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Ancient Earth globe
- swader999 3y agoI can't see my house.
- tail_exchange 3y agoDoesn't seem to load on Firefox
- kelnos 3y agoWorks fine here (Firefox 115.0.3, Linux).
- SushiHippie 3y ago+1 Also on Firefox on Android.
- qup 3y ago-1 Failing with Firefox on Android I think, anyway. I got a pin then can't figure it out.
- developer93 3y agoTry a closer time frame and work backwards
- jurassicfoxy 3y agoFor some reason this makes me feel depressed. I guess it is the lack of functional time machine combined with the on-going Holocene extinction.
- germinalphrase 3y agoDon’t worry. Once we’re all gone - life will spring right back.
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- danjoredd 3y agoSure, the Earth will adapt and be fine long-term. Its gonna suck for us humans though. Thats the part Im not looking forward to.
- captainbland 3y agoYeah personally I could do without living through some kind of age of decay with masses of people getting displaced and such.
- pookah 3y ago[dead]
- developer93 3y agoDon't give a shoot about life, it's humans I'm interested in.
- acdanger 3y agoWith no other (non-human) life , humans could not exist .
- developer93 3y agoIndeed, which is why I call myself an environmentalist. I just mean that other life surviving without humans isn't good enough for me, I want the human race to continue in some form.
- Alupis 3y ago> For some reason this makes me feel depressed. Or you can recognize "climate change" is a constant. That bit has been lost with the recent debate over climate science - far too many people view any change as a disaster. We can look at this map and recognize vast dramatic changes occurred before humans were ever here. Humans undeniably have an impact on climate change. That much isn't up for debate. What is up for debate is the exact extent human actions are actually influencing change vs. expediting a predetermined change vs. creating changes that would not have existed otherwise. Poles have changed[1]... oceans come and go, land disappears then reappears. The earth is surprisingly constantly changing - just not on time scales humans normally contemplate. [1] - https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-magazine/earths-magnetic-poles-could-start-flip-what-happens-then#:~:text=reversals%20took%20place.-,'The%20geomagnetic%20field%20has%20been%20decaying%20for%20the%20last%203%2C000,'&text=The%20last%20reversal%20occurred%20between,threshold%20needed%20before%20rising%20again https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-maga....
- developer93 3y agoThing is, humans weren't there for nearly all of it. It's not a question of whether things change, it's a question of whether we can survive it as a species, or as a civilisation. Empires have risen and fallen throughout history, but it doesn't mean you'd rather live as part of a society in which you could die of a toothache instead of something more advanced. It's going to get extremely unpleasant, it's a no brainer that we'd like to limit the fallout.
- forgetfulness 3y agoIt'd be quite callous to hope that nothing will happen from the countries above the tropics that 1. Colonized Africa and Asia to secure raw materials and captive markets to develop its industry, pumping all this carbon into the atmosphere in the process 2. Will probably be able to withstand the impact of Climate Change either due to geographical reasons or due to having more developed infrastructure and economies In light of that, is the idea of asking Westerners using their cars less and switch to clean energy _such a terrible thing to ask?_
- developer93 3y agoNot depressed but gives me a strange queasy feeling to look at my town from a time when there was no life on land.. Kinda lonely by proxy..
- Keyframe 3y agothat's quite a political map overlay there
- bojan 3y agoFrom over 30 years ago.
- jrh3 3y agoI used to have ocean front property.
- sigg3 3y agoAnd soon you'll have it again.
- jrh3 3y agoHa, people keep saying that. Ocean has a long way to rise to get back to me, not sure I'll be here to enjoy it.
- developer93 3y agoIf you're right, that's probably a good thing, not sure it'll be enjoyable.. However records are being broken much faster than the worst predictions, so it might be faster than you think.
- notbeuller 3y agoInteresting to me - the NYC area (I’m from Connecticut nearby) seems like it’s been on solid ground for most of the timescale represented. And Florida didn’t exist 20mm years ago.
- midoridensha 3y ago>And Florida didn’t exist 20mm years ago. And it probably won't in 100-200 years as well.
- ethanbond 3y agoThis brings to mind one of the more fascinating topics discussed in Bill Bryson's (phenomenal, wide-ranging) book A Short History of Nearly Everything. Until reading that book, I had no clue that the discovery of plate tectonics caused huge religious and philosophical turmoil similar to the discovery of natural selection. It shattered the image of Earth as a static creation of God, who of course was beneficent enough to put rivers near old cities and provide pretty consistent rain patterns near farmland, etc. etc.
- xref 3y agoI guess that’s a continuation of what Galileo shattered hundreds of years previously with his five observations through his homemade telescope that the Catholic Church was gonna burn him for. From memory all these bodies were supposed to be “perfect and unblemished” or some such: - lunar surface was textured - Venus appeared as a crescent - Jupiter had its own moons - Saturn had “ears” (aperture was too small to resolve rings) - Sun had spots
- lIl-IIIl 3y agoThe moon appears textured to the naked eye?
- sublinear 3y agoThe typeahead is awful. The request to load in the suggested cities should not block the UI. There should also be a loading indicator so that the user knows it's not a normal text input and it should prevent the user from selecting a city when the list goes stale.
- teh_klev 3y agoSizable discussions from the last time around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35856820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35856820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459997
- checkyoursudo 3y agoIt is interesting to see the landmasses move over time. I am not sure if I expected them to move faster or slower. At any rate, things can change a lot in just a few tens of millions of years.
- emmelaich 3y agoLook at India go! Travels fast and smashes into Asia
- jschroedl 3y agoThis is really cool! Well done!
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- pookah 3y ago[dead]
- erictd 3y agoPerfect timing - I just finished John McPhee’s wonderful “Assembling California”. It goes into quite a bit of detail of how California came together, and includes some history of tectonic plate theory, the gold rush, and quite a lot more.
- thom 3y agoI keep wanting some sort of dynamic desktop globe, where I can set the maps to basically any era and picture the world back then. See Alexander’s conquests, Rome’s rise etc. Feels like this hardware must be possible at this point?
- dylan604 3y agoThat's an interesting idea. I could see some sort of flexible OLED or something that could change, but the textures to show mountains would be the difficult part. I could see some sort of reverse idea of those desk toys with all of the pins that you can leave the shape of objects in. Only, this would push the pins up/down to change the elevations accordingly. That would be an interesting OLED material that could stretch without stretching the "pixels".
- fnordpiglet 3y agoIt would probably be easier with projectors in a pyramid at the center, but you would struggle with seams.
- pstadler 3y agoGeo-Cosmos at the Miraikan[1] museum in Tokyo comes to mind. Absolutely stunning. [1] https://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/exhibitions/tsunagari/geo-cosmos/ https://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/exhibitions/tsunagari/geo-...
- vinni2 3y agoReally awesome! couple of things to take it to next level. 1. A timeline or animation to show how a city location or land mass changed over time. 2. Predict the future where would my city be in 100 million years. May be under water
- dylan604 3y agoit would be hard to predict the water levels from climate change vs just where land will be based on plate tectonics. they could move the land masses around, and then maybe allow adjustments to say if there's no more polar ice, current levels, etc. but then i'm sure there would be mass hysteria from the climate deniers. neat idea though.
- vinni2 3y agoReally? even visualizing past would involve some prediction and same logic or algorithm can be used.
- ivanstojic 3y agoThe country lines on the globe are ridiculously out of date, and show countries that haven’t existed for 30 years.
- aylmao 3y agoIt's interesting to think how the geography of the earth could've shaped the anthroposphere and its history differently had humanity happened a few million years earlier. 30 million years ago the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans were directly connected, for example, but the Black Sea was landlocked. The Bosporus straight in Istanbul and the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt have been very significant historically and geopolitically— history would be very different in a world where these don't exist.
- emmelaich 3y agoAdvice: flip every display option.
- chalcolithic 3y agois there something like that that focuses on human prehistory?