“The Permian Extinction ain’t nothin’ but a little bitch....”

You know in certain older iterations of gizmodo, your predecessors would find ways way to survive the ongoing sixth extinction. I feel their analysis is correct, and somehow we (the human species) will make it, because that’s what we do.

The tides would still be massive.

It’s a good thing there’s magic in this movie because there’s no way the tides would otherwise be that low on a plan with those gigantic moons.

While it reeked of cheese, some of what they got right they fucking nailed. And as sci fi originals go... Dune is one of the better ones.

OMG! The only reason the moon is our frenemy is because of gossip sites like this!! Maybe if gizmodo wasn’t so concerned with just selling every little spat between the 🌏 and the 🌙 for ad revenue then maybe they could just be friends!!

Source: Your ass.

As Brianorca said, the asteroids are compositionally different from the Earth and Moon - and generally much closer to the rubble from which the planets formed. They are a left-over from the early part of the Solar System where as Jupiter grew and grew, its gravity created a series of resonances that cleared most of…

Don’t blame the Picts, it wasn’t their fault.

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Gallagher has not aged well.

God. People are so shortsighted. You cut them down, mulch them, and till them back into the soil, enriching it for existing and newly planted trees. We need to GROW more trees. Cutting down dead ones doesn’t accomplish anything unless they’re replaced with living ones. Dead trees, burned or not, are no longer carbon…

When you destroy wilderness, what comes back is often invasive species. I remove those pests for a living, so I have a bit of experience.

One reason: Part of a wilderness is its climate. When you destroy enough of it, you also change the microclimate that facilitates the plants and animals of that particular wilderness. Certain trees won’t just grow back in the same spot if that same spot is now open and warmer. With smaller parts? Sure. The wilderness…

I bet the shiny buttons work the best!

Sure. Once the humans go extinct, things will sort themselves out in a century or so.

All these people gotta live somewhere. We wouldn’t want less people on the planet or anything...

This is a terrible idea, let the free market decide how much wilderness we need, said some stupid asshole.

We have no record of how long years were in the 19th Century.