In the future they will send workers back in time to look for the Army of the Lonely_Dolphins and this will be timestamp used for their arrival. They'll be hoping to end this apocalypse before it begins. Obviously it'll turn out to be a random chemist somewhere who actually put the process of genocide in motion, but they will use this thread as evidence of Lonely_Dolphin's guilt and the true perpetrators of this mass extinction event will go unpunished and live like kings in the utopian future they set out to create.