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This solar system orbits the galactic center every 250 million years or so; making us a young adult of around 18 Galactic years old, living in a suburb of quite
by lovemenot 11y ago
This solar system orbits the galactic center every 250 million years or so; making us a young adult of around 18 Galactic years old, living in a suburb of quite a busy galaxy.
Every eighteen year-old suburbanite[1] has already been pretty well socialised by local interactions in the context of a global system of local interactions, performed massively in parallel.
[1] metaphors mixed and units of measure utterly messed-around with
- IanCal 11y agoI love this galactic orbit measure of things. Dinosaurs like the Iguanadon were alive ~125mya, which means that the impressive thing when looking at a fossil is not that it's old, it's that it came from the other side of the galaxy. You can go and pick up a trilobite that's coming up to its third orbit. Yes, I know, it's still from Earth, but I do think it's a weird way of looking at dinosaur fossils. More other-side-of-the-galaxy dinosaurs: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/mesozoic/cretaceous/ec.shtml http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/mesozoic...
- TeMPOraL 11y agoGrabs the Iguanodon skull - What did you see out there? What horrors and wonders hide on the other side of space? Tell me, what did you see?
- cfontes 11y agoAwesome observation, thanks for it.