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Monthly Archives: April 2011
How to get your arms around a billion years
Any dog knows that humans have very poor senses of hearing and smelling. We don’t have a very good sense of time either. We really have no sense of our own lifespan, let alone a billion years. Our planet is thought to … Continue reading
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A starting point.
Astronomers tell us we only have a billion years left before a senescent sun burns us out of here. This is a haha at a facebook timescale, but in the big picture it means that life on earth is very … Continue reading
