I’m kind of in to how undifferentiated tissue becomes mature and acquires a specific morphology, so I liked this series of photos of a big hunk of driftwood being shaped into an octopus. It gets from here:
To here:
However, I’m used to development proceeding autonomously. I don’t think it would work if I just put a tree trunk and a chainsaw together in a beaker in my yard, which disappoints me. Is it a matter of getting the salt concentration just right? The temperature?
The pH
Those pictures are time-reversed. You start with a kraken and chainsaw, and obtain a nice supply of calamari rings in time for dinner. Or in this case, what appears to be a large calamari ripieni, raising questions like: Just what is it stuffed with?
I think you have to throw in some hedgehogs, for reasons I’ve never quite understood.
To the log and the chainsaw you need to add an undergraduate. If seasoned with some “research” credits, they might serve as the needed catalyst.
Prayer.
Its an interesting carving but the original log was nicer.
Maybe if you gather a sufficiently large quantity of hydrogen and leave it alone for a few billion years…
If xkcd is anything to go by you’ll have to read up on powertool-neurology, but otherwise you’re pretty on the right track. (Woodpecker- or beaverneurology is probably better understood and they might be less noisy)
Make sure you continually agitate the wood-chainsaw solution.
komarov re the xkcd.
Hey!! A sweater with built-in spider bites.