Climate Change: hope for the biggest I told you so of all time is what fuels us

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ex post facho: Oct 25, 2007

u_s_eh posted:

First Reformed had been on my list for awhile but finally got around to it thanks to CSPAM

everyone here should see it lol

I just watched it tonight and it completely flubbed the denouement :mad:

# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 04:19

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 12:27

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Mayor Dave posted:

for most of it it's pretty much this thread: the movie

actually for all of it lol

# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 05:16

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Cup Runneth Over posted:

i did. ama

is being a skeleton as fun as i think it will be

# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 17:03

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aren't those wraiths

:goonsay:

# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 18:27

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the last of us was a documentary

# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 19:52

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Milo and POTUS posted:

What's the absolutely most pessimistic fiction work that's grounded in reality anyway?

cormac mccarthy's the road

# ¿ Aug 15, 2020 18:47

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still thinkin' about how first reformed would have been a better movie for the moment if toller had finished the job and blew the gently caress out of balq and the rest of those attendees, collateral damage be damned

# ¿ Aug 16, 2020 19:01

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between the CA wildfires and the ones burning in the I70 canyon, Colorado front range's air quality is some of the worst I've experienced. every morning everything is covered in fine ash and going outside by midmorning its incredibly difficult to get a good breath. the dogs don't even want to go out.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2020 20:13

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Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/kevpluck/status/1296398978133757953?s=19

enjoy that saltwater aquifer, Florida

# ¿ Aug 20, 2020 17:57

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mdemone posted:

ok fine I'll elaborate just a bit. I have a paper coming out about this so it's been on my mind last few years.

Earth got really jacked up at least twice during its history, turning into "snowball Earth" and basically freezing solid. about 2 billion years ago, and then again about 600-800 million years ago. biologists already know where I'm going with this. after/coincident with the first snowball Earth event, the Great Oxygenation occurred and radically changed the biosphere, huge biodiversity explosion, etc.

after/coincident with the second snowball Earth event, the Cambrian explosion of animal life happened, and the rest is more well-known history.

okay so that's a pretty cool story: mass extinctions because of planet-wide climate events, leads to evolutionary explosions right afterwards, hey how neat.

but why did those snowball Earth events happen?

we could go into more details about how they couldn't have been caused by local planetary conditions, it just doesn't make sense. the long-standing assumption has been that the snowball Earth epochs were kicked off by extraterrestrial conditions.

you need the atmosphere to darken as though the solar constant were suddenly reduced by at least 10-20%, we are talking about a negative radiative forcing that really only could happen if the solar system went hauling rear end through a giant dust cloud that was moving real fast with respect to us (again there is a lot of radiative physics behind the theory that this is the only way to do it, but that's not very relevant unless somebody wants some citations).

there isn't enough star formation happening right now in the Milky Way for it to be reasonable that a thick dust cloud could interact with the solar system. (okay I'm being glib here, the actual simulations say that you need multiple such passages within certain timescales like 10 million years or whatever).

but that's *right now* in the Milky Way.

anyone want to guess what was happening to the Milky Way about 2 billion years ago and then again about 700 million years ago?

next post as I get drunker.........

edit: the perfect snipe

this is cool AF, plz post more

# ¿ Aug 21, 2020 23:28

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imagining now what those sunrises, sunsets, northern lights and meteor showers must have looked like on pre-snowball earth as it approached and passed through this massive dust cloud :stwoon:

I'm sure it'd be breathtaking :grin:

extending the thought more, imagine the number of micrometeoroids and other potential impacts to Earth while passing through a cloud that dense. surely another avenue for panspermia if there ever was one right? or at least seeding the primordial planet with genetic material and amino acids. maybe even tardigrades!

# ¿ Aug 22, 2020 00:20

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I was going to say Devs haha

# ¿ Aug 22, 2020 01:39

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well, we determined this mosquito -filled swamp was bottom dollar and removed it oops we collapsed the ecosystem

# ¿ Aug 22, 2020 19:33

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I'm in the 55deg drop in 12hr firesnow death zone in CO, ama

# ¿ Sep 7, 2020 20:30

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It was 97 yesterday. Its 35 and snowing now!

# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 18:22

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teubo

# ¿ Sep 11, 2020 15:42

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crabs gonna rule imo

# ¿ Sep 11, 2020 16:28

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https://twitter.com/judyfutah/statu...ingawful.com%2F

seems extremely bad

# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 18:34

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gonna die under snow this weekend yall

https://mobile.twitter.com/JimCantore/status/1369271367456219146

# ¿ Mar 9, 2021 21:09

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my favorite part of climate change is getting ALL of our winter precipitation in ONE storm!

# ¿ Mar 15, 2021 03:22

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 12:27

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is being a posadist itt considered gauche

# ¿ May 6, 2021 03:30

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