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   Message 57,609 of 57,854   
   Dawn Flood to JTEM   
   Re: Snowball Earth and the mentally ill   
   04 Oct 25 22:39:46   
   
   XPost: sci.bio.paleontology, sci.anthropology.paleo, sci.archaeology   
   XPost: sci.anthropology, alt.atheism   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/4/2025 1:22 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 10/4/25 1:10 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> Can you provide a single citation   
   >   
   > To what? You never identified a single fact that you think isn't a   
   > fact!   
   >   
   > Or are you challenging the existence of NASA? Is that it? No?   
   >   
   > Then specify precidely what you want to challenge & why:   
   >   
   > Dimethyl sulfide.   
   >   
   > You've heard about the biosignatures found on the   
   > planet K2-18b, including what looks like dimethyl   
   > sulfide, a tasty little morsel known on earth only   
   > from life and/or human industry.   
   >   
   > It comes from plankton, apparently...   
   >   
   > You know about the Great Oxidation Event, right?   
   > Something around 2 billion years ago, the planet   
   > crazy with oxygen emitting microbes, the   
   > atmosphere got so saturated that things started   
   > to oxidize -- "Rust," baby! -- and said life started to   
   > become non life i.e. dead, as oxygen was poison   
   > to it.   
   >   
   > Hence; "The Great Oxidation Event," which was the   
   > first ever mass extinction.   
   >   
   > Now what if Snowball Earth got kicked off the same   
   > way?   
   >   
   > Life.   
   >   
   > Plankton.   
   >   
   > Dimethyl sulfide.   
   >   
   > Sulfur can be a very nasty thing in our atmosphere.   
   > For starters, it's a planet cooler!   
   >   
   > (Coal is the biggest sulfur criminal of all the fossil   
   > fuels)   
   >   
   > The sulfur converts into an aerosol and bounces   
   > sunlight -- energy from the sun -- back out into   
   > space. It's gone. And if the atmosphere was   
   > saturated by life with this Dimethyl sulfide stuff   
   > the same way earlier life had poured on the   
   > oxygen, that could have caused or at least   
   > contributed to Snowball Earth.   
   >   
   > READ YOUR GRETA GOSPELS! Memorize the   
   > Gwobull Warbling narrative: CO2 is supposed   
   > to stay in the atmosphere for 300 to a thousand   
   > years, as NASA is ordered to report. Well that's   
   > nowhere near enough time to warm up the   
   > earth after a single VEI8 volcano!   
   >   
   > It took over a thousand years to live down the   
   > effects of the Toba eruption. over 70k years   
   > ago. The Younger Dryas cooling lasted over a   
   > thousand years, and pretty much all of science   
   > outside of another government agency, NOAA,   
   > think it was caused by the impact of an object   
   > from space or a super volcano...   
   >   
   > So if life had saturated the atmosphere with   
   > Dimethyl sulfide, to the point that it was driving   
   > some cooling, and there was a period of major   
   > volcanic activity, we're talking a double-doom   
   > scenario here!   
   >   
   > See, The Great Oxidation Event happened NOT   
   > because oxygen is yucky and we need to pay   
   > Greta and Extinction Rebellion to get rid of the   
   > stuff. It was so terrible because there was no   
   > balance.   
   >   
   > Yet.   
   >   
   > The atmosphere had never been saturated   
   > with oxygen before so the planet, life had   
   > never found a balance. Life had evolved   
   > WITHOUT all the oxygen in the air, and now   
   > suddenly here it was... THEY WERE   
   > BREATHING THE STUFF AND EVERYTHING!   
   >   
   > No wonder they all died!   
   >   
   > So what if something along the same lines   
   > happened with Dimethyl sulfide. All this   
   > planet-cooling stuff was getting pumped into   
   > the air and, like The Great Oxidation Event,   
   > may have tipped an unprepared world off   
   > balance. Or, all the Dimethyl sulfide billowed   
   > by life sent everything critical during a   
   > period of heavy volcanic activity.   
   >   
   > AND DON'T BOTHER GOOGLING ANY OF   
   > THIS!   
   >   
   > Science is gone. Journalism is gone. It's all   
   > 100% Gwobull Warbling 100% of the time.   
   >   
   > Nothing real.   
   >   
   > And it's all self refuting. If you don't believe   
   > me then, yes, Google it. Read about the   
   > shithead claims volcanoes caused Snowball   
   > Earth but then the CO2 they gushed warmed   
   > the planet and stopped it.   
   >   
   > Snowball Earth lasted for MILLIONS of years!   
   >   
   > MILLIONS.   
   >   
   > So unless you now want to pretend that CO2   
   > is eternal, volcanoes could not have both   
   > caused Snowball Earth and stopped it.   
   >   
   > Impossible.   
   >   
   > BECAUSE the goddamn CO2 they let out   
   > when they erupted can't stay in the atmosphere   
   > for millions of years!   
   >   
   > You'd need more volcanoes... and the claim is   
   > that volcanoes froze the planet so we're back   
   > to Square-1.   
   >   
   > Yes, it's another "Ah, science!" moment brought   
   > to you by the ruling elite... "If you only backed   
   > hyper regressive taxation, like we said, none of   
   > this would have happened!"   
   >   
   >   
      
   You already posted this; why are you posting it again?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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