The history of Earth as the length of a human’s outstretched arm - representing 4.5 billion years of time.
At this scale, humans emerged so recently that we could be filed off from a microscopic slice at the very tip of a fingernail.
Infographic by Katie Scott from original article in Nautilus. Details at https://ncse.ngo/deep-time-really-really-deep-man #space #time #science #SharedPlanet
At this scale, humans emerged so recently that we could be filed off from a microscopic slice at the very tip of a fingernail.
Infographic by Katie Scott from original article in Nautilus. Details at https://ncse.ngo/deep-time-really-really-deep-man #space #time #science #SharedPlanet
Deep time is, like, really, really deep, man | National Center for Science Education
Have you heard the joke about the museum guide who, when asncse.ngo
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Complex Life 1.5 Billion Years Ago?
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •If humans didn't evolve until the very tip of the fingernail, whose arm is it?
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •"However, time has turned, and we cannot go back. Populations have become almost completely integrated, our technology has progressed to fantastic and globally lethal levels, and sooner or later our sheer dumb luck will run out.
Without direction, without a plan, without common goals and purpose, our species, and our world, will fail.
All our history, all our dreams, all our knowledge, our anguish, our joy, our victories, our defeats, all of our passion, everything that was human, gone forever. As if it had never existed in time at all.
Could anyone, no matter their nationality or beliefs, want their children or grandchildren to live their last anguished moments of life in this failed world?
I think not."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave, 2005
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •"Fortunately, there is a curious and wonderful fact about humanity.
Whenever we come together to focus on and solve some seemingly insurmountable problem, we are successful.
From initially learning to navigate vast oceans, to understanding and curing disease, to placing humans on the moon and exploring the solar system beyond, our species record of technical achievement is truly stunning.
In fact, history clearly records that our progress as a species is not impeded by our inability to solve critical problems; it is instead impeded by our inability to recognize and focus on them.
We have survived thus far not by elegant planning, but simply because of our once isolated population groups, the relatively low level of past technologies, and sheer dumb luck."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave, 2005
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