Fifty Million Years From Now

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Subject: Re: Fifty million years later . . . .
From: Tom Breton
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.science
Organization: Dis

John Kensmark writes:

Suppose you took a little relativistic trip, and when you came back
to Earth, it was (Eastern Standard Time) fifty million years later.

What differences would you notice? Granted, the ecosystem will
feature different flora and fauna, and the continents will have
moved a bunch (and possibly recombined), but what about things
like:

– constellations greatly changed

– moon appears different, as viewed from the Earth

– sunrise / sunset altered by precession of Earth’s axis

Any other likely major changes?

The sun would be noticeably hotter. In 10 times that span, it will be
boiling the water off Earth. So in 10 million years, you’d expect
noticable climate changes, generally hotter.

Continental changes. California moved north. Himalayas hier than
they were when you left.

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