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Re:Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields al... by justinator on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:37PM (#14109721)
Life is pretty good at entropy. Take for example: humans. We've been digging up vast amounts of fossil fuels to then burn them up. Without us, those reserves would stay in the ground probably forever. Is there another organism that's better entropy as us? (actually I think there are contenders)

Perhaps that's our reason for being.

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Re:Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields al... by Retra on Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:14PM (#14112285)
"Reasons" are human constructs. We don't need a reason to be, we just are.
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Re:Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields al... by justinator on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:53PM (#14117745)
Eh, but it makes sense we still follow the Second Law of Thermodynamics, right? When people ask themselves, "What's the point of Life?" That's it: We're agents of entropy.
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Re:Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields al... by Retra on Monday April 17, 2017 @09:38PM (#14135882)
There's nothing that makes that the point of life, though. It's just a fact about it. Just as it is equally a fact about non-life.
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Re:Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields al... by Razengan on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:58PM (#14110422)
We are just a different, temporary state of the same stardust, as everything else around us — as in, a small part of the Universe transformed into us, then started trying to understand the rest of itself. :)
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