• nialv7@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

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

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      3 days ago

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

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days 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

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      3 days ago

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