SvennoJ said:
LegitHyperbole said:
The idea that the atmosphere stays the same is pretty ridiculous, we had environments with such oxygen that allowed spiders to grow to the size of dogs and centipedes so big they'd eat a cow. |
Ever played SimEarth? You can simulate your own climates.
I made an oxygen rich world with perpetual fire. A ring of fire sweeping around the planet without ever stopping. Stuff growing back fast enough for the next lap. I made a circular land mass around the equator to get that going.
I wonder what forest fires were like when oxygen was that high in the past! (35% 300 million years ago, currently 21%) |
Yep, that's why I believe nuvlear winter won't be as bad as they say and the dust cloud won't enter the stratosphere, we had oxygen that would support massive fires as well as super volcanoes in the past.
I'd like to use that simulator and see at what point a hurricane could become self sustaining like the ones on Saturn and Jupiter. I wonder are we far off from a never ending storm taking over and has it happened in the past.
