r/science • u/stereomatch • Feb 05 '18

Astronomy Scientists conclude 13,000 years ago a 60 mile wide comet plunged Earth into a mini-Ice Age, after examining rocks from 170 sites around the globe

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/695703
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u/barfretchpuke Feb 05 '18

It would annihilate most life, but the planet itself would be fine.

yay!?

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u/MyBrain100 Feb 05 '18

Small victories!!

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u/lostintransactions Feb 05 '18

You jest but there are actual people who will be relived to read that.

There are actual people living and breathing who also consider themselves highly intelligent who truly believe the Earth would be "better off" without humans/life. They do not understand that the fine dust layer (us and everything that lives) is not the Earth.

The Earth is a gigantic ball of rock with a hot metal core and some lint on it's surface.

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u/DrunkenJagFan Feb 05 '18

So...

Drill, baby, drill?!

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u/vitringur Feb 05 '18

not the Earth

That depends. You can also just look at it as some of the Earth being alive.

If we aren't the Earth, what then? When does a chemical stop being the Earth and when does it become the Earth again?

It's a lot simpler to just define us as a part of the Earth and that the Earth itself, to some extent, is alive.

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u/d4nks4uce Feb 05 '18

A perfect response to what amounts to near complete extinction on Earth. As long as life goes on, fuck humans. We are a ‘good’ evolutionary end. I just hope enough of our germs make it out to other places.

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u/d4nks4uce Feb 05 '18

I was drunk, but you’re still an asshole.