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> A new model suggests that in 250 million years, all land will collide into a supercontinent that boosts warming and pushes mammals to extinction. I mean, if
by willio58 3y ago
> A new model suggests that in 250 million years, all land will collide into a supercontinent that boosts warming and pushes mammals to extinction.
I mean, if in 250 million years we haven’t become multi-planetary, sure. We landed on the moon for the first time just 54 years ago. NASA is planning to send people back in 2 years. If in 3023 we aren’t colonizing Mars or something similar, I think something horribly wrong happened. On a much shorter timescale than 250 million years.
- jmprspret 3y ago> I mean, if in 250 million years we haven’t become multi-planetary, sure I think that's optimistic. Who know what could happen in that time. Many many doomsday scenarios come to mind, all of which I personally feel are more likely than us surviving that long. Climate crisis + global warming being the most realistic, given we don't fix our shit or find a way around it (underground?). Massive collisions from objects in space, solar flares, nuclear winter, Christian rapture + doomsday?. Maybe not that last one.
- echelon 3y ago> If in 3023 we aren’t colonizing Mars or something similar, I think something horribly wrong happened. We start leaving the human bodies we evolved with behind and become beings of pure intelligence. Or the greater intelligence decides it doesn't need us and goes off on its own adventure.
- brigade 3y agoIt doesn’t account for humans staying alive through technology, yes. But the earth is still likely to be more habitable than anywhere else in the solar system for the next billion years even as the sun increases its output 10%, the oceans evaporate, and natural plant life dies out.