Discovering a new species

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When you learn as a space explorer that the dark forest hypothesis was correct.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My aunt discovered several new species as a scuba diver. That was her job.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What would the astronaut even win a Novel prize for? What category?

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They’d probably invent a new one. There isn’t one for biology, right? Can’t be bothered to look it up.

      Physicists might claim it since everything is physics anyways.

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• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have to believe that somewhere in if not this galaxy then another that intelligent life has to exist. Somewhere. And no humans don’t count. We’re barely sentient. We still hate each other for skin color. We are stupid apes and we don’t deserve the stars. We may get there eventually. But we aren’t there yet.

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  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We’re barely sentient

    no???

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure there’s close to 100% chance there is life in the universe. However, understanding the immensity of the universe is only half of the equation. You also have to understand the incredible sequence of events that got us to where we are. A dual star system would be harder to get life on any kind of schedule. Granted, that’s not insurmountable, but think of it. Without migration a lot of species wouldn’t exist. Without the core of the planet being so big relative to the planet gives us a huge shield against the sun which gives us life and trulies to kill us. The large moon relative to the planet allows tides among other things. The life before us not only got us here evolutionarily, but also became the fuel to advance society enough to search for other life forms, as well as kill the ones here.

    The key difference in what you said is “intelligent life” which would be incredibly rare. Beyond that, you assume that self-destruction isn’t tied to the very same thing that gave us intelligence in the first place. And we’re not the only animals that are greedy, either. You see it in everything from pets to wild animals and their “pecking order”. To say that humans aren’t an intelligent species defies all evidence around you, and the only evidence we have of higher species and more advanced societies is sci-fi.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People in the Amazon rainforest belong in the bottom too!

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• ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m a green lantern. That’s not a new species, it’s only the first time a human discovered one

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