🐋 Color 🔱 ♀@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoWe are beings made of atoms in the universe, who are studying atoms in the universemessage-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down114
arrow-up155arrow-down1message-squareWe are beings made of atoms in the universe, who are studying atoms in the universe🐋 Color 🔱 ♀@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareKISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·7 months ago“Hydrogen is an odorless, colorless gas which, given enough time, starts to wonder where it came from.” — Not Einstein
minus-squareZippy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoA rock may be intelligence. It just thinks at a far shower rate than humans.
minus-squareKISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoIn Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels there are trolls made from rock with silicon-based brains. They are usually also dumb as rocks – until the temperature gets cold enough, then they suddenly become hyper-intelligent.
“Hydrogen is an odorless, colorless gas which, given enough time, starts to wonder where it came from.”
— Not Einstein
A rock may be intelligence. It just thinks at a far shower rate than humans.
In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels there are trolls made from rock with silicon-based brains. They are usually also dumb as rocks – until the temperature gets cold enough, then they suddenly become hyper-intelligent.