• illi@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

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

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      2 months ago

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

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        2 months ago

        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.

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          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.