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Re:Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions? by Mugwort on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:28PM (#20287120)
A two dimensional being can't eat. Its digestive tract necessarily divides it into two distinct pieces and the being falls apart.

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Re:Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions? by jetrink on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:07PM (#20287541)
Two phyla of animals use a gastrovascular cavity[1] in which food enters and waste exits through the same orifice.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrovascular_cavity

Re:Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions? by undersuit on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:56PM (#20287419)
I don't know if I'm missing the joke, but why do we assume the 2D stork people have a digestive tract and not a series of manipulatable pores that facilitate the movement of particles in and out of the body or maybe similar to how an amoeba uses phagocytosis.
Re:Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions? by aaronblohowiak on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:41PM (#20287246)
not necessarily. instead of a tube, it would be a series of "locks" like a canal.
Re:Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions? by jng on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:41PM (#20287249)
Regurgitation solves that specific showstopper.
Re:Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions? by skinner_ on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:11PM (#20290607)
Re:Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions? by undersuit on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:13PM (#20296408)
That's a pretty slick solution there.
Re:Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions? by saalweachter on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:30PM (#20288831)
Your two separate pieces could still interlock, so that you wouldn't "fall apart".
Re:Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions? by smartplaya2001 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:17PM (#20287643)
you assume a 2d being needs to need or requires a digestive tract. What if that being doesn't necessarily it?
Re:Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions? by Koshkin on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:41PM (#20287251)
Food may also serve as the glue.