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What did Earth look like X million years ago?
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Re: What did Earth look like X million years ago?
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also wasn't seeing anything, until I used "⌘ A" to select all text, and noticed that the list of animals or plants for the city I selected was displayed at the top left, in white text over a white background. Selecting all made it slightly more visible, enough for me to read the text. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/VQjfvQZ.png
Thanks for the screenshot. There might some weird three.js/webgl thing going on, because that background is supposed to be black with stars. Any errors in the console? Just put out a potential fix.
No errors, but two regular log messages and two warnings:
webParams: {startingYear: 260, surfacePoints: Array(0), camera: {…}}
(warning) THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture has been deprecated. Use THREE.TextureLoader() instead.
> Jb.loadTexture @ three.min.js:990
> createSphere…
lastAddressFailed true
(warning) THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture has been deprecated. Use THREE.TextureLoader() instead.
> Jb.loadTexture @ three.min.js:990
> createClouds…
Re: What did Earth look like X million years ago?
#113Hi HN, I built this. It's been posted several times before, so I can answer some common questions: How does this work? I adapted GPlates [1], an academic project that creates desktop software for geologists to investigate plate tectonic data. Is the geocoding accurate? Even though plate tectonic models return precise results, you should consider the plots approximate within ~100km. In my tests I found that model resu…
This doesn't appear to work for me. When I enter a city name it just places a red sphere on the globe. Nothing about dinosaurs.
they don't appears when I'm using my cell photne but they do when I'm on my computer. also you have to selct a date when thre was dinosaurs
Re: What did Earth look like X million years ago?
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually a dinosaur but rather a pterosaur. However I did a quick spot check and realize that modern day birds didn't evolved from pterosaurs but rather from dinosaurs surprised . So I stand corrected.
> Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually a dinosaur but rather a pterosaur. I believe you mean: "but rather a pterosaur or bird".
Actually no there were no birds in existence while there were dinosaurs only millions of years after their extinction per current evidence.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually a dinosaur but rather a pterosaur. I believe you mean: "but rather a pterosaur or bird".
And just to emphasize: This is nitpicky, but it is correct. In the phylogenic sense, birds are dinosaurs. It's not that there used to be dinosaurs, some of which evolved into birds and there are no dinosaurs left anymore, but rather there are about 18000 extant dinosaur species in the world today, it's just that they have feathers and most of them fly.
To be further nitpicky - I believe the current theory is that most dinosaurs did have feathers.
I believe that birds are descendents from theropods and yes phylogenic-wise dinosaurs. However that seems a bit semantic.
Re: What did Earth look like X million years ago?
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually a dinosaur but rather a pterosaur. I believe you mean: "but rather a pterosaur or bird".
Actually no there were no birds in existence while there were dinosaurs only millions of years after their extinction per current evidence.
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Re: What did Earth look like X million years ago?
#117Hi HN, I built this. It's been posted several times before, so I can answer some common questions: How does this work? I adapted GPlates [1], an academic project that creates desktop software for geologists to investigate plate tectonic data. Is the geocoding accurate? Even though plate tectonic models return precise results, you should consider the plots approximate within ~100km. In my tests I found that model resu…
Thanks for building this! Is there any way to predict/visualize what it'll look like X years into the future? That'd be pretty cool to look at.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a planet of the apes traveler trope, but in his “book of the new Sun” trilogy Gene Wolfe leaves it as an exercise for the reader to figure out that it’s set in a far-far future South America.
what are the clues for south america. The river?
The hints are pretty sparse because Severian doesn’t know where he is any more than the reader does, but Wolfe confirmed it in an interview here: https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/wolfe46interview.htm
But yeah the river is a big hint. The Paraná in Argentina is a good candidate, and it’s easy to rule out other big delta rivers like the Nile or Mississippi. Iirc Severian also uses the word “pampas” for plains, and at some point we learn there’s a jungle zone to the north, with an arid region beyond.
Re: What did Earth look like X million years ago?
#119One of the neat bits from this is going to 340 Mya and look at where the Appalachian mountain range runs. You can hike part of the Appalachian trail in Spain https://www.geologiadesegovia.info/the-international-appalac... and Ireland https://iatulsterireland.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Appalachian_Trai...
The coal fields in the present-day United States, Britain, Spain, France, and Silesia were all once part of the contiguous Appalachian range.
In one of those interesting coincidences, the coal miners of the British Isles immigrated to the Appalachia area in the US to mine coal.
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#120Are there sci-fi stories with the premise that a character wakes up transported to a different planet except it’s later revealed that it’s actually Earth in a distant time?
Not quite what you are looking for, but the Malazan series has some stories spanning extremely large time scales through which multiple intelligent species evolve into existence and fade away. It is by far, the best series I've read. Book 1 is hard to get into, and doesn't reward the reader as much, but stick with the series. It's worth it.
Stephen Erikson is an anthropologist and archaeologist which explains a lot of the deep historical depth to MBotF. Apparently he went on a dig in Mongolia between books nine and ten and almost died from a stomach bug and then a spider bite!
> And there was even a fear of dying before I could finish it! I remember being struck by a quote I read somewhere, when Robert Jordan was in his last few years, at a signing where he signed a book for an elderly woman who expressed a fear of her dying before he finished the series. And of course the bitter irony being Jordan himself dying before he could finish the series. And the closer I got to it, there was a disastrous decision to do some archaeology in Mongolia between books nine and ten, and then that almost killing me, from a stomach bug, and then a spider bite, it just started getting ridiculous. And then I realised if I keeled over in Mongolia between book nine and ten, wherever my gravestone was in the world people would annually piss on it, so I thought okay, I got to get this thing finished. And came back, I was living in Falmouth at the time, so I came back to Cornwall and just wrote my ass off and got it done.