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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Fun fact: every species on earth has been evolving for the same amount of time. Assuming that life wasn't spontaneously generated multiple times on planet Earth, which seems relatively unlikely.

For some reason, I feel oddly defensive about the whale being insulted. Suck on that you stupid marine biologist, you should understand evolution more better.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

I mean if we assume that whales and us have been evolving for the same amount of time, it sounds like a skill issue on whales' part

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, maybe he refers to the branch with the greatest common ancestor of us and whales. So our branch of evolution can have mating calls 100KM rather than their branch with measly 80KM

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I guess, but that doesn't really help. Humans already killed most of the whales so rubbing in our technological superiority is quite gauche.

You never know if whales are going to get revenge for this kind of stuff someday 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The revolution has begun, brother. Join the deep dive brotherhood today!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Unless the nuclear war and global warming kill off 99.999% of us, making our infrastructure unsustainable, then our mating call goes back down to a fraction of a kilometer. Whales: 1, humans: 0.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why does it seem unlikely life appeared more than once? My understanding was that when life started, the conditions were optimal for complex molecules to form (warm water, lots of organic compounds) so around that time (give or take half a billion year) it may have happened, but in very similar ways.