Great! Looking forward for hand-sanitizer-proof virus in the next GoF research.
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Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nature is already doing this experiment, right now, and has been for billions of years. This couldn't cause problems even if we wanted it to.
That feels like fatally flawed reasoning. Nature took billions of years to sequester carbon. It’s taken a few hundred to release an amount that’s permanently altered the climate of the Earth. There’s lots of problems humans can create that “nature” couldn’t precisely because we drastically compress time scales that make adaptation exceedingly difficult.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
That feels like fatally flawed reasoning. Nature took billions of years to sequester carbon. It’s taken a few hundred to release an amount that’s permanently altered the climate of the Earth. There’s lots of problems humans can create that “nature” couldn’t precisely because we drastically compress time scales that make adaptation exceedingly difficult.
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Have you just let ChatGPT expand on GPs post..? Your reply contains exactly the same content as theirs, but more wordy…
Re: Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nature is already doing this experiment, right now, and has been for billions of years. This couldn't cause problems even if we wanted it to.
That feels like fatally flawed reasoning. Nature took billions of years to sequester carbon. It’s taken a few hundred to release an amount that’s permanently altered the climate of the Earth. There’s lots of problems humans can create that “nature” couldn’t precisely because we drastically compress time scales that make adaptation exceedingly difficult.
But it took no time for the universe to come into existence. In a bang and flash.
Re: Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
#35It turns itself into glass.
When desiccation begins and TDP is activated, it engages a process known as vitrification. Boothby said, “The glass is coating the molecules inside of the tardigrade cells, keeping them intact.”
Re: Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
#36Intersting, however, there is something about this format of headline that always makes me twitch a bit inside. There should be a law of scientific headlines, something along the lines: Whenever a reporter writes, "Scientists finally discover why...." you can be sure to interpret as "Scientists have even more questions about why...". The phrasing confuses the understanding of the general public about how sciences and scientists actually work.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Have you just let ChatGPT expand on GPs post..? Your reply contains exactly the same content as theirs, but more wordy…
I asked ChatGPT what it would respond and it produces something very similar, down to the same sentences, to the comment above. So this definitely looks like a ChatGPT response.
Re: Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nature is already doing this experiment, right now, and has been for billions of years. This couldn't cause problems even if we wanted it to.
That feels like fatally flawed reasoning. Nature took billions of years to sequester carbon. It’s taken a few hundred to release an amount that’s permanently altered the climate of the Earth. There’s lots of problems humans can create that “nature” couldn’t precisely because we drastically compress time scales that make adaptation exceedingly difficult.
Climate has been changing since the planet exists and you benefit from everything that a modern society has to offer. Better if you become the example of change in society and go live inside a cave to reduce your own carbon footprint.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you just let ChatGPT expand on GPs post..? Your reply contains exactly the same content as theirs, but more wordy…
I asked ChatGPT what it would respond and it produces something very similar, down to the same sentences, to the comment above. So this definitely looks like a ChatGPT response.
it was, sorry. can't delete it.
Re: Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
#40"This article was originally published in Big Think." In 2017. Word for word copy.
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/scientists-finally-f...
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.veterinarydaily.com/2023/03/scientists-finally-f.... Thanks!