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They say do what you know best.

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We’re just trying to make it more hospitable to women. They’re from Venus, after all.

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The government never built a weather machine. But the oil companies built a carbon machine that’s doing a fantastic job changing the weather, and they knew it 50 years ago.

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Earth has been around for 4.5 million years. Humans have only been around for 300,000 years approximately. With only a few hundred years of the industrial age.

Would a few hundred years really cause an extinction event?

That’s interesting to think about… Perhaps it’ll take a few hundreds/thousand years to fix. If it can be fixed… Or we get hit by an asteroid first…

Between cutting down all of the trees and other pollutants, like these so called environmentalists flying around in their own private jets, it’ll be fun for a while.

Either the humans will die off due to global warming/runaway greenhouse effect before interstellar travel is achieved, or the humans will die off due to the suns transformation into a red giant before interstellar travel is achieved.

IDK. Either way, we won’t be here for long. But the earth will be long after us.

Will technology save the human race beyond the two inevitable events? Probably not.

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I assume that the red giant sun engulfing the earth will produce enough drag that earth loses momentum and falls into the sun permanently. We’ll still be gone by then, but noting is forever, even the earth itself.

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Yes , you’re right. The red giant will consume the Earth.

We won’t be alive if there’s a mass Exodus from earth, but is that even possible?

Probably not

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I, for one, would like to give a shout-out to my dog, magnetosphere!

Holla!

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The magnetosphere has been weakening in strength due to the ongoing pole shift over the past 30 years, which will peak in the 2040s when the poles will fully shift. I pray there will be no solar flares in the direction of earth during this event, otherwise most of unshielded electric equipment will get fried, including energy infrastructure.

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No way. Is that really happening? The magnetic poles are flipping the 2040s? How often does that happen? Old compasses won’t be correct? Will it affect anything else (Aurora Borealis?, etc?)

I’m plumb flummoxed.

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Aurora Borealis will be more visible because of the weakened magnetosphere. I don’t know what implications this will have on the world in practice.

You can watch this video for some more information: https://youtu.be/1sDZiCLUW8I

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This guy Earth’s

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Interesting name for a dog, not gonna lie

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Maggy for short, I’m sure of it.

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