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The Tale of the Snail Slime Wrangler

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

Hold that please level five, thank you.

0:02.0

Ah, you must be one of our new interns.

0:05.0

Yeah, hi, nice to meet you.

0:06.0

Hi, now the most important thing to know is to Ertz in the Bipasal-rise plug sale.

0:10.0

The most important thing is what?

0:12.0

The single most important thing is to Erz and the channelise being bingus of the

0:14.8

by parcel rise plug sale and you'll be fine.

0:17.1

Uh, yeah, that sounds important.

0:20.0

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0:22.3

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0:26.6

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0:27.6

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0:29.8

You know initially I was like sure come on out and take some slime if that's what you need to do.

0:35.8

You know, I didn't, I really didn't ask many questions.

0:38.0

On the far eastern edge of Long Island, New York, there's a very peculiar farm that produces a lot of slime, and it's inspiring scientists to make futuristic materials.

0:50.0

My name is Taylor Knapp. I'm the head snail wrangler at Peconic Escargoe on Long Island, New York.

0:56.4

So snail wrangling is a real job?

0:58.2

Well, it's a real made-up job, yes. I think it's funny, but it also conjures up this image of a snail ranch and...

1:05.0

Do you have a lasso or something?

1:07.0

Very tiny lassos. Dental floss.

1:09.0

Yeah.

1:10.0

Really? No, no, no, no.

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