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'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next (www.livescience.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the grand scheme of things the pyramids were built relatively recently, but I'd still consider it quite long ago

[–] stoly 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Measured in human life it’s long ago. measured at universal scales, it was nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A good measurement for human timescales is the age difference between a child and their grandfather (~50 years, basically one generation of oral tradition).
The mammoths died out 80 grandfathers ago.

[–] stoly 2 points 2 months ago

That's an interesting unit of measure for sure. I do get what you're saying--that's sort of the limit to where some knowledge can reach.