myrmepropagandist on Nostr: What if the answer to the Fermi paradox is that Earth is like a whale fall? In the ...
What if the answer to the Fermi paradox is that Earth is like a whale fall?
In the dark deserts of the abyssal deep the death of a whale is century long event. An ecosystem of scavengers and predators of scavengers flourish on the carcass seemingly out of nowhere--
The sea is full of the potential for life, but it is microscopic-- it can only bloom where the resources fall.
So what if there is some key resource here on earth? And life takes off until it is gone?
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In the dark deserts of the abyssal deep the death of a whale is century long event. An ecosystem of scavengers and predators of scavengers flourish on the carcass seemingly out of nowhere--
The sea is full of the potential for life, but it is microscopic-- it can only bloom where the resources fall.
So what if there is some key resource here on earth? And life takes off until it is gone?
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