12-31 at 03:48

@hank Would that make them CLAM/CLAMOR gates?

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Written by Nico Rohrbach on 2024-12-31 at 08:37

@tylerknowsnothing @kupfers I remember visiting the Water Supply Zürich (Switzerland) with my school as a kid about 30 years ago. Back then they did test the water quality with fish. In 2006 water fleas in a daphnia toximeter took over. https://www.bbe-moldaenke.de/en/products/toxicity/details/daphtox-II.html

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Written by Petra van Cronenburg on 2024-12-31 at 10:52

@superpixel I know this from other countries, too. @tylerknowsnothing @kupfers

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Written by Petra van Cronenburg on 2024-12-31 at 10:54

@tylerknowsnothing I read the original article in The Economist, until that sentence: "Mr Domek is now so fond of clams that he tries to deter people from eating them. He mischievously suggests that they “have a negative effect on [sexual] potency”. Well ... 🤣 🤫

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