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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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