Schneier on Security

Isn't this obvious? Mother nature is pretty careful to only develop 'features' that are worth having, and features with little 'return on the investment' tend to be removed quickly.

So in a food scarce environment the ability to feed continuously, rather than just during the daylight hours, is a major advantage over your peers. Such a feature would mean you grow significantly larger, can survive longer food shortages, and ultimately successfully reproduce more often. The last point pretty much directly results in one species replacing others without that feature, that have the same food source.

To a scientist nothing is obvious until it has been proven. Where would we be if scientists never challenged the "obvious" or just accepted something as "common sense"

Both Dom and Kevin are right. Scientists must allow themselves to have ideas, especially obvious ones, but then have the ability to verify, expand, limit and otherwise modify them. Thus preparing the ground for the next generation of obvious ideas.

You might find this amusing.

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Off topic but this sounded interesting. Have a look:

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The whale sonar thing made me think of the Navy sonar hullabaloo about high power sonar supposedly injuring wales. The real reason for the injuries is of course that navies around the world use wales in submarine hunt exercises and then torpedo or depth charge them. It is obviously these explosive charges that are injuring pods of wales, not the sonar, but it is nicer to blame the sonar rather than charge the local navy with illegal wale hunting...

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