Thursday 6 January 2011

Entropy and Anthropocentrism

Short one today as I'm still in a bit of a manic state after my trip home for New Years. I'm reading 'The Science of Discworld' which is good fun (although the Discworld bits are more engaging than than the pop science).

This got me thinking - isn't it amazing that evolution has put together an organism so self centred and far sighted that it finds itself sharing a galaxy with naturally occurring fusion generators hundreds of kilometers across and yet still starts worrying about the fact that in an inconceivable amount of time the galaxy will be too cold for humans.

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