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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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