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Re: Here is today

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Post by josephagoss »

TheBoff wrote: post #19
jschuur wrote: post #12

I expected to see some kind of reminder to put your life (or our society) into perspective, based on the vast cosmological timeframes).

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 sentient life is one of the top ten wonders of this universe.

I get tired of all this "insignificant" talk, its simply not true. Our minds are perhaps behind the wonder of life in the first place, but not that far behind, and life is one of the greatest things about our universe. How inanimate material started to think and move and do things. I think that is in no way insignificant, even if life only exists for a fraction of the time the universe will exist.

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Post by alan_cx »

maresca wrote: post #16
apunic wrote: post #14

I always wonder how scientists do know that something was 25, 540 million or 2.560 billion years ago.

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)

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Post by Scriptor »

PetitPrince wrote: post #15
tzaman wrote: post #6

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/

I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but for me the most striking point was when it circled back to today. It was a reminder that in that grand scheme of things, there's some stuff you do control. Now, time to get that stuff I was planning to do done.

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Post by baby »

I've always wanted to do something like that! It's brilliant. You should add "here is your grand-grand mother, what's her name?" and "here will be your potential grand grand son, do you think they'll remember your name?"
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