New Moon origin simulation looks like it might be right

snipped-for-privacy@decadence.org wrote in news:thpqpp$1i5s$ snipped-for-privacy@gioia.aioe.org:

This group has turned into a bunch of old foggies.

I used to get good stories from folks who were around when WW I happened.

I'd bet that none of you have any interesting stories to tell. All healots!

The next supercontinent has been named Amasia.

corvid snipped-for-privacy@ckb.ird wrote in news:thtr1c$v1t$ snipped-for-privacy@gioia.aioe.org:

Except the Pacific Ocean will not shrink.

We need to make reservoirs all around the Earth and put polar ice in them. The least amount of water we have is fresh water and much of that is in the ground and not easily available. We need to make great lake sized reservoirs. Sealed not open to the air. An array of tanks all kept individual from each other. I figure 75 to 100 foot diameter. And quite a few square miles.

If the planet warms up and melts the ice, the coverage will kill nearly all of us but the Ice age that follows that will never recede.

In 200 to 300 millions year it might. The convection currents inside the earth might be predictable enough that we could forecast this.

The polar ice caps are a feature of the current arrangement of the continents. We've only had polar caps and ice ages for the past couple of million years. For most of previous few hundred millions years we had neither.

And nowhere where you can have big enough earthquakes to tear them apart. Over a couple of hundred million years you are likely to have earth quakes pretty much anywhere

Probably not. The sun is getting slowly bigger. It's surface doesn't get any warmer, but - because there's more of it radiating - more heat hits the earth, which is why the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are lower today than they were a hundred million years ago.

When the surface of the planet gets too warm, plants grow like crazy and soak up more carbon dioxide, which ends up getting buried and turned into coal and oil, turning the heating down a bit.

Our current burst of digging up fossil carbon and burning it as fuel is turning up the thermostat in a hurry,

The last time we had a natural excursion like this

Just wait. Coming from Pangaea, we're halfway there now.

And dinosaurs are coming back.