Like your mealy-mouthed, whitebread, Bible-thumping Fundie Sea-monkeys, are gonna terrorize my hard-drinking, bar-fighting go-getters.
The point is kind of moot though. I forgot to feed mine and they are all dead. I’m waiting for the wter to completely evaporate so I can reanimate them.
If you add an unpleasant substance to the water after they engage in illicit sex, they will pair this substance with illicit sex and stop cheating on one another.
let me get this straight, sea monkies live in their tank, something unthinkable happens, such as them acquiring nuclear weapons and a holy war breaking out between the Followers of the Vibrating Spudman (that sounds dirty…) and the Followers of the Feline with a Headgear Fetish (sounds dirty too) causing a complete die-off…
you allow the water to evaporate, add more and they rise from the DEAD?!?, that behavior reminds me of a similar lifeform…
ZOMBIES!
but wait, it gets worse, you now have a tankful of RADIOACTIVE ZOMBIES (which would, coincedentially, make a cool name for a band)
you better be careful, Wabbit, have any of your Radioactive Zombie Sea Monkies been glowing a healthy green and staring hungrily at your brain?, you gotta be careful now, if the remake of Dawn Of the Dead tells us anything, it’s that if one rises as a zombie, they’re able to run faster than they have in life to hunt down prey, and that their strength increases dramatically, make sure you keep a fully loaded shotgun handy at all times…
perhaps the reason your reanimated Radioactive Zombie Sea Monkies (Band Name!) seem to no longer be interested in the religious icons you have provided them is because they’re drooling over the prospect of feasting on your Tasty Brains™…
Just to bring a probably unwelcome dose of reality to this zombie thread, I’ve interacted with brine shrimp in their own environment, swimming with them in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, If you look ast them without a microscope or magnifying glass they look like feathers from your feather pillow with two little black dots for eyes sat the end. There’s not much room for any neural tissue, so I think they’re not much more intelligent than the feathers.
Magnifying them doesn’t change this evaluation much:
The Wikipedia article pretty much confirms my thoughts:
So I think your hopes of re-creating the situation in Theodore Sturgeon’s classic SF story Microcosmic God are prretty much doomed.
So, what you’re saying is that brine shrimp brains don’t have to think about most of the stuff their bodies do, thus leaving their brains free to contemplate esoteric topics like how many tentacles Cthulhu needs to span a Banach space.
In answer to this question, (not realizing that it was 20 years old) I did a quick google search and found that of all places Hobby Lobby sold them advertsied as “Instant Life”. Given Hobby Lobbys religious ties, this does seem a bit blasphemous " Recreate Genesis in a fishbowl! You too can be God!". Of course that makes them perfect for anyone wanting to further the experiments of the OP as they are likely to be puritanically pre-programmed.
I don’t know if you’re still out there after 23 years, but you can buy Brine Shrimp Eggs in bulk to produce live feed for your fish, or whatever (as mentioned above). You don’t get the cute plAstic aquarium or the pretty pictures of “Sea Monkeys”, but it’s cheaper (on a per-egg basis)