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> “it's time to retire the just slime’ metaphor” hits hard. we’ve used that phrase to downplay life’s complexity, but statistically, life is the anomaly not t
by b0a04gl 1y ago
> “it's time to retire the just slime’ metaphor”
hits hard. we’ve used that phrase to downplay life’s complexity, but statistically, life is the anomaly not the default. the blog nails it: we’ve only found life in one corner of one planet, under a very narrow set of conditions. framing it as mundane is a denial. we’re surrounded by sterile rock and radiation and somehow expect slime to be obvious
- tim333 1y ago>we’re surrounded by sterile rock The jury's out on Mars. It may well not be sterile.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoI thought the slime metaphor was to illustrate the fragility and rarity of it. It’s a thin film of slime and that’s all life is in the grand scheme of things. Like the surface of a bubble.