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What if life is just an accidental misshapen rock which spreads itself changing constantly to adapt to ever hostile environments. OMG What if we're the cancer
by Justsignedup 12y ago
What if life is just an accidental misshapen rock which spreads itself changing constantly to adapt to ever hostile environments.
OMG What if we're the cancer of the universe, who is in itself a giant amoeba!??!!?!?!?
deep thoughts, with jack handy
- dredmorbius 12y agoCloser than you might think. Howard Odum in 1971 suggests that humans are something of a decomposer, working on a backlog of accumulated energy and mineral deposits: Sometimes in half-seriousness we say that man may have been evolved by the system as a mechanism to get the fossil fuels and other minerals back into circulation. We hope he is pre-adapted for other roles after that. From Environment, Power, and Society. An analog I use is to opportunistic benthic whale fall communities. The emerge and develop rapidly. They do not sustain.
- snowwrestler 12y agoIs life an accident, or a predictable outcome of physical laws? That's a pretty fundamental question, and one we should be able to answer scientifically. But we can't right now.