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200k years ago, that's incredible, not even the wildest science fiction can imagine what the world will look like 200k years from now

toshk 5y ago
The assumption by some of the scientist is that the handprints were created in the mud and then stones formed. But others question this, could also be created after: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/art-not-ancient-handprints-spark-debate-rcna2028 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/art-not-ancient... It's very common to find handprints in the Himalayas in rocks, they are everywhere.
axiosgunnar 5y ago
probably like Mercury looks today - a ball of fire
- bradlys 5y ago
  Maybe you mean Venus. Regardless of which - it's a massive over exaggeration. We're not gonna be experiencing fluctuations of 500C+ on the surface of our planet or an atmospheric pressure of 90x+ ours.
- Bobylonian 5y ago
  Mercury today is ball of fire from one side and ball of cold charcoal from other. 200k is quite a massive time period and the only thing is certain that modern humans would be long dead and most of them would share fate of Denisovans, where most of modern people would not be direct ancestors to people of that distant future. That is a very long time for humanity to exterminate itself to near extinction and achieve the same technological level 3-4 times over again.
booleandilemma 5y ago
Hopefully people thinking about us 200k years from now will consider us as primitive as we consider the people from 200k years ago.
sojournerc 5y ago
Last and First Men https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men
adolph 5y ago
Well, not to give away the plot, but two of the things that happen are the Y10k event and then the Y100K event. You’d think people would be well prepared but people are still people—there is a ton more legacy code each time and they don’t know if the fixes will really work until it happens.

toshk 5y ago

The assumption by some of the scientist is that the handprints were created in the mud and then stones formed. But others question this, could also be created after: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/art-not-ancient-handprints-spark-debate-rcna2028 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/art-not-ancient... It's very common to find handprints in the Himalayas in rocks, they are everywhere.

axiosgunnar 5y ago

probably like Mercury looks today - a ball of fire

bradlys 5y ago
Maybe you mean Venus. Regardless of which - it's a massive over exaggeration. We're not gonna be experiencing fluctuations of 500C+ on the surface of our planet or an atmospheric pressure of 90x+ ours.
Bobylonian 5y ago
Mercury today is ball of fire from one side and ball of cold charcoal from other. 200k is quite a massive time period and the only thing is certain that modern humans would be long dead and most of them would share fate of Denisovans, where most of modern people would not be direct ancestors to people of that distant future. That is a very long time for humanity to exterminate itself to near extinction and achieve the same technological level 3-4 times over again.

booleandilemma 5y ago

Hopefully people thinking about us 200k years from now will consider us as primitive as we consider the people from 200k years ago.

sojournerc 5y ago

Last and First Men https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men

adolph 5y ago

Well, not to give away the plot, but two of the things that happen are the Y10k event and then the Y100K event. You’d think people would be well prepared but people are still people—there is a ton more legacy code each time and they don’t know if the fixes will really work until it happens.