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[autonoemata] "SNOWBALL EARTH"
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noemata
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Aug 10, 2005 11:48 PDT
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ARTISTS: apparently we aren't the first to change the planet.BACTERIA: living 2.3 billion years ago I could have plunged the planet into deep freeze.CHOIR OF RESEARCHERS AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: in a new report.SEVERAL GRADUATE STUDENTS (loudly): along with supervising professor wehave released a paper presenting our explanation of what caused "Snowball Earth".[enter "Snowball Earth"]"SNOWBALL EARTH": I'm a periodic deep freeze of Earth's atmosphere that hasbeen theorized for years.THE CALTECH TEAM: I argue that 2.3 billion years ago, cyanobacteria, orblue-green algae, gained the ability to break down water, which in turnreleased a flood of oxygen into the atmosphere."SNOWBALL EARTH": You're dead wrong, caltech team!THAT OXYGEN: I reacted with the atmospheric methane, which insulated theEarth at the time, and broke it down."SNOWBALL EARTH": What do you know, that oxygen!?TEMPERATURES: we plunged to minus 50 degrees Celsius, and ice at theequator grew to 1 mile thick."SNOWBALL EARTH": Yes yes, and my father lives in glorious heaven.LIFE-FORMS: We only recovered after microorganisms, clinging then tothermal vents or living underground, evolved the ability to consume oxygenand turn it into carbon dioxide."SNOWBALL EARTH": Life-forms, you don't even know where you lived, and nowthis thing about "oxygen" - that's poison and will be your doom!IT: I was a close call to a planetary destruction"SNOWBALL EARTH": Don't flatter yourself.IF: Earth had been a bit further from the sun, the temperature at the polescould have dropped enough to freeze the carbon dioxide into dry ice,robbing us of this greenhouse escape from Snowball Earth."SNOWBALL EARTH": You're sick, If, get a life-form, maybe even OXYGEN, youfool!__isbn 82-92428-08-9 --Posted by noemata to autonoemata at 8/10/2005 11:47:56 AM
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