What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer

Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @12:35PM (#39372604)

But it doesn't make any sense, given we do not have good evidence of alien civilizations, not to mention Dyson spheres.

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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by WarOnPrivacy on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @01:22PM (#39373230)

> But it doesn't make any sense, given we do not have good evidence of alien civilizations, not to mention Dyson spheres.

Also correct. Even past that, we haven't been mass-cataloging stars long enough for a Dyson sphere to be constructed and remove a star from our view.

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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @01:27PM (#39373291)

So why make the initial claim "And we know civilizations can afford those because we can no longer see their stars."? Is it humor or irony I'm missing?

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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday February 15, 2024 @09:09AM (#39382881)

The absurdity of it makes me happy.

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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by SketchySeaBeast on Sunday February 18, 2024 @12:10PM (#39420805)

Fair enough. Poisoning the well for giggles.

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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by WarOnPrivacy on Monday February 19, 2024 @08:43AM (#39429631)

> Fair enough. Poisoning the well for giggles.

One man's poison is the same man's alcohol and mankind revolves around that.

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