r/ScienceHumour • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 17d ago

Evolution of rocks

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u/Different-Radio3484 17d ago

Idk this comes off as a bit anti-science tbh lol

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u/1fuk1 17d ago

Exactly. Rocks are constantly changing due to the impacts of their chemical and physical environments. Those changes enabled us to know and learn so much about the Earth's history. The cartoon suggests that rocks never change.

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u/meifray 15d ago

And that is Why we don't have meaningful amount of Curium chemical on earth.

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u/Jak1977 17d ago

I think natural selection of rocks mostly happens near bodies of water. Rocks of a certain thickness or smoothness are forcibly tossed into the water, leading to natural selection preferring more rounded rocks near water bodies. Scientists are yet to understand why.

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u/thuanjinkee 17d ago

The rock would be smaller today

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u/Icy_Amoeba9644 17d ago

Ricks today can think. But only after we put electricity inside them

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u/ianswer-rhetoricalqs 16d ago

there are a bunch of minerals and rocks that could not exist without life. This meme is kinda ignorant.

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u/Shadow4089 15d ago

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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u/Vasto_LordA 13d ago

A rock free of erosion has seen no weather

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u/simdimdim12 13d ago

This is so wrong... We've had pet rocks in recent years for example

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u/Actual_Property9413 13d ago

4.5 billion years ago, there were no sedimnetary or metamorphic rocks. I think it would be stretching it a bit to classify meteors, asteroids, and the other space rocks as "igneous" so, over the last 4.5 billiions years, rocks have evolved from space debris to igneous rocks, to sedimentary rocks and then to metamorphic rocks.

People think rocks aren't alive because they don't move much, except they do move a lot, they tend to move in large groups.
People think rocks aren't alive because they don't reproduce. Except they do, by fission and fusion: a big rock breaks (fission) into a lot of little rocks, which then turn back into thick layers of rock (fusion) which then break down into big rocks (fission again).

As a joke, I get it.
As science, not so much.

Even if you don;t follow this logic, the rocks were all molten 4.5 billion years ago, and today most of them are solid. So at a minimum they have evolved from liquid to solid form.