Reading these existential Calvin strips as a kid really made me think. I guess I'm old, too 😅 I wonder what my parents thought when I would read these.
You wanna know what's wild? That date for first life keeps getting pushed back suggesting that life basically came into existence as soon as the conditions were right.
I am a believer in the possibility of panspermia. Much of the stuff we see on earth is the byproduct of past supernovas. Those old stars probably had planets and some of those planets might have hosted early forms of RNA or at a minimum, started to form more complex molecules.
I am not saying is not that earth was "seeded" intentionally or life as we know it developed on another world. It just makes more sense to me that the history of life is not contained strictly on this planet alone.
The universe seems much more complex to me than the history of a single planet.
It does mean "highest point" "summit" or "peak of something" but in cartoons, it's more famous as the company that sells the shoddy, unsafe products to Wile E. Coyote.
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TootSweet@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 297d
Oh shit. Calvin and Hobbes is almost 40.
rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social · 9 pts · 297d
Reading these existential Calvin strips as a kid really made me think. I guess I'm old, too 😅 I wonder what my parents thought when I would read these.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 8 pts · 297d
You wanna know what's wild? That date for first life keeps getting pushed back suggesting that life basically came into existence as soon as the conditions were right.
remotelove@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 297d
I am a believer in the possibility of panspermia. Much of the stuff we see on earth is the byproduct of past supernovas. Those old stars probably had planets and some of those planets might have hosted early forms of RNA or at a minimum, started to form more complex molecules.
I am not saying is not that earth was "seeded" intentionally or life as we know it developed on another world. It just makes more sense to me that the history of life is not contained strictly on this planet alone.
The universe seems much more complex to me than the history of a single planet.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 296d
Kurzgesagt had a very good, easy to understand video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiGEI9pQBs
zabadoh@ani.social · 6 pts · 297d
"Acme" is a strange choice of word.
It does mean "highest point" "summit" or "peak of something" but in cartoons, it's more famous as the company that sells the shoddy, unsafe products to Wile E. Coyote.
tuck182@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 296d
It means the same thing as the name of that company, too. It's marketing.