Posted on 06/15/2009 5:49:20 AM PDT by decimon
Doom and gloom types always want to lament that the presence of people is killing the Earth. Not so, say California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists. At least on a cosmic scale, the presence of life may increase longevity for planets.
In traditional thinking, a billion years from now the ever-increasing radiation from the sun will have heated Earth into inhabitability, causing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that serves as food for plant to disappear. The oceans will evaporate and all living things will disappear.
Maybe not quite so soon, say researchers from Caltech, who have come up with a mechanism that doubles the future lifespan of the biosphere while also increasing the chance that advanced life will be found elsewhere in the universe.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificblogging.com ...
Contra-catastrophe ping.
What?? We’re not worthless pieces of cr**...fulfilling our wish to destroy the earth???
Pezzi di merda? Well, of course we are. But as such, we fertilize the earth. ;-)
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From the Permian Event to Dinosaurs appearing was 5 million years. They ruled earth for approx 175 million years till the next mass extinction. Mass extinctions are a recurring event so we have approx 173 million years left as a species, if that. WE will be next.
Out in the Kuiper Belt there's a 'HUGH' Asteroid with Earth's name on it. So any talk of billions of years is 'horse poopy' (scientific term). Its just a matter of time.(2)
(1) MY = Million years before present
(2) My only hope is that the next Dominant Species on Earth isn't Moonbats. That would be a very bad joke God would pulling on us.
“What about global warming and the landfills!!!”
Ok, I’ll click on the link now..
BUMP!
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bttt
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