dreeter00
dreeter00 t1_iu739ta wrote
Consider that essentially anything asymmetric is imbalanced and less predictable and usually less efficient.
What makes carrying a backpack on your back easier than in an outstretched hand? The weight distribution is asymmetrical in the latter case.
If given the tasks of creating the most efficient thing that rolls on a flat surface, a sphere is unbeatable. Any asymmetry justs adds chaos.
The points about DNA and evolution are nice, but might be putting the horse before the cart. DNA adjusts to what works. Creatures aren't asymmetrical just because it's easier for DNA to code for half.
dreeter00 t1_iqzz0qw wrote
Reply to comment by CoolmanWilkins in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog
He had more than that. Matching fossil and geologic strata/formations from where the continents would connect, but yeah, no smoking gun.
dreeter00 t1_iqzyw67 wrote
Reply to comment by Gyalgatine in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog
But mostly wrong. They're not plowing through as much as they are riding over/oceanic plates are subducting under them. Continental crust is not pushing through an oceanic plate.
dreeter00 t1_iugw5qn wrote
Reply to [homemade] cajun red beans by Prior-Shower9564
Looks tasty, but not like Cajun red beans.