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Re:Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla c... by Aelinsaar on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @04:29PM (#11857524)
Eventually we're going to go through some version of the "Great Filter" like wet tofu through a shredder, but this gives me hope that it won't be in our lifetimes.
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Re:Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla c... by ethbro on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @04:38PM (#11857598)
Unless we already happened to go through that when life magically transitioned from monocellular, simple competitive organisms to multicellular, complex cooperative organisms...
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Re:Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla c... by Aelinsaar on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @11:04PM (#11859705)
That seems unlikely, since that transition happened multiple time along multiple pathways, and we observe that just on the single planet we know to have life.
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Re:Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla c... by ethbro on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @01:22AM (#11860202)
Do you have a source for that? I was specifically speaking about the first eukaryotic cell(s).
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