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.

  • @[email protected]
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    6515 days ago

    Is this where they release the life ending microbe into the atmosphere wiping out the planet.

    • @Darkard
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      7915 days ago

      Don’t be getting people’s hopes up

      • sunzu2
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        1415 days ago

        I wonder if the elite bunkers and “ai” would save them from this

        • @slaacaa
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          615 days ago

          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

        • @motor_spirit
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          515 days ago

          Altman’s eye voids will save us all

        • @NotMyOldRedditName
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          15 days ago

          The AI would eventually hallucinate that the zombies are one of the residents and let them into the bunker.

      • @seven_phone
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        815 days ago

        How bad is the world we have created for ourselves that a zombie apocalypse sounds like quite a nice change.

    • @scarabic
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      1315 days ago

      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.

    • @slaacaa
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      115 days ago

      It’s about time