• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    I wish the human brain was built to understand numbers this big… Maybe we wouldn’t have let it get to this.

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      For the record that’s about as far back as the first "homo"s appeared. Homo Erectus, Homo Habilus, and of course us, Homo Sapiens. So he would be working from the time that the first thing we could mostly call humans first appeared, through some ice ages, through agriculture, and the entirety of human unrecorded and recorded history. 24/7/365 with zero breaks. Truly, we cannot comprehend these numbers