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Omega_Haxors, in Oxygen.

Plănts: We will make our own food and output a poisonous gas, that way nobody will bother us.

Animals: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

pinkdrunkenelephants, in Listen, Susan. It's a valid theory, just look at the damn thing.

🤔 This is honestly evidence that the universe is mathematical, that the shapes of trees and mountains are formed under similar mathematical rules despite being different sizes and materials.

Like galaxy formation and brain cells also look similar and that’s ostensibly the reason why so it stands to reason why this would be a thing.

vivadanang,

fractals baby, it’s all procedurally generated here in the matrix.

and there’s a valid query regarding the world as simulation. but to take the leap from ‘this geology shares properties similar to this stump’ to 'damn, that was a big tree that grew out in the middle of this desert… well that takes drugs kids.

NoSpiritAnimal,
@NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world avatar

I remember someone posting a Neil Degrasse Tyson video and he was interviewing a guy talking about finding equations at the root of the physical world.

Neil seemed blown away, but isn’t mathematics just our interpretation of the natural laws of the universe?

Like reading Cliff’s Notes and then the actual book and saying “hey these are similar!”

MycoBro,

Good job with pointing that out. I think you are correct. I still feel the same wonder at it though. Gets me right in the pickle. I like to think about tree “experience” and stuff too. So many different ways to be and do in this universe. Understanding the world through math is batshit wild and I wonder what method a giant armillaria mellea uses to understand the world.

wjrii, in What is gravity?
@wjrii@kbin.social avatar

The squishy humanities version of this, in America at least, goes as follows:

In grade school you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.

In high school you learn that the Civil War was about a lot of complicated things.

In college you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.

TheTurducken,
@TheTurducken@mander.xyz avatar

Apu learned in post-grad glasses that it was complicated again.

HubertManne, in peas nutz
@HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

Beyond his actual discovery his methodology really solidified the scientific method.

ChaoticNeutralCzech,

Yes but he likely forged some data. Statistics show a high probability of his pea counts with a clear 3:1 phenome split being too good to be true.

Source: Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart. I also visited his museum on Mendel Square, Brno.

kadu,
@kadu@lemmy.world avatar

He also discarded a lot of data that didn’t meet his proposed patterns.

How do we know? Well, wouldn’t it be a nice coincidence if this motherfucker just casually randomly selected 13 different traits that follow simple dominance patterns - but none of the other dozens of traits that do not?

ChaoticNeutralCzech,

Yes, he did not quite follow principles of integrity. But let’s not understate the impact of his work on biology.

Marin_Rider, in Listen, Susan. It's a valid theory, just look at the damn thing.

my brother thinks mountains are fossilised giants.

not kidding

whereisk,

Bloody hell mate… maybe he likes to rile you up? I mean, hopefully.

JokeDeity,

I had a friend that i guess I slowly drove away by always calling him on his bullshit and amongst the thousands of insane things he did and believed, he legitimately thought that there used to be giants roaming the Earth and he would argue this point intensely.

ArmokGoB,
Marin_Rider,

Thats a wild story

PoisonedPrisonPanda,

And so random…

Brainfuck of the day.

metoothanks,

He must be a fan of the xenoblade games

spudwart, in Pronouns.
@spudwart@spudwart.com avatar

Well, actually the “pronoun” would be “The Doctor”. And since it applies in both contexts, it’s applicable to both. However it’s really not a pronoun as much as it’s A unique Proper-noun/noun/pronoun tri-brid.

Basically, it’s all really confusing, we should all just acknowledge this as a Quantum-noun and move on.

MalditoBarbudo, in Enjoy it!

Best 8 years I ever had

redbr64,
@redbr64@lemmy.world avatar

Came here to say 8 years myself, now I’m on year 7 on TT and about to say fuck it and go into industry

dullbananas, in uhhh uhhhhh
@dullbananas@lemmy.ca avatar

Atheism ☹️

UlyssesT, in Pronouns.
Diabolo96, (edited ) in wave em like you just don't care

Bees be like : ama swim in that, eat it, mix it with my saliva and regurgitate it, baby

Human : that’s some tasty gourmet shit you got there, buddy . From now on we’ll gas your entire home from time to time to steal that shit.

RQG,
@RQG@lemmy.world avatar

But they get sugar water back in return.

neuracnu,
@neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Isn’t it splendid when everybody gets what they want?

DroneRights,

This is fake news. It’s not gassing, it’s stoning. Smoke is weed for bees. We trading drugs for honey. They can leave if they want, cause they can fly.

TWeaK,

Have you ever tried to give a bee honey?

I found a bee near death outside once, and I picked him up with an envelope then dropped him in some manuka honey. He landed upside down, but I flipped him over, then he started drinking the honey. The next morning I saw a smudge on the floor and thought a housemate had squished him, but then I opened the door to the front room and he did a little dance in front of my face before I let him outside.

Suffice it to say, bees love honey just as much as we do.

DroneRights,

BTW that bee you saved was probably a female. Women do all the outdoor work in bee society, the males’ primary job is to fuck the queen. They’re little stay at home sluts.

nothacking,

steal that shit

That’s just how the bees pay rent.

JohnDoe, in Pronouns.

It’s the right kind of doctor, it checks out!

SharkEatingBreakfast, (edited ) in Pronouns.
@SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz avatar

“Listen, lady—!”

“Doctor!”

“Doctor Lady!!”

– MST3K, Space Mutiny

rtxn, in Pronouns.

John Hurt has entered the chat.

PancakeLegend, in Don't worry about it.
@PancakeLegend@mander.xyz avatar

This post is relevant to my interests.

Bobson_Dugnutt, in start em young, i say.
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What is non-structural geology? Is there such a thing as purely decorative basalt columns? Non-load-bearing mountains?

mfdoom,

Sand

metaStatic,

I hate sand

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