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The scrolling mechanic was great for communicating scale! The coolest thought this gave me, that I'd never really considered before: How little life must have
by ethbr0 5y ago
The scrolling mechanic was great for communicating scale!
The coolest thought this gave me, that I'd never really considered before:
How little life must have changed in the past 3000 years in the deep ocean? Have we even been adjusting the atmosphere for long enough for the circulation currents to take pH changes that deep?
We've essentially remade the surface of the planet, the lower atmosphere, and the top of the ocean. But in the depths... little of this actually impacts them.
From time to time, a single ship dropping down and coming to rest on the bottom. But those are a drop in the bucket compared to the ocean surface area.
Other than that, life is probably very similar to what it was 5,000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000, 10,000,000 years ago. Before modern humans existed, and certainly before industrial civilization. And probably before our species even existed. Mind bogglingly constant.
- sandworm101 5y ago>> How little life must have changed in the past 3000 years in the deep ocean? Plastics. There are plastics down there, mostly fishing nets, that are making huge changes. And whales. There are far fewer whales alive today, and fewer dead whales sinking to the depths, which radically changes the amount of nutrients arriving on the bottom.
- deanCommie 5y agore: Whales: found this an incredibly illuminating read recently: The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind from The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/whaling-whales-food-krill-iron/620604/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/whaling-...