Dead comment, perhaps not a masterpiece but certainly not worthy of being shadow banned:
by donnawarellp
I have often thought that life is self limiting. For example, yeast is a
living thing, it consumes sugars and it's waste is ehtanol and eventually
they all kill themselves off by drowning in their own waste (which, I
guess later over a meal I will be enjoying a glass of yeast pee, but I
digress). From a molecular perspective, human DNA is not that different
from yeast, and at a macro view our behaviour is not that different
either it seems. Perhaps all sentient life is destine to the same fate,
perhaps it is a law of nature. I recall reading about an argument that
Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne have regarding time travel. Stephen
Hawking argues against time travel because we have never met any time
travellers from our future. Maybe time travel is theoretically possible,
but like yeast, we do not as a species survive long enough to develop
the necessary technology. ugh, sorry to bring everyone down, might as
well have a glass of yeast pee.
I thought yeast only produces ethanol if it's respiring anaerobically, which is not a normal state for it to be in and is a short-term emergency alternative to dying immediately.
Kind of like lactic acid production in humans. We normally don't make much of it, certainly less than the rate that we can flush it through our system. We can produce more than we can handle for short periods of time if needed, but it's not sustainable. Put us in a situation where we have to keep producing lactic acid beyond sustainable levels for more than a few minutes, and we won't last long either. That doesn't make lactic acid proof that human bodies are self-limiting. I mean, we don't keep going forever, but lactic acid is not the reason for that.
by donnawarellp