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About 250M years ago, 90% of species on Earth died during the Permian extinction.

Tragic? Perhaps. But it also created a lot of vacant niches to fill.

And not long after, the very first mammals, our ancestors, appeared.

#Life on Earth is resilient & will continue to be, whether we're part of it or not. #history #science

This photograph of the Earth was taken on Dec. 7, 1972, by the crew of the final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, as they traveled toward the moon on their lunar landing mission. Credit: NASA
#science #history #life
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Barry Goldman
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was just thinking about how the last 100,000 years of climate bouncing helped make us human. i'm sure it was a struggle, but creative.

what will the next 100,000 years of climate bouncing create?

it'll be rough but we are rugged.

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CaveDave
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I'd personally like us to be a part of it though
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Gustavo Ogasawara
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I'm not sure about that. This #time, it is possible that we are about to face the possibility of a permanent #collapse. The maximum speed of evolution is much lower than the speed of climate change that is taking place.
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haley
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haley
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Gonna be some really fascinating plastic eating organisms in a couple hundred or thousand years (I'm not educated enough in biology to understand how long that might feasibly take). Kind of a bummer there might be like, five people left to notice them, if that.
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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Yes, I had been thinking about that.

"New research shows the "#GreatDying" was caused by global warming that left ocean animals unable to breathe...As temperatures rose and the metabolism of marine animals sped up, the warmer waters could not hold enough oxygen for them to survive. "*

/s: That, and that the only known species that was as stupid as human beings to destroy its habitat was the #BlueAlgae.

What does this say about human intelligence? /s

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earth.stanford.edu/news/what-c…


What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction?

Scientists have debated until now what made Earth's oceans so inhospitable to life that some 96 percent of marine species died off at the end of the Permian period.
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
#greatdying #bluealgae
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SpaceLifeForm
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Life will always reboot itself via deep ocean vents.

As long as the magnetic field exists.

See Mars for when the magnetic field stops.

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smaroukis
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smaroukis
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"vacant niche" sounds like a good business opportunity, for those that can make it to post-capitalism
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init6
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init6
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it'll be interesting since we mixed so many ecosystems together. Like mad scientists meddling evolution in strange ways.
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O'Shaq Hennessy
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I struggle getting minimizers to understand this one the most. Climate change won't destroy the Earth, that's nearly impossible. But climate change doesn't need to destroy the Earth in order to create a bunch of problems for us. Climate change only needs to destroy the Earth's ability to sustain our entire species. That's very easy to do and is happening at an alarming rate. At this point, I believe it's inevitable; best case, half of humanity survives.
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@batyalee 🌿
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Zooming out to 100,000 years and viewing the planet as just one sphere is unhelpful, since most people can’t see past their own house and won’t plan past a few weeks into the future. I think it’s unspeakably tragic that humanity has been such a terrible scourge for every part of the ecosphere and all life contained within it. I really hope no one is successful in transplanting humans to any other planet, for obvious reasons.
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Erik Ableson
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@lisamelton I always try to use this to give the correct perspective to folks having a hard time grasping the concept and the impacts: mastodon.infrageeks.social/@er…
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