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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

To be fair, isn't that also how this one earth like planet called "Earth" used to look like?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

still does in some places.

also doesn't earth-like mean atmosphere and in the Goldilocks zone?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think earth-like just means a rocky planet.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

But not for long in a sense, right?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

The hadrean period (lava earth) was approximately as long as there have been vertebrates. So pretty long!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

yeah but speaking from personal experience at least, i cant remember the last time the earth was covered in lava

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For about half a billion years Earth was mostly molten on the surface. So about 11% of the time. And then we've had major glaciation periods especially the cryongenian that lasted 78M years about 640M years ago.

More info from this Kurzgesagt video on earth's history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Eventually got different, but it did linger a while at both stages.

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