Might be time to put your life in perspective

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Think of that from another perspective.

  Assuming human lifetime to be 70 years:

  • 0.4 lifetimes ago, the term “smartphone” was first used

  • 0.5 lifetimes ago, Internet became a thing

  • 1.7 lifetimes ago, first airplane rose in the sky

  • 3 lifetimes ago, we got the first Turing-complete computer

  • 6 lifetimes ago, we started discovering electricity

  • 8 lifetimes ago, Middle Ages came to a close

  • 20 lifetimes ago you’d be at the end of what we now as antiquity.

  • 75 lifetimes ago you’d be at the beginning of Ancient Egypt and the early Bronze Age.

  • 105 lifetimes ago you would witness the beginning of first human civilizations.

  • 150 lifetimes ago people invented agriculture

  • 4300 lifetimes ago humans as we know them appeared

  History is speeding up, and today one human life is enough to witness a change our ancestors wouldn’t see in a millennia.

  Sure, we are, as always, grains of sand in the desert of eternity, but we are grains that matter. That make a change. Every day.

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  • piwakawakas@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s one thing to know this, but seeing it succinctly like this is rather profound

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Eternity: vast and unsympathetic, big but meaningless, awesome in scope but profoundly empty

  My life on Earth: just for me, connected to many others of equal specialness, meaningful because of its finite nature

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• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this some religious bullshit that I’m too woke to understand?

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  • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s just that eternity is a long time, especially towards the end

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  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, it’s basically the same thing as Carl Sagan’s cosmic calendar

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It does have that religious understanding of eternity.

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• nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Both of these pictures are pretty much exactly the same compared to actual infinity/eternity. Entropy might also like to have a word about whether or not eternity is even possible.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, entropy is eternal

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    • nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Entropy is a concept used to describe, calculate and predict natural phenomena, it doesn’t physically exist.

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• Alloi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  kill me so i can rejoin the eternity desert please, i hate waiting for the apocolypse and still having to pay bills in the meantime.

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  *approximate eternity

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Imagine how grand and rewarding a task it would be for us to reach out and grab more than a few grains of that desert.

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