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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days agolife on earth would cease to exist quite quickly
This was the first thought that came to my mind on seeing this post.
For starters, basicaly most (all?) plants are fucked, they can no longer internally hydrate, also water in soil behaves totally differently, so …yeah.
Then you’ve got beings with active circulatory systems, who… may to some extent be able to live, but lots of pulmonary / circulatory problems are gonna happen.
I guess maybe totally waterborne life could survive, maybe… but 0 surface tension of water probably changes how salinity works…
Yeah, this would be very bad, lol.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 6 days ago
If we want to go to extremes, zero surface tension means no nucleation barrier for critical bubbles. In practice, this implies that liquid water is unstable, and will spontaneously vaporise at all conditions.
So yeah, all life ends pretty quickly.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Wow, that’s much worse lol!