Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Scientists are obsessed with this lake - Nicola Storelli and Daniele Zanzi" video.

My rule of thumb: The better the animation, the more tenuous the connection to reality, especially when it comes to start-up proposals by fly-by-nighters.
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@IMasterSkeptic That's a very condescending attitude.
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@r3d5ive87 Good luck finding oxygen that is monoatomic. If it doesn't bond with something else, it will bond with itself.
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Those oceanic vents are probably the best clue for the beginnings of life on Earth. But it's very hard to study and extremely hard to replicate those Archean conditions, because the whole planet was sulfur-based, as was all life.
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@BooksRebound Imagine a place where there isn't much water. It's "obviously" the universal solvent under our very narrow set of conditions, but there's no reason to assume such conditions are all that common in the universe.
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Creatures with any mass whatsoever are forced to see time as a linear progression. There's a past, present and future, with no crossover between the three, because we are constrained by the speed of light and must remain inside our light cone on the time line. You can't defeat the speed of light under Einstein's relativity.
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Does a bear give thought to Nature's balance when it drags down a moose?
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@simranmalhotra7364 Do you think humans are some alien species from another planet? We're also a part of Nature. As far as we know, we're the only part of Nature that has self-awareness and can consciously effect change in the environment. The only real issue is how we use our intelligence. My point is that if we were ONLY a part of Nature, then we wouldn't even give thought to the harm we do. We would just eat and grow to the maximum extent possible, like all OTHER living creatures. The bear doesn't worry that moose are endangered if it has a moose in its sights. Mass extinctions happened long before humans ever came along.
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Who knows? Maybe the one-celled organisms that pooped all that oxygen were at a dead end, and progressing to carbon-and-oxygen-based metabolism was the only reason that multicellular life took off.
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