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You can call it the revenge of the softies. Rock thought it had it all worked out, geometric purity, eternal hardness, high atomic numbers, crushing abundance,
by college_physics 4y ago
You can call it the revenge of the softies. Rock thought it had it all worked out, geometric purity, eternal hardness, high atomic numbers, crushing abundance, first mover advantage. Then comes along Life, a freak aberration, barely indistinguishable from water, chaotic and brittle, ugly and arbitrary in structure, and it starts chewing on the mighty Rock.
Fast forward billions of years: the entire volume of the planet (where temperature allows macromolecules to exist) is alive somehow... Rock retreats to the molten interior
- falseprofit 4y agoRocks get chewed on by literally anything. Air, water, and yes, microbes.
- college_physics 4y agoI said, "Rock, what's a matter with you, Rock?"
- blamazon 4y agoAnd now we've dragged Rock forwards, kicking and screaming, as we animated it and are earnestly teaching it to think. (Silicon and derived semiconductors)
- college_physics 4y ago> (Silicon and derived semiconductors) who is afraid of monolith monsters? [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monolith_Monsters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monolith_Monsters
- roughly 4y agoWe’ve even ejected it into space, literally exiling it from the planet it was born to!