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  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzmoms rule
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    8 days ago

    But see we already got the base unit of a second for time. But for generations, perhaps?

    One kilomother would’ve been the early modern human, roughly. Ten kilomothers ago homo sapiens was just coming into being. A hundred kilomothers ago homo erectus would’ve just been coming into existence. A megamother ago we would’ve been diverging into great apes.


  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzmoms rule
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    8 days ago

    You can probably propose a new SI-base unit of “a mother”, but what does it measure?

    “Metric” just essentially comes from “metering”. People confuse “metric” with “decimal”, which is sort of the point of the person I replied to. While metric time technically exists insofar as you just use seconds as the base unit, omit minutes and hours and just do SI-prefixes, the French did also try decimal time, but it was just horrible.

    So if “mother” was the base unit and it measured something, in this instance time, the advent of agriculture was roughly four hectomothers ago. Or 0.4 kilomothers, if you will.







  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzdear lord
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    2 months ago

    God a writing prompt I’m no writer but I’m drunk noooo.

    I’m getting all sorts of ideas but again as I am no writer, I don’t know how well I’m gonna get them down.

    But has anyone seen the Dr Who episode “Flatline”? >!2D beings invading a 3d space, basically.!< https://youtu.be/ll_UhrQMC-I

    I think a mushroom would somehow evolve or “learn” to use electronics. Like accidentally being near a switch in the lab the mushroom grows in, and it’s near the switch for lights for plants in the lab. And the mushroom feeds on the plants. The lab is abandoned or it’s a fault the fungi gets near the switch or some such hijinks, but through that it learns benefits for electrical manipulation, even though it doesn’t actually know what it’s doing. It just knows it happened to manipulate electrics in some way, and the way it did it, it got more food.

    This leads it to being “curious” about other electronics it faces (let’s say this is a mushroom in an abandoned robotics lab or something) and eventually it learns to manipulate a robot and through that, it learns to sense our world, of which it has no idea, except for the feedback it gets from the robots sensors, which it doesn’t fundamentally understand.

    So it is the sentience, but mushroom sentiences are fucking weird.

    I’d watch the shit out of what I imagine it to be. But since I have a hard time actually translating that into a movie myself to show you, you’re just gonna have to trust me. In like 5 years I’d be able to just show you through having an EEG BCI read my thoughts while writing this and having an AI translate it to a movie. But that’s only if we weren’t busy with destroying the world and no chance tech like that isn’t gonna be so proprietary that I wouldn’t have already been sanctioned with some shocks for violating intellectual property rights or something.

    Thanks for the prompt, enjoy the incoherent comment.