The Time Earth Was Covered in Living Slime

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  @NOTSuspicousgatito · 10 months ago

  the jellastic period

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  @vedymin1 · 10 months ago

  To think that life evolved for billions of years up to a point where it can now retrace its own steps through the ages and explain the road it took back to itself...and then say "wow that was weird, i was a weird ugly kid back then" 😇

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  @thomasdevlin5825 · 10 months ago

  What&apos;s crazy is that those early animals wouldn&apos;t have even understood the concept of predation. In a world where literally nothing has ever happened there would quite literally be no defense mechanisms in any animal, they wouldn&apos;t have even had the capacity to understand, let alone react to being eaten when predators finally evolved. <br><br>Things like clams and jellyfish don&apos;t have brains, but they at least have the capacity to respond to stimuli because their bodies understand that they need to eat and avoid being eaten to survive, but ediacaran animals wouldn&apos;t have even had autopilot, they just... <i>existed.</i> Imagine an entire planet populated by complex animals that haven&apos;t figured out that they exist yet, that&apos;s actually really eerie

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  @clippysune_miku · 10 months ago

  You&apos;ve heard of snowball Earth, now get ready for slimeball Earth

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• JF

  @jfygt2623 · 10 months ago

  Isekai titles are getting wild

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  @Swindle1984 · 10 months ago

  SimEarth programmers: &quot;We felt sorry for the things that had trilateral symmetry and included them as an Easter egg.&quot;

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  @jfangm · 10 months ago (edited)

  Point of fact:<br>These mats weren&apos;t really &quot;slime.&quot; The upper layers might have been, but most of the mats formed a firm-to-hard substrate, probably similar to dense clay. Worms weren&apos;t burrowing into the sediment; they were burrowing into this bacterial substrate, which is partially responsible for the ecological collapse.

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  @curvingfyre6810 · 10 months ago (edited)

  To be clear, this stuff is <b>still</b> everywhere, and is the bedrock of all aquatic and most terrestrial ecosystems. They are what fix nitrogens into safe usable forms, making the major macronutrient of all life. They&apos;re just microscopic now.

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  @greenben3744 · 10 months ago

  I have never really grasped the transition from goo to animals. <br><br>Love that.

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  @Kj16V · 10 months ago

  Sounds to me like this was the only time there was truly peace and harmony on Earth.

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  @alexk2416 · 10 months ago

  I really hate how A.I. repeats simple points the entire 1st half, and beats dead horses... into mats and more mats.

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  @icewallowcome187 · 10 months ago

  Damn you burying animals, I could&apos;ve lowkey been a vibing lil oozy boi but now I&apos;m a stupid ape with taxes

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