Alpha71@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours agoCurrent day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water.message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1188
arrow-up1188message-squareCurrent day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water.Alpha71@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareintrovertcattolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 hours agoIsn’t it for all animals. If you keep slowly increasing temperature their body temperature will more easily come to equilibrium with outside temperature than it will if you just put them to hot boiling pot?
minus-squarethemoonisacheese@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 hours agoYes but you have to lobotomize the frogs first.
minus-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 hours agoNo, it’s a fallacy. What is true is called “creeping normality”, and it’s absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.
Isn’t it for all animals. If you keep slowly increasing temperature their body temperature will more easily come to equilibrium with outside temperature than it will if you just put them to hot boiling pot?
Yes but you have to lobotomize the frogs first.
No, it’s a fallacy. What is true is called “creeping normality”, and it’s absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.