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Nobody can comprehend these differences in order of magnitude.The human brain cannot handle it.

 

I recommend having a look at it.Very well put together.Just use the sliding scale on the bottom.

 

 

 

 

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/589217

 

Just look how tiny we are in the scale of things.

 

I love thinking about massive scales of things. A few weeks ago I did an (approximate) calculation to figure out a visual representation of how long humans had been around. If the age of the universe is represented by a straight line 8087 miles long them we wpuld have been around roughly 8 inches of that.

 

Cheers for the link :hihi:

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If the age of the universe is represented by a straight line 8087 miles long them we wpuld have been around roughly 8 inches of that.

 

Cheers for the link :hihi:

 

In similar fashion when compared to a 24 hour clock we have been around for less than 1 minute and the industrial revaluation less than 1 second.

 

Life on Earth (app. 3.8 Ga) 4:10 AM

 

Eucaryots (app. 2.1 Ga) 13:02 PM

 

Metazoans (1.2 Ga?) 17:44 PM

 

Chordates (565 Ma) 21:03 PM

 

Phanerozoicum (CAMBRIAN 542 Ma) 21:10 PM

 

ORDOVICIAN (488.3 Ma) 21:27 PM

 

Land dwelling plants (475 Ma) 21:31 PM

 

SILURIAN (443.7 Ma) 21:41 PM

 

Land dwelling animals 21:46 PM

 

DEVONIAN (416.0 Ma) 21:49 PM

 

Semi-aquatic vertebrates (360 Ma) 22:07 PM

 

CARBONIFEROUS (359.2 Ma) 22:07 PM

 

Reptiles (340 Ma) 22:13 PM

 

PERMIAN (299.0 Ma) 22:26 PM

 

TRIASSIC (251.0 Ma) 22:41 PM

 

Dinosaurs (235 Ma) 22:46 PM

 

Mammals (225 Ma) 22:49 PM

 

JURASSIC (199.6 Ma) 22:57 PM

 

Birds (147 Ma) 23:14 PM

 

CRETACEOUS (145.5 Ma) 23:14 PM

 

PALEOCENE (65.5 Ma) 23:39 PM

 

EOCENE (55.8 Ma) 23:42 PM

 

OLIGOCENE (33.9 Ma) 23:49 PM

 

MIOCENE (23.03 Ma) 23:52 PM

 

Common ape-human ancestor (7 Ma) 23:57 PM

 

PLIOCENE (5.33 Ma) 23:58 PM

 

PLEISTOCENE (1.81 Ma) 23:59:26 PM

 

Homo sapiens (165.000) 23:59:56,9 PM

 

"Out of Africa" (100.000) 23:59:58,1 PM

 

Homo s. sapiens (35.000) 23:59:59,3 PM

 

Extinction of neanderthals (25.000) 23:59:59,5 PM

 

HOLOCENE (0.01 Ma) 23:59:59,8 PM

 

Oldest civilizations (3.500) 23:59:59,9 PM

 

Industrial revolution (250) 23:59:59,999 ?

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