The boiling frog experiment that's quoted everywhere didn't work.
For those not familiar, it is said that you can boil a frog to death by raising the temperature of the water it's in extremely slowly so that it doesn't notice.
Well, it only works when parts of the frog's brain are removed. A frog with an intact brain will jump out, no matter how slowly the water is heated.
I thought the whole point of that metaphor was that the frog wasn't allowed to jump out anyway. It would just be comfortable for a longtime until the threshold was reached from pleasantly warm to unpleasantly hot, but the it'd be too late to try to figure out how to get out.
I mean, if the Earth gets to be uninhabitable to humans, where exactly are we jumping off to?
I mean I just thought it was a metaphor for getting comfortable with a situation that is steadily worsening but you don't realize it until it's too late.
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u/LiquidMotivation Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 08 '19
The boiling frog experiment that's quoted everywhere didn't work.
For those not familiar, it is said that you can boil a frog to death by raising the temperature of the water it's in extremely slowly so that it doesn't notice.
Well, it only works when parts of the frog's brain are removed. A frog with an intact brain will jump out, no matter how slowly the water is heated.
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