Re:Common yeast can survive Martian conditions
by pfannkuchen on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:40AM
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Or we cycle through them and forget every time.
Re:Common yeast can survive Martian conditions
by lavelganzu on Thursday October 23, 2025 @03:30PM
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It's a fun idea to explore in fiction, but it certainly didn't happen. The evolution of our species is too recent.
Re:Common yeast can survive Martian conditions
by pfannkuchen on Monday October 27, 2025 @03:09AM
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I’m only 1% serious, but how do we know for sure which direction evolution went in within the ape family?
It seems not entirely unplausible that we have at some point in the scientific chain of custody assumed the “lesser” apes “evolved into” the “more advanced” human.
But a species could easily branch and have the branch lose its geographic portability features (e.g.ability to manipulate environment, most exogenous behavior learning-based) if they are no longer selected for in a particular environment, and I’m not aware of anything in the fossil record that firmly establishes directionality. Am I wrong?
Re:Common yeast can survive Martian conditions
by ASalazarMX on Thursday October 23, 2025 @03:43PM
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Probably because the period where the three (or even Earth and another) of them were inhabitable enough to sustain a technological civilization was very small, if it happened at all.
In a way, it's a tragedy that human civilization has only emerged at a time when both Mars and Venus have become much more uninhabitable than they used to be.