Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

10000 years is the reign of mushrooms, if the climate stabilizes, or still completely sterile other than a couple isolated pockets if it doesn't stabilize.

I dont understand. Do people understand what climate change means or is it one of those things you always think you understand, but the more you learn, the more you realize you really didn't know?

The climate changing means the life that's adapted to the climate we left and are moving ever further from doesn't have an ecological niche in 10000 years. That's all life on earth; all of it has been here and is in the way because everything humanity really knows is on earth, alive and dependent on the stable, cool, low carbon climate from before.

No living thing that the average person knows about in the world can adapt to the change at the rate it's going. If youre more than 25, you've experienced enough of a change in the climate, you've noticed something. This is a planet. Planets don't change. They really don't. My bet is the atmosphere on planets that are like storms of metal or whatever have the same atmosphere they did 100 years ago.

Every planet in the galaxy that isnt about to reset its climate, has some kind of stability of the atmosphere over time because how would it change? It's a planet? Change happens over a super long time on a planet. Life grew our atmospheric oxygen, and that's a whole 20% of it. That took millions of years... I actually forget how long, but the point is that the atmosphere has no capacity to change... unless you poke a straw through time, reach into the past, find a potent component of the atmosphere in a stable form "oh, this is where all that life and heat that used to fill the planet is! It's buried by hundreds of millions of years since it was in the air!

So what do we do? We set it free. It's not just the part of the atmosphere that warms the earth when you add it, it is life. Alien to us and from an ancient earth where it probably looked like a green boiling ocean, green everywhere. The oil we're burning used to be the atmosphere. It was part of the 5% or whatever of CO2 earth had in the air at that time when it was also like 20C warmer, so the life probably didn't have skeletons and we have a very limited picture of what it looked like without anything to make fossils... but hey, we got oil instead of fossils - lakes of it.

Can you imagine lakes full of dinosaur bone? It's better because it's the whole corpse, and it's plants, so it's like wood... the stuff that comes from trees taking time to turn CO2 and sunlight into, but tiny algae so woody dandruff... turning the atmosphere into a pile of stored atmosphere... the atmosphere of the planet that was 20c hotter.

Is it at all clear where I'm going with this and does everyone know this? Cause it's crazy to me and literally horrifying that we decided that the deep past was a place we could visit, we found the concentrate of the work of millions of years of a much more productive planet, work that pulls carbon out of the air and millions of years of it because it's a liquid it's not in layers, but there were layers at some early stage, because there were seasons in the upper latitudes and the sedimentation would be different in winter. At some point you could read the years like a tree, counting the "rings".

And that's what you're doing when you burn wood, exactly. You're releasing however old the tree is worth of work to pull carbon out of the air, and all the carbon it worked with along with the sunlight in the form of heat.

Oil isn't just from the past, it is the past. The atmosphere and the balance of life on the ground and death in the air which is the foundation of the climate. So we're taking planetary time out of the ground... cremating it, and releasing the deep past into the air.

And that's how you change the atmosphere and climate. The only way that doesn't involve a huge collision with something in space like the size of the moon. Atmospheric chemicals have to be trapped below the surface and then you have to set it on fire to release it as the form that's in the air.

All of that to say that the reason why oil works so well for us is that it's literally life time we can pull the work out of (usually a pathetic percentage because we were too dumb to imagine there could be consequences to burning actual time, so never care much about fuel efficiency in our designs; see jet liner as giant time burning machine, crop dusting ancient planet all over the place! You know geoengineering, where scientists are looking for something they can't get into the sky that changes the heat character of the climate. Youre probably imagining a plane with something coming out the bottom... it's the plane - the entire concept of moving weight through the air on wings that don't flap because you've got these huge ass fans that throw time into blades spinning faster than your ear can hear, so fully out of the range of sounds we evolved to be able to hear, throwing so much "heat character changing chemicals" into the air, it's pushing a tube full of hundreds of people as far as halfway around the earth.

And it's a totally amazing achievement for a flightless species to suddenly be able to fly everywhere, until you realize that it's not a flying machine, it's a time burning geoengineering machine that uses the stored sunlight evergy of life working as hard as it can for who knows how many years, and adding that change to the air.

And that's everything about the planet that's different now from before. The change in the earth that's actually millions of years worth of change, that's powered the building and running of this civilization for a couple hundred years. That's 10,000 years per year, and it's not exactly right but there is some true number and it's not that far off.

Hmmmm how did we manage to fly? We set time on fire and threw it out the back to push people to an island for a week, then fly right back. Zero net change in a person's life, huge amount of permanent change to the chemistry of the atmosphere. And it's not just planes they're just the stupidest thing, or at least the most egregious, "we have no idea how any of this works, but it burns real good and makes life fun!" engineering, but if there are aliens, they're watching us smiling as we make our planet alien to our species and all other life, needing to set fire to 10k years of production to satisfy 1 year of our activities.

And for that, we'll be one of very few planets in the universe changing this much, this quickly. Any species that got out of the atmosphere or even into it, unless they're intelligent birds, did it without burning anything because if they did, they'd be extinct along with the life on their planet. Any truly interplanetary species that actually exists and could get here, is watching the rarest moment ever where a truly dumb species got bored, dug through the time barrier of the ground, found remains of the past world, and are burning it like it's nothing.

You ever realize the only thing we don't pay for is the exhaust we produce? Everything else has a cost. Everything. When countries put a price on exhaust, because it costs money to take out and they're trying to pay for climate projects, the people lose their mind because, "taxes are too high already" so we continue to live in a world where the only thing that has zero value is the exhaust of burning oil. The fuel costs a huge amount to move, but we pay the absolute minimum price for it. It's companies that pull it out of the ground so why are we paying the least amount possible for the oil and nothing for the exhaust? The only reason is that if we had to pay, so would industry and this whole thing only works if almost all the work is done on the cheap.

And you're like but how are you so exact about the connection, that this system can't work without cheap oil and free exhaust... turn the oil off for a day and watch what's still working by the end of the day that wasn't built specifically to avoid burning oil. See that? Nothing works... because the work is the oil which was the sunlight over time and the living portion of the earth, and that work was done to bottle the carbon from the air with the energy of the sun.

It works because it is work and it's the work of a much faster planet concentrated by the process that eventually leads to diamond in some cases. ..

Still can't quite explain it right... I'll get it right eventually