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by 420basteit 6y ago
I've wondered this too. It seems like there is a solid argument that they could act as a harmful invasive species and damage or destroy ecosystems which they are introduced to. There is precedent for this in hippos which were introduce
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by 420basteit 7y ago
There is reason to consider this a possibility, since many molecules may be potentially harmful when inhaled as vapor, with unknown health effects (ie vitamin E acetate), but under combustion would deteriorate mostly or entirely into the ca
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by 420basteit 7y ago
Why do you find eusociality abhorrent?
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by 420basteit 7y ago
I think you have a slight misunderstanding about the great filter. If we found only microorganisms on the other plant that should indicate that the filter is behind us, life having died out on that planet before even reaching large scale or
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by 420basteit 7y ago
From one media manipulator to another: when you pay the premium price for a long-standing hacker news account, it's usually more convincing to let people find the comment history for themselves.
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by 420basteit 8y ago
Probably not the same thing that guy was walking about, but this is a cool project going on at University of Washington - it's made for biological science workflows but it's really quite flexible. https://www.aquarium.b
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by 420basteit 8y ago
Grass fed organic meat will solve all of our problems right? Except for the fact that it is too expensive for most to afford, meaning only the upper class can eat the stuff and feel good about it; also it produces much more methane per poun
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by 420basteit 8y ago
However, even supposing these congestions are important to human wellbeing, the argument still fails to be compelling because it understates the development of psychological knowledge that would occur alongside the technological development