alt Hacker News> evolution has spend quadrillions of hours doing just that
Magnitude pedantery incoming: 1 billion years is "only" about 10 trillion hours.
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webnrrd2k • today at 8:16 PM
Yeah, but it would be more-or-less in parallel, spread over however many organisms
Thank goodness it was only one bacteria doing all that evolving!
Think of combined manpower. If you have 2 people working an 8 hour shift you've spent 16 hours.
/Pedantry crisis averted.