Seriously I can just read through this page all day.

  • Torenico [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    800–900 million "Carbon dioxide levels fall to the point at which C4 photosynthesis is no longer possible.[70] Without plant life to recycle oxygen in the atmosphere, free oxygen and the ozone layer will disappear from the atmosphere allowing for intense levels of deadly UV light to reach the surface. In the book The Life and Death of Planet Earth, authors Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee state that some animal life may be able to survive in the oceans. Eventually, however, all multicellular life will die out.[72] At most, animal life could survive about 100 million years after plant life dies out, with the last animals being animals that do not depend on living plants such as termites or those near hydrothermal vents such as worms of the genus Riftia.[63] The only life left on the Earth after this will be single-celled organisms."

    This is it, Kissinger can't survive that. Unless he becomes a fucking bacteria (he already is) and lives off near a hydrothermal vent under the ocean, fuck.

    1.3 billion "Eukaryotic life dies out on Earth due to carbon dioxide starvation. Only prokaryotes remain.[72]"

    We must teach theory to our prokaryotes comrades, they will carry the banner of Marxism until the very end.

  • Qelp [they/them,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    2.8 billion years Earth's surface temperature reaches around 420 K (147 °C; 296 °F), even at the poles.[69]

    holy fuck

      • ToastGhost [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Thats actually a crank idea some people have. Specifically to send an asteroid back and forth between Earth and Jupiter using gravity assists off the two planets, in order to steal momentum from Jupiter. This would slowly move the earth out in its orbit to stay within the habitable zone as it moves outward.

        I kinda like it. Seems like the multi-multi generational project only a communist society would care to pursue.

  • Quark [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Knowing we only have about a billion years before the sun starts evaporating the oceans is somehow making me anxious.

  • Parzivus [any]
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    4 years ago

    Want some real cool shit?
    https://www.futuretimeline.net/
    It's essentially that wikipedia page, but it also tries to make predictions as to the future of humanity. Features transhumanism, devastating climate change, and AI. Might as well be fiction, but it really pulls you in. I like the optimistic take of humanity eventually achieving utopia as well.

    • Poop [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yo I found that 12 years ago and was really excited for all the stuff they predicted would happen by now, like the fully immersive video games and bionic eyes. Its kinda depressing how little changed since then :(
      https://web.archive.org/web/20101027232513/http://futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2010-2019.htm

  • bewts [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Nearby stars going supernova and being visible in the daylit sky is so damn metal. I wish we could see that in our lifetimes.