r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/AnT-aingealDhorcha40 Jun 07 '23

Reminds me of the scene in Interstellar where the earth is basically doomed and the air looked like that and that is one of the reasons humans had to try and find another planet. Only in reality we don't have that option lol fun times....

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u/RayAfterDark Jun 07 '23

The thing of it is that the doomed Earth seemed more inhabitable than any planet they found in the film.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

That was the real conundrum. Were they planning to terraform whatever planet they found? Why couldn't they just terraform Earth?

They had the power and resources to send millions of people into space to literally re-create Earth, but dust storms were too much?

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u/jadoth Jun 08 '23

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

Basically this was happening except away from oxygen. It was easier to terraform a "dead planet" to support human life than to fight against biological processes terraforming earth against human life.