Scientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic
Summary
An international team successfully drilled a 1.2-million-year-old ice core from Antarctica, reaching bedrock nearly 2 miles deep at Little Dome C.
The ice core will help scientists analyze Earth's atmospheric and climate evolution, shedding light on changes in Ice Age cycles and greenhouse gas levels.
Preliminary findings indicate carbon dioxide levels today are 50% higher than at any point in the last 800,000 years.
Funded by the EU, the Beyond EPICA project highlights advancements in understanding past climates and human impacts on global warming.
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Is this where they release the life ending microbe into the atmosphere wiping out the planet.
Don't be getting people's hopes up
I asked AI and it said yes
Yes, Zuck would probably live an extra 10 years in his supersized concrete coffin, until a critical system fails or one of his staff member finally goes crazy and eats him
The AI would eventually hallucinate that the zombies are one of the residents and let them into the bunker.
How bad is the world we have created for ourselves that a zombie apocalypse sounds like quite a nice change.
I stopped worrying about this one. Pathogens tend to track closely to their host, and are ill adapted to environments even slightly unlike their chosen host. You can’t share most sicknesses with your pets because your body temps are a few degrees apart, for example. So the chances of anything from millions of years before us being well suited enough to represent a threat to us seem minuscule ESPECIALLY compared to the world we wake up to each morning: where nine billion organisms just like us are out there breeding new potential threats.
It’s about time
Ar[c]tisinal micro-plastic free ice cubes for the super rich's cocktail parties
Hopefully they find the ancient stargate down there too.
The thing?
Is this how we release the zombie virus?
Does it even matter anymore?
At some point it will be an improvement
Neat idea but it’s not how viruses work
And now it's going to melt, and we have turned million year-old ice into a puddle.
That would have happened to it in a few years anyway
They delved too greedily and too deep.