plants_pants t1_j7zxv68 wrote on February 10, 2023 at 4:41 PM

Eons. I would be worried about a super volcano or an asteroid (statistically we are overdue).

NCreature t1_j803v0d wrote on February 10, 2023 at 5:19 PM

Yea. There's also a very good chance we (or our nascent AI overlords) blow ourselves to smithereens long before the climate becomes a major issue. It almost happened last year. If Putin had used a nuclear weapon in the Ukraine it's curtains for all of us.

midnight_reborn t1_j7zy3m6 wrote on February 10, 2023 at 4:43 PM

Found the man-made climate change denier.

Papa--Mochi t1_j7zyzly wrote on February 10, 2023 at 4:48 PM

I'm off to buy some bargain waterfront NYC real-estate.

If people really believe that the place is gonna be underwater in 10 years, then I'm pretty sure they must be giving it away.

midnight_reborn t1_j800xa9 wrote on February 10, 2023 at 5:01 PM

It's not that all of the city will be underwater all of the time, but we'll be seeing more massive storms that knock out large areas of lower Manhattan like with Hurricane Sandy. It's going to get worse, and it's not going to get better until humans stop emitting so much damn carbon.

plants_pants t1_j801mev wrote on February 10, 2023 at 5:05 PM

So we are not overdue for a planet changing asteroid smacking into the planet?

midnight_reborn t1_j807qkh wrote on February 10, 2023 at 5:44 PM

I have no idea. I don't know the statistical probability or history of such events happening.

plants_pants t1_j80aws4 wrote on February 10, 2023 at 6:05 PM

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/overview/fastfacts.html

"Only once every few million years, an object large enough to threaten Earth's civilization comes along. Impact craters on Earth, the moon and other planetary bodies are evidence of these occurrences."

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/new-theory-behind-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs/

Last one was 66 millions years ago. We are overdue