I.e. a tragedy.
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Timeline of the Human Condition
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#42Anyone knows how exactly scientists calculate the first number for example? What does a year mean at that point?
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#43big bang at 13 billion years ago and life on earth started 4 billion years ago. We can't honestly believe earth the only life planet.
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#44This 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!
What would you use instead?
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#45What do people think the last thing on this would be (for human condition, but not for Earth)?
Replacement by AI or aliens
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#46Well done, but politically charged. For example, why don't we see an item like "Human activity causes general climate warming trend but all-cause climate-related deaths (flood, drought, extreme temperatures) continue massive trend downward"?
https://ourworldindata.org/ofdacred-international-disaster-d... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.h... https://news.emory.edu/stories/2021/07/climate_change_heat_r...
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#47I can heartily recommend the recent season of Tides of History podcast if early human history interests you.
I find it particularly fascinating how we’ve already evolved biologically due to one of our inventions (fire control)
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#48The 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…
Started reading Smil‘s „Energy and Civilization“ recently and the sense of acceleration as you enter the last two centuries is almost palpable, absolutely mind-boggling once you start noticing it. 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.
"Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time" is also quite mindblowing and impressive.
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#49Each item is 33px tall, which on my screen, and for the sake of easy math, is ~1cm.
If every year got 1 row, and we were on a linear instead of a logarithmic-ish timescale, the start of section 1 (4.1 billion years ago), would be about 41,000km tall, which is slightly bigger than the circumference of the eath.
13.813 billion years at this scale, at 138,130km, is just over a third of the way to the moon.
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#50I wrote a shorter version and enlisted scientific illustrators to draw some pictures:
https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf
Here are the sources used to craft the book: