Yeah, no worries. Hundreds of thousands of years would be very rapidly impending doom though!
What’s interesting is that we’re at about the halfway point in terms of complex life on Earth. The Cambrian Explosion happened about 538 million years ago and complex life likely has about the same time left. Interesting that humans happened to emerge right around the midpoint of that journey, and makes you wonder what kind of life will be around in the waning years.
Wikipedia has a summary:
“The luminosity of the Sun will steadily increase, causing a rise in the solar radiation reaching Earth and resulting in a higher rate of weathering of silicate minerals. This will affect the carbonate–silicate cycle, which will cause a decrease in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In about 600 million years from now, the level of carbon dioxide will fall below the level needed to sustain C3 carbon fixation photosynthesis used by trees. Some plants use the C4 carbon fixation method to persist at carbon dioxide concentrations as low as ten parts per million. However, the long-term trend is for plant life to die off altogether. The extinction of plants will be the demise of almost all animal life since plants are the base of much of the animal food chain on Earth.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
It links to additional academic sources in the footnotes.
The sun will get brighter in 500 to 600 million years to the extent that many plants won’t be able to survive due to disruption to the carbon cycle. Expansion comes later.
It’s a few hundred million years, not a few hundred thousand, before the photosynthetic cycle is disrupted by silicate weathering from increased brightness.
We had a neighborhood cat who would show up at the back door meowing for treats and scritches. I am strongly allergic and would run inside after petting her to wash my hands thoroughly and take two Benadryl.
I would still break out in hives all over my arms every single time. But I couldn’t just not pet her! This meme is perfect.
Rest in peace, Bella. You were a very good kitty.
A common trope in anime that take place in high school is that the student council is the most powerful organization, not answerable to the headmaster or anyone else. Student council members (and high-ranking ones in particular) are basically viewed as royalty. So this meme is joking that anime student councils are not just the most powerful organizations in their schools but on the entire planet.
Coco
Those vehicle warranty ads are so insidious. The ones I get use packaging that’s typically reserved for official government mailers and sometimes include the name of a govt agency that has nothing to do with them.
Whenever I throw one out I imagine how many elderly people must be mistaking them for govt business and getting fleeced out of their money.
The US doesn’t refer to the subway/metro as an underground. That’s UK.
Man he was totally cool when I met him. Probably when you’re famous you have days when you can handle people coming up to you and days you can’t.
I’m the guy who bought one ridiculously expensive component that’s now bottlenecked by the rest of the build until I can replace everything else haha
My wife was more interested in the Louisa May Alcott house when she visited Mass for the first time!