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[Rusty Sandusky]

I can't even fathom how. It'd just be this crunchy, calcium-y, gum-shredding bullshit.

You could say my sarcasm is getting a but rusty.

[Steelcan]

 

Wow... could I use that line in my book?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Steelcan]

Ehh.. fair enough. I suppose we could make a sausage or rissole out of it, then throw it on a barbie.

 

sausage is big in Australia?

[rekn2]

Disagreeing with the "used to be" part. It still is, and will continue to in the future.

 

Sounds like we've only got about a third of a billion years left for complex life, though, unless some radical new form of plant life evolves (like how angiosperms took over in the Cretaceous). As the sun ages, it'll get more energetic and accelerate the process of rock weathering, sapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and starving plants. Plants using C3 photosynthesis will go first (needs more CO2), much rarer C4 plants (like bamboo and corn) will hang on a while longer, but as plants decline animals will follow. Eventually, life on Earth's surface will be back down to bacteria; that'll last about two billion years or so before the oceans start boiling away.

 

(I did research on the topic for a book I've been working on)

my "used to be" comment was on the amount of life there used to be as apposed to now and thats actually scientific fact. this planet is a desert relative to what it once was. relative to what it once was is the key phrase here.

 

back on topic, the reapers already won by the time you get back to earth. it wouldnt sustain life as we know it...look at all the fires when you arrive

[Zazzerka]

sausage is big in Australia?

 

That's a joke, right?

 

They're the entire reason we invented tomato sauce.

[Rusty Sandusky]

sausage is big in Australia?

Farken oath mate they're called snags

[Steelcan]

my "used to be" comment was on the amount of life there used to be as apposed to now and thats actually scientific fact. this planet is a desert relative to what it once was. relative to what it once was is the key phrase here.

 

back on topic, the reapers already won by the time you get back to earth. it wouldnt sustain life as we know it...look at all the fires when you arrive

 

This planet used to be a frozen ice ball before the Cambrian, before that it was molten rock, in the Mesozoic sea levels were ~200m higher and Antarctica was tropical, before that most of Earth's landmass was a vast desert that chocked the oxygen out of the atmosphere, Earth is constantly changing

 

And rule of cool trumped by the ending slides showing that earth recovers

[Steelcan]

That's a joke, right?

 

They're the entire reason we invented tomato sauce.

uhhhh what?

[Zazzerka]

When you say "sausage," you might be thinking of those fat German things with cheese and stuff in them. Not that kind of sausage. We have thin, dubious-meat sausages, that you wrap in a slice of bread and cover with tomato sauce. Maybe some fried onion if you're feeling fancy.

 

That's like, our thing.. I'm kinda sad that people don't know.

[Steelcan]

When you say "sausage," you might be thinking of those fat German things with cheese and stuff in them. Not that kind of sausage. We have thin, dubious-meat sausages, that you wrap in a slice of bread and cover with tomato sauce. Maybe some fried onion if you're feeling fancy.

 

That's like, our thing.. I'm kinda sad that people don't know.

That sounds pretty delicious in my overconsumption of ramen state

[Zazzerka]

AND THE REAPERS WANT TO DESTROY THEM

[Steelcan]

AND THE REAPERS WANT TO DESTROY THEM

And Wreav has clearly heard of them

 

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ZfExUGVK3YM

[Zazzerka]

And Wreav has clearly heard of them

 

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ZfExUGVK3YM

 

Yeah, they probably wouldn't taste all that different to varren-meat skewers.

[DeinonSlayer]

my "used to be" comment was on the amount of life there used to be as apposed to now and thats actually scientific fact. this planet is a desert relative to what it once was. relative to what it once was is the key phrase here.

 

back on topic, the reapers already won by the time you get back to earth. it wouldnt sustain life as we know it...look at all the fires when you arrive

lolnope

 

The K-Pg extinction event wiped out every warm-blooded animal larger than a house cat. It took millions of years for life to recover, but even that is a sneeze compared to what happened at the end of the Permian period. Life has been knocked down, picked up the pieces and risen to new heights, and been knocked down again. If it survived a region the size of Australia turning into a plain of lava, it'll survive us.

[Steelcan]

lolnope

 

The K-Pg extinction event wiped out every warm-blooded animal larger than a house cat. It took millions of years for life to recover, but even that is a sneeze compared to what happened at the end of the Permian period. Life has been knocked down, picked up the pieces and risen to new heights, and been knocked down again. If it survived a region the size of Australia turning into a plain of lava, it'll survive us.

Is it wrong that I still think of it as the K/T boundary?

 

Why can't they just keep it the same

[DeinonSlayer]

Is it wrong that I still think of it as the K/T boundary?

 

Why can't they just keep it the same

Same. First time I've actually called it that. Tastes wrong.

 

And I don't give a damn what some guy in Prague says: Pluto is still a planet.

[Steelcan]

Same. First time I've actually called it that. Tastes wrong.

 

And I don't give a damn what some guy in Prague says: Pluto is still a planet.

My dad was an astronomy buff and never let me forget that Pluto shouldn't be a planet so I can deal with that.

 

What else has changed?  WHERE DID THE MISSISSIPPIAN AND PENNSYLVANIAN GO?

[DeinonSlayer]

My dad was an astronomy buff and never let me forget that Pluto shouldn't be a planet so I can deal with that.

 

What else has changed?  WHERE DID THE MISSISSIPPIAN AND PENNSYLVANIAN GO?

I've only ever known it as the Carboniferous, so I can deal with that.

 

Um... what else has changed...

 

Plesiosaurs gave live birth. Theropods had feathers.

[Steelcan]

And the Tertiary Period also vanished

 

[Steelcan]

I can't take artistic depictions of tyrannosaurs with feathers seriously, it just feels wrong...

[DeinonSlayer]

I can't take artistic depictions of tyrannosaurs with feathers seriously, it just feels wrong...

 

This hurts you.

[Steelcan]

 

This hurts you.

Sauropods were also related to theropods, they were both saurischians, at least they were likely spared the indignity due to not needed feathers

[Han Shot First]

Australia will be alright.

 

I'm picturing a bogan cracking open a Victoria Bitter while his mangy mutt pisses on the corpse of the Reaper that keeled over and died on his lawn after being bitten by a spider.

[DeinonSlayer]

Sauropods were also related to theropods, they were both saurischians, at least they were likely spared the indignity due to not needed feathers

Bigger body, less surface area vs volume, better heat retention, right? So they'd be more prominent on the smaller ones.

 

Have they found any evidence suggesting Ornithischians had them, too?

[Steelcan]

Bigger body, less surface area vs volume, better heat retention, right? So they'd be more prominent on the smaller ones.

 

Have they found any evidence suggesting Ornithischians had them, too?

 

They may have had as molting feathers as some bird species have that they then shed, but its just theoretical

 

Not that I am aware of, feathers seem to have been restricted to saurichians, and only to theropods for direct evidence of them, its possible the other branches had them, but there's no evidence to back it up