Comment on Biomimicry

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Tylix@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Know what’s wild? For millions of years nothing around ate trees, so when a tree grew and died and fell it was permanently there because there was no rot. Which is how we got petrified forests.

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  • bananabenana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From my readings, I don’t think this is the case. Lignin degradation evolved rapidly with terrestrial plants. Coal and petrified wood is more due to geological events and swamps for example. Evolving ligninases is trivial for bacteria and fungi.

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  • lorty@lemmygrad.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t that more because of the lack of fungi that could break down wood?

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• Neil@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Life in general is most likely something the universe invented to speed up entropy.

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Life is a natural part of entropy for sure.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a nice theory about how it looks like the goal is actually to produce photons more efficiently.

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