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Civilization - a superorganism consisting of all of us - is growing by leaps and bounds. Hopefully it eats the whole universe one day
"I really hope it doesn't"
-- every individual of every non-human species everywhere else in the universe. Probably.
Civilization - a superorganism consisting of all of us - is growing by leaps and bounds. Hopefully it eats the whole universe one day
>Hopefully it eats the whole universe one day "I really hope it doesn't" -- every individual of every non-human species everywhere else in the universe. Probably.
This 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!
The 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 tr…
And humans tame fire at 11:46pm on December 31st. Every 0.2 seconds is a human lifetime. And all recorded history is just a few seconds. That's every person you've ever heard of, in the last ten seconds. Truly humbling.
I 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!
Is this taking a dig at React? If so, good one
The 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 tr…
As an aside, IIRC there‘s a „timeline of the universe“ on the outside of a spiral ramp at NYC‘s museum of natural history that does a similarly good job at driving this home.
This is awesome. I've been wanting to make an illustrated all-time timeline infographic that doesn't use AD/BC nonsense. I think I'll use this as a starting point!