Clammed Up

Barb can solve any problem with her clam.

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I'm with Gavin. What happens if you get a clam that's really shy? It'll have trouble coming out of its shell.

Well this was comical and educational.

"Aren't we advanced enough to not need clams?" Humans: *starting giving a shit about water quality 150 years ago max* Clams: *have gone through millions of years of perfecting-via-evolution to know when the water is safe*

Barb was so proud of her puns.

if it works it works

"Hmmm, let's see. Hydrochloric acid, Sulfur, TARDIS, and blue stuff. Good we're fully stocked."

Occam's Razor. The simplest solution is usually the right one. And if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Clams for the win.

I live in Poland and this is the first time I've heard about this. If anyone is interested in more details, here are some I've found out: There are actually three stations: one in Poznań like Gus said, but also two in other towns near Poznań. They have 8 clams in each station and they monitor how much they are closed and then calculate average value. They stay in a water coming from filtration system. If the filters fail and the water is not pure, the clams react quickly. If the average score goes too low, the alarm system goes off. Regarding the clams themselves, they usually work for 2 months, during which they can't be fed (because they need to stay open). After that time they are freed as they become too hungry. The three stations can even use up to 200 clams per year.

Is it weird that I want a dunce clam shirt?

Nature has solutions for so many things we can't beat. Aloe Vera is still the best thing for skin and it comes from a cactus. Horseshoe crab blood is used to sterilize vaccines because it's copper based. And even if it's not nature, simpe solutions are best. A toothpaste factory installed thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of scales and alarms to stop the line anytime a box came down empty, which would cause problems. after a few months of no empty boxes being shipped, the company heads went to check on the system. They found that a worker had placed a fan to blow across the belt. They were told that the workers were tired of the alarms and the stoppages, so they set up a fan to blow the empty boxes off the belt before they could reach the scales.