6th mass extinction event
Discussion
Whales used to walk around on land. But they weren’t whales back then.
Megatherium was kicking around just the blink of an eye ago, a huge slothy beaver bear type thing that’d dwarf an Elephant.
The ancestors of birds today were dinosaurs.
The large extinction events change things, but they take time and evolution/survival of fittest can play its part.
Humans will likely survive.
Not a big issue is it?
My great great gran probably didn’t have electric growing up, no fridge, no car.
My gran didn’t have telly.
My Dad didn’t have colour telly or internet.
So who cares?
The only certainty is things change.
Megatherium was kicking around just the blink of an eye ago, a huge slothy beaver bear type thing that’d dwarf an Elephant.
The ancestors of birds today were dinosaurs.
The large extinction events change things, but they take time and evolution/survival of fittest can play its part.
Humans will likely survive.
Not a big issue is it?
My great great gran probably didn’t have electric growing up, no fridge, no car.
My gran didn’t have telly.
My Dad didn’t have colour telly or internet.
So who cares?
The only certainty is things change.
Scarletpimpofnel said:
This is overdue. I'd always assumed we'd experience a massive increase in solar radiation with much genetic damage/mutation/evolution happening at that time but it seems (or so I read) that the poles simply rotate around the world so the magnetic field is still there giving protection.
So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?
I’ve been meaning to start a thread about that for quite some time.So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?
The only issue is that unless it’s in NP&E, the thread will likely get little traction, if it did it would be spoilt by the usual aholes, and I know so little about the subject matter that I wouldn’t be able to meaningfully contribute.
From what little I do understand, the North Pole is taking a rapidly brisk jog eastwards, whilst the South Pole remains reasonably stable. Eventually they’ll come a point where things go very badly wrong, very quickly, (as in just a couple of weeks or less).
Again, based upon what little I understand, it would be a rapid “mass extinction event”.
The Suspicious Observers YouTube channel has quite a lot of decent information about this, including links to many peer reviewed scientific studies.
Frightening stuff tbh.
pidsy said:
Fascinated by the Yellowstone super volcano and the tectonic plates in that area.
The Yellowstone Caldera has only had three truly enormous eruptions in history. One 2.1 million years ago, one 1.3 million years ago, and one 664,000 years ago so if the times were equally staggered we aren't due one for another 500,000 years. But it's actually suggested that it is dead and won't erupt again, ever.https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/questio...
105.4 said:
Scarletpimpofnel said:
This is overdue. I'd always assumed we'd experience a massive increase in solar radiation with much genetic damage/mutation/evolution happening at that time but it seems (or so I read) that the poles simply rotate around the world so the magnetic field is still there giving protection.
So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?
I’ve been meaning to start a thread about that for quite some time.So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?
The only issue is that unless it’s in NP&E, the thread will likely get little traction, if it did it would be spoilt by the usual aholes, and I know so little about the subject matter that I wouldn’t be able to meaningfully contribute.
From what little I do understand, the North Pole is taking a rapidly brisk jog eastwards, whilst the South Pole remains reasonably stable. Eventually they’ll come a point where things go very badly wrong, very quickly, (as in just a couple of weeks or less).
Again, based upon what little I understand, it would be a rapid “mass extinction event”.
The Suspicious Observers YouTube channel has quite a lot of decent information about this, including links to many peer reviewed scientific studies.
Frightening stuff tbh.
Terminator X said:
JRHartless said:
Why are people asking what this 6th mass extinction event is going to be?
It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.
How long have modern humans been around, 200k years (?) but right now is the time of our demise It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.
TX.
Smollet said:
Scarletpimpofnel said:
105.4 said:
Magnetic pole flip?
So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?FourWheelDrift said:
Smollet said:
Scarletpimpofnel said:
105.4 said:
Magnetic pole flip?
So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?ATG said:
Terminator X said:
JRHartless said:
Why are people asking what this 6th mass extinction event is going to be?
It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.
How long have modern humans been around, 200k years (?) but right now is the time of our demise It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.
TX.
TX.
Terminator X said:
ATG said:
Terminator X said:
JRHartless said:
Why are people asking what this 6th mass extinction event is going to be?
It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.
How long have modern humans been around, 200k years (?) but right now is the time of our demise It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.
TX.
TX.
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