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submitted 1 month ago by PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm probably going to judge you if you say Holocene, without an interesting non-trivial reason.

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[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The oxygenation of the ocean. Never knew that was a mass extinction! So much interesting stuff came from that!

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

That's my fav too.
"The Oxygen Catastrophy" is just such a cool name.

Also some upstart bacteria just start pumping out poison that kills almost everything (oxygen)
Causes the ocean to rust
Causes the atmosphere to catch on fire
then causes the earth to turn to a snowball

Fuckin metal

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the one where the ocean turned purple wasnt it?

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sounds right. I saw a documentary about it a fee months ago.