Cosmic Horror
A community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it's many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.
"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."
- Wikipedia
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I'm going to be the person who does this I guess. Fossil fuels are mostly from plant matter, not dinosaurs, or other animals, like is often said. Still dead I guess, but not what people would think when reading this.
I’m going to be the person who does this I guess. Fossil fuels are mostly from algae/zooplankton , not plant matter, or other animals, like is often said. Still photosynthesise I guess, but not what people would think when reading this.
I’m going to be the person who does this I guess. Algae is an alternative term outside of the standard domain/kingdom taxonomy, so it actually spans multiple kingdoms. Most green, red, and brown algae are in the plantae kingdom, i.e. plants. Other algae can be protists or bacteria. The shared trait is that they are non-land photosynthetic organisms. Fossil fuels can be divided into coal (mostly formed from land plants), oil (algae/plankton), and natural gas (algae/plankton). Still classification I guess, but not what people would think when reading this.
While we often gravitate towards putting things precisely into categories, it's important to remember that classifications systems are structures imposed on continuous and complex phenomena for pragmatic purposes. They should not be conflated with the phenomena itself.
It's good to correct misconceptions, but sometimes over focusing on categories distracts from the meaning or sentiment being conveyed, in which case it may be better to be generous with partially correct statements and let it go.
monophyletic terminology is so much easier to handle than paraphyletic ones.
both make sense regardless of use, but it's so annoying when a term has a monophyletic and paraphyletic definitions that are used interchangeably depending on context, all my homies hate that
Lol. Thanks. Yeah, I was grouping that in mentally but I guess I didn't use the right term.
but algae are plants
algae are evolutionary distinct to plants
alright
it depends on what book you look into. some authors define plants as being eukaryotic beings who have accepted photosynthetic symbionts, called chloroplasts.
by that definition, no, algae (bacteria) are not plants.
alright thanks this is fascinating
it is
I think in this context the distinction is single cell vs multicellular
either case, plants is a kingdom of life. algae are separate from them. they are not plants.
alright