Human Presence May Be Increasing The Lifespan Of Earth

Scientific Blogging ^ | June 14th 2009 | News Staff

[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.

[decimon]

Contra-catastrophe ping.

[Sacajaweau]

What?? We’re not worthless pieces of cr**...fulfilling our wish to destroy the earth???

[decimon]

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. ;-)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon.

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[BikerJoe]

What?? We’re not worthless pieces of cr**...fulfilling our wish to destroy the earth???

But, but, it's unnatural... planetary survival is against the will of the Universe!!!!! Earth MUST DIE!!!!!

[Condor51]

Extending Earth's *Life* to 2 Billion years is meaningless. All Humans will be destroyed, aka: Extinct, way before that.

• Permian mass extinction event (destroyed 82% of all genera) - 245 MY₍₁₎
• Dinosaurs appear - 240 MY
  
• End Cretaceous mass extinction event (including last dinosaurs); age of mammals begins - 66 to 65 MY
  
• Earliest humans - 2 MY
  
• Humans dominant - 0 MY (now)

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.

[Freedom2specul8]

“What about global warming and the landfills!!!”
Ok, I’ll click on the link now..

BUMP!

[steelyourfaith]

Interesting. Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Sam Cree]

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[ConservativeMan55]

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