Context: 252 million years ago the worst mass extinction ever recorded happened. Roughly 90 percent of all life died. The cause is theorized to be the eruption of the Siberian Traps, a volcano that erupted for a million years or so, which put so much CO2 in the air, that the already hot Permian became lethally, unreasonably, stupidly, fuckass hot, along with all the fun side effects such a jump in temperature brings
callmedale on
Coal seams the size of countries got hit by volcanoes and just burned
Substantial-Toe826 on
More than 70% of land is a frying pan
Oxygen is barely existing in the atmosphere
Unstable violent tectonic activity all the time
Food is a gamble game
What could be worse?
Earth for some reason : “time for the ususal reboot”
Igyzone on
God was not pleased with these reptilians so he reset the world, then came even bigger reptilians, so he reset the world again, now there’s bunch of mindless bipedal land rats massacring eachother and god is now pleased.
Cara_Rose1 on
Imagine surviving the ‘Great Dying’ just so your descendants could eventually invent 24-hour news cycles and taxes.
penguinscience101 on
And then it rained for ~2million years
MultiverseWalker2000 on
You know what’s even worse? The eruption of the Siberian Traps is NOT the worst eruption in history. That belongs to the CAMP eruptions that, I kid you not, started to tear Pangea apart AND is partially responsible for why Dinosaurs became so big.
And our ancestors survived all of that and even God chucking a rock at our planet…just to end up having to pay taxes.
Iron166 on
Ain’t the same thing might happen today?
Glacecakes on
Hey, fun fact, we are warming the planet 20 times faster than the climate change that caused the great dying!
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Context: 252 million years ago the worst mass extinction ever recorded happened. Roughly 90 percent of all life died. The cause is theorized to be the eruption of the Siberian Traps, a volcano that erupted for a million years or so, which put so much CO2 in the air, that the already hot Permian became lethally, unreasonably, stupidly, fuckass hot, along with all the fun side effects such a jump in temperature brings
Coal seams the size of countries got hit by volcanoes and just burned
More than 70% of land is a frying pan
Oxygen is barely existing in the atmosphere
Unstable violent tectonic activity all the time
Food is a gamble game
What could be worse?
Earth for some reason : “time for the ususal reboot”
God was not pleased with these reptilians so he reset the world, then came even bigger reptilians, so he reset the world again, now there’s bunch of mindless bipedal land rats massacring eachother and god is now pleased.
Imagine surviving the ‘Great Dying’ just so your descendants could eventually invent 24-hour news cycles and taxes.
And then it rained for ~2million years
You know what’s even worse? The eruption of the Siberian Traps is NOT the worst eruption in history. That belongs to the CAMP eruptions that, I kid you not, started to tear Pangea apart AND is partially responsible for why Dinosaurs became so big.
And our ancestors survived all of that and even God chucking a rock at our planet…just to end up having to pay taxes.
Ain’t the same thing might happen today?
Hey, fun fact, we are warming the planet 20 times faster than the climate change that caused the great dying!
Is that a lystrosaurus?