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If only the bad grammar didn’t inherently ruin such a cool meme.
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But good grammar isn’t metal!
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The Goldilocks zone keeps expanding.
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Iron shells… but endangered. No chance to use my recipe for Blow-torched Escargot.
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I guess getting a box of 4" snails at the hardware store is out.
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The shell can’t help them survive high heat, because they’re slow and can’t exit a hot spot quickly. So, it isn’t heat armor. More likely it’s that their diet includes metals, and they’ve figured out how to use the metals as a (superior) building material.
Are we sure they’re not just an invasive species from Spatterjay?
just to nitpick, but FeS and FeS2 aren’t metals but salts/minerals. so no iron shells on these snails. Metal as hell they are though.
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