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[–] knightly@pawb.social 200 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Our planet is scifi as hell. We've got natural magnetic shielding to protect our UV-blocking ozone layer from solar winds. This planet is so damn cozy<3

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 132 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This planet is so damn cozy<3

Oh! Oh! Let's wreck it by polluting the hell out of it :3

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Poison the air and recieve pieces of colored paper in exchange. It's a good trade

Don't forget only a few lucky and dumb sociopaths hoards all the colored papers while the rest gets shiny round metals.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know it's too expensive to fix for the people and companies with more wealth than 99.99999% of us, and with the decision maker(s) not valuing any future beyond their expected lifespan, and I don't think any of them think the previous generation will be the last generation to die

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 days ago

Don't worry.

They have plans underway to terrorise us with intentionally worsening it under the pretence of trying to mend it, to induce us into obedience under their tyranny, so we don't rise up against what they're doing.

Sleep tight.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But is that unusual? That's just pretty normal, no?

Any planet with a liquid core is bound to have one.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe‽

We don't have much of a basis for comparison outside of our solar system just yet, but we should have better data soon.

And it being "normal" would just make it more science fictiony. =D

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We probably won't have better data soon. Actually resolving planets directly is incredibly far out of reach. Measuring their core is implausible.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The core, no, but detecting the effects of a magnetic field are not out of the question.

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 days ago