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Stranded in hostile past eras
They are stranded in Earth's most hostile past environments: the Early Triassic desert, the humid Carboniferous jungle teeming with giant insects, and the fungal-dominated Early Devonian. The time machine eventually restarts, leaving their ultimate fate uncertain.
- 🍄 The Early Triassic was a "Hothouse Earth" 250 million years ago, with 3-5x more CO2, 50°C air, and no ice.
- 🐛 The Carboniferous period (320 million years ago) had 60% higher oxygen, leading to cat-sized insects like Megarachne and meter-wide griffinflies.
- 🍄 The Early Devonian (400 million years ago) featured 8-meter-tall fungal Prototaxites and low oxygen (15%).
- ⚙️ The time machine is unreliable, jumping between eras rather than allowing controlled travel.
An astronaut stands on a strange, alien-looking purple pod in a colorful, stylized landscape with tall, dark spires.