/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9215829
>Mistakes either improve or lower the chances of survival

This is commonly taught, and somewhat confusing and inaccurate. Example:

>giraffes developed increasingly longer necks to eat leaves on branches other animals couldn't
>the shorter necked giraffes died of starvation

Except they didn't, or probably didn't...they just evolved into some other type of animal. This is the answer to the Creationist bleat, "why are there still monkeys in Africa?!"

A better way of phrasing that step:

>mistakes either improve or lower the chances of filling an ecological niche

Sometimes the niche collapses and extinction results...dinosaurs are a good example, with birds filling a niche that was easier to survive in after the asteroid impact.

>>8938522

Actually, the inferior live-action version ducked out on the anime's existential questions, by giving Motoko a literal brain transplant.

In the anime, she's a "ghost", an upload, with nothing remaining of her earlier biological self.

Like it or not, it helps create funding, interest and investment from the normies.

>>8459562
>those microscopic troublemaking fuckers will get what's been coming to them

>he doesn't know exploiting viruses is how CRISPR works

Viruses will soon be our best friends, anon.

>>8251593
>you would essentially be climbing up a 45° slope.

I'm ripped as shit, so I could handle it.

Screw the space elevator...this is the way to go.