mmmm oil, or gas, or coal, whatever the moss ended up doing, it was something.
Certainly not all land of earth. Moss requires moisture to survive and lacks the root system of developed plants to get water deep in the soil.
On the flip side, if you could time travel to that epoch, the ground would be extremely comfy for your feet.
You’re thinking about this like it’s just a single uniform endless pasture of gray-green moss. But you have to recognize all the moss is competing for space and resources.
So you’ve got 40M years of different kinds of mosses all developing novel evolutionary strategies as they try to one up one another. Just a rainforest of mosses, with an uncountable variation of shapes and colors and compositions.
Moss bushes. Moss trees. Hanging mosses. Floating mosses. Dense spongey moss. Brilliantly colored moss. Poisoned moss. Cannibal moss. Stinging moss. Velvety moss. Venus Fly Moss. Moss of a thousand different color variants.
And every few hundred years, you get a new moss meta strategy for being the best kind of moss that pushes all the other moss out. Played across 40M years, it’s this big squirling fractual of warring moss tribes, until finally another organism figures out the optimal play on all moss and then it’s over as fast as it started.
I would play this game. Like spore, but just moss
The ocean was purple once, and another time the only thing taller than little bushes were twenty foot tall mushrooms shaped like asparagus
And 80ft horsetails
scary to think of how big the horses themselves must have been
Seriously?! 80ft horsetails? I knew they were a prehistoric plant that can grow through asphalt but had no idea they got that big
Now this explains what happened to all the roads back then.
Make sure you jump on that couch when you see one!
Thanks for make me realize that I had that big of a timespan to live in a beautiful mossy earth and I just missed it and landed on scorched land earth.
We stand no chance against the mighty moss
Just like there is SpaceEngine, we need a Earth sim that let’s us to back to any time and have a realistic simulation of that epoch based on the best of modern knowledge.
Now I’m curious if there’d be any massive gaps in the timeline, where we don’t know if we could reasonably pick any fitting environment to render.
I want to see a visualization of this now.
Good attempt, but there wouldn’t be bushes, right?
You know what, the high arctic probably looks similar to that prehistoric moss-covered landscape. Because moss is pretty much the only thing that can survive there (and some very small plants).
Oh interesting. I don’t think of the Arctic having any plants at all really. Shows what I know!
Maybe more like this:
That one looks pretty cool!
That moss have been long and painful to wait for this.
Don’t worry, the earth was lichen it
happy Kris noises
but imagine you’ve just gotten use to living on a moss planet over the past 40 million years, and now all of a sudden you walk outside and all the moss is gone
Removed by mod
Hey! Those are my ancestors you’re dissing you know
