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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•When synthetic dyes became available, people treated them a bit like we treated blue LEDs 10 years ago
12·18 days ago“In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient to use (thereby reducing the amount needed for a single application); however, as the cost of using the resource drops, […] this results in overall demand increasing, causing total resource consumption to rise.” Wikipedia
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The sheer audacity to call the planet we live on "blue marble" when Neptune out there looking like that.
30·1 month agoBehold, Approximate True Colour Neptune

Actually not that blue, compared to Earth.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely
2·2 months agoIf we would kill bacteria entirely, we would doom ourselves inevitably.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-04-11