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Where we are headed as a species
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RE: Where we are headed as a species
(December 11, 2015 at 3:20 pm)Amine Wrote:
(December 11, 2015 at 2:39 pm)Evie Wrote: This species will die out eventually. Every species does.

Except that we are the only knowledge-creating species.. We are the only species that figures out how to survive in completely inhospitable environments.

We're still die out eventually.

And the water bear can live in places we cannot yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

Wikipedia Wrote:Tardigrades are notable for being perhaps the most durable of known organisms; they are able to survive extreme conditions that would be rapidly fatal to nearly all other known life forms. They can withstand temperature ranges from −458 °F (−272.222 °C) to 300 °F (149 °C), pressures about six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a human, and the vacuum of outer space. They can go without food or water for more than 10 years, drying out to the point where they are 3% or less water, only to rehydrate, forage, and reproduce. They are not considered extremophilic because they are not adapted to exploit these conditions. This means that their chances of dying increase the longer they are exposed to the extreme environments, whereas true extremophiles thrive in a physically or geochemically extreme environment that would harm most other organisms.
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Where we are headed as a species - by dyresand - December 10, 2015 at 1:03 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Whateverist - December 10, 2015 at 1:06 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Silver - December 10, 2015 at 1:07 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by dyresand - December 10, 2015 at 1:10 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Kingpin - December 10, 2015 at 12:43 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Silver - December 10, 2015 at 1:12 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by dyresand - December 10, 2015 at 1:21 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Silver - December 10, 2015 at 1:22 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by dyresand - December 10, 2015 at 11:12 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Edwardo Piet - December 10, 2015 at 1:22 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Angrboda - December 10, 2015 at 12:33 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by dyresand - December 10, 2015 at 7:22 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Angrboda - December 11, 2015 at 1:29 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by brewer - December 10, 2015 at 1:59 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Whateverist - December 10, 2015 at 2:06 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Minimalist - December 10, 2015 at 2:27 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Joods - December 11, 2015 at 8:27 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Cato - December 11, 2015 at 11:53 am
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2015 at 2:06 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Edwardo Piet - December 11, 2015 at 2:39 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Amine - December 11, 2015 at 3:20 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Edwardo Piet - December 11, 2015 at 3:35 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Amine - December 11, 2015 at 3:42 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Edwardo Piet - December 11, 2015 at 3:46 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Amine - December 11, 2015 at 4:03 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Edwardo Piet - December 11, 2015 at 4:12 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Amine - December 11, 2015 at 4:20 pm
RE: Where we are headed as a species - by Edwardo Piet - December 11, 2015 at 5:21 pm

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