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@stargazer so what do you for a job...oh I fly drones...for NASA...on Mars.
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@taniwharugby Unique work stories!
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@stargazer said in Science!:
Well - that led me to ask "Helicopter? What? Does Mars have an atmosphere?" - and rather than taking the normal approach and just ask here - I actually bothered to type it into a different tab, and get an immediate answer, which led to...
- So yes, Mars has an atmosphere - albeit much thinner than Earth's
- But - it used to have a much thicker atmosphere, much more like Earth's (which meant water, blah blah, the dry riverbeds, blah blah, building blocks of life, blah whatever)
- So... if Mars lost most of its atmosphere, ending up a dry husk of a planet... could Earth do the same...?
- Yeah... that's already happening - but likely to take about a billion years, so... probably not Greta's priority just yet
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Had no idea they disappeared for this long... crazy.
https://this.kiji.is/767046768387915776?c=432846504552744033
Periodical cicadas burrow into the ground after hatching, some digging as far as 8 feet (2.4 meters) below ground. While underground, the nymphs suck the sap from tree roots for nourishment and after 17 years, they emerge and climb trees and shrubs, where they shed their crunchy skins and harden into maturity. The males make a cacophony of sounds in the tree tops as they look to mate.
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@machpants said in Science!:
@bones The cool thing is how the different species stay under for prime number years, so they don’t come out at the same time and compete for food.
That fucks with my head... maybe there really is a Sky-Fairy who intelligently designed all this shit.
Until he got to mankind - he was pissed and/or hungover that day.