silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 days agoIt’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that iswww.scientificamerican.comexternal-linkmessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1343arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: collapse@sopuli.xyzworldnews@lemmygrad.ml
arrow-up1342arrow-down1external-linkIt’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that iswww.scientificamerican.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square39linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: collapse@sopuli.xyzworldnews@lemmygrad.ml
minus-squareSynapse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up141·9 days agoWe did it ! We Terraformed a planet ! Earth, a planet that was exactly as perfect as it gets for us to live on it, we Terraformed it into a suffocating hell.
minus-squareAbsolute_Slayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoJust wait a few years, and soon we’ll see a hive colonies everywhere.
minus-squareSynapse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoImagine the futur, with underground cities sprawling deep under the surface, people living to mine the rare earth in devotion for the saint GPU !
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·8 days agoTechnically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we’re making it more earth like when we’re doing the opposite.
minus-squaremorto@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·8 days agoCan earth become less earth-like? I’d argue that we’re changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like
minus-squareVieuxQueb@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up10·8 days agoSo we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 days agoThe main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.
minus-squareCapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·8 days agoTechnically Earth is always exactly like Earth.
minus-squareHanrahan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agowell, getting rid of the majority of humans will make it better for everything else, so there is that. that we’re doing it to ourselves is gob smackingly stupid.
minus-squareCourtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up27·9 days agoWOO! IN YOUR FACE, CYANOBACTERIA OF 2 BILLION YEARS AGO! WE DID IT IN RECORD TIME! (2ish BYA cyanobacteria in the ocean produced oxygen, but nothing had yet developed protection from oxidation, thus killing almost everything living)
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoSo that’s how they get their religious thing.
minus-squarezr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 days agoChange has an effect in both ways, positive and negative, and unfortunately we tend to focus only on the negative.
We did it ! We Terraformed a planet ! Earth, a planet that was exactly as perfect as it gets for us to live on it, we Terraformed it into a suffocating hell.
Just wait a few years, and soon we’ll see a hive colonies everywhere.
Imagine the futur, with underground cities sprawling deep under the surface, people living to mine the rare earth in devotion for the saint GPU !
Technically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we’re making it more earth like when we’re doing the opposite.
Can earth become less earth-like? I’d argue that we’re changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like
So we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!
The main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.
Technically Earth is always exactly like Earth.
well, getting rid of the majority of humans will make it better for everything else, so there is that.
that we’re doing it to ourselves is gob smackingly stupid.
WOO! IN YOUR FACE, CYANOBACTERIA OF 2 BILLION YEARS AGO! WE DID IT IN RECORD TIME!
(2ish BYA cyanobacteria in the ocean produced oxygen, but nothing had yet developed protection from oxidation, thus killing almost everything living)
So that’s how they get their religious thing.
Change has an effect in both ways, positive and negative, and unfortunately we tend to focus only on the negative.