We're DOOMED!!!!

[midnight rambler]

Predictions from very smart people are that in 280 years global temperatures will be the hottest in 50 million years!

We're so fucking doomed!!! And I had been planning on partying like 1999 on my 300th birthday.

https://www.kxan.com/news/national-n...million-years/

[ziero0]

You need to recognize a marketing opportunity. Think about the potential of marketing sunscreen to Eskimos.

Besides which Bill Gates successor will have a vaccine for that.

[woodman]

Look on the bright side; the dinosaurs will come back and just think of the juicy eating from a brontosaurus! It will be like the Flintstones!

[ziero0]

"During that period, experts believe global temperatures were anywhere from 16-25 degrees higher than they are right now."
But ...

"The Fahrenheit scale (/ˈfɑːrənhaɪt/) is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736)."

Temperature was not measured in Fahrenheit until 1724. How could temperature ��️ even exist when there was no scale?

The mind creates through information it received from the senses.

[keehah]

Look on the bright side; the dinosaurs will come back and just think of the juicy eating from a brontosaurus! It will be like the Flintstones!

Can't happen. Planet has expanded too much since then; too much gravity.

[woodman]

Can't happen. Planet has expanded too much since then; too much gravity.

Dammit! You deflated my fantasy. I do agree with you about the planet expansion though. The Earth has certainly increased in mass. The dinosaurs would not be able to walk the Earth today.

[midnight rambler]

The Earth has certainly increased in mass.

Where'd this mass come from??

[ziero0]

Where'd this mass come from??

Rumor has it that the Earth was flat when dinosaurs roamed. It doubled in mass when it formed spherical properties.

[woodman]

Where'd this mass come from??

Don't know, but it seems like even elephants which are quite small compared to the larger dinosaurs, are challenged when trying to navigate in the manner smaller animals do routinely.

Mass generator at the core? Collision with large object? Looks like the continents are spreading apart slowly when you consider the mid Atlantic Ridge: (The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is 16,000 km long. It is a curving path from the Arctic Ocean to the southern tip of Africa. The southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge separates the African Plate and the South American Plate. The entire ridge extends from northeast of Greenland southward to the Gakkel Junction in the South Atlantic Ocean.)

Just how long has the Atlantic Ocean been increasing in size? Does this mean the Pacific is shrinking?

[keehah]

Where'd this mass come from??

Some theories involve neutrinos.

CosmosMagazine.com: Neutrino absorption spotted in Antarctic

Neutrinos are incredibly tiny particles that usually interact only weakly with matter. Although the universe is so swamped with neutrinos that around 100 million of them stream through your body every second, it is relatively rare that they hit anything. This makes them hard to detect...

By studying more than 10,000 such neutrinos observed in 2010 and 2011, the researchers were able to confirm that very few of them were coming from paths that had travelled through most of the Earth. This led them to the conclusion that those high-energy neutrinos must have been absorbed during their passage through the planet.