Zodium posted:

oh my god you were the entropy guy lmfao

Zodium posted:

i am not advocating for a math based approach. i'm telling people who are that mixing and matching math and science words to express their feelings is dumb.

Zodium posted:

look at this i loving love science level poo poo lol. it's just incoherently throwing out random rear end words. uhh. entropy. chaos theory. prisoners dilemma.

Zodium posted:

look at this i loving love science level poo poo lol. it's just incoherently throwing out random rear end words. uhh. entropy. chaos theory. prisoners dilemma.

Wakko posted:

no, specifically humans. we don’t need to hypothesize that there are intelligent species that don’t consume resources until their environment collapses because they already exist, i.e. elephants. an elephant that tried to invent feudalism would be exiled or trampled to death.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

let people enjoy things

r u ready to WALK posted:

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

Homeless Friend posted:

humanity is poison/etc crew is just cope. they're unable to smile at a big iceberg falling down. i pity these poor bastards

4d3d3d posted:

I don't think any of us are particularly bummed out by it, at least I'm not. It's like getting mad a snake for biting you, it's just doing what a snake does

Harold Fjord posted:

It's not just entropy. Chaos theory is a big factor. You aren't likely to agitate a bag of poo poo and get a cake unless you prepare it very carefully in advance.

None of this is Disco Sales.

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

the communist forum

krispykremessuck posted:

tired: death is certain
wired: actually, the scientific concept ‘death’ is uncertain

Harold Fjord posted:

If you have trouble with any of these things in context you can ask

Well, yeah that's easy. But then there's a gap. Empty niches get filled unless elephants takeover everything. And they don't do that because they aren't inclined.


Elephants don't seed the globe with pigs and cats.

500excf type r posted:

How is climate change /not/ related to entropy? It's p basic thermodynamics

500excf type r posted:

How is climate change /not/ related to entropy? It's p basic thermodynamics

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The heat is messing with the reproductive timing of Richardson's ground squirrels in a fascinating example of phenological mismatch driven by climate change.

Animals, like humans, are suffering from the impacts of climate change. Some impacts are direct and easy to understand, like loss of habitat or the disappearance of food sources. But the climate can also have more complex and bizarre consequences.

Take Richardson’s ground squirrels, commonly called gophers, a common pest in the Prairies. Dr. Jane Waterman is a biologist at the University of Manitoba and expert on social behaviour in ground-dwelling squirrels, who has been studying a wild population for years at the Assiniboine Park & Zoo. In 2012, after a freak heat wave hit Manitoba in the spring, she noticed something strange with her squirrels — they were shooting blanks.

“So I was trying to look at the factors that may influence reproductive success… In 2010, when I looked at them, everything was really clear. All the piping, all the instruments inside the animal were well developed. But when I looked in 2012, there was no sperm in so many of the animals.

And I just wasn't expecting it, so then we started to look at the factors that might have influenced this. There was no difference in age, body size or testes size. But it was 26 degrees out.”

Hot squirrel spring
The heat, it turns out, was the key factor. She explained that male and female squirrels rely on different cues to come out of hibernation. Males come out first, driven by endogenous cues — internal mechanisms like hormonal shifts that wake them up, “like an inner alarm clock.” They spend a few weeks bulking up and sorting out territorial issues with their peers, during which the reproductive system that was dormant in the winter kicks back into gear. This occurs in March, when there is still snow on the ground in Winnipeg.

Females, for their part, are guided more by environmental factors, what biologists call exogenous cues. They wake up more slowly as the temperature rises, and come out of their burrow ready to go. Normally, this occurs a few weeks after the males first become active, but in 2012 the delay between the sexes was reduced to just a few days. The girls caught the guys unprepared; over half (58.6 per cent) had non-motile sperm — their swimmers didn’t swim.

krispykremessuck posted:

tired: death is certain
wired: actually, the scientific concept ‘death’ is uncertain

Maed posted:

if every intelligent civilization isn’t inherently doomed to kill themselves off, why are there no aliens? checkmate zodium

Harold Fjord posted:

Few to none of us want to be right about this

Hubbert posted:

do i have to go back through my posts in this thread and bring up my previous posts on entropy, aliens, and other things

Zodium posted:

can you dig up mine while you're at it

Zodium posted:

i was.

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

the communist forum

Microplastics posted:

There's only one bag of poo poo getting agitated in here

Rectal Death Adept posted:

edit: in case it wasn't clear this is a threat. I will throw the world's biggest temper tantrum if my demands aren't met.