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[Helgoland]

Depends on the area, I guess. Around where I live, the grassland would probably turn into forest over the course of a couple decades, reverting to its natural state, or be tilled to plant crops. In other regions I guess it would be similar, with forest being replaced by the area's natural vegetation type: Grasslands usually need large grazers to stay the way they are.

[Descan]

Depends. Are we going full vegetarian, or do we have, like, algae/Soylent-producing bacteria tanks that just need water and sunlight, or are we eating insects?

If the first, we'll probably devote the land to human-center'd foods, that we eat. If the second, then a lot of land would probably revert to wilderness, depending on how much land and where they can be placed those tanks require.

If the last, I'm not sure of the acreage required to get beef-made-from-insects to provide the same calories. All I know is that it requires a lot less than cattle.

[miauw62]

Isn't insect beef usually made in factories anyway? It's not like they harvest it from a forest.

[Descan]

I wouldn't know. All I know is that it'd require a fair few insect farms to replace cattle, and/or a fair bit of agriculture devoted to insect feed. How much, I don't know.

[miauw62]

Probably less than cattle, and even if it's not, insects can be held on otherwise infertile ground,so you can use the other ground that you were using for cattle to make said insect feed :V (alright I guess cattle would be better in that case (disregarding moral reasons))

[scrdest]

http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-google-is-making-real-human-skin-2015-1?r=US
Meanwhile, Google studying the light transport properties of human skin as part of a study on blood-born nanoparticles for disease detection.

If any large company was to take over the world, I think I'd like google to.

I wouldn't. They would make sky green one day, then refuse to change it in your area until you gave them all your personal information.

E: Apparently Google does not approve of this post. Literally five minutes after posting this, my Google Chrome decided that the best way to update itself is to crash itself and lose all saved tabs. Google 1, me 0.

[That Wolf]

Green skys arnt possible.

[scrdest]

Green skys arnt possible.

Watch out for your head, you can get a nasty trauma from one o' those low-flying, devious, savage rhetorical devices.

[That Wolf]

I wanted sombody to prove me wrong not use a passive agressive technique that you are so adept at 

[Sheb]

This guy disagrees. And good book BTW.

[MaximumZero]

Skies can look green during storms. Yeah, it's a thing.

[i2amroy]

http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-google-is-making-real-human-skin-2015-1?r=US
Meanwhile, Google studying the light transport properties of human skin as part of a study on blood-born nanoparticles for disease detection.

If any large company was to take over the world, I think I'd like google to.

Google has already taken over the world, it's just that they don't like to go around flaunting it.

[Helgoland]

Skies can look green during storms. Yeah, it's a thing.

Oh yes they can. I was at school during Kyrill, the worst storm of my lifetime - the whole sky was pitch-black, and the horizon was glowing an eerie green...

[Solifuge]

Skies can look green during storms. Yeah, it's a thing.

Max, I've seen skies like that once or twice here in Michigan, yeah. Once before a tornado, the other time at school. Green-black, violent lightning, and so much rain that you couldn't see farther than 2 or 3 feet in front of you. It was really cool.

Green skys arnt possible.

I've looked into the optics and chemistry of sky color a bit before. and think you could get a permanently green sky in at least 2 ways:

A. Mars' sky is red because of iron-oxide dust floating in the atmosphere. With high winds and a lot of dust from green minerals (probably copper-oxides?), the sky could be cloudy green.

II) You could have a green sky under some chlorine atmospheres, but in order to be high enough concentration to affect sky color, it'd probably block a lot of light. Not sure if Raleigh Scattering would work the same way, but if so yellow-green Chlorine Dioxide might be shifted bluer to be a middle green.

[Gentlefish]

Also the green skies during some storms are actually green. It's a mixture of the sunset red filter and the heavy rain blue scatter that will confer a green colouration to the clouds and sky.