Mass Extinction!

[Minimalist]

Great stuff.

[Justtristo]

That surely beats Durius ordering the water of the strait of be flogged with 500 lashes for daring to turn rough and sinking his pontoon bridge

Source please.

[ib.me.ub]

"We're goin away. Pack your shit folks. We're goin away!!" ~ George Carlin.

Bit of a pity though, don't you think.

[Dotard]

a bit.

[Minimalist]

That surely beats Durius ordering the water of the strait of be flogged with 500 lashes for daring to turn rough and sinking his pontoon bridge

Source please.

Herodotus Book VII

[34] To this foreland they on whom this work was laid were making their bridges, starting from Abydos, the Phenicians constructing the one with ropes of white flax, and the Egyptians the other, which was made with papyrus rope. Now from Abydos to the opposite shore is a distance of seven furlongs. But when the strait had been bridged over, a great storm came on and dashed together all the work that had been made and broke it up. [35] Then when Xerxes heard it he was exceedingly enraged, and bade them scourge the Hellespont with three hundred strokes of the lash and let down into the sea a pair of fetters.

They don't call him the Father of Lies for nothing!

[Anomalocaris]

Due apologies to the great Persian Monarch. It was his son Xerxes who thus chastised the water of hellespont.

[Shell B]

It isn't just the ocean.

[Justtristo]

It isn't just the ocean.

Indeed, Homo Sapiens has been the only species in the whole history of planet earth (which is 4.6 billion years not 6000 thank you) that has caused a mass extinction event, something which only things like asteroids were able to do before homo sapiens came on the scene.

[Shell B]

It isn't just the ocean.

Indeed, Homo Sapiens has been the only species in the whole history of planet earth (which is 4.6 billion years not 6000 thank you) that has caused a mass extinction event, something which only things like asteroids were able to do before homo sapiens came on the scene.

To be honest, I don't think that every species that is disappearing can be attributed to the human population. It is my belief that we are merely accelerating natural occurrences. For example, there is a fungus that biologists believe is causing declines in frog populations. Now, without human intervention, this fungus is likely capable of wiping out a few species of frogs. With human intervention, like transport of infected frogs, habitat destruction (which ultimately causes populations of animals to move), obviously more species become vulnerable.

[Anomalocaris]

The fact seems to be that the current climatological fluctuation in the last 60,000 years is not severe compared to what repeated transpired in the last 2.8 million years. Yet there were no major global extinction events between 2.8 million - 60,000 years, but there is what appears to be a fairly severe global extinction level event starting 60,000 years ago and rapidly picking up pace in the last 12000 years. The spread of modern Homo Sapiens seems to be one major global scale influence that coincided with this latest extinction event. To remove human as the most important agent of interest, one needs to identify another.