6th mass extinction event

[CloudStuff]

I'll start worrying about it once I've sorted all the things within my control.

[vetrof]

baconsarney said:

Imminent?

Shut up Greta.

[Mr Whippy]

Whales used to walk around on land. But they weren’t whales back then.

Megatherium was kicking around just the blink of an eye ago, a huge slothy beaver bear type thing that’d dwarf an Elephant.

The ancestors of birds today were dinosaurs.


The large extinction events change things, but they take time and evolution/survival of fittest can play its part.


Humans will likely survive.

Not a big issue is it?

My great great gran probably didn’t have electric growing up, no fridge, no car.
My gran didn’t have telly.
My Dad didn’t have colour telly or internet.


So who cares?

The only certainty is things change.

[105.4]

Scarletpimpofnel said:

This is overdue. I'd always assumed we'd experience a massive increase in solar radiation with much genetic damage/mutation/evolution happening at that time but it seems (or so I read) that the poles simply rotate around the world so the magnetic field is still there giving protection.

So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?

I’ve been meaning to start a thread about that for quite some time.

The only issue is that unless it’s in NP&E, the thread will likely get little traction, if it did it would be spoilt by the usual aholes, and I know so little about the subject matter that I wouldn’t be able to meaningfully contribute.

From what little I do understand, the North Pole is taking a rapidly brisk jog eastwards, whilst the South Pole remains reasonably stable. Eventually they’ll come a point where things go very badly wrong, very quickly, (as in just a couple of weeks or less).

Again, based upon what little I understand, it would be a rapid “mass extinction event”.

The Suspicious Observers YouTube channel has quite a lot of decent information about this, including links to many peer reviewed scientific studies.

Frightening stuff tbh.

[pidsy]

It’s certainly an interesting topic.

Fascinated by the Yellowstone super volcano and the tectonic plates in that area.

[Yahonza]

Well it's still very hot in the middle....

[FourWheelDrift]

pidsy said:

Fascinated by the Yellowstone super volcano and the tectonic plates in that area.

The Yellowstone Caldera has only had three truly enormous eruptions in history. One 2.1 million years ago, one 1.3 million years ago, and one 664,000 years ago so if the times were equally staggered we aren't due one for another 500,000 years. But it's actually suggested that it is dead and won't erupt again, ever.

https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/questio...

[105.4]

JRHartless said:

Why are people asking what this 6th mass extinction event is going to be?

It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.

What’s that then?

[thegreenhell]

105.4 said:

JRHartless said:

Why are people asking what this 6th mass extinction event is going to be?

It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.

What’s that then?

It's all the UFOs planning their invasion, obs.

[FourWheelDrift]

thegreenhell said:

105.4 said:

JRHartless said:

Why are people asking what this 6th mass extinction event is going to be?

It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.

What’s that then?

It's all the UFOs planning their invasion, obs.

All that anal probing.

[Caddyshack]

105.4 said:

Scarletpimpofnel said:

This is overdue. I'd always assumed we'd experience a massive increase in solar radiation with much genetic damage/mutation/evolution happening at that time but it seems (or so I read) that the poles simply rotate around the world so the magnetic field is still there giving protection.

So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?

I’ve been meaning to start a thread about that for quite some time.

The only issue is that unless it’s in NP&E, the thread will likely get little traction, if it did it would be spoilt by the usual aholes, and I know so little about the subject matter that I wouldn’t be able to meaningfully contribute.

From what little I do understand, the North Pole is taking a rapidly brisk jog eastwards, whilst the South Pole remains reasonably stable. Eventually they’ll come a point where things go very badly wrong, very quickly, (as in just a couple of weeks or less).

Again, based upon what little I understand, it would be a rapid “mass extinction event”.

The Suspicious Observers YouTube channel has quite a lot of decent information about this, including links to many peer reviewed scientific studies.

Frightening stuff tbh.

Why is it really frightening? Most humans will only ever know up to great grandparents and great grandchildren….we won’t even know the great, great, great….if humans are wiped out in 200 years do we need to be frightened or just stop reproducing? If it happens to us then we will just be dead….end of?

[Caddyshack]

CloudStuff said:

I'll start worrying about it once I've sorted all the things within my control.

Exactly this!

And give me the wisdom to know the difference.

[Terminator X]

JRHartless said:

Why are people asking what this 6th mass extinction event is going to be?

It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.

How long have modern humans been around, 200k years (?) but right now is the time of our demise

TX.

[ATG]

Terminator X said:

JRHartless said:

Why are people asking what this 6th mass extinction event is going to be?

It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.

How long have modern humans been around, 200k years (?) but right now is the time of our demise

TX.

If you measure the rate at which species are currently going extinct we are clearly in a mass extinction event right now. This isn't a political statement or environmental woo. It's just counting.

[Smollet]

Scarletpimpofnel said:

105.4 said:

Magnetic pole flip?

So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?

Yes. Those currently living oop north will now be living oop south

[FourWheelDrift]

Smollet said:

Scarletpimpofnel said:

105.4 said:

Magnetic pole flip?

So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?

Yes. Those currently living oop north will now be living oop south

I fear for the pale ginger haired Scots, they won't take the southern sun well.

[Smollet]

FourWheelDrift said:

Smollet said:

Scarletpimpofnel said:

105.4 said:

Magnetic pole flip?

So will the pole flip actually cause any issue for life on earth (or electronics in space) etc?

Yes. Those currently living oop north will now be living oop south

I fear for the pale ginger haired Scots, they won't take the southern sun well.

It’ll probably make them very angry.

[croyde]

Great! that means I can stop being thrifty as I no longer have to worry about retirement.

[Terminator X]

ATG said:

Terminator X said:

JRHartless said:

Why are people asking what this 6th mass extinction event is going to be?

It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.

How long have modern humans been around, 200k years (?) but right now is the time of our demise

TX.

If you measure the rate at which species are currently going extinct we are clearly in a mass extinction event right now. This isn't a political statement or environmental woo. It's just counting.

Only 1% of the species that have ever lived are around today, that isn't something new today or even the last few hundred years.

TX.

[ATG]

Terminator X said:

ATG said:

Terminator X said:

JRHartless said:

Why are people asking what this 6th mass extinction event is going to be?

It's already happening and we already know what's causing it.

How long have modern humans been around, 200k years (?) but right now is the time of our demise

TX.

If you measure the rate at which species are currently going extinct we are clearly in a mass extinction event right now. This isn't a political statement or environmental woo. It's just counting.

Only 1% of the species that have ever lived are around today, that isn't something new today or even the last few hundred years.

TX.

So what? An extinction event is a period when species are going extinct at a significantly higher rate than new species are emerging. The ratio of extant species to the number of species that have ever existed in the last 3bn years is not relevant.