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Petrichor3345 @kbin.social
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Can we settle this: how many holes does a straw have?
  • Right, technically a human only has 1 hole for ingesting nutrients and expelling waste as well though, assuming you are talking about the mouth and anus. Does a flatworm have any other through holes though e.g. nostrils or tear ducts? I have no idea what the biology of a flatworm is haha.

  • Can we settle this: how many holes does a straw have?
  • IIRC humans have 7 holes topologically (assuming both vsauce and my memory are correct). I'm not sure how many a flatworm would have, but I bet you could group animals by number of holes topologically, which might be interesting.

  • Can we settle this: how many holes does a straw have?
  • There are only two real answers, either 0 or 1.

    If you are going topologically the answer is one, just like a donut.

    Personally I like to think of a straw as a hollow cylinder of plastic, in which case the "hole" in the center is just space the cylinder doesn't occupy and not actually a hole, so zero.

    Two holes doesn't even make any sense imo.