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| It's like being a fish in the dark (photo by Roswell1947) |
Here is a random lists of questions I came up with. Some of them just need a few Google searches, while others have no proper answers (yet).
Where does all the salt in sea water come from?
How did oxygen dissolve into the oceans, and how are oxygen levels maintained?
How do deep sea fishes adapt to the extremely high pressures?
How do deep sea fishes deal with the very low level of oxygen?
Why is most of the surface of the ocean "sand" (e.g. why not a hard rock)?
How can humans use bioluminacense?
How to deep sea creatures who migrate from the deep to the shallows on a daily basis, adapt to the extreme change in pressure?
What were the evolutionary benefits of penguins losing their flight? Surely, flight is more beneficial in making their annual migration to their breeding sites, and being able to escape from leopard seals. There are other birds who also dive for food, but have maintained the ability of flight.
At what point do we consider something to be "alive"? At what point is matter considered to be organic?
How did viruses originate? What exactly is their purpose? Do they evolve?
Why are viruses considered to not be alive?
What biological niche do viruses fill?
Is there a way to manipulate our human body cells in such a way that they produce useful mutations all the time?
In parallel worlds (assuming that we use the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics), do atoms and sub-atomic particles behave in the same way, or in profoundly different ways?
What is gravity?
How does magnetism work? I.E. how come there seems to be a continuos source of energy when two magnets attract or repel each other?
Anyone care to answer some in the comments?
My guess is that there was no evolutionary advantage for penguins losing their flight so much as there was an advantage for them adapting away from flight and towards becoming more effective underwater hunters.
ReplyDeleteAre you trying to get your Phd in marine biology or something?
ReplyDeleteAnyway to most of your questions I dont remember the answers but you have good explanation available. Science. But I lost interest in science when I developed interest in maths and I lost interest in that too after I developed interest in computers.
Can a fat guy do somersault? Same for Penguins :)
@DogsOnDrugs: That's what I was thinking as well, but the advantages of flight outweigh the need to be better hunters in water, don't you think? Considering how it makes them vulnerable to water hunters, and the incredibly difficult journey to their breeding grounds, I would have thought that maintaining flight would be so much more beneficial.
ReplyDelete@meandmythinkingcap: I wish I could have been doing a PhD in marine bio, rather than studying the random things I am studying now.
ReplyDeleteScience-Math-Computers are very intricately related, you know! Yes, of course, I know that the answer is science, which is why I'm going to Google the hell out of these questions as soon as I get the time.
There's a damn good reason I dropped both Bio-Chem and O-Chem in college...
ReplyDelete@Beer for the Shower: Awww :D I guess it depends on who finds what interesting.
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