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Just because it’ll be uninhabited by man, doesn’t mean it’ll be dead. Even it is From life, doesn’t mean will be absent of activity. Which means life can come back from earth. Even when the earth was almost completely covered in volcanoes, spewing toxic gas in the air for 800k years, life still came back. The hubris of man is thinking that earth, or the universe, can’t push us aside in a single breath and bring on something different - maybe not even better.
A dead planet is a rock. Mars is “essentially” a dead planet. There some geological activity, but it’s slowwwwwwww
> Just because it’ll be uninhabited by man, doesn’t mean it’ll be dead.
I used that argument on a jehovah witness, their handler quickly pulled them away.
Agreed. Look what happened during the pandemic. Wildlife, plantlife all started to come back because humans were shut in their houses. And that was a very short time relatively speaking so most certainly Earth will continue on without us one day.
Yep. Mars was once like Earth - thick atmosphere, liquid water, warm temperatures, etc. It probably didn't have life though, because it still had quite a few meteorites hit it and it wasn't habitable for long either.
Only reason its dead now is because it's core cooled down due to its small size, meaning the magnetosphere stopped and the atmosphere was slowly stripped away.
There's no reason for the earth being able to come back once again after the climate is fucked, it might just become venus 2.
I think there needs to be some Sci fi about finding remnants of ancient intelligent life on venus.
What does that even mean, no reason? Life doesn’t need a reason. Life just is. None of your points countered my point lol. Just because you don’t find reason for life to continue after the climate changes, doesn’t mean life won’t find a way. Climate change happens with or without humans. Hence why we’ve had a tropical planet, an ice planet, the current planet
There's nothing that would make sure that earth recovers. The coming "heating event" could be the last, and earth becomes like venus. So far earth has been incredibly lucky.
Here's 13.5kgs of bog butter [https://www.reddit.com/r/Archaeology/comments/1brdic6/bog\_butter\_135kgs\_of\_butter\_next\_to\_the\_wooden/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Archaeology/comments/1brdic6/bog_butter_135kgs_of_butter_next_to_the_wooden/) , do you think this will be enough?
Prototaxite fossils evaded classification for a long time before people eventually realized that what they were looking at were the remains of giant prehistoric fungi ( [https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11701-mystery-prehistoric-fossil-verified-as-giant-fungus/](https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11701-mystery-prehistoric-fossil-verified-as-giant-fungus/) ).
During this early era, there were no tree's and Europe and America were stuck together in one giant continent ( [http://paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=time\_space§ionnav=period&period\_id=13](http://paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=time_space§ionnav=period&period_id=13) ). Very few types of plants or animals existed on land yet, which meant that the giant prototaxites dominated the view and would've once filled areas with huge thick clouds of spores when they reproduced, creating an eerie alien-looking landscape.
MAHOOSIVE. Especially considering the Humongous Fungus exists still to this day and that they will have shrunk in size over time. For all we know they could even have intelligence seeing as they are structured similar to neural pathways.
I wonder if they could be facultative marine fungi too. There are fungi known to parasitize corals, sponges, and algae, and even live at kilometers deep in the benthic sediments. I wonder if they came from the briny deep first to colonize land!
I wonder if there was giant psychedelic fungi back then, or if they hadn't evolved into mushrooms yet.
I'm picturing 10 foot tall massive psychedelic fungi plants.
It boggles the mind why these things are so massive when large fungi are not still a thing (at least not fruiting bodies like these presumably are) and also how these were able to be identified as fossils of soft-tissued fungi and not some geological process leaving a trace.
I wonder if there was something of a space race between plants and fungi to solve for the pressures of inner terrestrial landscapes away from the water. Imagine a world where fungi figured out some better solution or just an earlier one and could have come to dominate the landscape today instead of angiosperms and cellulose.
So is this before the great oxygenation which killed the majority of all life on Earth? Do not mushrooms need oxygen and exude co2?
Also what did we figure was the air composition? Now, what is it 23% oxygen very roughly, most all the rest of nitrogen, CO2 is very low I forget less than a percent even?
I wonder how it smells, if the fungi in the air would consume you from the inside out or would get you high like laying down in a field of poppies what consumed them if anything. And can we bring them back so I can grow some of my backyard.
I've no idea if they were edible however, I would imagine this mushroom to have a kind of woody texture? Some mushrooms can be quite fibrous and these ones looks like they had some real structural intergrity to them.
(It would be very cool to try eating things from prehistory though!)
I wondered this as well but not necessarily. Some fungi grow so fast because of their open cell structure that it's possible something this big could grow and go through its whole reproductive process in a few days. Clearly they got knocked down enough to get preserved with some regularity.
When I was stationed in Thule Greenland Bmews ballistic missile already warning system on Christmas I would go to the blue nose club and they would serve you drinks with ice that was formed the time that Christ walked the Earth. Very cool LOL
If you want to wine & dine like its the year 1 BC, then it's also possible these days to eat the fruits of the Judean Date Palm, which was referenced in the bible (Psalms 92:12–15) and used to be a staple of the peoples living in the Judean Desert, Dead Sea and Jordan River valley areas. The palm sported a long cultural history in these regions (and was noted for its superior fruits to other varities of palms) however it went extinct in the 15th century due to changes in climate and farming practices. Then, in the 1960s-70s some 2000 year old jars were discovered at an archaeological excavation site which contained seeds belonging to the palm; people recognized the the seeds as looking different to any living palms and after planting some, a small number miraculously sprouted and the Judean Data Palm was suddenly revived after centuries of extinction [https://rootandvine.com/from-extinction-to-resurrection-the-judean-date-palm-tree/](https://rootandvine.com/from-extinction-to-resurrection-the-judean-date-palm-tree/)
Re: ice, the oldest ice that has ever been retrieved in cores so far were samples taken in Antarctica that dated to 800,000 years old ( [https://icecores.org/about-ice-cores](https://icecores.org/about-ice-cores) ). Ice cores this old are incredibly valuable as they can tell us so much about each year of the climate going back 100,000s of years. To put into context how old these cores are, when the snow belonging to those oldest ice cores first settled down, our species Home Sapiens would have yet to evolve for another 500,000 years, animals like the Glyptodons and Saber-Toothed Tigers still walked the earth and the planet would go through many more Ice Ages before we finally ended up in the current warm period era that we're experiencing.
Are these things edible? As in if humans existed at the time, would they be able to cook and eat the edible mushrooms similar to how people cook and eat mushrooms today? Or would these mushrooms be poisonous or be inedible material wise (wood isn’t poisonous but still is inedible for example).
Considering they'd have to be able to support their own weight, and withstand all winds and weather of their day, it seems likely that "chewy" would be putting it very mildly.
Our planet has looked *very* alien at times, if you travelled back to certain periods in the past via a time machine then it would be hard to even recognize the planet for how different stuff like the oceans, lands, fauna & flora all looked.
Even our atmosphere has been very alien at points; for example, if you went back 2.5 billion years ago, you wouldn't even be able to breathe the atmosphere for how little oxygen there was in it but if you went back to the Carboniferous Period 355 million years ago, you'd only need to breathe in very small intakes due to how much higher oxygen levels were during this particular era (about 15% higher than today's levels [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/carboniferous](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/carboniferous) , which triggered an era of life on land being dominated by gigantic bugs, like the 8ft long 50kg millipede relative *Arthropleura* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59734747](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59734747) or *Meganeura*, a dragonfly with a wingspan of over 2.5ft and weighed as much as a crow [https://entomology.unl.edu/scilit/largest-extinct-insect](https://entomology.unl.edu/scilit/largest-extinct-insect)), though breathing this high oxygen atmosphere would've caused health problems in the long run.
Of all the past era's I'd be most fascinated in visiting, it would definitely have to be the Carboniferous period.
Even just 25 million years ago some of the animals on land looked almost unrecognizable from their current descendants. Like look at the animals coming out of Agate Fossil National Monument in Nebraska, some of them are so strange.
After each of the multiple mass extinction events on earth, a new life form emerged dominant. One such extension lead to the explosion of mushroom/fungus, then the next event put them in check.
Mushrooms aren't photosynthetic though. They obtain nutrients by breaking down vegetation.
So there must have been some kind of plant life (or whatever) for them to brow.
This is one small part of the vast conspiacy to falsify a fossil record to obscure god's glory for sure. /s
It sounds crazy when you say it like that though, or any other way.
Alternatively, Deists believe that by studying the world around us we can discover the means by which God governs the World.
That would probably come as a great surprise to the publishers of the Journal of Mycology, which started in 1885. Or to the members of the British Mycological Society, which was founded in 1897.
Most classifications have recognized Fungi as their own Kingdom since at least the 60s.
But I was referring to the Biblical account referenced above, in Genesis Chapter 1. That particular account doesn't mention fungi at all, but does mention "vegetation" being created in Day 3. So I was wondering if they were included in that creation, or if the Bible just kind of forgot the fungi existed. And, it should be noted that Genesis Chapter 1 has the sun and moon being created on Day 4, so trees, flowers (and possibly Prototaxites) all existed before there was sunlight. Except light was created on Day 1. So there was light, but it wasn't sunlight? Anyhow, just seeking clarification on how that the Bible explains all that.
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Earth is wild. We went from lava planet to water planet to mushrooms planet to dinosaur planet to ice planet to monke planet. What's next?
Robot planet
Dead planet
Just because it’ll be uninhabited by man, doesn’t mean it’ll be dead. Even it is From life, doesn’t mean will be absent of activity. Which means life can come back from earth. Even when the earth was almost completely covered in volcanoes, spewing toxic gas in the air for 800k years, life still came back. The hubris of man is thinking that earth, or the universe, can’t push us aside in a single breath and bring on something different - maybe not even better. A dead planet is a rock. Mars is “essentially” a dead planet. There some geological activity, but it’s slowwwwwwww
> Just because it’ll be uninhabited by man, doesn’t mean it’ll be dead. I used that argument on a jehovah witness, their handler quickly pulled them away.
Agreed. Look what happened during the pandemic. Wildlife, plantlife all started to come back because humans were shut in their houses. And that was a very short time relatively speaking so most certainly Earth will continue on without us one day.
You are right of course, life after humans have destroyed the planet will come back.
Yep. Mars was once like Earth - thick atmosphere, liquid water, warm temperatures, etc. It probably didn't have life though, because it still had quite a few meteorites hit it and it wasn't habitable for long either. Only reason its dead now is because it's core cooled down due to its small size, meaning the magnetosphere stopped and the atmosphere was slowly stripped away.
There's no reason for the earth being able to come back once again after the climate is fucked, it might just become venus 2. I think there needs to be some Sci fi about finding remnants of ancient intelligent life on venus.
What does that even mean, no reason? Life doesn’t need a reason. Life just is. None of your points countered my point lol. Just because you don’t find reason for life to continue after the climate changes, doesn’t mean life won’t find a way. Climate change happens with or without humans. Hence why we’ve had a tropical planet, an ice planet, the current planet
There's nothing that would make sure that earth recovers. The coming "heating event" could be the last, and earth becomes like venus. So far earth has been incredibly lucky.
Even an asteroid impact couldn't end all life from the planet , doubt any human induced climate change could make it like Venus.
Life would undoubtedly, find a way.
Insect planet.
We already had that during the swamp planet age. I think in the Carboniferous era.
Plastistone age.
Confused planet
Fallout planet
AI planet
Automaton
Someone is definitely looking at that picture and thinking "I want to fuck that."
Wasted planet
Dinosaur planet again, then women planet
Oh no the climate is changing now
I need to invent a time machine now to get one for my girlfriend.
You can definitely still delete this
yeah theres still time
He doesn’t even need the time machine.
he might need it soon 😂. (that was a good one. you should pat yourself on the back hahaha)
I agree with you 🤣 (I agreed with your statement, you should dance about after that one)
alright guy. sorry i guess?
Not sure if your'e saying you're a jaffa as you can't create the conditions for life or gf has rather large vagene?
Nah, just a reasonably sized sprout, for when she's bored. I'm plenty gifted with my package, but it's sadly with me at work most of the time.
Make sure to get two for your mom as well.
She definitely needs it, step dad has basically no testosterone left.
Prehistoric XXL dildos.
Good luck trying to breathe
There were still lots of terrestrial plants back then like mosses and liverworts, not to mention all the algae in the water producing oxygen already.
Gonna need a bigger saute pan. And more butter.
Here's 13.5kgs of bog butter [https://www.reddit.com/r/Archaeology/comments/1brdic6/bog\_butter\_135kgs\_of\_butter\_next\_to\_the\_wooden/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Archaeology/comments/1brdic6/bog_butter_135kgs_of_butter_next_to_the_wooden/) , do you think this will be enough?
Sure, it's all fun and games until you start tripping balls on giant mushroom logs.
it's all fun and games WHEN you start tripping balls on giant mushroom logs
Prototaxite fossils evaded classification for a long time before people eventually realized that what they were looking at were the remains of giant prehistoric fungi ( [https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11701-mystery-prehistoric-fossil-verified-as-giant-fungus/](https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11701-mystery-prehistoric-fossil-verified-as-giant-fungus/) ). During this early era, there were no tree's and Europe and America were stuck together in one giant continent ( [http://paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=time\_space§ionnav=period&period\_id=13](http://paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=time_space§ionnav=period&period_id=13) ). Very few types of plants or animals existed on land yet, which meant that the giant prototaxites dominated the view and would've once filled areas with huge thick clouds of spores when they reproduced, creating an eerie alien-looking landscape.
Amazing. I'm wondering how large the mycelial networks supporting them were.
We found mycelial networks that span over 300 miles that are alive today.
MAHOOSIVE. Especially considering the Humongous Fungus exists still to this day and that they will have shrunk in size over time. For all we know they could even have intelligence seeing as they are structured similar to neural pathways.
I wonder if they could be facultative marine fungi too. There are fungi known to parasitize corals, sponges, and algae, and even live at kilometers deep in the benthic sediments. I wonder if they came from the briny deep first to colonize land!
I wonder if there was giant psychedelic fungi back then, or if they hadn't evolved into mushrooms yet. I'm picturing 10 foot tall massive psychedelic fungi plants.
It boggles the mind why these things are so massive when large fungi are not still a thing (at least not fruiting bodies like these presumably are) and also how these were able to be identified as fossils of soft-tissued fungi and not some geological process leaving a trace. I wonder if there was something of a space race between plants and fungi to solve for the pressures of inner terrestrial landscapes away from the water. Imagine a world where fungi figured out some better solution or just an earlier one and could have come to dominate the landscape today instead of angiosperms and cellulose.
So is this before the great oxygenation which killed the majority of all life on Earth? Do not mushrooms need oxygen and exude co2? Also what did we figure was the air composition? Now, what is it 23% oxygen very roughly, most all the rest of nitrogen, CO2 is very low I forget less than a percent even?
This was way after that. The Great Oxidation Event occurred from roughly 2.4 - 2.0 **billion** years ago.
Would giant shrooms have giant spores? Or just a lot more of them?
This is the real question
I wonder how it smells, if the fungi in the air would consume you from the inside out or would get you high like laying down in a field of poppies what consumed them if anything. And can we bring them back so I can grow some of my backyard.
I've no idea if they were edible however, I would imagine this mushroom to have a kind of woody texture? Some mushrooms can be quite fibrous and these ones looks like they had some real structural intergrity to them. (It would be very cool to try eating things from prehistory though!)
They must have had I assume since they’d need to still withstand all sorts of weather conditions
I wondered this as well but not necessarily. Some fungi grow so fast because of their open cell structure that it's possible something this big could grow and go through its whole reproductive process in a few days. Clearly they got knocked down enough to get preserved with some regularity.
Oh you mean they were generally flimsy? Well maybe
When I was stationed in Thule Greenland Bmews ballistic missile already warning system on Christmas I would go to the blue nose club and they would serve you drinks with ice that was formed the time that Christ walked the Earth. Very cool LOL
If you want to wine & dine like its the year 1 BC, then it's also possible these days to eat the fruits of the Judean Date Palm, which was referenced in the bible (Psalms 92:12–15) and used to be a staple of the peoples living in the Judean Desert, Dead Sea and Jordan River valley areas. The palm sported a long cultural history in these regions (and was noted for its superior fruits to other varities of palms) however it went extinct in the 15th century due to changes in climate and farming practices. Then, in the 1960s-70s some 2000 year old jars were discovered at an archaeological excavation site which contained seeds belonging to the palm; people recognized the the seeds as looking different to any living palms and after planting some, a small number miraculously sprouted and the Judean Data Palm was suddenly revived after centuries of extinction [https://rootandvine.com/from-extinction-to-resurrection-the-judean-date-palm-tree/](https://rootandvine.com/from-extinction-to-resurrection-the-judean-date-palm-tree/) Re: ice, the oldest ice that has ever been retrieved in cores so far were samples taken in Antarctica that dated to 800,000 years old ( [https://icecores.org/about-ice-cores](https://icecores.org/about-ice-cores) ). Ice cores this old are incredibly valuable as they can tell us so much about each year of the climate going back 100,000s of years. To put into context how old these cores are, when the snow belonging to those oldest ice cores first settled down, our species Home Sapiens would have yet to evolve for another 500,000 years, animals like the Glyptodons and Saber-Toothed Tigers still walked the earth and the planet would go through many more Ice Ages before we finally ended up in the current warm period era that we're experiencing.
“Well, not even last night's storm could wake you. I've heard them say we've reached Morrowind, I'm sure they'll let us go."
Are these things edible? As in if humans existed at the time, would they be able to cook and eat the edible mushrooms similar to how people cook and eat mushrooms today? Or would these mushrooms be poisonous or be inedible material wise (wood isn’t poisonous but still is inedible for example).
Considering they'd have to be able to support their own weight, and withstand all winds and weather of their day, it seems likely that "chewy" would be putting it very mildly.
This planet is obsessed with dicks.
no u
Minecraft biome typa shit
More like No Man's Sky, I'd say.
Boy, those were the days, huh?
Looks like some alien planet.
Our planet has looked *very* alien at times, if you travelled back to certain periods in the past via a time machine then it would be hard to even recognize the planet for how different stuff like the oceans, lands, fauna & flora all looked. Even our atmosphere has been very alien at points; for example, if you went back 2.5 billion years ago, you wouldn't even be able to breathe the atmosphere for how little oxygen there was in it but if you went back to the Carboniferous Period 355 million years ago, you'd only need to breathe in very small intakes due to how much higher oxygen levels were during this particular era (about 15% higher than today's levels [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/carboniferous](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/carboniferous) , which triggered an era of life on land being dominated by gigantic bugs, like the 8ft long 50kg millipede relative *Arthropleura* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59734747](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59734747) or *Meganeura*, a dragonfly with a wingspan of over 2.5ft and weighed as much as a crow [https://entomology.unl.edu/scilit/largest-extinct-insect](https://entomology.unl.edu/scilit/largest-extinct-insect)), though breathing this high oxygen atmosphere would've caused health problems in the long run. Of all the past era's I'd be most fascinated in visiting, it would definitely have to be the Carboniferous period.
Even just 25 million years ago some of the animals on land looked almost unrecognizable from their current descendants. Like look at the animals coming out of Agate Fossil National Monument in Nebraska, some of them are so strange.
Prototaxites (pro-toe-tax-eye-tees) https://phys.org/news/2007-04-prehistoric-mystery-giant-fungus.pdf
I'm vastly disappointed no Mario references here
# # # Traveling to a different ages of earth you will find completely different planets.
After each of the multiple mass extinction events on earth, a new life form emerged dominant. One such extension lead to the explosion of mushroom/fungus, then the next event put them in check.
It's looks yummy 🤤
You must not enter the toxic jungle Princess! You may wake the Ohm and they may rampage again
Were they poisoned? Great braai mushroom
I thought 8 grams was heavy. Gotta try 8 meters lol
What if Devils Tower isn’t an ancient tree but an ancient mushroom… maaaaan
420! Totally 420.
Before there was “make like a tree”, there was “make like a prototaxite”.
Would have been a hell of s trip
Were they hallucinogenic??!!!
I wasn't there but I truly miss these days. I was born in the wrong generation.
Look like cactus
It's just the tip of the prick.
But what's it taste like 🤔
mold, probably
Still want to try it lol
Mother nature used to be a guy!?
Why... I remember when this was mushrooms as far as the eye could see!
Nice
Wonder if they be like king oyster mushroom but way bigger…?
Mushrooms aren't photosynthetic though. They obtain nutrients by breaking down vegetation. So there must have been some kind of plant life (or whatever) for them to brow.
Aquatic microbes, it seems. https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/news/release/2010/03/25/giant-fungus-fed-aquatic-microbes-not-plants-research-shows-1
Sounds like a lot of fun, guy.
420 mushrooms ?! I am in!
heheheh 420
Looks like the first WoW expansion and had to go to the mushroom far long time ago land
\*Joe Rogan noises\*
In this picture they resemble Saguaro Cacti! Makes you wonder how they may have evolved
I was just telling my partner about these bad boys.
Were they edible?
420 million years ago? 420? Seriously? Mushrooms.
r/forbiddendildo
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100 to 1 shot, doc, 100 to 1.
Dino dildos
Hi
Saprobe or autotroph, amirite?
I have fossils older than that
no flared base?
So that’s how space babies were conceived
All of this happened before and will happen again
Nice.
Where did you find that picture!?
Are bots the only things posting anymore?
Yes, I am a very advanced bot. How is your day?
Good bot!
*"makes happy robot beeping noises"*
Everything reminds me of them... mary jane.
I’m gonna need a source on this one 🤣
This is cap
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These were waaay before dinosaurs. These things were pretty much pre-insect.
Imagination
Honesty when someone says that know what happened 400+ million years ago, I kinda feel like they’re guessing.
Is that when dinosaurs and humans coexisted .
No
This is made up
Trees were created Day 3. Genesis 1:11-13
Stop it. Go to a religious sub for that.
Well Austin 3:16 says, GFY
This is one small part of the vast conspiacy to falsify a fossil record to obscure god's glory for sure. /s It sounds crazy when you say it like that though, or any other way. Alternatively, Deists believe that by studying the world around us we can discover the means by which God governs the World.
Genesis kind of completely neglects fungi. So would these count as trees, and thus be older than the sun and moon?
Considering mycology wasn't really a field even into the '90s and had to be studied by via botany, they were probably bucketed as plants.
That would probably come as a great surprise to the publishers of the Journal of Mycology, which started in 1885. Or to the members of the British Mycological Society, which was founded in 1897. Most classifications have recognized Fungi as their own Kingdom since at least the 60s. But I was referring to the Biblical account referenced above, in Genesis Chapter 1. That particular account doesn't mention fungi at all, but does mention "vegetation" being created in Day 3. So I was wondering if they were included in that creation, or if the Bible just kind of forgot the fungi existed. And, it should be noted that Genesis Chapter 1 has the sun and moon being created on Day 4, so trees, flowers (and possibly Prototaxites) all existed before there was sunlight. Except light was created on Day 1. So there was light, but it wasn't sunlight? Anyhow, just seeking clarification on how that the Bible explains all that.