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Scientists Predict Earth Becoming Barren Wasteland, Here's How Long We Have
Giant Freaking Robot ^ | 10/3/2023 | Jeffrey Rapaport

Posted on 10/03/2023 6:44:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz

A groundbreaking, newly released study (via Futurism), spearheaded by the University of Bristol, bears some not-so-good news: we have 250 million years (give or take) until the Earth looks less like the "pale blue dot" we all know and love and more…like Arrakis, from the Dune Universe.

That's right-the planet's land masses seem to be slowly but surely congealing into one humongous supercontinent, at least according to the data returned from the University of Bristol's high-powered climate model. Their study, formally published in the science journal Nature Geosciences, anticipates the continental merger will eventuate a globe-sized, one-continent-fits-all "Pangea Ultima."

A super-continent that will, in addition to being unfathomably large, also be unimaginably hot. How hot?

The planet's land masses seem to be slowly but surely congealing into one humongous supercontinent, referred to as Pangea Ultima.

Scorching enough to prohibit life for almost all mammalian organisms. In such an environment, it is hard not to imagine the inhabitants of Earth taking cues from the Fremen of Arrakis. And while there might not be sandworms the size of skyscrapers, the planet's carbon dioxide levels will potentially double, given the anticipated volcanic activity and widespread tectonic shifting.

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250 million years????!??? THAT'S ALL WE HAVE LEFT??????!??!

Ban cars! Ban gas stoves! Ban Dishwashers! Ban pool pumps! BAN GUNS! BAN PEOPLE!

1 posted on 10/03/2023 6:44:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

Ban commies.


2 posted on 10/03/2023 6:46:59 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Lazamataz

I thought AOC told us we had about seven or eight years left.


3 posted on 10/03/2023 6:47:06 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Lazamataz

Geeze...and I still have 20 payments left on my fridge!


4 posted on 10/03/2023 6:47:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: Lazamataz

That does it. Republicans better finally do something about climate change. They need to immediately increase funding for everything green. Oh wait…


5 posted on 10/03/2023 6:48:35 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Vacate the chair. Shutter the government until it can be correctly defunded.)
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To: Lazamataz

I’m so tired of the fear porn.


6 posted on 10/03/2023 6:49:05 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Lazamataz

In 250 Million Years, the Elites will have reserved all of the creature comforts for themselves. The rest of us will retreat underground and will evolve into brutish, mole like creatures. Eventually will go to war with them. A good science fiction movie could be made about this premise...


7 posted on 10/03/2023 6:49:26 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Lazamataz

8 posted on 10/03/2023 6:49:47 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Lazamataz

Ban Tectonics!!!!


9 posted on 10/03/2023 6:50:16 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Lazamataz

“like Arrakis, from the Dune Universe.” I ain’t drinking someone else’s spit.


10 posted on 10/03/2023 6:51:40 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: Lazamataz

Hard to imagine that the hydrosphere that makes up a surface layer on the rocky crust of the earth will somehow disappear in a quarter billion years or so. The sun has a greater chance of becoming a supernova, at which time the presence of water on earth anywhere will have become moot. THAT would make the planet into an airless, truly barren, very hot rock.

By that time, of course, mankind shall have discovered a means of migrating to other star systems, and the destruction of earth will be of relatively little importance.


11 posted on 10/03/2023 6:53:16 AM PDT by alloysteel (Be kind to your web-footed friends. That duck may be somebody's mother.)
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To: fhayek

Uhhhhhhhhh

Actually, the ones being fed on lived with all the creature comforts of Kobe cattle and the cannibal elites lived below ground and used fear to provoke their cattle into making themselves available for food...

And, IIRC, that did take a couple of million years according to HG...


12 posted on 10/03/2023 6:54:31 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Lazamataz

Like Sollozzo told Sonny not to lose his s**t, I’m going to use Sonny’s reply here. “Nawww... I’ll wait.”


13 posted on 10/03/2023 6:54:44 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Sirius Lee

Plate tectonics = white supremacy.


14 posted on 10/03/2023 6:55:09 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Lazamataz

Fear porn most assuredly ... not sure why one large continent would have to be hot or barren.


15 posted on 10/03/2023 6:55:59 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: Lazamataz

News guy wept and told us
Earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying


16 posted on 10/03/2023 6:56:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Scientists Predict Earth Becoming Barren Wasteland, Here's How Long We Have

These GOOFY BASTARDS have nary a clue that the Earth is a SELF-SUSTAINING SELF-PERPETUATING SYSTEM,

George Carlin - Saving the Planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c

17 posted on 10/03/2023 6:57:46 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Lazamataz

The earth is already destroyed. Prophet Al Gore said we only had 10 years back in the 90s, ok folks?


18 posted on 10/03/2023 6:57:51 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Lazamataz

Solution:
Big staples at tectonic plate boundaries.


19 posted on 10/03/2023 6:58:08 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: Lazamataz
I like the conspiracy theory that the Reptilians are terraforming the earth to make habitable for them.
20 posted on 10/03/2023 7:01:41 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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