Make's you realise how insignificant we are in terms of the life of the world.
Dinosaurs ruled this planet for 165 MILLION years they went extinct around 65 million years ago.
First human life is only around 300 thousand years old.
We are babies by comparison. |
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By *ltra72Man 10 weeks ago
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"Make's you realise how insignificant we are in terms of the life of the world.
Dinosaurs ruled this planet for 165 MILLION years they went extinct around 65 million years ago.
First human life is only around 300 thousand years old.
We are babies by comparison."
If you was a dinosaur, which on would you be |
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Yep, but another way of looking at this achieved more than any other species, invented millions of things, culture, religion, art, music and travelled beyond our planet , all in just the last 10k years , so extraordinarily significant…. |
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"Make's you realise how insignificant we are in terms of the life of the world.
Dinosaurs ruled this planet for 165 MILLION years they went extinct around 65 million years ago.
First human life is only around 300 thousand years old.
We are babies by comparison.
If you was a dinosaur, which on would you be"
Iguanodon coz they is cool like the fonze  |
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By *ltra72Man 10 weeks ago
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"Make's you realise how insignificant we are in terms of the life of the world.
Dinosaurs ruled this planet for 165 MILLION years they went extinct around 65 million years ago.
First human life is only around 300 thousand years old.
We are babies by comparison.
If you was a dinosaur, which on would you be
Iguanodon coz they is cool like the fonze "
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By (user no longer on site) 10 weeks ago
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And when you think the planet is 4 billion years old, what was happening in the 3.5 billion years before dinosaurs. Human existence is just a flash in the pan |
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"Yep, but another way of looking at this achieved more than any other species, invented millions of things, culture, religion, art, music and travelled beyond our planet , all in just the last 10k years , so extraordinarily significant…."
Does any of it mean much though if we don’t colonise distant worlds &/or make contact with aliens before we make ourselves extinct?
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"Make's you realise how insignificant we are in terms of the life of the world.
Dinosaurs ruled this planet for 165 MILLION years they went extinct around 65 million years ago.
First human life is only around 300 thousand years old.
We are babies by comparison.
If you was a dinosaur, which on would you be"
Not a T-Rex: All the other dino's would take the piss out of my shorts arms. Not to mention long pockets.  Jus sayin.
Probably a lickalotofpus |
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"Make's you realise how insignificant we are in terms of the life of the world.
Dinosaurs ruled this planet for 165 MILLION years they went extinct around 65 million years ago.
First human life is only around 300 thousand years old.
We are babies by comparison."
You are absolutely right. Worse part is will will destroy ourselves before to become toddlers. |
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"And when you think the planet is 4 billion years old, what was happening in the 3.5 billion years before dinosaurs. Human existence is just a flash in the pan"
If you compressed Earth's 4.5 billion-year history into a single 24-hour day, humanity's existence would barely register on the clock. In this timeline, humans wouldn't appear until 11:58:43 PM. |
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"And when you think the planet is 4 billion years old, what was happening in the 3.5 billion years before dinosaurs. Human existence is just a flash in the pan"
And finding another planet with life on it is very unlikely if you consider the timeliness that have to align. |
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Greenpeace used to do a leaflet condensing our 4.6 billion year old planet into 46 years:
‘The Earth is 4.6 billion years old.
Let's scale that to 46 years.
We've been here for 4 hours.
Since then we've destroyed more than a third of the world's forests.
Half of that happened in the last minute’
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By *ltra72Man 10 weeks ago
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"Make's you realise how insignificant we are in terms of the life of the world.
Dinosaurs ruled this planet for 165 MILLION years they went extinct around 65 million years ago.
First human life is only around 300 thousand years old.
We are babies by comparison.
If you was a dinosaur, which on would you be
Not a T-Rex: All the other dino's would take the piss out of my shorts arms. Not to mention long pockets. Jus sayin.
Probably a lickalotofpus "
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"It's why I kind of laugh when people say that humans are killing the planet. The planet will be fine; we, on the other hand, would be fucked."
Agreed, it’s complete arrogance for us to believe our presence is affecting the planet, I worry more about the next meteor (currently think about it zero times a day) than any climate change theory. |
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Here are a couple of wibbly wobbly timeywimy facts that blew my mind.
Dinosaurs were around for so long that there were dinosaurs in the deep fossil record, at the same time as there were dinosaurs roaming the earth.
And, a more recent one
Stonehenge was older to the Roman empire, than the Roman empire is to us. |
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By *avinci4Man 10 weeks ago
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One more sobering thought:
Top 4 chemically active elements in your body by quantity:
- Hydrogen
- Oxygen
- Carbon
- Nitrogen
Top 4 Elements of the "usual matter" in the Universe:
- Hydrogen (and Helium - chemically inert)
- Oxygen
- Carbon
- Nitrogen
All elements in our bodies (except Hydrogen) were forged at the heart of massive stars that exploded their enriched guts out into Cosmos, and then elemental dust bunnies (planets) were formed around 2nd-3rd gen stars. We are made of Star Dust (or fusion ash) |
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