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by macNchz
971 days ago
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> 500m years seems like a long time. It is not. I mean...talking about timelines like that is difficult because of the way we perceive time, I think most people can't have any reasonable discussion about something that far out. If we try to make it more comprehensible by saying humans have existed for 200k years and have 500m before Earth is uninhabitable, humanity is the equivalent of 12 days old in the scope of an 85 year life expectancy. We're newborns in diapers drinking milk, thinking about what kind of inheritance we'll leave for our great grandkids. |
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I know, aren't humans awesome?
Most species just eat all the corn and die, or convert the atmosphere oxygen causing a mass extinction.
Humans are looking up and going "oh wait, we are causing a problem, how do we solve this?" and then they follow it up with "and even if we solve it, we need to do something about the whole carbon cycle thing ending, how do we get life off this rock?"
I don't know of any other species that has gotten anywhere close to this.
Humans are great.