The Earth has been around for about 1/3 of the entire time the universe has existed.

Its extraordinary that at least on earth it took that long for life to develop that was intelligent enough to know this fact.

It literally took scales on the order of magnitude as the total time the universe has been existed to get where we are... sucks we are also on the verge of messing that all up.

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@freemo A persuasive argument has been made that there was a cognitive revolution in humans 70000 years ago that gave us the ability to have reached this conclusion. That is such a small interval on such unimaginable time scales.

Whenever I need an existential crisis I go to: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima

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