alt Hacker NewsThat's how new species happen. Over time, the penguins who get sufficiently tired of all the other penguins' shit march off to the edge of the map, and when they finally get lucky, enough of the smart, independent minded penguins survive to produce a new generation. The new adventure flock eventually garners enough members to march back to the feeding grounds and seize the territory from the loser normy penguins.
Thus the arc of the universe bends towards badass penguins.
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Or they find a new feeding ground? Why does the universe bend to “badass penguins”?
The universe really does not care, in a “badass” way. Major league not caring.
It’s our interpretation that something is “badass” mainly because our species has pretty much negatively affected most parts of the environment.
It’s us that are “badass” and don’t “get it” when it comes to nature and the environment.
As someone else points out, there is no such thing as a nihilist penguin, it’s purely us putting a label on behaviour that we - once again - don’t understand.
Interesting fantasy but these broken penguins are too infrequent to start something new. They usually just wander off to die alone in the cold.
New species are usually formed gradually while introducing their mutations to the population until they eventually break off as a group. But more commonly there’s usually a geographic barrier that separates an existing group and they gradually just drift apart from each other.
The whole point of the sequence is that there's no chance that these "badass penguins" are going to make new species. There's no food where they're monomaniacally heading. They're going to die.