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- I vote for stem cells extraction from babies in a same way crab blood is extracted.by Fokamul
- Has anyone on HN gotten the horseshoe crab pin and can share the story?by jzelinskie
- A pin? I did and fought for the cause. Happy to share. See my other post in this thread.by wuschel
- Most horseshoe related posts on HN come complete with abysmal amount of ads in the articles. Wonder why…by larodi
- Go crabs go!
- There is an episode in Elementary that involves the Horseshoe, its extraction and conservation. It is just a regular episode, but the visual presentation of the extraction was fascinating. I hope they are real. :)by tecoholic
- They are indeed real.. weird. Like something out of starship troopers. I've held quite a few. Haven't given one a phlebotomy though.by goosejuice
- Few things look more cruel and dystopic than the rooms where they harvest the blood of horseshoe crabsby y-curious
- Can't spell cruel and dystopic without Eli Lilly.
- yep, if there was hint of cruelty in the matrix where machines harvested humans for energy, this may not be so different.by mindhash
- If you follow the whole process from the point of view of the horseshoe crab it is disturbingly similar to the stories many people who claim to be alien abduction victims tell.by tzs
- The horseshoe crab story comes up on HN now and then. Typical media game, the crabs crawled out their appointed time slot in the media publishing calendar.
Here is a full disclaimer (from the trenches of startup land): I co-founded and ran a biotech startup that tried to disintermediate that particular supply chain. We even flew to SF to speak to some of the YC chaps, and talked to a strategic buyer. Our technology R&D failed to deliver, unfortunately. And the market is fairly small. But I learned a great deal re that particular business, and a lot of more general lessons. All in all, a crazy run with so many crazy stories, I need to write them down one day.
Horseshoe crabs are truly fascinating animals in respect to their physique, lineage and behaviour. But these things one can read up on Wikipedia.
We had quite a bunch of them in our lab (and living room). They were supposed to be voracious predators to all things they can eat, but ours developed a rather expensive habit in captivity by only eating the most expensive of goods from the local fish market. They would not eat anything else.
by wuschel - If the even crabs won't touch the grocery store sashimi, maybe neither should humans?
- > habit in captivity by only eating the most expensive of goods
No animal behaviorist, but isn’t this depression? (Nervous system expects one reality, gets a different one, takes whatever ++ it comes across and maximizes it?)
by DANmode - The crab had correctly identified it's importance within the org and therefore comp structureby intheitmines