Timeline of the Human Condition
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Timeline of the Human Condition
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#2I want to know when existential dread became a part of the human condition.
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#3I want to know when existential dread became a part of the human condition.
According to the table, it seems that happened ~2,800,000 years ago.
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#4Civilization - a superorganism consisting of all of us - is growing by leaps and bounds.
Hopefully it eats the whole universe one day
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#5This basically just a page full of spoilers for the game civilization
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#6I want to know when existential dread became a part of the human condition.
> “The story so far:
> In the beginning the Universe was created.
> This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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#7I want to know when existential dread became a part of the human condition.
> 2006 | launch of microblogging service Twitter
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#8I love this. The format, the brevity, the links to resources. Bookmarked.
Also... would you look at that! Thousands of items, and no issues with scrolling!
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#9This is excellent! I have been looking for a timeline like this for a while.
If I could submit a feature request, it would be to add some mechanism for generating more visual timelines for specific themes. For example, I wish I could create a timeline of diet-related events displayed horizontally, with the x-axis being time.
Regardless, excellent content, and thanks for sharing!
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#10The note at the end puts this timeline into calendar years, which is mind-blowing:
> Rescaled to a calendar year, starting with the big bang at 00:00:00 on 1 January ( ), the Sun forms on 1 September ( ), the Earth on 2 September ( ), earliest signs of life appear on 13 September ( ), earliest true mammals on 26 December ( ), and humans just 2 hours before year’s end ( ).
> For a year that starts with the earliest true mammals ( ), the dinosaurs go extinct on 17 August ( ), earliest primates appear on 9 September ( ), and humans at dawn of 25 December ( ).
> For a year that starts with the earliest humans ( ), our own species appears on 19 November ( ), the first built constructions on 8 December ( ), and agricultural farming begins at midday on 29 December ( ).