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🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

That’s abhorrent

Read the rest of the thread, it led to incredible medical breakthroughs. Also, jellyfish don't have a brain and can't feel pain.

For the longest time we thought other things didn’t feel pain, but they do.