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Another possibility often overlooked is that there's life out there on completely different timescales than we can recognize. We're only likely to notice those
by rkagerer 7y ago
Another possibility often overlooked is that there's life out there on completely different timescales than we can recognize. We're only likely to notice those within a few orders of magnitude to our own.
Maybe DNA is simply geared well compared to other mechanisms for the timescales we're interested in.
- rectangletangle 7y agoThis is an interesting thought. Plants are actually very animated at their own timescale, adapting to their environment through phenotypic plasticity. However this happens far too slow for humans to notice without a time lapse.
- gremlinsinc 7y agoThis is why it takes so long to hold a meeting of the Ents.
- Angostura 7y agoThat's a moot point.
- guelo 7y agoBut plants are really obviously complex life forms when we examine them at human timescale. I don't see how a complex life from escapes our noticing it by moving really slowly.
- on_and_off 7y agoSundiver is a recommended read in that regard ;)