Monday, September 10, 2012

Ugo Bardi — The next ten billion years


Thinking big. Two scenarios by a professor of physical chemistry.

Cassandra's Legacy
The next ten billion years
Ugo Bardi | University of Florence


2 comments:

Edmund said...

That was pretty cool.

The "New Intelligence" and "Galactic Intelligence" remind me of the anti-Xeelee from Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence.

Any other nerds here know what I'm talking about?

Edmund said...

The Green planets are now the place of evolution tests and the Neanderthals now live on Mars, whereas dinosaurs have been recreated on a Venus where the planetary control system has recreated conditions similar to those of the Jurassic on Earth.

I don't know how you do this on planets with no magnetosphere. IIRC, when the Earth's magnetosphere has taken leave of the planet, we've had enormous die-offs. Maybe you could have tardigrades and other species notorious for not giving a ____ about things that kill everyone else, but dinosaurs?