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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There is still time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean, technically it already has.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

*in a silly high voice due to all the helium

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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