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Re:The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere by d--b on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:46AM (#26330903)
In all candidness: can someone tell me what the point of these studies is?
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Re:The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere by macintux on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:22PM (#26331506)
Completely uninformed speculation:

* Provide more information to the search for habitable planets/extra-solar life

* Better understand how the Earth's atmosphere and overall ecosystem evolves over time, which may inform our understanding of long-term risks of climate change (and perhaps contribute to our ideas of how to manage terraforming on Earth, if we need to mitigate climate change).

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