I take solace in the fact that the sun is going to obliterate us all eventually. It gives me kind of an odd sense of peace.
As a kid I thought we would all get taken out when the sun goes red giant, but the other day I learned that life on earth will die out long before that. Once the mid ocean ridges are above water, water will no longer get subducted into the mantle, putting an end to plate tectonics which depends on water for lubrication, and the atmosphere will be wiped out by solar wind.
Why would the mid ocean ridges ever be above water, at least before the sun has increased in luminosity to the point where there's no enough CO2 for life and the oceans are cooking anyway?
I've been told sea water has been decreasing for the past 600 million years as it has been transported into the mantle in the form of hydrous minerals. Eventually mid ocean ridges will form summits above the declining sea water, and the remaining sea water will not be able to climb the slopes of the mid ocean ridges to enter the mantle as hydrous minerals anymore. If water cannot be taken into the crust as a lubricant, the process of plate tectonics will come to an end. Volcanic activity along subduction zones will stop, new mountains will no longer form, the existing mountains will wither away from erosion, and other severe environmental changes will come from erosion as well. Subducted cold plates will not go down to the bottom of the mantle. The outer core will not be cooled down anymore and the geomagnetic field will disappear. Earth's atmosphere as a result will be removed by the solar wind, and all multicellular life will go extinct. Earth will become a Venus-like planet. The oceans will disappear and eventually even extremophile single-celled organisms will no longer be able to survive.
That's one version of events. There are many competing hypotheses about the future geological outcomes of the Earth. To be fair I think the continued influence of humans makes it all very hard to predict, and it could end much sooner or much later depending on what humans do and how powerful they become.
I kinda feel like old age will get me first (if I can survive the water wars).
more peace for you my friend, just cuz hunans get fucked doesnt mean nature and animals will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9KWXuNLDhU
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If Israel continues to attack Iran, they are even stupider than I thought.
so was this israel or those all too convinient "moderate rebels and freedom fighters" that tend show up when israel/us are too chicken to act directly?
my "we were not surprised" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
Let’s game this out. Iran’s best response is to tire out israel by wave launching drones until every missile is fired, then just let drones land where they may in cities. They are already mass producing them… russia can just wait a while for their next 20 shipments.
Israel can’t tolerate this, because your girl only stays if you’re an asshole who picks fights they can win. BB goes down, unless he can get the US to spot him a few billion in missiles and airframe hours. Either way the US can’t afford this game either, although china should be staring at taiwan and encouraging us to bet harder.
Ukraine doesn’t get patriots (they go to israel) russia doesn’t get shaheds (they go to israel), so both sides kind of lose here. Europe can’t be ready for russia’s crazy and give israel their weapons after supplying ukraine.
China should really sucker punch the philippines and take an island right now. The US is strung out and can’t respond. That’s the next crazy thing.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/19/live-israel-launches-missile-attack-in-response-to-iran-assault?update=2846276
Iranian media reports dismiss attack came from abroad While we still wait for official comments, Tasnim news agency has quoted “informed sources” as saying that “there are no reports of an attack from abroad against Isfahan or any other part of Iran”. Separately, an Iranian analyst argued on state television that mini-drones were flown by “infiltrators from inside” the country.
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Love how the most psychotic countries on earth are just allowed to have nukes for some fucking reason.
They have nukes because they’re strategically located in the Middle East. Just like how if Ukraine won against Russia they would have received nukes from the west too.
Oh this really is gonna develop into an all-out proxy war between Iran and the US isn't it?
Iran and the US have been having a proxy war since at least 1985
guess we're doing world war 3 folks
maybe we'll get some communism for our trouble
Is there any kind of information about the damage done by this attack yet?
neocons right now
