As we go into yet another day, I am bouyed by the thought that once humanity is finally destroyed by our own hand, the Earth will recover. Within 100 years most modern buildings, houses, and roads will collapse or be completely overgrown by plants and trees, and by 1,000 years steel and concrete structures will have crumbled into dust. Almost all physical evidence of human civilization on the surface will be erased within 10,000 years, leaving behind only buried plastics, altered rock layers, and bronze artifacts. The climate will return to pre-human levels within 100,000 Years - although air and water pollution will clear up rapidly, it'll take greenhouse gases several thousand years to drop to pre-industrial levels, as oceans and forests absorb the excess carbon, and by 80,000 years radioactive waste will finally decay to natural background levels. Rebuilding biodiversity will take a little longer, with Scientists estimating it will take 3 to 10 million years for global biodiversity and lost ecosystems to return to pre-human baselines. And when the Earth is once again clean and pure, I shall return to rule the new Eden. Have a great day, everyone! Not long left now! X
@TheBreadmonkey I look forward to the peaceful rule of Lord Ben
@TheBreadmonkey I wonder what alien archeologists will make of our gold bars that may last much longer than anything else, buried deeply?
Also, will they find all the Tweety Bird toys my dog Sam buried in the '90s? They'll think it's some sort of religious icon.
@kimlockhartga @TheBreadmonkey Tweety Bird IS a religious icon
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Do you have the same amount of knowledge as Senku ? (Doctor Stone) :p
Had fun reading about this!
@TheBreadmonkey I feel that’s more a Monday vibe tbh
Good morning, Ben ! !
@TheBreadmonkey think big, Ben. "...destroyed by _my_ own hand,...". Be the change you want to see in the world.
@TheBreadmonkey Can't stop thinking about the likely fact that in the far future an archeology division focusing on LEGO will exist 🤔
@TheBreadmonkey Methane and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere will drop down real quick. Methane is responsible for 20% to 30% of global warming. 10% for nitrous oxide.
Then comes reduction in CO2 from land use change. And finally taking CO2 from fossil fuels. Which should take more than 100'000 years. Otherwise we would be in danger of running out of carbon on the millions of years time scale.
@TheBreadmonkey Well that got dark quickly
@TheBreadmonkey it is comforting to think that the archeologists of some future species will not find our tanks, planes and nuclear power stations. All that remains will be a visible layer of Lego, beach shoes and polarised sunnies.
@TheBreadmonkey ...at which point a recently defrosted Zuckerberg emerges from his bunker, blinking in the daylight and bumps into a recently defrosted Thiel and they realise they're the last humans on the planet...
@TheBreadmonkey Ben. Do not ask for whom the Beige Party character count tolls.
It tolls for you.
@TheBreadmonkey and then in about 10^10^10^10^2 years we'll all be back here doing the same thing again.
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you are probably asking a rhetorical question and know the answer but I am a math nerd so I just enjoy talking about things like this...
10^2 is 100, and 10^10^2 is a number with 100 zeros... 10^10^10^2 is a number with as many digits as there are tally marks in counting to the 100 digit number. At that point just storing the number in a computer is impossible, there aren't enough particles in the universe. Then you want one more power...
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I could use a 10 million year nap. Wake me up for eden please.
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They did a song about that.
My pinned toot is a video of a late-90s cover of that song, but here is the original (sorry for the YT link):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUMEczhcqYA