There would still be humans, if quite likely far fewer of them.
But even then, why would the survivors want to live in Antarctica? At more familiar latitudes, you’d still have huge amount of land VASTLY more habitable than Antarctica, where you didn’t have months of darkness. There will still be higher elevations, mountains, cooler places. Northern Alberta, Finland, southern Argentina, Nepal, these places aren’t going to be boiling.
Consider this; even today, people live in deserts and places it’s ludicrously hot - way, way more than live in Antarctica, which has a real population of zero.
I’m kind of doubtful Antarctic will warm and melt enough to live there except in the same conditions at research stations now. It will take so long that the earth will enter some kind of cooling cycle that will keep the bottom of the world frozen for millions more years. Even if that doesn’t happen, we’ll all be long dead before the ice is gone.
The top of the world though, that’s gonna be open ocean pretty soon.
Coincidentally, another thread started at around the same time:
Jet lands at “the only blue ice runway in Antarctic specifically designed for business jets”, and a DC3 takes you to the private resort at Schirmacher Oasis.
Yes. You can delete an old post. But you can’t delete more than one post every (I think) 24 hours.
So don’t make two mistakes in one day.
The only reason I’ve wanted to delete posts, and have been stymied by the timer, is when I begin replying to a thread, and mostly to the post just above, then somebody (or three) slips in between us while I’m typing yet another long-winded disquisition. With the result that once my post is posted it makes no sense in the context it’ll be read within. And while there are some ways to edit in quotes, there’s no way to alter which post your post is considered a reply to.
More like 100 million. Of course, by then, it should be part of Novopangaea, so easier to get to (for the Sentient Cockroach Men who will inhabit that future…)
100 million years will get most of the continent north of the Antarctic Circle, but parts will be out of that zone by 20 to 30 million years. This is a rough estimate based on assuming the continent continues on its current track at about the same rate. That could change, of course.
Depends on which drift model you follow Some, like Novopangaea, follow current trends only. Others, like the Afrasian model, postulate little movement for Antarctica. I do favour Novopangaea just because it’s parsimonious.
Sure, sorry, I was going by you saying “the continent”. Parts will probably be out of the Antarctic Circle before then, yes, I agree.
