200k years ago, that's incredible, not even the wildest science fiction can imagine what the world will look like 200k years from now
200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring
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#22200k years ago, that's incredible, not even the wildest science fiction can imagine what the world will look like 200k years from now
probably like Mercury looks today - a ball of fire
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#23Found at 14,000ft on the Tibetan Plateau. Very likely altitude adapted denisovans, whose genetic adaptations to living in such low oxygen are still present in modern day Tibetans. Really incredible.
I wonder how high it was 200k years ago. Edit: another comment mentions the mountains were formed 40-50 million years ago. So I would presume roughly the same height.
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#25Whenever I see things like this, I'm reminded of Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End.
spoilers
I like to imagine I've been given the device used by the overlords to monitor earth for X years, and I can stand affixed in a position to experience the timelapse as I push "rewind". It would be so cool to watch history unfold this way.
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#26Found at 14,000ft on the Tibetan Plateau. Very likely altitude adapted denisovans, whose genetic adaptations to living in such low oxygen are still present in modern day Tibetans. Really incredible.
I wonder how high it was 200k years ago. Edit: another comment mentions the mountains were formed 40-50 million years ago. So I would presume roughly the same height.
And they’re really young for mountains (which is why they’re so high!)
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#27Art is (almost) forever.
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#28It’s inspiring to get hints at what life was like back then when the universe was younger.
When the universe was an appreciable fraction younger, all life on Earth was unicellular.
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#29200k years ago, that's incredible, not even the wildest science fiction can imagine what the world will look like 200k years from now
probably like Mercury looks today - a ball of fire
Maybe you mean Venus.
Regardless of which - it's a massive over exaggeration. We're not gonna be experiencing fluctuations of 500C+ on the surface of our planet or an atmospheric pressure of 90x+ ours.
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#30In case anyone else forgot the timeline, I just googled, and there’s evidence going back to ~2 million years ago of huminoids in Eurasia.
Wouldn’t that upend most theories about when the people who left Africa left Africa? Never mind, new estimates go as far back as 300,000ya.
most of the established timelines are based on "well this is the oldest thing we've found so far". most of it is probably wrong