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RE: We are living through the greatest extinction event since non-avian dinosaurs died 65 Million years ago
I think its worth adding that Lake Toba's US equivalent, the Yellowstone Caldera, is geologically overdue for an explosion that would thrust the world into nuclear winter, after killing a significant portion of the population.
And I bet it isn't long before big oil and fracking decide to drill there because money.
You are absolutely right. You'll see the book "Supervolcano" I've sourced from - the last quarter of the book is about how Yellowstone Caldera is the next Lake Toba that is inevitably going to happen. It could be tomorrow, it could be a hundred thousand years. Either way, today's extinction is down to anthropogenic activity.
Sure is, for the time being. But then again, a big rock could show up out of nowhere, or one of those carrington event solar flares could thrust us to the Stone Age. Great write up either way, hopefully we're long gone before the end arrives haha
We will be gone, of course. But that's the line of thought that got us into this mess in the first place. :)
Once our sun goes Red Dwarf (great show by the way), we'll all move on. I just hope we can learn how to keep the planet livable until then, so we can get to high level technological advancement and populate the galaxy. I'm thinking something like a "Firefly" future ;) But I'll take a "Dark Matter" future too
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Well, you really are on an entirely different tangent now! Sun going Red Dwarf is several billion years away. Don't worry, human beings will be gone within a million years. Either evolved into a new species or extinct.
Looking at the astronomical (sorry, bad pun) progress we have made in the last 150 years, I bet we can terraform Mars within a few centuries.