JohnB Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 if life hadn't arose? I was thinking about it earlier, does anyone have any ideas? A warmer, wetter version of Mars with a really poisonous ocean? Any suggestions for further reading would be welcomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthropos Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Hmm...perhaps Earth looks like what it was when it was just formed after the Big Bang. You know, the hot rocks, lava, and stuff. haha...my imagination is rather limited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inferno Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Probably a whole lot cleaner.... and the atmosphere would have more 'exotic gasses' in it. humans and cows wouldnt be here to fart and bring up the methane levels of the astmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayflower Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Would there be any carbon dioxide in the air? Or... which gas was it that became much more prevalent when primitive life flourished in the oceans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inferno Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 I'd think there would be tons of CO2 in the air, snce there wouldnt be any plants to turn it into oxygen... if Im wrong, tell me. I havent taken chem class since the 7th grade- but im starting again this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Demosthenes- Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Weren't the first life-forms ones that used carbon dioxide in an atnosphere of mainly carbon dioxide? They eventually used it all up "polluting" all there air with oxygen. Hmmm, maybe it's not ever really "pollution" at all, just a change in ratio of gases... weird thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayflower Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Weren't the first life-forms ones that used carbon dioxide in an atnosphere of mainly carbon dioxide? They eventually used it all up "polluting" all there air with oxygen. Yes it's oxygen that they released. Started during the Orosirian period? From cyanobacteria. And most of them ended up dying from oxygen poisoning, as you say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Tycho?] Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 There wouldn't be any oxygen in the atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inferno Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 What about Nitrogen? Would there be any nitrogen in the air, if nothing was here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
War Is Greed Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Would there be an Earth (or universe for that matter) if we weren't here to observe it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 A warmer' date=' wetter version of Mars with a really poisonous ocean?[/quote'] would it be poisonous if there is no life? i mean, what is there that it would poison? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctc7752 Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Every time you look at Venus and Mars you can see what earth would look like without life. Venus and Earth were at one time in the same orbit (Opposite sides) and Mars once occupied the space where earth is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bascule Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 if life hadn't arose? Pointless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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