bees@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 months agoIt’s the little thingssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1882arrow-down12
arrow-up1880arrow-down1imageIt’s the little thingssh.itjust.worksbees@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-26 months agoI think that’s part of our anthropic bias, not sure we’d be alive without water’s surface tension in order to observe this.
minus-squaretheUwUhugger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoWell cells wouldn’t be circle shaped, but would it actually be to the detriment of life in that or other ways? Maybe cells could take a more pragmatic shape, like tactical dicks
minus-squareidiomaddict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoTrees wouldn’t exist, so life would definitely look different.
minus-squareidiomaddict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoCapillary action doesn’t happen without surface tension, so long stemmed woody plants are out. Iirc, mushrooms were not super common before trees and spread by decomposing them, so those are gone too
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoI think that could make some life-supporting chemical reactions difficult to happen, but I’m not qualified to judge that.
minus-squaretheUwUhugger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI don’t, not that I am qualified to say so either! The larger surface area might be beneficial for osmosis!
minus-squarepotoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoI’m also not qualified, but I do wonder whether releasing all that surface tension inside us would alleviate a lot of anxiety. I think yes.
I think that’s part of our anthropic bias, not sure we’d be alive without water’s surface tension in order to observe this.
Well cells wouldn’t be circle shaped, but would it actually be to the detriment of life in that or other ways?
Maybe cells could take a more pragmatic shape, like tactical dicks
Trees wouldn’t exist, so life would definitely look different.
What are you on about?
Capillary action doesn’t happen without surface tension, so long stemmed woody plants are out. Iirc, mushrooms were not super common before trees and spread by decomposing them, so those are gone too
I think that could make some life-supporting chemical reactions difficult to happen, but I’m not qualified to judge that.
I don’t, not that I am qualified to say so either! The larger surface area might be beneficial for osmosis!
I’m also not qualified, but I do wonder whether releasing all that surface tension inside us would alleviate a lot of anxiety. I think yes.