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How Will Animals Look 250 Million Years From Now?
angkor writes "'How will Earth look 5 million, 100 million, even 200 million years from now?' Fantasic and fun speculation from Animal Planet. It's the work of Dougal Adams, who started this idea years ago in the out-of-print After Man: A Zoology of the Future."
fuckers don't look so funny when they dig that poisonous spur into you
don't pick them up
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Evolution of species from one type to another never happened. All that could be expected is changes within each species limits. The sun is something that goes against the idea evolution in the past, and applies in this case also. The not going to last forever, nor has it been around for the billions of years that evolution theorys suggest. The sun currently burns away at a rate of approx 37 meters in diameter per day, around 14 km in diameter per year. The suns diameter is 1,400,000 km. Assuming that the suns rate of decay is going to decrease with its size due to lack of surface area, let us take a generous 1/4 of the current rate of decay, and calculate how much of the sun would be missing in just 100,000 years: 1/4 if 14km is 3.5 km per year. 3.5km per year * 100,000 years = 350,000 km 1,400,000 km - 350,000 = 1,050,000 km diam Sure, One would have to work out the rate of change of decay and apply it, however it aught to be obvious that the sun is not going to last 250 million years. It also aught to be obvious that the sun would have been WAY to huge 10 million years ago ( letalone billions ) to support life on earth ( or even let earth exist, its gravity would have been enourmous ).
I did not read the parent post, but I'll make some shit up. I don't like what they said, and I'll refute it with some crap I've made up, and make it sound scientifically(tm) good. Then I'll spout about how the general pubic is so much dummer then I am, and how intellectually I am.
(Goes back and reads...) Damn, pretty close, but substitute "schools" for "public". Oh, and throw in some "anti-wankers" for good show. Oh, and the toilet is my favorite place to read.
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