/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.10628485]

Imagine being such a successful organism that you changed the composition of your biosphere to the point that it killed you

[Anonymous No.10628510]

>>10628485
I don't need to imagine.

[Anonymous No.10628525]

>>10628485
The call to be a cheeky cunt is too powerful here.

>won't have to imagine for long

[Anonymous No.10628550]

>>10628485
There have only been two in the history of the world. One was useful, the other was not.

[Anonymous No.10628574]

>>10628485
religion meme ?

[Anonymous No.10628615]

Cringe.

[Anonymous No.10628655]

>>10628485
So far, I don't think anybody knows what you are talking about. I got you bro.

[Anonymous No.10628679]

>>10628655
>>10628615
>>10628574
lol brainlet

[Anonymous No.10628701]

>>10628679
Look at your post and tell me who the brainlet is? You have no idea what's going here. But fine, here is your (You).

[Anonymous No.10630178]

>>10628485
Imagine being such a useless organism that you changed the composition of your biosphere to the point that it killed you

[Anonymous No.10630187]

Stromatolites good.

Humans bad.

God and the Devil call it a draw.

[Anonymous No.10630296]

>>10630187
Human tastes good
Stroshit tastes bad

[Anonymous No.10630372]

>>10630178
chainlink is 64 cents now, i am full of hope

[Anonymous No.10630386]

>>10628485

This is what most alien life in the universe probably looks like. Smelly slimeball planets.

[Anonymous No.10630397]

>>10628485
yeast fermenting in alcohol do it all the time

[Anonymous No.10630403]

>>10628485

The first great extinction when oxygen almost killed all life on Earth because most life was anaerobic.

[Anonymous No.10630406]

>>10628485

https://youtu.be/qERdL8uHSgI

[Anonymous No.10630419]

>>10628485
BASED

[Anonymous No.10630830]

>>10630178
Society/civilization itself is in the complacency stage right now

[Anonymous No.10630883]

>>10628485
Wasn't there some research that concluded those might just be geological formations without any organic origins?

[Anonymous No.10630889]

>>10630883
The organisms which created them are still alive there though.

[Anonymous No.10631174]

>>10628485
The Consumers gonna consume, consume consume.

Then call you a hypocrite for trying communicate the concept to them.

[Anonymous No.10631183]

>>10628485
I'm becoming obsessed with the nitrogen cycle. I wish I took more biochemistry in school.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-nitrogen-cycle-processes-players-and-human-15644632

[Anonymous No.10631443]

>>10630883
no

[Anonymous No.10631576]

>>10628485
based OP. just had to handle a bunch of these in a paleoecology lab practical earlier this week, some pretty remarkable stuff.

[Anonymous No.10632205]

>>10631576
In a billion years, students of a newly evolved intelligent species will handle you and make the same comment

[Anonymous No.10632509]

Are we really doing that badly, we have really only known that we have a meaningful impact on the environment for about 50 maybe 60 years. Imagine going up to a 15th century christain and asking them to change their entire way of life. They would kill you. At least there are people who have listened. Change will come but all cultural changes almost always take 100 years to take root.

[Anonymous No.10632691]

>>10632205
no way, I doubt they'd find humans nearly as impressive as we find stromatolites.

[Anonymous No.10632698]

>>10628485
I literally don’t have to imagine

[Anonymous No.10632710]

>>10628485
lol who cares

Fuck the Earth - We going to Mars

[Anonymous No.10632762]

>>10628550
what's the useful one?

[Anonymous No.10632790]

>>10632762
The useful one is the one that filled the atmosphere with oxygen and made it possible for more complex life to evolve.

[Anonymous No.10632844]

>Imagine being such a successful organism that you changed the composition of your biosphere to the point that it killed you

I don't get why this is strange? Dying out from resource depletion is how mother nature works. It happens with almost every species. It's a natural part of evolution.

e.g.
>fox enters new territory with TONS of rabbits to eat
>fox population grows as does rabbit population
>fox population grows too fast for rabbit population to keep up
>fox population starts to die out due to starvation

The ONLY difference is, foxes only have ONE resource they do this to. Humans are smart enough that they can utilize almost any resource, and thus are cursed to sufferer endless resource deletions. When did humans start thinking they no longer a part of nature, or star thinking they were immune to the laws of nature?

[Anonymous No.10632853]

>>10632844
>Dying out from resource depletion is how mother nature works.
That's wrong. Successful species live in balance with their surroundings in perpetuity.

[Anonymous No.10632857]

>>10632844
Your fox analogy is wrong. It isn't sustainable because both the rabbits and the fox end up extinct almost immidiately.

But we know both rabbits and foxes have lived in balance for millions of lives.

[Anonymous No.10632874]

>>10632853
>>10632857
animals that live in competition with each other evolve with each other and reach a balance. When there's no competition resource depletion happens.

You see this in places like Australia where animals who didn't evolve together become introduced and an extinction level event happens. Having a 2nd animal that you can compete against is the key to achieving balance. Humans don't compete with any animals, so of course there won't be a balance.

[Anonymous No.10632883]

>>10632874
wat?
now you're saying foxes need wolves to compete with for rabbits?
you're all over the map bro. settle down. take a deep breath. and concentrate. focus. its not complicated

[Anonymous No.10632890]

>>10632874
Hence why competition with other humans are necessary and why I'm a nationalist

[Anonymous No.10632959]

>>10631174
>Then call you a hypocrite for trying communicate the concept to them.
They really just state the truth. People believe it's an issue and care but nobody seriously puts their heart into that belief, so they'll still go out and waste without realizing it.

[Anonymous No.10632967]

>>10632959
fair enough but there are differing degrees of hypocrisy. the most egregious hypocrites tend to be the ones screaming "hypocrite" the loudest.

[Anonymous No.10632985]

>>10632844
>Dying out from resource depletion is how mother nature works.
that's not how stromatolites declined. they oxygenated the atmosphere through photosynthesis and once complex multicellular life adapted to the new geochemistry they started grazing on the defenseless stromatolites reducing them to fractions of their original populations.

[Anonymous No.10634465]

>>10632985
Life used to be predominately anaerobic and oxygen is toxic to these organisms.
There was close to 98% extinction after the GOE which happened relatively suddenly due to the earth's Iron content acting as a huge O2 sink buffer that held up for millions of years

[Anonymous No.10634489]

>>10630406
cool vid

[Anonymous No.10634511]

>>10632710
>trusting bald """men""""

[Anonymous No.10634626]

>>10632691
>we
speak for yourself, prokarycuck

[Anonymous No.10634863]

>>10632691
>primitive photosynthesizing slime is more interesting than a life form that builds particle accelerators and lands autonomous robots on other planets

[Anonymous No.10635207]

>>10634863
One of the possible great filters is life figuring out photosynthesis, and then surviving it's proliferation.

[Anonymous No.10636032]

>>10634863
Yeah unironically. Cyanobacteria pioneered a metabolic pathway that drastically altered the Earth’s geochemistry and allowed all other complex organisms to evolve thereafter. Homo sapiens’ accomplishments are peanuts compared to that.

A newly evolved intelligent species looking at the record of human dominance might see the LHC and space travel but they’d also see nuclear profileration, industrial fossil fuel pollution, and the Anthropocene biodiversity crisis. They’d judge us accordingly.

[Anonymous No.10636088]

>>10636032
>They’d judge us accordingly.

Here's an idea. What if someone made a new religion, and preserved it for posterity in a in archival media or a time capsule. (kinda like L Ron Hubbard, but instead of creating a cult, he just sticks his newly written religious text in a time capsule) A religion that was centered around going on crusades erasing all trace of our existence from history. When new intelligent life arrives/evolves on Earth they'll find this preserved religion, follow it's commandments, and remove all trace of humans from existence.

That way the new intelligent life forms on Earth won't know we ever existed but more importantly, won't be able to "judge us accordingly."

[Anonymous No.10636135]

>>10636088
>An intelligent lifeform would follow rubbish material written by subhuman filth

[Anonymous No.10636163]

>>10636088
I must have read this a dozen times over and I probably lost some more brain cells each time. Good god.

[Anonymous No.10636616]

>>10628485
Bitch, I do that shit every day. It ain't hard.

[Anonymous No.10637546]

>>10628485
Cringe and bluepilled

[Anonymous No.10637588]

>>10636032
>They’d judge us accordingly.
Earth evolved us, we play by it's rules.
If we shit the nest then we die and something else gets a shot and will thrive under the conditions we leave behind.
I don't believe man will die out though. We are too smart and adaptable.
Maybe 99% of the population will die out, this will be a boon to human evolution.