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[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

It's disappointing that natural selection didn't figure out fusion.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

It figured out photosynthesis instead. Why do your own fusion when you can just take advantage of the fusion that's already happening?

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago
[-] DoYouNot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, technically it already has.

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's good it didn't, otherwise it's possible that all the hydrogen in the ocean would be fused into helium by now

Well, more likely it would significantly heat up earth due to the amount of energy released first, cooking everything/starting an endless cooking->extinction->cooling cycle

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

On the fusion planet: "Man, can you imagine if early life figured out how to make poisonous oxygen gas?"

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

*in a silly high voice due to all the helium

[-] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We have fusion (hydrogen) bombs. We just haven't figured out how to maintain and efficiently harness it for energy.

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