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Also: Polaris (the north star) is younger than sharks. (This one is less interesting as an overall observation about timescales though. Polaris is just quite a
by bjackman 3y ago
Also: Polaris (the north star) is younger than sharks.
(This one is less interesting as an overall observation about timescales though. Polaris is just quite a young star and sharks are quite and old life form).
- vasco 3y agoTrees are also younger than sharks.
- Sharlin 3y agoAs the article implies, all the brightest stars in Orion are younger than hominids. Indeed they formed around the time when the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees lived.
- kibwen 3y agoPolaris as the north star is younger than the Roman Empire! Because of the precession of the Earth's axis, Polaris didn't become the north star until about 500 AD. To the ancient Egyptians, Thuban was the north star. When humans were first discovering agriculture 12,000 years ago, Vega was the north star. Wikipedia has a great table showing the cycle of north stars: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_star#Precession_of_the_equinoxes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_star#Precession_of_the_...
- xapata 3y agoSo, that "I am as constant as the northern star" simile is a little mixed?
- MichaelZuo 3y agoConstant for a few hundred years until they inevitably get knocked off track.
- throwup238 3y agoAnother fun fact: very early humans (Australopithecus) coexisted with megalodons, giant dinosaur sharks that could swallow a hairless ape whole.
- kbrkbr 3y agoI wonder what the probability was back then to die by shark and per prehistoric cow.
- Nition 3y agoSharks go back more than 3% of the way to the beginning of the universe.
- a_gnostic 3y agoThat's about 300 in Young-Earth Creationist years.
- mock-possum 3y agoThe rings of Saturn are also (probably) younger than sharks!