Ancient Earth Globe
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Ancient Earth Globe
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#2This is awesome. I like how it goes from 20 million years ago to present in one jump, which is sort of interesting on the timeline. We had a warm period without ice ages 3-5 million years ago, then had the onset of ice ages 2 million years ago(and that cycle might have been terminated by current fossil fuel use). Just a blip in time from this perspective.
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#3I would love to see the projection of what the landmasses would look millions of years into the future.
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#4Most interesting is tracking Indian sub-continent's journey from Africa to Asia, leaving behind a trail of island clusters at each age.
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#5This is awesome. I like how it goes from 20 million years ago to present in one jump, which is sort of interesting on the timeline. We had a warm period without ice ages 3-5 million years ago, then had the onset of ice ages 2 million years ago(and that cycle might have been terminated by current fossil fuel use). Just a blip in time from this perspective.
Just so we’re clear—the most recent ice age was already ending before the industrial revolution.
Unless you believe like a couple did in the 70s that there was a coming ice age which we completely stopped and reversed. I would love to hear the steelmanning for that.
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#6A couple of links from the last time around:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459997
This one has comments/answers by the author that explain his reasoning behind the design (linked to by the thread above - and so we don't need to ask the same questions all over again ;) ):
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#8I want one of those cheesy gemstone gloves but with one these old shapes. Maybe 280 million years ago.
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#9It's showing Tasmania separated from the Australian mainland 20,000,000 years ago, even though supposedly it separated only 12,000 years ago?
Also, the constant spinning is super infuriating and mildly sickening.
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#10This is awesome. I like how it goes from 20 million years ago to present in one jump, which is sort of interesting on the timeline. We had a warm period without ice ages 3-5 million years ago, then had the onset of ice ages 2 million years ago(and that cycle might have been terminated by current fossil fuel use). Just a blip in time from this perspective.
Just so we’re clear—the most recent ice age was already ending before the industrial revolution. Unless you believe like a couple did in the 70s that there was a coming ice age which we completely stopped and reversed. I would love to hear the steelmanning for that.
Not a true ice age, but the so called "little ice age" [1] ends about 100 years after the start of the industrial revolution. So you could argue we helped in its demise, even if it wasn't a "true" global ice age and more of a regional abnormaly that lasted a couple centuries.