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diannethegeek
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http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-show-why-we-should-all-start-drinking-cockroach-milk
Will you be running out to buy some?
Will you be running out to buy some?
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Cockroach milk?!?!?!?
Nope, I'll pass.1 -
I'm just trying to figure out how you milk them.12
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I have a phobia of hard-shelled insects, so not clicking that link, but I sorta want to know how you would milk a cockroach. Is it like milking an almond?2
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I'll pass too! Holy crap, lol1
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For the curious:Although most cockroaches don’t actually produce milk, Diploptera punctate, which is the only known cockroach to give birth to live young, has been shown to pump out a type of ‘milk’ containing protein crystals to feed its babies.
The fact that an insect produces milk is pretty fascinating – but what fascinated researchers is the fact that a single one of these protein crystals contains more than three times the amount of energy found in an equivalent amount of buffalo milk (which is also higher in calories then dairy milk).
Clearly milking a cockroach isn’t the most feasible option, so an international team of scientists headed by researchers from the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India decided to sequence the genes responsible for producing the milk protein crystals to see if they could somehow replicate them in the lab.0 -
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Yeah, I'm just going to refer back to John Oliver's science reporting segment and assume this is a crock. Unless it could save my life, no freaking way.0
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Hey, at least we'll have a fresh milk supply during nuclear winter22
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I don't think I will replace my coffee mate just yet.1
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sunnybeaches105 wrote: »Hey, at least we'll have a fresh milk supply during nuclear winter
Touche0 -
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Stoooop. I'm not even looking. A cockroach was practically chasing me down the street yesterday. I hate hate hate them.3
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Mmmmmm.....nope.
Seems like a treat for my beardies though. Apparently, flour made from crickets is a thing, too....And morio worms.
I don't think my beardies would share, anyway.0 -
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That cliche about scientists being too focused on whether or not they *could* to consider whether or not they should has never seemed more appropriate.9
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...who even discovers these things?2
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What about the baby cockroaches? What are they going to drink?7
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What the actual kitten?!0
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h311 to the no! Disgusting.0
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