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I love these reminders that we are so very small and fairly new to this place!
And yet we seem to have accomplished so much, both in advancing humanity as well as in doing damage to nature.
We have a vision of the past, of the future, of a huge portion of the universe. And that's not nothing.
Nice, although not very informative, since you somewhat loose perspective with each step.
Isn't that (loosing yourself in the grand scheme of things) the whole point of the animation ? A bit like Power of Ten [1] and Scale of the Universe [2] but with time instead of space. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 [2] http://www.htwins.net/scale2/
What was before the universe?
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I think it's nice that it leaves you to draw your own conclusion, and doesn't preach or talk down to you, one way or the other.
Thanks! I like these scales, how small the Earth is, how young humanity is. But once someone starts preaching about how this means we are insignificant I lose interest quickly. If we are the only sentient life in the universe, then we are extremely significant in the grand scheme of things. If there was/is a god or another alien civilization from another universe, they would certainly conclude that the evolution of s…
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Thanks! I like these scales, how small the Earth is, how young humanity is. But once someone starts preaching about how this means we are insignificant I lose interest quickly. If we are the only sentient life in the universe, then we are extremely significant in the grand scheme of things. If there was/is a god or another alien civilization from another universe, they would certainly conclude that the evolution of s…
You should stop and count the assumptions in your statement there.
I guess what I wrote is entirely subjective, I wonder how many people would agree or disagree with my statement, or at least my feeling towards how others would view our sentience and life in general?
I really don't think humanity and life is insignificant even when we are small in comparison to giant stars and distances and short-lived in comparison to the age of the universe.
What was before the universe?
Pick... some?
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I always wonder how scientists do know that something was 25, 540 million or 2.560 billion years ago.
Carbon Dating
There are many other forms of radiometric dating, though. Uranium-lead dating has proven relatively accurate for periods of time between 1 million to 4.5 billion years ago.
Note: I'm not a geologist. I remembered that carbon was only effective for a few thousand years from a geology course I had in college, but all of this information is actually taken from articles on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
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Carbon Dating
With out knowing, I some how got involved with carbon dating. I must have, I married a diamond..... Two reactions to that, either: ahhhhh sweeeeeeet, or I feel sick, pass me a bucket. So, up vote for sweet, or down vote for bucket. :) (Normally I like a Sunday rant. I feel different today)