And thus began the epoch of the tardigrades
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AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours agoThere is life deep within the earth that will likely survive no matter what happens to the planet. The sun could fade, we could nuke the surface, have an asteroid completely resurface half the planet, and microbes will survive and eventually recolonize the entire world.
Not that we’d want a mass extinction of so many unique and beautiful things, but it is a comforting thought to realize we can’t really do anything that would render earth entirely devoid of life. And even if everything we know was lost, life would rise again to reclaim the rubble.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 16 hours ago
yakko@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
“Life finds a way” is a threat, people just forgot that part. Life itself is unstoppable.
Aganim@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
“Life finds a way” is a threat, people just forgot that part. Life itself is unstoppable.
Don’t worry, our Sun will take care of life when it starts running out of fuel, expanding and boiling away everything on the surface of our planet.
yakko@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
By then we’ll have had every iota of fun imaginable, and some fun that yet remains unimaginable. You’ll have to nihilism harder to bum me out.
Shayeta@feddit.org 14 hours ago
One could also say that the lack of a mass extinction event is preventing appearance and evolution of many more unique and beautiful things.
The end of one era is not “the end”, but merely the start of another era.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I like this world. I don’t want it to end.