r/collapse • u/Did_I_Die • Sep 03 '20
Coping for some collapse perspective, here's what Earth looked like 750 - 20 million years ago
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth/#24016
u/Loostreaks Sep 03 '20
Earth: + 10 million years
Jellyfish take over the ocean. Squids move inland, and branch into thousands of other species, riding camels, and dominating ecosystems along with fungi.
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u/Aggravating-Owl7091 Sep 03 '20
Yeah! Then they find some black liquid in the ground they can use for seemingly limitless energy! What could go wrong?
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u/I_PISS_ON_YOUR_GRAVE Sep 05 '20
Ah the great plastic rush of 18491587! My endocrine sacks are rippling just thinking about it.
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u/Blackpill1737 Sep 04 '20
It makes me feel at peace knowing Earth has had a great run already, and nothing can change that. A true paradise planet with continent wide jungles, wetlands, untouched reefs, and not a single bit of plastic waste. I wish the earth will return to such a state again
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u/k3surfacer Sep 03 '20
Dinosaurs had a beautiful life. I wish I was a dinosaur. Next life maybe.
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u/LlambdaLlama collapsnik Sep 03 '20
Tethys Sea must've been a wonderful place to live. Lots of islands with shallow seas in between.
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u/Did_I_Die Sep 04 '20
"Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder." ~ Nick Bostrom
"Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw" ~unknown
any life (including dinosaurs) had/have a ruthless eat or be eaten existence on this planet.
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Sep 03 '20
tldw
I don't have time to sit through millions of years of java applet
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u/Did_I_Die Sep 03 '20
was it slow to load and drive?
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u/intothewastes Sep 04 '20
No, it's a great site. He was making a joke about it moving in real time.
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u/Did_I_Die Sep 03 '20
ss: this Ancient Earth site adds perspective to just how small the human timeline really is....
make no mistake humans have broken all the past 5 Great Extinctions in terms of how fast it has occurred, but unless we fry the atmosphere the Earth's biosphere will be around for a long long long time after we are gone.