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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] jaybone 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t Darwin have already known that the Greeks had calculated the circumference of the earth like 2000 years before him?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

A slow enough rate of expansion would make 2000 years negligible. Same with plate tectonics.

[–] captainlezbian 9 points 7 months ago

And like it was Darwin, I can give him a pass on not knowing the time scale of speciation

[–] afraid_of_zombies 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Deep time is so annoying. Here I am walking around thinking that I am the main event. And really I will be dead for decades in 1 855,000th of the amount of time from us to the dinosaurs. What the hell universe!? There shouldn't be 855,000 human lifespans between us and a bunch of overgrown lizards-bird things.