So I've been wondering for a while how crab's muscles work. You'd think they'd work like any other muscles, but their not physical tissue from what I understand. If you break open a crab before cooking it goo will just pour out.
So are their muscles liquid? How does that work exactly?
Help me Professor Facepunch!
hydraulics.
(taking a guess here)
They're like regular muscles, except they're in an exosceleton
Edit: It's apparently somewhere in between muscles and hydraulics
[QUOTE=johngrimm;18336693]So I've been wondering for a while how crab's muscles work. You'd think they'd work like any other muscles, but their not physical tissue from what I understand. If you break open a crab before cooking it goo will just pour out.
So are their muscles liquid? How does that work exactly?
Help me Professor Facepunch![/QUOTE]
Atleast the part you eat is white coloured. I've tasted it, I broke open the claw-shell thingie, and there was a thick junk of white coloured meat.
It was pretty good.
[QUOTE=johngrimm;18336693]So I've been wondering for a while how crab's muscles work. You'd think they'd work like any other muscles, but their not physical tissue from what I understand. If you break open a crab before cooking it goo will just pour out.
So are their muscles liquid? How does that work exactly?
Help me Professor Facepunch![/QUOTE]
Apparently some arthropods use hydraulic pressure to extend their limbs, but all of them still use muscular tissue to flex them. At least, according to wikipedia.
[QUOTE=Camundongo;18336794]Apparently some arthropods use hydraulic pressure to extend their limbs, but all of them still use muscular tissue to flex them. At least, according to wikipedia.[/QUOTE]
Some starfish, I think it is, use that. They can latch onto a clam or some other mussel and just tug on it for hours. It gives them much better endurance than the clam.
They have a bunch if little wee crabs that run around and do stuff to make the muscles move.
That goo is actually them.
[QUOTE=Carnotite;18336809]Some starfish, I think it is, use that. They can latch onto a clam or some other mussel and just tug on it for hours. It gives them much better endurance than the clam.[/QUOTE]
Starfish aren't arthropods. Wikipedia says some arthropods do, such as spiders, but doesn't go into detail about it.
[QUOTE=Camundongo;18336841]Starfish aren't arthropods. Wikipedia says some arthropods do, such as spiders, but doesn't go into detail about it.[/QUOTE]
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Tension fibers? I'm not in a condition to read this properly, relates to the horseshoe crab.
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they hang onto hair
Mm.. i want crab now !
[QUOTE=RedSponge;18337838]Mm.. i want crab now ![/QUOTE]
If you want, I'll give you crabs.
[QUOTE=Zackin5;18336838]They have a bunch if little wee crabs that run around and do stuff to make the muscles move.
That goo is actually them.[/QUOTE]
I can't believe none of you have said this yet
Trust me I'm a Newfoundlander.
They don't have them, they are used solely for feeding the village of newfoundland
You called?
[QUOTE=Kinglah Crab;18338377]You called?[/QUOTE]
No
I dunno but they're delicious
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[QUOTE=:smug:;18338517][url]www.google.com[/url]
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Had a friend tell me about that the other day. Good find.
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;18338589]Had a friend tell me about that the other day. Good find.[/QUOTE]
How come I haven't heard of this?
[QUOTE=kabookie;18338625]How come I haven't heard of this?[/QUOTE]
It's still pretty new, not surprising, Found out about it last week.
Haha you guys are funny not
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[QUOTE=:smug:;18338517][url]www.google.com[/url]
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Couldn't find anything for crab muscles specifically, there's general crab anatomy which very quickly brushes over their organs and what not, then there's the great random shit that has nothing to do with what I'm looking for like muscle workouts.
They have normal muscles. And If you've ever eaten at red lobster they got those tendons. You can take a crab claw and eat out all the meat and pull the tendon to make the claw open or close. Crab arms are pretty much a hollow tube with pure muscle inside to pull the tendons.
Trust me.
^ Don't trust this guy he's not from newfoundland
There's only 4 of us on this island I know what the fuck is up
[QUOTE=Camundongo;18336841]Starfish aren't arthropods. Wikipedia says some arthropods do, such as spiders, but doesn't go into detail about it.[/QUOTE]
It also says they use a vascular hydraulic system. I'm pretty sure I learned about this in 2nd grade through a presentation involving costumes and singing, my education was the shit.
[QUOTE=ArcNova;18340005]^ Don't trust this guy he's not from newfoundland
There's only 4 of us on this island I know what the fuck is up[/QUOTE]
Oh you silly newfies.
[QUOTE=OvB;18340198]Oh you silly newfies.[/QUOTE]
GIVE ME YO ADDRESS SO I CAN PERSONALY FUCK YO SHIT UP NEWFIE STYLE B'Y. :argh:
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holy fuck your avatar is a lobster
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i wanna stick my dick in it
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get it because im a newfie
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milk it milk it milk it
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