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  • Re: xkcd: Time Traveler Causes of Death

    From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Cryptoengineer on Wed Aug 28 11:52:17 2024
    On 8/28/24 09:20, Cryptoengineer wrote:
    On 8/27/2024 9:53 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
    On 25/08/2024 20:56, BCFD 36 wrote:
    On 8/23/24 12:49, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    xkcd: Time Traveler Causes of Death
        https://www.xkcd.com/2976/

    So no time travelers died of the extreme heat at 250 million years
    ago when the average temperature of the Earth was over 90 F ?

    Air conditioning may be needed.  Admittedly,
    if you recognise that air may be needed,
    other fatalities described can be avoided.
    I don't trust your word anyway on the past
    climate or the future.

    No reason to trust him when anyone can look
    up such matters without much trouble if you own
    a computer and speak a language that permits
    questions.


    I *think* he's talking about the Permian
    Extinction event, when temperatures reached 95F.

    It got nearly that bad during the Paleocene-Eocene
    Thermal Maximum, which was only 56 million years ago.

    pt

    I won't be here long enought to experience the
    worst of what is coming in terms of heat and weather.
    Dinosaur Summer might cover it. Deep caves and urban
    redoubts with solar and wind generated electricity for
    deep heat pipe cooling...
    Back in the in the days of my youth about 10-11
    years of age I borrowed the Amazing stories from the
    Trailer Park office and this was in the age of the
    Shaver stories. In one issue I read about a post-atomic
    apocalyptic retreat by humans to deep caves and tunnels
    and a brave explorer goes toward the surface only to
    find gigantic cockroaches have taken over mankind's
    place on the surface. The Shaver stories had no plot
    but paronoia and the subjection of humanity to the
    deros and their beasts.

    bliss

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Your Name on Fri Aug 30 23:14:06 2024
    On 8/30/24 18:11, Your Name wrote:
    On 2024-08-25 19:56:42 +0000, BCFD 36 said:
    On 8/23/24 12:49, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    xkcd: Time Traveler Causes of Death
       https://www.xkcd.com/2976/

    So no time travelers died of the extreme heat at 250 million years
    ago when the average temperature of the Earth was over 90 F ?

    https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been

    Explained at:

    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2976:_Time_Traveler_Causes_of_Death

    Lynn

    What about the earth no longer being where it was when transport was
    initiated? I think that may be fatal.

    What about accidentally squashing an insect in the distant past and
    wiping out the entire evolutionary chain for humans?  ;-)

    Insects and mankind are separate paths.
    Mammals appeared about the same time as the saurians were in
    charge definitely with the dinosaurians. It was not until the
    extinction of the dinosaurians that mammals had the chance to
    rule the planet. They did this by taking over all sorts of niches
    in the ecology of the Earth following the big extinction and
    some became primates which evolved into a fair sized family
    and one branch or maybe more than one but quite closely
    related began to grow larger brains and eventually frontal
    cortexes and we had homo sapiens sapiens. Really only half
    sapient unless specially trained.

    But if you go back to the age of the Saurians avoid
    injury to mouse-sized animals. But i think you can slap that
    mosquito. Better to stay in this time line where all the
    people you care about are rather than risk ending up in
    a very strange timeline.

    bliss

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