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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[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 62 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours 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.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't be getting people's hopes up

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

I asked AI and it said yes

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours 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

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Altman's eye voids will save us all

[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

It’s about time

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Hopefully they find the ancient stargate down there too.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

The thing?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Is this how we release the zombie virus?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Does it even matter anymore?

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

At some point it will be an improvement

[–] rhacer@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

That would have happened to it in a few years anyway

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

They delved too greedily and too deep.