Weather will need to stabilize, rivers will form.

It will contain some 50% of the biosphere already, which is in the soil.Īt this point, you'll require a few thousand years of waiting time, to allow tectonic plates to stabilize, let atmospheric cycles and ocean currents settle down. Just put ca 25km of rocky underground and 80km of atmosphere above it as a shell around your new planet. Your omnipotent entity may choose to copy/paste the crust first, with oceans and land on top of it. To maintain biodiversity, that is have a healthy transfer for all species involved, you'll need to prepare your new planet to maintain life. No oxygen, no water, no nitrates, no carbon.Īdvisable for compatibility with Earth's species requirements !Ĭopy/Paste the top layer of Earth in one go (rocky underground + atmosphere) there is this empty planet, it has nice temperature and proper day and night cycle, but there's nothing there yet.

This answer assumes your powerful entity can transfer things in a blink, without being limited by energy, mass or distance. Q: 'This results in it dumping various copies of plants, animals, as well as water and air semi-randomly onto a completely separate world.' True stability is never reached due to inevitable perturbation and normal interspecies competition and adaptation. This is what we see in areas that man disrupts and then abandons: rapid changes for a few decades, followed by long, slow ones.Īfter that, you won't have giant swings in CO2 levels or other really dramatic global changes, changes will be localised and some areas will be fairly stable.Īctual 'stability', similar to what man has known since civilisation began, will take millenia though, as forests and river systems continue to change over centuries. I reason that a century or two ought to be enough for hardy, invasive weed species to cover areas that are going to be fertile, provide cover for regenerating forest, and allow big trees to take over most places that they are going to. In many ways, the brutality of the shock will make for a more rapid new equilibrium as huge numbers of species go extinct, resulting im simpler ecosystems with fewer niches. There will be chaos straight away, as entire ecosystems collapse. Make of it what you will, take what's useful, if anything. A few centuries for semi-stability, millenia or never for complete stabilityĪ total guess by someone who knows very little about ecology or biology.

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