Mental note, do not invest in coastal business or land. Also mental note: Don't vote for assholes who want to bail out rich beachfront property owners.
Especially not in Florida, where Miami is expected to be underwater in the next 100 years, if not sooner.
Selene heard me. Seriously, though, maybe mankind will realize that we're all we have to protect each other, and push towards a more equitable system that will keep the human species from suffering en masse, ushering in an era of peace and prosperity. Nah. We're going to film it and sell it as a TV show while rich assholes attempt to build higher walls around their compounds.
I have a pet hypothesis I have no way of testing that Theia's collision with the early Earth (which also created the moon) is responsible for the fact that we have plate tectonics, which started the carbon cycle, allowing life to flourish on Earth without locking in permanent snowballs or runaway greenhouse effects. (Plus it enlarged the core of the planet, which would bolster the magnetic field.) This is supported by the fact that no* other planets seem to have plate tectonics. It would also make for a fantastic Early Great Filter solution to the Fermi paradox; how many forming star systems are going to have just the right size planets to cause a Mars-sized planet to be flung into a ~Venus-sized planet in the habitable zone, AFTER the crust has formed in the latter? A lack of Luna-similar moons for Venus and Mars suggests not many. * Venus is still unknown (but theorized not) because of the cloud cover; we'll know in a couple years when the next mission with high-res radar can get updates from what Magellan found decades ago. Io has tidal deformation causing something that looks a bit like plate tectonics. Europa and Titan may also have plate tectonics, though I think the evidence is quite weak for Europa, and is just as explicable by tidal deformation, AFAICT. If both of them do, it's potentially evidence we should be looking for life outside the solar systems on moons of gas giants in the habitable zone, if there are any.
