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[–] foggy 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It would if people had any tangible idea of how long 3.7 million years is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Well it's slightly longer than the genus Homo first appeared, so yeah longer than the lifetime of all human like "animals".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It's the length of the combined total working lives of an entire football stadium full of people.