Someday paleontologists will discover doomer memes from the Pleistocene, the Cretaceous, the Permian, the Devonian, and the Ordovician all predicting the same thing: “this is it, the end!”.
Well that’s good to know, in an odd-feeling sort of way - it’s reassuring info within the context of a situation which I would never want to happen in the first place.
Earth have survived extinction events before. And it will survive them again.
We’re fucked, the Earth is still going to be here for billions more years.
Yeah, Earth will be fine. It’s got all the time in the world to recover, literally.
Someday paleontologists will discover doomer memes from the Pleistocene, the Cretaceous, the Permian, the Devonian, and the Ordovician all predicting the same thing: “this is it, the end!”.
Someday, they will discover the remains of dead archaeologists among remains of dinosaurs and will have to wonder if we lived at the same time
Silurian hypothesis: chronically online edition
I’m not so sure life on Earth could recover from global nuclear war.
But if we can avoid that then yeah we’re probably fine.
Life can absolutely recover. People do joke about it but cockroaches are ridiculously resilient. And so are tardigrades.
Even the most pessimistic models predict half of the biosphere surviving nuclear war.
Well that’s good to know, in an odd-feeling sort of way - it’s reassuring info within the context of a situation which I would never want to happen in the first place.
Crawl out through the Fallout baby