Over 100,000,000 Years Hence - MASS EXTINCTION


We were traveling forward in time and we saw a horrific cataclysmic event take place. We were in a force field bubble that's protecting us.

Lori: What's happening?

Me: This is a nasty cataclysmic event that is on par with when the dinosaurs were wiped out 65,000,000 years ago in our time.

Lincoln: Something is happening all over the world.

Lisa: Indeed. I see volcanoes erupting everywhere and the poisonous gases from the ash and clouds are killing everything.

Me: That's right. Every millions of years the planet endures a terrible cataclysmic event on this kind of scale. It's called a Mass Extinction.

Laney: This is horrible.

Lana: It sure is. What usually causes them?

Me: There are two primary factors that cause Mass Extinctions. One factor is Global Volcanism. This is where volcanoes all over the planet erupt and send millions of tons of ash and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and poison everything and flood everything with lava. Everything around the world begins to die. Plants, fish, ocean life, forests, everything. 95% of all life on the planet dies.

Lucy: Wicked.

Laney: This is horrible.

Lana: What's the second cause?

Me: Asteroid impacts. That's what destroyed the Dinosaurs 65,000,000 years ago in our time. An asteroid 6 and a half miles wide slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and it completely wiped out all of the dinosaurs.

Lori: That is literally horrible.

Lincoln: Why are all the volcanoes erupting here?

Me: That's because of a mass extinction that's gonna happen later in the future. We haven't seen global volcanism of this kind of scale since the Great Permian Extinction back 255,000,000 years ago which gave rise to the age of the dinosaurs.

Lisa: That's correct 2nd Elder Brother. It also joined all the continents together into one massive single supercontinent called Pangaea.

Me: That's right Lisa. We don't know what caused the Great Permian Extinction, but I have a very strong suspicion that continental drift may have been a contributing factor.

Lincoln: That could be the case.

Laney: This is all amazing and horrible at the same time. And this Mass Extinction may cause the continents to form together into another Pangaea.

Me: That's a very strong possibility Laney. But we will never know because we won't be here on Earth to see it.

Lana: That's sad and awful.

Me: It is.

Lincoln: So what time are we going to next?

Me: It's gonna be a really interesting time. You'll see when we get there.

We continued going through time.

Continues in Part 11.