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It hinges on aerosol particles that are 125 times smaller than the tiniest grains of sand.

Ummm....hello? Contrails anyone? They've been doing this stuff for years now.

Jeez, I thought everyone knew that.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Astrophage.

Lemme get my rock spider...

This "climate change" prediction was a bit off

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2055376238345076837

As I understand, the un just declared climate change null and void - just in time for the midterms because it was unpopular democrat messaging.

Fuggin commie scat!

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2016. Guy McPherson (a climate change expert, scientist, and professor from the University of Arizona) says that there will not be any humans on the planet by 2026 due to the effects of climate change.

Well, to his credit (I use that loosely), 2026 isn't over yet.

^^^^ Nah, not going to happen. He’s a kook not to be trusted. We actually have four and a half years left on earth, according to the real expert AOC.

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Originally posted by 12131:

We actually have four and a half years left on earth, according to the real expert AOC.

If climate change doesn't get us, we'll probably get too close to the edge and fall off.

If the world was really flat, cats would have knocked everything off by now.

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We actually have four and a half years left on earth, according to the real expert AOC.

You'd think, what with the rising sea levels, the ocean ought to be at least lapping at the base of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal by now.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:

If the world was really flat, cats would have knocked everything off by now.

They're working on it, but it takes time. They have already have disposed of most of the 10mm sockets, some of my socks, and a P7 magazine.

When things fall off the edge, where do they land?

I should have waterfront property in Florida by now and be able to sell it for millions to idiots from New York.

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Originally posted by oddball:
This "climate change" prediction was a bit off

I just checked out his bio.

His BS (Which stands for what you think it does) is from the Univ of Idaho.

His MS (More of the Same) is from Texas Tech and

His PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) is also from Texas Tech.


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Here's the science.  We might be hit by a big rock from the Oort Cloud, as a planet-killing event, in the next hundred-million-ish or so years as one of the most likely scenarios, still low in the statistical mix of Everybody Dies.  But big rocks are flung out of the Oort Cloud all the time (ask the dinosaurs).  Just not usually directed at us.  And we might get a warning, depending on where we were looking - it's possible or even likely in a few million years we could prevent a collision if we have the technology. 

We might intersect a GRB (gamma-ray burst ) from Wolf-Rayet 104, which is about 2.5 parsecs distant, in the next few hundred millennia.  Or so.  Again, Everybody Dies,  depending on cosmic angles and timing. And we might also get a warning - a sudden rapid heating of the extremities, followed immediately by death.  Anyone who observed the flash would have a few milliseconds to comprehend they were going to die.  It's likely this has happened in the past from some other W-R combination causing an extinction-level event, just not planetary.

We might experience a wandering star that passes sufficiently close to perturb Earth's orbit enough that it leaves the ecliptic plane.  A possible and even expected occurrence, one of which events may happen in the timeframe of Earth's existence - i.e., once every 4-5 billion years.  And Everybody Dies.  Again, a possible warning, with likely nothing we can do to a star, even with several extra million years of evolution.  

As we transition from millions of years to billions, it matters in probability.  A million seconds is 11.5 days.  A billion seconds is almost 32 years.  Humanity will not be around in a billion years in any form we would know, but it just might be (recognizably) in a million or two.  So "humanity" writ large could be extinguished by two of those three events outlined, along with all the other trifling accessory life-forms.  What will NOT extinguish planetary life is any non-cosmic event like "climate change" (whatever that might be), or "nuclear winter," or overpopulation, or zombies (well maybe zombies).  What will happen with certainty on a local geological scale, is that someday it will begin to snow and it won't stop - for about 10,000 years.  We know this because it has happened before, measurably, many times, in predictable cycles. And still humanity survived the last million or so circles around Sol.  What escapes these prognosticating dweebs is the sheer scale of the planet, and the persistence of life.  Humans and their activities had, and have today, as much influence over any Earth-generated cycles of change as King Canute did over the sea.  Thankfully.