• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    That was my point.

    We’re a blip to the earth, as my mentor George Carlin said, a surface nuisance.

    To our living Earth, that is no time at all, but from our perspective and limited ability to fully appreciate scales like that, a million years might as well be infinity years.

    Humanity will be Lucky to be a sentence in the encyclopedia of life that started billions of years ago that will likely end when our sun begins to destabilize into a red giant in another couple billion.