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if you throw a frog in boiling water it will die immediately. If, instead, you heat up that water slowly, the frog will eventually be unable to maintain homeos
by ouid 4y ago
if you throw a frog in boiling water it will die immediately. If, instead, you heat up that water slowly, the frog will eventually be unable to maintain homeostasis and will leave, just like you would if it got too hot.
- lurchedsawyer 4y agoBut the whole point is that it is not true. There have been experiments and what the anegdote fails to mention is that step one in boiling the frog by slowly increasing the temperature is removing its brain. But don't take my word for it: https://archive-srel.uga.edu/outreach/ecoviews/ecoview071223.htm https://archive-srel.uga.edu/outreach/ecoviews/ecoview071223...
- permo-w 4y agoI don’t see this as incontrovertible. perhaps 2° per minute is too quick