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I absolutely adore the simplicity behind this: Energy must balance, so it flows from high concentrations to lower concentrations. Things that help that flow are
by bloopernova 3y ago
I absolutely adore the simplicity behind this: Energy must balance, so it flows from high concentrations to lower concentrations. Things that help that flow are selected for.
From that springs everything we are. Utterly amazing to me that from a gradient plus some random chemicals plus time equals humans, sex, violence, loss, birth, love, games, music, and so much more.
All just to help the earth cool down a little bit faster.
- tsunamifury 3y agoAbsolutely none of this follows
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- friend_and_foe 3y agoIt doesn't help the earth cool down faster, it actually traps energy for longer in metabolic processes. But it does red shift it. The film of muck on the surface that we call life lowers the planet's albedo and the radiation that shines out of it is of a longer wavelength than if it were just reflected.
- kaashif 3y ago> Things that help that flow are selected for. I don't get this part, why does this follow? Why would life that transfers heat faster get selected for? This seems backwards to me: in reality it seems like life that is more capable or more adapted reproduces more, and that results in more heat moving around most of the time. But progress can go backwards, if there were a nuclear war this would reduce heat transfer.