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No to flexibility, yes to plasticity! Interview with Catherine Malabou
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it’s healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity
Holy shit. “The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?” published in the Science magazine
short but sweet
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No to flexibility, yes to plasticity! Interview with Catherine Malabou
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Our solar system has at least 6 sub-surface oceans and only one surface ocean.
If that ratio is true across the universe then the aliens would probably think Earth is very unlikely to host life because our oceans are too small and aren’t protected by a layer of ice.
Not to mention that Earth’s gravity is too strong (7x stronger than the biggest ice moon). Even in the unlikely case that life does evolve there, they would struggle to explore space.
Technically there are 2 surface oceans but Titan’s surface oceans are made of liquid methane and not water.
Titan does also have a sub-surface water ocean though.
“Earth may have life, but only in the Polar regions” -Alien Xenobiologist, possibly
“Life on Earth is short and sad. Even some of the longest lived organisms only live a few centuries at most.”
I’m nor actually convinced that life that evolved in a subsurface ocean would ever even know that the rest universe exists.
Hollywood, call me. I can have this script done on a weekend.
Check out the bonus panel on the site!
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He was off by five years or so, but it still bothers the hell out of me that the Far Side accidentally predicted let’s players
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