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Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts (www.bbc.com)

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Missing winter sea-ice signals changes in Antarctica that could be "absolute disaster for the world", scientists say.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (5 children)

it never ceases to amaze me how stupid we all are as a civilization.

we're opting out of it, but nature will continue. this will be a very curious and fairly hospitable world full of interesting xenoarcheological mysteries... in the distant future, to a visiting spacefaring civilization.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You have to wonder if we aren't just confirming what the Great Filter is. There may not be any space faring civilizations.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Seriously, that’s what I’ve been thinking recently - that we’re hitting the self-destruction theory of the Great Filter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's not a bug, it's a feature. It takes too much energy to simulate multiple space faring civilizations at once in our universe. First come, first served and I guess there's something out there....

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