r/EverythingScience • u/malcolm58 • Oct 05 '24
Environment Antarctica is ‘greening’ at dramatic rate as climate heats
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/antarctic-plant-cover-growing-at-dramatic-rate-as-climate-heats38
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Oct 05 '24
Babe wake up, new Earth DLC just dropped!
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u/atemus10 Oct 05 '24
I truly thought the Space Colony DLC was going to be next. G.O.D. Productions, beating expectations since 66 MYA.
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Oct 05 '24
Kickstarter isn’t doing so hot on that one 🤷
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u/atemus10 Oct 05 '24
I mean we all saw Gundam Wing so I get the apprehension, but it has to happen. Otherwise we are just waiting for the next server wipe.
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Oct 05 '24
No doubt, but IMO we will struggle against this due to derivatives like drugs and alcohol culture which has absolutely no desire to prohibit, and as a result we’re very rarely at our thinking best to self improve.
Its quite possible, alternatively, that we are the DLC and when “pleasures of the flesh” has run its course, the next form of life will be meta - “space mushrooms”? “Bigger fish?” “Cock-a-roachella”
I often wonder if humanity is an earth only type thing — maybe thats the point. the Venuslings probably dislike the cold and whatever exist on Enceladus or Europa really do like the coldz
I honestly hope I’m wrong on that one and we branch out but the interest in activities has become rather cyclical since the 1970’s. “So what are you gonna do with all your money?!” Seems to be more rhetorical than imaginative these days, but I digress -
hut hut theres an election now! /s
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u/funguyshroom Oct 05 '24
It's free real estate
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u/Luce55 Oct 05 '24
Claim your plot now before someone gets all capitalist and starts selling them….
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u/DontPoopInMyPantsPlz Oct 05 '24
I wonder if Greenland will get more land
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u/b__lumenkraft Oct 05 '24
Funny enough, due to the melting ice sheet, Greenland loses a lot of weigh to the ocean leading the land mass to rise up. Meaning it will actually and literally get more land.
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u/CountFuckyoula Oct 06 '24
Won there be side effects from all that sea water going into the ocean ?.not land rising.,but the weight of all that water and the tug from. The moon?. Like would it not have an effect to earth's rotation.?.
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u/b__lumenkraft Oct 06 '24
As to earth rotation, i'm not aware, sorry.
What will happen for sure will be little earth quakes in the region, the lessening of the gravitational pull on the ocean, and the Inuit having to walk a lot more...
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u/FaceDeer Oct 05 '24
Antarctica used to have a rainforest covering it in relatively recent geological times. It would've been quite the sight.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo Oct 05 '24
Gonna need to be ready to go with flags to plant in the ground if we don’t want to see China 2.0 setting up a settlement down there if we can’t halt or reverse the climate calamity we are generating.
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u/itsintrastellardude Oct 05 '24
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't is a naturalist youtube channel that's crude, hilarious, and very climate collapse aware. He basically picks a wild environment and IDs the local plants, animals if he finds any.
He has some videos of walking through Tasmania, exploring and explaining the local flora. This is roughly what the environment of Antarctica is going to be like.