When India Was Flooded by a Mile Thick of Lava; The Deccan Traps

[@eljanrimsa5843]

1:02 The nation of Indonesia as a unit of area raises about 17,508 more questions than it clarifies

[@kennyjones559]

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles).

[@dforrest4503]

Yeah, as an island nation, not exactly easy for people to visualize, much less a certain percentage of that.

[@juliefore]

I too thought there had to be a better size comparison available than Indonesia. Unless an island is displayed right next to a large landmass on a map, like the British islands, I have no visual frame of scale.

[@Zantigableiaust]

​@@dforrest4503 Indonesia from The very easy to the west is like from Ireland to Kazakhstan.. If Indonesia's extent were mapped onto Europe, stretching from Ireland eastward, it would cover a significant part of Europe and part of Asia. Indonesia's width is approximately 5,150 kilometers (3,200 miles). Let's place this on a map: 1. Starting Point: Ireland: - Ireland is located in the west of Europe. 2. Countries Indonesia would pass through heading east: - United Kingdom: Ireland's neighbor to the east. - France: Southeast across the English Channel from the UK. - Belgium: Directly east of France. - Germany: East of Belgium. - Poland: East of Germany. - Belarus: East of Poland. - Russia: Eastern border of Belarus. - Kazakhstan: Southeast of Russia, crossing into Asia. 3. End Point: Kazakhstan: - Kazakhstan is in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea. Thus, Indonesia's width starting from Ireland would pass through the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Belarus, and Russia, finally reaching Kazakhstan in Central Asia. Just look it up on truesize.com

[@Zantigableiaust]

And if the parable were set in East Asia it would be from Tokyo Japan to Bishkek Kyrgyzstan..

[@AlexandruNicolin]

I've heard the hypothesis that the outgassing from those eruptions had been putting a lot of pressure on the biosphere, before the Cixulub impact delivered the killing blow.

[@sjeason]

This is very likely. Throughout most of earths history, almost all mass extinction events have coincided with massive flood basalt eruptions and not with massive impact events. While Cixiulub was an enormous asteroid, similar sized impacts have happened before which did not cause a mass extinction event, and it isn’t likely a coincidence that Deccan traps were forming before, during, and after the impact. If they hadn’t been, it’s likely that it’s impact would not have marked the end of the dinosaurs, rather it was the final blow to the planets climate after long periods of stress had already weakened it.

[@zGJungle]

That idea went through my mind as I was watching this.

[@davepowder4020]

@@sjeason I'd read elsewhere on the hypothesis that the Chicxulub impact pushed a large pressure wave through Earth's mantle, launching some of the Deccan eruptions. So yea, if you didn't have some kind of shielding against both orbital impacts and temperature swings, such as with swimming and burrowing creatures, you were having the worst time of your life.

[@greenman6141]

@@sjeason People are saying that more openly now, but when the Alvarez's were promoting their impact extinction theory, they aggressively targeted and attacked ANY academic or scientist that mentioned this openly. They ruined careers and lives with their behaviour. I watched a public lecture from a senior geologist at Berkeley, where Alvarez is. He wanted to mention the Deccan Traps and the extinction event, but he made sure to spend 10 minutes CRAWLING in front of Alvarez and saying that anything he said Alvarez had really discovered or thought of first. It was disgusting and weird. Even this video doesn't come and say....look it's obvious the two are connected. It just sort of puts some information out, but doesn't voice the clear connection. Never believe that academics or scientists aren't JUST as scummy, egotistical, and cruel as any Bank and Media CEO (today is the day that Rupert Murdoch is pretending to resign as CEO of NewsCorp)

[@GladDestronger]

So apparently the asteroid was the straw that finally broke T-rex's back. So to speak.

[@SJR_Media_Group]

I live near Yakima in Central Washington State. Our Columbia Flood Basalt completely changed the topography. It originated near the Washington / Oregon / Idaho Borders. In some places it's over a mile thick. We also have the world's 2 longest Andesite flows. They stretch 50 and 70 miles from the Ancient Goat Rocks Volcano.

[@MFgr8]

I visited Mt. Rainier last year for a few hours and thanks to Nick Zenter's geology videos, I understand everything you said.

[@gumnaamaadmi007]

The hills created by the Deccan traps have created a gorgeous landscape in Maharashtra.

[@craigcarter947]

Perhaps you could make a video on why the Indian continent moved so rapidly(in geologic time) across the Indian ocean? Was that movement also a factor in the flood basalt's of these Deccan traps?

[@eriklerougeuh5772]

its not the movement who create the volcanism, its rather the hotspot who create a thin crust by melting it...and by consequence allow tectonic and volcanism there... by analogy the hotspot is like a hotspring in winter, hot water coming from under, heating the ice, then finally ice crack and start to move. usually hot spot are stable geographically in mantle, the pressure keep things at their place..., but the crust slowly float above mantle, pushed by mantle convection gravity stuff etc.. that mean a hotspot can overheat a long trrail of the mantle. and when it happen think it was on middle of indianc ocean, himalaya didnt exist at this stage.

[@rschiwal]

Southeast Washington has two large buttes poking out of the ground. They used to be two-mile tall mountains, but they were buried under 1.5 kilometers of lava. The amount of lava ejected pushed the crust down over a mile. Only the peaks jut up. the more prominent is named Steptoe Butte and is the archetype for this type of formation - 400,000,000 year old rock rising above 7,000,000 year old Basalt.

[@tonydagostino6158]

Since the Deccan Traps are in India it's perhaps more meaningful to characterize the area of the flood basalt as approximately 45% of that country's surface, instead of 85% of an island chain thousands of miles away

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

Thanks. The Deccan traps were so large and devastating! The scale of flood basalts (and large igneous provinces in general) are mind boggling.

[@PodJeeMC]

So the meteor thing that killed those dinosaurs are bullocks?

[@unyieldingfighter]

​@@PodJeeMC While the asteoid was one cause because of the insane energy release (2 teratons blast) Deccan traps also greatly contributed to the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction more due to this toxic undending amount of gas released into the atmosphere over time, so while one was instant doom the other was slow The end-Permian mass extinction was even worse and it was also triggered by an igneous province the "siberian traps" so yeah, volcanism is kinda nuts

[@WildAlchemicalSpirit]

I heard there's areas on the West Coast that are covered in miles of lava as well. I would love it if you could cover some of the bigger West Coast lava events that you know of in future videos. Especially in California but I'm interested in other areas, too.

[@fallinginthed33p]

Columbia Flood Basalts? Those were huge but nowhere near the size of the Deccan. There's an interesting follow-on story with those basalts being eroded away by the massive Missoula and Bonneville megafloods during the Ice Age.

[@utkarshraut7536]

Yes ,you can also find pillow lavha in Mumbai at Borivali National park

[@maryfreeman3341]

Thank you for giving us the information on these. I had heard of them but I only knew the name. Also the diagrams and photos are really good.

[@SaoGage]

Look up and read about the Siberian Traps and CAMP (Central Atlantic Magmatic Province). Absolutely mind boggling!

[@scarpfish]

Flood basalts. Mother earth's reset button of choice.

[@jblob5764]

I love the patterns in the basalts of the columbia river gorge. I drive through frequently and have loved it since i was a kid

[@saharshmishra9982]

Pretty impressive explanation 👍👍

[@ThatOpalGuy]

How It's Made: Earth week.

[@gaius_enceladus]

Great video! The irony of all this is that despite this massive volcanic activity in its past, India today only has one active volcano (IIRC) - Barren Island, in the Indian Ocean.

[@Leyrann]

Not the only flood basalts that are incredibly far away from any active volcanoes. The Siberian Traps are probably thousands of kilometers away from any, there's also remnants in Ireland and Scotland, iirc southwestern Africa, etc.

[@cykkm]

I've been fascinated by the scale of the traps events for a long time! Questions, if you don't mind: 1) From the selected table 1:13, the traps seem to cluster in time, with intervals between 8 and 71 Ma, within a relatively short (~1/10 the Earth age) interval; for intervals, mean=38Ma, goodness of uniform fit p=0.21(A.-D.), 0.22 (Pearson). It wouldn't be a good fit, 1/5 prob of a fluke, but considering that there were 0 events between ‒3.8Ba, a conservative estimated age for a fully cooked, hosting life Earth, and ‒448Ma, it's trying to tell something... Is there an explanation to it? Are the possible older ones just undiscoverable due to the Earth resurfacing, or did the mechanism really started at some point? Are there hypotheses if not theories? Is there any correlation with continental rifts and collisions? 2) Looks like we're kinda due for the next one in the next 10-20Ma? Or did the mechanism, if known at all, stopped? 3) (of pure curiosity) Is the correct word “traps”, as if _pluralia tantum,_ or is “trap” correct, when referring to a single event? I've heard “Deccan traps,” but I don't think I ever heard ?“Deccan trap.” I'd extremely highly appreciate a follow-up vid, should you fancy making one, maybe with paper references “down below.”¹ I'm a physicist, but hopefully could make at least some sense of them. It's worth noting that the word “traps” is a borrowing from Swedish _trappa,_ “stairs,” referring to the formation's shape, although, had such an event started today, it would pretty much make sense in English, too... ___________ ¹ The funny piece of YT jargon variably referring to video description or comments, which makes my linguistic self chuckle every time I hear it. :)

[@joshuabowers9721]

That lava flow footage was impressive!

[@prabhakarv4193]

Very nice illustration. Thank you

[@ronrothrock7116]

Fascinating! Thanks again for another fantastic video.

[@thezood]

For egoistical reasons I would love to see a video about the Skagerrak Centered LIP as it's close to my home in Sweden. :)

[@warrentreadwelljr.treadwel2694]

Thank you for another great video, sir.

[@Redsauce101]

Video on Nyamuragira and Mount Nyiragongo plz?

[@MelanieCravens]

I have only ever heard of the Siberian Traps and the Deccan Traps. Can you tell us about the others?

[@tomasa-m5643]

How visible is this today? Is there a plateau? A higher or lower elevation region? I want to know what this looks like on the landscape of the present, both on the ground, or aerially

[@saharshmishra9982]

For that you have to visit India's Maharashtra and Gujrat states. There you will find pretty good exposures. Especially in the city of Jabalpur.

[@tomasa-m5643]

@@saharshmishra9982 dhanyavaad

[@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457]

​​@@tomasa-m5643There's also a 200 feet high basalt formation called Gilbert hills in Mumbai which was formed by Deccan trap eruption. Also yes, the plateaus and mountains still exist in Gujrat and Maharashtra. The kaas plateau in Maharashtra now have like 850 species of flowering plants and is a famous tourist attraction but unfortunately is under serious threat because of humans.

[@Aditya-se6gl]

A city of Pune is situated on this trap. You can google Pune landscapes

[@psn3694]

Monsoon got good chunk of it

[@Ahamkeira]

Do you think you could make a video about the Trans-Pecos volcanic field some day? I think it's history is really neat and would make a cool video

[@snowysmile9082]

Where could the next flood basalt occur in the future?

[@chrisbelos2834]

i love that we went from "we don't know how glaciation of the earth happens" to "the answer is complex but volcanoes are a part of it"

[@Leyrann]

When in doubt, blame volcanoes. It's usually the right answer. Glaciations? Volcanoes. Mass extinctions? Volcanoes. Continents breaking up? Volcanoes. Weird weather? Volcanoes.

[@joeserdynski1045]

Incredible, Thanks ! ! !

[@Eric_Hutton.1980]

Have you talked about the Campi Flegrei volcano

[@Vesuviusisking]

Yes he has

[@Eric_Hutton.1980]

@@Vesuviusisking He has lots of fascinating and informative videos, and sometimes I lose track of them all.

[@GeologyHub]

Yes. It is undergoing an unrest period, but for now, it is fairly minor to moderate in intensity (and not yet truly worrying).

[@danepabilonia5647]

Can you please do a coverage on the recent Volcanic Smog (Sulfure Dioxide) Emissions that have recently occured at the TAAL VOLCANO?

[@yomogami4561]

thanks for the information traps have always fascinated me

[@W7ENK]

You could (and probably should) make an hour long video talking all about the CRBs in the PNW.

[@jpopelish]

Given the approximate noncompressibility of rock and magma, and such massive eruptions would not increase the mass or surface area of the planet, is there any evidence of places on the surface that subsided by an approximately equal volume, as all this volume was rising onto the surface? Or, is the subsidence sort of averaged out over the entire crust of Earth?

[@kuku335]

u can look at hawaii for reference..big island is so heavy that the crust below it subsided by around 3km...something similar would happen below flood basalt provinces

[@thelastvulcano8821]

I'm curious about the supereruption Semilir that occurred in Indonesia during the Oligocene - Miocene era.

[@nooneasked726]

another video on taal maybe? taal just emitted smog yesterday

[@Deltaflot1701]

I still often wonder, and I am no scientist by any means, that with the wide variation you can get from certain dating methods if the impact in Mexico could've either caused or hastened the Deccan Traps eruptions. I know you state explicitly that the Deccan Traps were before the Impact, but with those areas of teh world being nearly antipodal at the time of both the Deccan Traps and the Impact, I wonder if Impact could've affected the Traps.

[@TheCorpsehatch]

I read or saw another video regarding a theory the Earth was is dire straits due to the Deccan Traps eruptions over such a long span of time. The Chicxalub impact sent the Earth over the edge causing the extinctions.

[@Maungateitei]

There was no Chixilub impact. Its an explosive eruptive feature from the Antipodal eruptions of the deccan and Caribbean large igneous province. The platinum iridium clay layer worldwide is the signal of deep sourced magma and is hundreds of times too large for an impactor to have brought it.

[@Deltaflot1701]

@@TheCorpsehatch That's a plausible theory as well. Without a Tardis or a Delorean equipped with a Mr. Fusion, we'll never know for sure.

[@Dragrath1]

The dating for both Chicxulub and the Deccan traps are now precise enough with measurement error bars down to the thousands of years (kiloyear) timescale that we have a pretty good idea on how their timings related to one another but this had been a major open question for a long time and it took a major international effort to sort this out with core samples from the actual cater and samples from numerous individual flows within the Deccan traps.

[@drsburns]

It seems incredibly coincidental this happened virtually the same time as chixulub. I want to know is it possible that this was the result of that meteor, or is it possible that earth got hit by a small black hole rather than a meteor, and this was basically the exit wound.

[@orionparish9858]

What isn't said is the theory that the Deccan Traps were also a contributing factor to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Cixulub may have been the final nail in the coffin, but it wasn't the only thing. Why GH doesn't mention it I don't get. Theory or not, this channel has plenty of videos with theories in them.

[@scillyautomatic]

I had no idea there was a Giant's Causeway type formation in the US. Cool!

[@scillyautomatic]

🤦‍♂ I forgot that Devil's tow is exactly that. Duh!

[@Jillysmom63]

wow! I can't imagine that happening now, that's crazy.thats a heck of a lot of lava. The earth is so amazing.

[@connarcomstock161]

Me, not knowing about Geology, thinking Deccan Traps is a type of music.

[@mikeashely8198]

What type of volcano created the cap over a lake superior before it was a lake

[@andrewhillier2734]

It would be very interesting to know how long it took for all that lava to cool.

[@danielleknight7411]

We think a super volcanic eruption (VEI 8 or higher) would be bad in today's age (and no doubt it would be devastating), but if we had a flood basalt eruption occur during modern times (even in the future) on land, it would be far more devastating in my opinion. A super volcanic eruption would be an acute /relatively short term problem for species and humans today compared to a flood basalt which would continue for thousands of years and repeatedly devastate the planet. Not to mention enormous swaths of land where people live would be made uninhabitable for thousands of years. It's just a mind boggling thing to consider.

[@genie7923]

if the flood basalts were to appear again, where would they most likely take place? say, in the next year?

[@ginnrollins211]

There's a magma tree that is currently splitting up Africa.

[@genie7923]

@@ginnrollins211 where?

[@ginnrollins211]

@@genie7923 Pretty much all of East Africa, that's where the Great Rift is located.

[@otterssilver7299]

​@@genie7923just Google South East Africa Rift Zone

[@Vesuviusisking]

I want to know has Vesuvius had a vei 6 eruption 🤔

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

The strongest known eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE was ranked as a VEI 5

[@r.awilliams9815]

Yes. At least 3 of them. The Pomici di Base eruption about 18,000 years ago, the Pomici di Mercato eruption about 8,000 years ago, and the Pomici di Avellino eruption about 3,800 years ago.

[@QueenSunstar]

The way I see it? The Deccan traps have died down. Populations start to recover as the air clears. For a couple hundred years, things are tracking upward. Then Chicxulub hits. Those close to the impact site are killed instantly. It’s a ring of spreading death. The impact is so devastating that it sets off round two of the Deccan Traps. You have the debris from the impact in the sky which is going to reflect sunlight. Now you have volcanic gases mixing with that debris. A cold and devastating years long winter sets in. Extinction begins claiming species. Some species manage to hold on for a bit, but eventually extinction claims them too. Many of the great extinctions can be the result of volcanic apocalypses.

[@johnthomas2485]

Are Flood Basalts theoretically still possible?

[@TheDanEdwards]

Yes.

[@Dragrath1]

Definitely and given a long enough timescale its pretty much certain that they will occur again in the future, its only a question of when and where. From what I can tell they seem to happen on average around once per 30 million years though the actual timing between such eruptions varies dramatically from less than 2 million years to many tens of millions of years so the gap in timing is quite typical for what we seen in the rock record over the last 3 billion years.

[@TheCorpsehatch]

That's some thicc lava.

[@bordurakhan]

How likely is another flood basalt of this magnitude happening again?

[@willythemailboy2]

Nearly certain, just not in a time frame we'll have to worry about. Something like the Deccan traps is likely to occur in the next hundred million years and smaller but still catastrophic events like the Columbia River event are likely to occur even more often.

[@Dragrath1]

Depends on what timescale you are interested in. If you don't specify a timescale then probably 100% since the Earth has been producing an eruption of comparable size to this something like once per ~30ish million years for at least the 3 billion years which we have a rock record with no sign of slowing down so the odds that we have seen the last of these grandiose eruptions is pretty much zero. Keep in mind that the timing of these eruptions have ranged from a few million years or less to many tens of millions of years seemingly at random.

[@andre_santos2181]

What you say about the alledgly studies by Oxford what Deccan Traps didnt causes changes on World Environment on latter Cretaceous? I understand that climate change is a complicated matter, and there are current economic and political interests, many of whom finance the academy to deny the influence of volcanism and sun cycles on it

[@TheSjuris]

There hasn’t been a volcano eruption that would have caused climate change in the last couple million years. The sun itself isn’t powerful enough to heat up the earth this quickly.

[@jandogta2030]

@@TheSjuris "the sun itself isn’t powerful enough to heat up the earth this quickly." - when Ideology takes place of science... Sorry, bro, if someone made a dent on the God of Made Glolbal Warming Dogma. Please pay the titles on carbon credits.

[@alicebezerra6083]

@@TheSjuris Ironically, this is a big "Quod erat demonstrandum" about the interests of denying other factos on Earth Climate

[@TheSjuris]

@@alicebezerra6083 you have to take things in context. If there was that significant of volcanism to heat up the plane this quickly not sure how many of us are actually alive right now.

[@TheSjuris]

@@jandogta2030 sorry honey I get my science from actual scientists and not the ones that get their funding from oil and coal companies and their religion of a $1.

[@tymeier7570]

Gotta love how recent modeling proves that this is what actually killed the dinosaurs.

[@WWZenaDo]

Darn, this means that the flood basalt eruptions were not a side effect of the Chicxulub impact, which means that deflecting asteroid impacts away from earth won't protect us from flood basalt eruptions...

[@MrHangman56]

while it wouldn't be good by any means, it would be incredibly fascinating if this kind of eruption happened again somewhere

[@davidhenningson4782]

The deccan traps occurred at a time when the Earth was a Quarter way around the galaxy from where we are today (fun fact.) Science is absolutely amazing isn't it?!😌

[@Imotepth]

last level of "the floor is lava" game? :)

[@christianeaster2776]

The ability to accurately date incidents like this is difficult. Dating of this one is plus or minus 2 to 3 hundred thousand years at best. The chicxilub asteroid impact is currently believed to be about 65.8 million years ago the Deccan traps are dated somewhere around 66 million years ago. To me, the fact that India was in the area of the Indian ocean almost diametrically opposite Chicxilub Mexico at approximately the same time is not just a coincidence. In all probably, the impact caused counter-coup fractures in the earth's crust leading to creation of the traps. The earth was subjected to both at the same time.

[@CosmicGoat-d3o]

Could very well be the reason

[@AstrophelCassiopeiae]

Earth's big shart Damn you Chipotle💀

[@tymeier7570]

Nah that would be the Siberian Traps. The Deccan Traps killed the dinosaurs The Siberian Traps killed almost everything

[@grokeffer6226]

👍👍👍

[@Moredread25]

It's interesting it can be dated so specifically.

[@ProgPiglet]

incredible magma footage considering it's 75 mil years old

[@ff-us6vy]

It's DEK-kan, not Dek-KAN

[@dforrest4503]

Correct.

[@ezaxis]

"82% of the area of the nation of Indonesia" at :55 seconds. Was that meant as a joke about obscure comparisons in general? Besides Indonesia being a nation of many islands making it hard to visualize the true size, "82%" is not a simple fraction. Easier to say "All of Mongolia" or "Nearly all of modern-day Iran". Most people still won't have a sense of that size, but they are better/easier comparisons. I bet all the people that read this comment could fit within 24% of the banquet room at my local hotel. :)

[@rdbchase]

"... whereas ..." -- no.

[@DavidOfWhitehills]

Christ, God really wanted those dinos dead.

[@davidcovington901]

"Approximately 66.06 million years ago" is an oxymoron? And at time 2:27 it is "66.3 million." Who put this mess together? "82% the size of the nation of Indonesia"? What about India?

[@charlesokeefe8788]

1755 great Lisbon quake . It and what decadence existed by who in that time .. Paris britian , Mediterranean encompasses then zero in on the Wrath on lisbon 1755

[@muskanpandey6822]

thoda muh khol kr bol le bhai

[@S-T-E-V-E]

This is what makes me laugh about people who are obsessed with maintaining the current climate, any number of natural processes will happen at some point in the future and completely change the climate in a massive way and it's not an if but a when! The only thing certain about the climate is change!

[@TheDanEdwards]

Yeah, don't bother with fire-resistant insulation because houses burn anyway. Don't by health insurance because you could be hit by an asteroid anyway (after all, asteroids have hit the Earth plenty of times.) *Your entire approach to reality is skewed by some deep seated need to deny your culpability.*

[@arpitshivhare217]

wtf is this accent

[@Zantigableiaust]

I mean at this point almost all of the theories of this eruption would be just an empty hypothesis.. too ancient little evidence and too bizarre lol..

[@patriciaoudart1508]

🙏💚🧡👌but no impactor here, for tremendous Events on algorithm, I will not say cycles, to not let think this is so easy. But there's an external event from Earth causing this, that we sees on other solar system planets. One part of Mars missions are done for that, datation of tremendous events, when occuring in the hole solar system. One of my hypothesis is that this is not India that moved, but the Australian region crust, moving to actual South, including Antarctica. In case of micronova, All the crust is moved by the geomagnetic blast, like a rigid skin over a liquid. Thanks for the board of events and mass extinctions. But it not include everything, particularly the last events which are the more concerning for Humanity, because we have clearly algorithms, and datation can be discussed (you know there a debate about Earth age).... So not sure time can be count as years from our actual reference. A recurrent micronova, can be near destructive, including orbits and gravity relations. So Time is only an Angle. More I'm taking count of elements we are now understanding like negative mass bubbles around Our Galaxy, that can be the interactive motor to build recurrent events over stars and galaxy's systems (like Dust between two ionised plaques) . That's why geology is an open book to try to read, and the real reason of Mars, and solar system exploration.

[@kiarash608]

Isisaurs would lay their eggs there, and the babies would be hunted by Rajasaurus

[@whiskeymonk4085]

Wait! Are you saying that the Earth's temperature has fluctuated drastically in the past? This doesn't fall in line with the current hysteria about global warmi... I mean "climate change".

[@CanofCoke_Ketsukane]

Yes it has, in cycles, I get your confusion, but the reason it's bad and us because of it's speed of change and because every model we have states that we shouldn't be going through such an intense temperature increase

[@whiskeymonk4085]

@@CanofCoke_Ketsukane I haven't reviewed every model.

[@otterssilver7299]

😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂just now figured that out did we😂😂😂😂

[@whiskeymonk4085]

@@otterssilver7299 Figured it out twenty years ago. This whole thing is a money grab and a power grab. No amount of OUR money will ever control the temperature of the planet.

[@TheDanEdwards]

Let me see if I get this right: your claim is just because something in the past has happened without humans, that humans can't cause something similar now? Did I get that right? Have you ever stopped to think about what you are claiming?

[@grassnothing1631]

zombie

[@cykkm]

Nice to meet ya, Zombie! And I'm Cy.

[@grassnothing1631]

@@cykkm i don't remember typing "zombie"

[@grassnothing1631]

@@cykkm i am pretty sure i typed something else

[@rosehawke2577]

I have to watch these muted , the sound turned off, with subtitles.They're very interesting, but I swear, I'd rather listen to an AI voice.

[@kuku335]

great comment, lots of constructive criticism

[@cykkm]

​@@kuku335 Yah, _ad hominem_ criticism is the best kind of it. I'm seriously worried about the current level of intolerance in the society.

[@arpitshivhare217]

True