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michael (proseandpassion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 01:00:35 JST michael

8-Dec-2023
Scholars say it's time to declare a new epoch on the moon, the 'lunar Anthropocene' -- I didn't realise the #moon had geological epochs at all? https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1010187 #science #anthropocene
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1. Scholars say it's time to declare a new epoch on the moon, the 'lunar Anthropocene'
  
  from KUNews
  
  According to anthropologists and geologists at the University of Kansas, it’s time to acknowledge humans have become the dominant force shaping the moon’s environment by declaring a new geological epoch for the moon: the Lunar Anthropocene. In a comment published today in Nature Geoscience, they argue the new epoch may have dawned in 1959 when the USSR’s unmanned spacecraft Luna 2 alighted on the lunar surface.

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