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(National Geographic) Strange Wildfires, disappearing oxygen helped kill off 90 percent of all life on Earth. Way to go, wildfires and disappearing oxygen   (news.nationalgeographic.com) divider line 38
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2011-11-26 03:15:14 PM
They killed 90% of life on Earth? They must get up very early in the morning
 
2011-11-26 03:21:08 PM
Jerks
 
2011-11-26 03:27:08 PM
Goddamn pony. Deserved that blizzard.
 
2011-11-26 04:26:21 PM
Nature is a whore.
 
2011-11-26 04:27:49 PM
ArkAngel: They killed 90% of life on Earth? They must get up very early in the morning

As TFA's headline notes, the "Great Dying" lasted 200,000 years; so, more like very early for a LOT of mornings.
 
2011-11-26 04:38:57 PM
Ah this is nothing. I heard that we have half the oxygen available in the air, than what existed 200 years ago....

/Don't Panic, or you will fall down from oxygen deprivation.
 
2011-11-26 04:55:08 PM
ArkAngel: They killed 90% of life on Earth? They must get up very early in the morning

I can't even get down to the gym in 26 minutes.
 
2011-11-26 05:00:33 PM
Get Lost: Ah this is nothing. I heard that we have half the oxygen available in the air, than what existed 200 years ago....

/Don't Panic, or you will fall down from oxygen deprivation.


I've been hording it.

I'm hording oxygen, incandescent bulbs, toilet paper, bullets, gasoline, water, small children, goldfish food, aluminum foil (enough to wallpaper my house), books (especially bibles), chap-stick, lady bugs, putty and freeze dried pepperonis.
 
2011-11-26 05:08:51 PM
FTA: "Rocks also provide hard evidence..."

We took that for granite.
 
2011-11-26 05:19:31 PM
FROGSTOMPER: Get Lost: Ah this is nothing. I heard that we have half the oxygen available in the air, than what existed 200 years ago....
/Don't Panic, or you will fall down from oxygen deprivation.
I've been hording it.

I'm hording oxygen, incandescent bulbs, toilet paper, bullets, gasoline, water, small children, goldfish food, aluminum foil (enough to wallpaper my house), books (especially bibles), chap-stick, lady bugs, putty and freeze dried pepperonis.


Small children do make good 'fresh blood storage devices', but you really need to keep them in a 'drug induced coma' in order to cut back on food stocks feeding them.
 
2011-11-26 05:19:42 PM
Wildfires? Wow wow. I didn't know they make the oxygen DISAPPEAR. Just how?

Wildfires don't last 200,000 years. If an area burns down the same plants will be growing there in a few years. Also, there aren't any wildfires in the oceans.
 
2011-11-26 05:28:53 PM
traylor: Wildfires? Wow wow. I didn't know they make the oxygen DISAPPEAR. Just how?

Wildfires don't last 200,000 years. If an area burns down the same plants will be growing there in a few years. Also, there aren't any wildfires in the oceans.


Gonna go ahead and hazard a guess and say that you DNRTFA.
 
2011-11-26 05:37:18 PM
nekom: Nature is a whore crazy biatch with a blow torch in one hand and an electric carving knife in the other.
 
2011-11-26 05:58:57 PM
From TFA: 200,000 years = two millennia. Oh, really?
 
2011-11-26 06:07:11 PM
I blame Cheney.
 
2011-11-26 06:15:08 PM
Get Lost: Ah this is nothing. I heard that we have half the oxygen available in the air, than what existed 200 years ago....

/Don't Panic, or you will fall down from oxygen deprivation.


That sounds like an overblown estimate. I'm fairly certain very few animals could tolerate a 50% drop in available oxygen over just 2 centuries. Even if we could technically survive, we'd be living at greatly diminished capacity...instead of having the longest average lifespan in all of human history.

Besides, according to my research (okay, I looked it up on wikipedia, but whatever), the closest we ever came to double the amount of available oxygen was when it peaked at 175% of current levels 300 million years ago.

I do know that oxygen levels are declining somewhat, but it's nowhere close to 50% over 200 years.
 
2011-11-26 06:30:17 PM
GeneralJim: From TFA: 200,000 years = two millennia. Oh, really?

I like my millennia long ; )
/So sorry

Now FTFA: The two-millennia period is far shorter than the time span that has been widely accepted, according to study co-author Shu-zhong Shen, a paleontologist at the China's Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology.
 
2011-11-26 06:31:55 PM
Old news is old. And I'm not just talking Permian here. National geographic must be doing this for the kids who didn't catch it a while ago.

ecx.images-amazon.com

Bought and read this book years ago, good stuff.

/DNRTFA
 
2011-11-26 06:57:04 PM
BolloxReader: Old news is old. And I'm not just talking Permian here. National geographic must be doing this for the kids who didn't catch it a while ago.

[ecx.images-amazon.com image 300x300]

Bought and read this book years ago, good stuff.

/DNRTFA


Sounds interesting and I am adding it to my reading list.
thanks; )
 
2011-11-26 07:12:21 PM
90%? But look at all the species we have now. What a relief. That means we can do it again over 200 years time and everything will be fine. Suck it, tree-huggers.
 
2011-11-26 07:20:09 PM
cryinoutloud: 90%? But look at all the species we have now. What a relief. That means we can do it again over 200 years time and everything will be fine. Suck it, tree-huggers.

/your sarcasm, I see it; )
 
2011-11-26 07:51:28 PM
cryinoutloud: 90%? But look at all the species we have now. What a relief. That means we can do it again over 200 years time and everything will be fine. Suck it, tree-huggers.

There will never be another speckle throated tree lizard.
 
2011-11-26 07:55:01 PM
Anyway after the discovery of the rapid change after the Younger Dryas I would expect to see more of this and there is.
Abrupt climate change (new window)
 
2011-11-26 07:55:55 PM
AcneVulgaris: cryinoutloud: 90%? But look at all the species we have now. What a relief. That means we can do it again over 200 years time and everything will be fine. Suck it, tree-huggers.

There will never be another speckle throated tree lizard.


But I like them; (
 
2011-11-26 07:56:17 PM
AcneVulgaris: cryinoutloud: 90%? But look at all the species we have now. What a relief. That means we can do it again over 200 years time and everything will be fine. Suck it, tree-huggers.

There will never be another speckle throated tree lizard.


However, my survey of the adult websites suggests we have no shortage of the speckle-chested jizz whizzer.
 
2011-11-26 08:23:40 PM
tinfoil-hat maggie: AcneVulgaris: cryinoutloud: 90%? But look at all the species we have now. What a relief. That means we can do it again over 200 years time and everything will be fine. Suck it, tree-huggers.

There will never be another speckle throated tree lizard.

But I like them; (


Nope, all rats, roaches, and hairless apes from here on out.
 
2011-11-26 08:41:00 PM
AcneVulgaris: tinfoil-hat maggie: AcneVulgaris: cryinoutloud: 90%? But look at all the species we have now. What a relief. That means we can do it again over 200 years time and everything will be fine. Suck it, tree-huggers.

There will never be another speckle throated tree lizard.

But I like them; (

Nope, all rats, roaches, and hairless apes from here on out.


The rats and roaches, will probably be fine no matter what goes down, they already sorta made it through a few extinction events. The hairless apes well some of em I like and others I don't but their all going to go.
Unfortunately the science is showing you can trip a switch in global climate easily but to turn it of can sometimes take thousands of years.
Granted that is why the Younger Dryas is so interesting since the effect didn't last that long.
 
2011-11-26 08:43:26 PM
Wildfires, disappearing oxygen helped kill off 90 percent of all life on Earth brain cells in Texas.
 
2011-11-26 09:12:14 PM
lilbjorn: Wildfires, disappearing oxygen helped kill off 90 percent of all life on Earth brain cells in Texas.

I shouldn't have giggled at that.
 
2011-11-26 11:41:38 PM
I don't think the oxygen really disappears; there's this mirror that makes you think it disappeared that the guy puts in while the pretty assistant distracts you.
I had it in this magic book from the library.
 
2011-11-27 01:45:48 AM
ArkAngel: They killed 90% of life on Earth? They must get up very early in the morning

I don't even have THREE of those.
 
2011-11-27 07:17:05 AM
Y'know, I don't recall having done anything for a while. But I still feel like I deserve a smoke.

/ Hey, cool, the air's on fire
 
2011-11-27 08:54:54 AM
I think you're all missing the point here...

We finally know how to kill off the spawn of Cthulhu!

images.nationalgeographic.com

We can now defend ourselves from obliteration!
 
2011-11-27 04:54:49 PM
Humans don't know dick about how the Earth works and will be collectively dead long before they figure it out.

/Have a beer, biatches.
 
2011-11-27 07:37:03 PM
ArkAngel: They killed 90% of life on Earth? They must get up very early in the morning

They kill more species before 6am than most people kill all day.
 
2011-11-28 10:26:06 AM
Subby you made me lol.
 
2011-11-28 09:19:23 PM
HotIgneous Intruder: Humans don't know dick about how the Earth works and will be collectively dead long before they figure it out.

/Have a beer, biatches.


How do you know humans don't know dick about how the Earth works?
Do you have more personal knowledge about how the earth works than humans? and therefore have a clear perspective on where the level of human knowledge is, in comparison to how much there is to potentially know?

And how do you know humans will be collectively dead long before they figure it out?
Are you a time traveler? a prophet? a god?

If so I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
 
2011-11-28 11:28:19 PM
HotIgneous Intruder: Humans don't know dick about how the Earth works and will be collectively dead long before they figure it out.

/Have a beer, biatches.


So vote Republican.

/ amidoinitrite?
 
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