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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus by cgrealy on Friday September 18, 2020 @02:37PM (#24520354)
> 500+ million years is a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale.

How so? It’s 1/8 of the lifespan of the planet and about 3.5% of the age of the universe.

That is not “a blink of an eye”, that’s a pretty impressive innings by any definition.

Humans will be lucky if we make 1 million years at this rate.

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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus by bpizzi on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:24PM (#24522022)
Well, according to the Big Freeze theory (seems to be the most probable) 500 million years is less than a blink of an eye when compared to the time the universe will consume until it cannot anymore.
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