You know, given that most fossils are the result of a body being buried on a sea or lake bed... there's going to be evidence of our impact lying around for very long time.
Also, given that those cargo containers are going to be slowly leaking toxic stuff for hundreds of years, that's going to affect the evolution of deep sea life.
>> You know, given that most fossils are the result of a body being buried on a sea or lake bed... there's going to be evidence of our impact lying around for very long time.<<
Also hard things fossilize easier than soft things -- we have made a lot of those -- and earthworks stay long-term without needing fossilization.
>> Also, given that those cargo containers are going to be slowly leaking toxic stuff for hundreds of years, that's going to affect the evolution of deep sea life.<<
Now I have to wonder if there's a cluster of superlife somewhere on the seafloor of Terramagne -- not just from shipping things, but because plenty of mad scientists have chosen a boat or artificial island as their base. Consider that large clusters of superpowers have derived from zetetic sources like Hopp-R or various cosmetics, supplements, etc. and you can see that losing a container of that would probably have impacts.
*chuckle* Steel's bitchiness about littering is partly founded by seeing all the crap humans have left on the ocean floor, that most humans don't see. On the bright side, the Maldives relies so much on hospitality that they're very responsive to complaints. They'll probably make diligent efforts to clean it up if he complains to the right person their their ocean floor is filthy.
Hell, there's nuclear bombs been dumped in some of the deepest bits..1970's SALT talks, they had no idea how to decommission these things... and then some bright spark worked out that even if the biggest of them went off at that depth, you wouldn't notice it at the surface.
Now.. you've got this community of immensely powerful and unimaginably ancient beings, and we're dropping nukes on them...
I think the surface world should be grateful they don't do anything quickly... although possibly be not at all reassured that their reasoning is; "Lets just wait a few centuries, see if the problem takes cares of itself. No need to do anything if they just going to wipe themselves out."
>> Hell, there's nuclear bombs been dumped in some of the deepest bits..1970's SALT talks, they had no idea how to decommission these things...<<
Yyyyyeah.
>> and then some bright spark worked out that even if the biggest of them went off at that depth, you wouldn't notice it at the surface. <<
Oh, it'd be noticeable all right. >_< Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with several locations where the sea life has massive tumors.
They totally deserve to have something like Gojira rise from the depths with Nuclear Powers.
>> Now.. you've got this community of immensely powerful and unimaginably ancient beings, and we're dropping nukes on them... <<
Yikes. O_O
>> I think the surface world should be grateful they don't do anything quickly... although possibly be not at all reassured that their reasoning is; "Lets just wait a few centuries, see if the problem takes cares of itself. No need to do anything if they just going to wipe themselves out." <<
LOL you should totally write that. It is hilarious, it's exactly their perspective, and it would freak the humans right out.
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Date: 2019-03-30 11:17 am (UTC)Also, given that those cargo containers are going to be slowly leaking toxic stuff for hundreds of years, that's going to affect the evolution of deep sea life.
Yes ...
Date: 2019-03-30 05:39 pm (UTC)Also hard things fossilize easier than soft things -- we have made a lot of those -- and earthworks stay long-term without needing fossilization.
>> Also, given that those cargo containers are going to be slowly leaking toxic stuff for hundreds of years, that's going to affect the evolution of deep sea life.<<
Now I have to wonder if there's a cluster of superlife somewhere on the seafloor of Terramagne -- not just from shipping things, but because plenty of mad scientists have chosen a boat or artificial island as their base. Consider that large clusters of superpowers have derived from zetetic sources like Hopp-R or various cosmetics, supplements, etc. and you can see that losing a container of that would probably have impacts.
*chuckle* Steel's bitchiness about littering is partly founded by seeing all the crap humans have left on the ocean floor, that most humans don't see. On the bright side, the Maldives relies so much on hospitality that they're very responsive to complaints. They'll probably make diligent efforts to clean it up if he complains to the right person their their ocean floor is filthy.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2019-03-30 06:05 pm (UTC)Re: Yes ...
Date: 2019-03-30 07:08 pm (UTC)Then there's all the ordnance left over from various wars, much of it toxic, some of it explosive.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2019-03-30 07:24 pm (UTC)Now.. you've got this community of immensely powerful and unimaginably ancient beings, and we're dropping nukes on them...
I think the surface world should be grateful they don't do anything quickly... although possibly be not at all reassured that their reasoning is; "Lets just wait a few centuries, see if the problem takes cares of itself. No need to do anything if they just going to wipe themselves out."
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2019-03-30 08:00 pm (UTC)Yyyyyeah.
>> and then some bright spark worked out that even if the biggest of them went off at that depth, you wouldn't notice it at the surface. <<
Oh, it'd be noticeable all right. >_< Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with several locations where the sea life has massive tumors.
They totally deserve to have something like Gojira rise from the depths with Nuclear Powers.
>> Now.. you've got this community of immensely powerful and unimaginably ancient beings, and we're dropping nukes on them... <<
Yikes. O_O
>> I think the surface world should be grateful they don't do anything quickly... although possibly be not at all reassured that their reasoning is; "Lets just wait a few centuries, see if the problem takes cares of itself. No need to do anything if they just going to wipe themselves out." <<
LOL you should totally write that. It is hilarious, it's exactly their perspective, and it would freak the humans right out.