The ice core will help scientists analyze Earth's atmospheric and climate evolution, shedding light on changes in Ice Age cycles and greenhouse gas levels.

Preliminary findings indicate carbon dioxide levels today are 50% higher than at any point in the last 800,000 years.

Funded by the EU, the Beyond EPICA project highlights advancements in understanding past climates and human impacts on global warming.

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[–] BreadOven 7 points 6 days ago

The thing?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is this where they release the life ending microbe into the atmosphere wiping out the planet.

[–] scarabic 13 points 6 days ago

I stopped worrying about this one. Pathogens tend to track closely to their host, and are ill adapted to environments even slightly unlike their chosen host. You can’t share most sicknesses with your pets because your body temps are a few degrees apart, for example. So the chances of anything from millions of years before us being well suited enough to represent a threat to us seem minuscule ESPECIALLY compared to the world we wake up to each morning: where nine billion organisms just like us are out there breeding new potential threats.

[–] slaacaa 1 points 6 days ago

It’s about time

[–] Darkard 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't be getting people's hopes up

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I wonder if the elite bunkers and "ai" would save them from this

[–] slaacaa 6 points 6 days ago

Yes, Zuck would probably live an extra 10 years in his supersized concrete coffin, until a critical system fails or one of his staff member finally goes crazy and eats him

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I asked AI and it said yes

[–] motor_spirit 5 points 1 week ago

Altman's eye voids will save us all

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The AI would eventually hallucinate that the zombies are one of the residents and let them into the bunker.

[–] seven_phone 8 points 1 week ago

How bad is the world we have created for ourselves that a zombie apocalypse sounds like quite a nice change.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ar[c]tisinal micro-plastic free ice cubes for the super rich's cocktail parties

[–] devfuuu 17 points 1 week ago

Hopefully they find the ancient stargate down there too.

[–] Anticorp 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is this how we release the zombie virus?

[–] Coreidan 0 points 6 days ago

Neat idea but it’s not how viruses work

[–] just_another_person 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does it even matter anymore?

[–] Manifish_Destiny 6 points 1 week ago

At some point it will be an improvement

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They delved too greedily and too deep.

[–] rhacer 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And now it's going to melt, and we have turned million year-old ice into a puddle.

[–] Infernal_pizza 6 points 6 days ago

That would have happened to it in a few years anyway