"Finally, the truth about barnacle sex is revealed"

Finally.

Oh, and in case you were wondering: "Genetic analysis shows that the sessile crustaceans can broadcast sperm in water." (Science News)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

PhosPhorious

“Genetic analysis shows that the sessile crustaceans can broadcast sperm in water.”

I have the weirdest boner right now.
- esquire
  
  I guess that makes me a sessile crustacean. Amirite?
  - dmatos
    
    Correlation does not imply causation!
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

I thought this was already known. Isn’t Sacculina (which I’ve been reading about again because, honestly, it fascinates the hell out of me) a variety of barnacle?
Nadreck

Well, broadcasting (or to be more technically correct “dudecasting”) does have advantages over point-to-point transmission. For one thing the source can’t be overloaded by demands from the receivers.
http://twitter.com/missshenna Lithi

My life is now complete.
chaopoiesis

Ripper: “Mandrake?”
edgore

One more reason to never go into the water.
niktemadur

Insert obligatory Monty Python here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R2zvE615dM
TheGnagflow61

Didn’t we already knew about the sexlife of Barnacle Bill ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_Bill_%28song%29
CLamb

Why is it that organisms evolved out of the need to be surronded by water and can live and move about on land yet sperm remain so primitive? Why is it that sperm haven’t evolved legs and lungs so they can cruise the boulevards in search of ripe ova?