Wear a Hard Hat Yanks

[Zinjanthropos]

As well as your Hazmat suit, Life Jacket, Kevlar and flame retardant clothing. California on fire, west coast disappearing, volcanoes erupting, yellowstone could blow in a massive explosion, earthquakes, melting glaciers, global warming, viruses, invasive species, and even normal effects of the last age age...... Isostatic Rebound . You guys are f**ked, mildly speaking. I've probably missed a few, don't think voting machines count. Killer bees....can you keep them over there please? 

Ice age isn't quite over. Unfortunately for Great Lakes' states, Canada's rising and they're sinking. Still another 10000 years to go. Just goes to show that our time here is still basically a snapshot.

[Syne]

I thought Canada was our hat. Maybe not especially hard...

[Zinjanthropos]

I thought Canada was our hat. Maybe not especially hard...

Called a toque . As long as we're not in the blast/fallout area that's all I need. Couple hundred years Canadians will just have to go across the 49th to vacation in the USA Islands, formerly known as a landmass.  . Cut down on air travel.

[C C]

[...] Killer bees....can you keep them over there please? 

That was definitely much ado about nothing. Armadillos, though... Overweight people needing surgery on their knees after blundering/stepping into one of their digging holes.

[confused2]

Bears and a cat type thing which I forget the name of. Dogs - old folks can easily get a twisted ankle with dogs around - oh dear - poor Joe.

[Zinjanthropos]

 poor Joe.

It's really sad to watch. He needs to wear a helmet right now and never remove it. Hope he makes it to January. I'll ask the local Palmist.

I was more interested in Isostatic Rebound for this thread but don't mind being hijacked or going off course. US won't need to worry about a water shortage in the distant future.

[C C]

[...] I was more interested in Isostatic Rebound for this thread but don't mind being hijacked or going off course. US won't need to worry about a water shortage in the distant future.

By the time Costner is boating around amongst those "atoll" communities and colonized oil-tanker hulks, those inhabitants there will just be happy LEFTovers finally achieving their collectivist dream, anyway. The remaining Americans (non-anti) will have long since migrated to Elon's Martian settlements.

[Zinjanthropos]

[...] I was more interested in Isostatic Rebound for this thread but don't mind being hijacked or going off course. US won't need to worry about a water shortage in the distant future.

By the time Costner is boating around amongst those "atoll" communities and colonized oil-tanker hulks, those inhabitants there will just be happy LEFTovers finally achieving their collectivist dream, anyway. The remaining Americans (non-anti) will have long since migrated to Elon's Martian settlements.

Unless you’ve evolved Costner gills.

[Zinjanthropos]

Speaking of isostatic rebound, I have a question. As glaciers melt, the ocean water volume should rise. There should also be added weight on the seabed. I'm thinking this added weight will put downward pressure on the layer beneath sea bed, pushing it down. Now from what i understand, land, for all intents is floating on a sea of liquified rock. I would think by compressing the liquefied rock that it will need to push up because successive layers beneath it are simply much denser. I'm thinking that in order to make room it has to push up the land, maybe a few more volcanos/earthquakes also, but in the end it must move, push upwards and find a balance.

Hence my question: Could that be what isostatic rebounding really is, added seawater weight forcing land masses upward to find a balance? I also would not expect the process to be evenly distributed throughout the world and land mass rise will depend on conditions below.

[Yazata]

As well as your Hazmat suit, Life Jacket, Kevlar and flame retardant clothing. California on fire, west coast disappearing, volcanoes erupting, yellowstone could blow in a massive explosion, earthquakes, melting glaciers, global warming, viruses, invasive species, and even normal effects of the last age age...... Isostatic Rebound . You guys are f**ked, mildly speaking.

It ain't easy, Z-man. I ain't easy...

But somebody's gotta do it.

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Just goes to show that our time here is still basically a snapshot.

The thing I remember most from the geology class that I took years ago was how it taught me to look at all the landforms around me in terms of "deep time". The idea that there are processes at work all around us that are so slow that we can't directly perceive them. Seas rising and falling. Mountains being thrust up and being worn down again. Rivers and seas that used to exist but do so no longer. Silt and mud at the bottom of those long vanished oceans gradually turning into rock. And life being part of it, almost since the beginning (of Earth anyway). Even deeper time out there in the heavens. Stars flaring up and burning out. Galaxies colliding, black holes forming.

I still remember my friends and I lying on our backs at night on a remote beach staring at the stars above. And gradually it was like we weren't staring up so much as out. Like we were staring out into an inconceivable vastness. Where every little dot was a sun... and it wasn't a fantasy, it was exactly what we were seeing.

I still try to perceive things in those big-picture ways sometimes.