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Crickets MAY lament the cruel twist of fate that brought them to the jaws of your pet bearded dragon. They MAY silently cry out in anguish at the loss of all future opportunity, expected gandparentage of a large brood, the sudden looming question of an afterlife.

Or they may experience a relatively simple and brief pain, while displaying features so alien to ours that it does not prime people to be calloused to human suffering.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago

    There is a subtle genius in establishing the concept of "net force" as something that can be treated mathematically, and that fully predicts an object's motion. He framed the problem

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    The meteorite contained a wide variety of soluble organic compounds, and its compositional range confirms that the Hillsborough meteorite was more altered by water than most other CM-type meteorites. "A high fraction of compounds were the product of organic chemistry with minerals," said organic mass spectrometry specialist Phil Schmitt-Kopplin of Technical University Munich. "We do not know if these magnesium organic compounds were contributed by brine chemistry or were simply left over from earlier impact shock processes."

    Asteroids don't stay warm for very long. For organic compunds to be forming in a transient brine here, they must be all over the universe

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