200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring

Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by mensetmanusman on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:15PM (#28646640)

It’s inspiring to get hints at what life was like back then when the universe was younger.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by Razengan on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:16PM (#28646658)

I think that even at the scale of “just” a two hundred thousand years, to the universe it’s probably just yesterday.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by ASalazarMX on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:21PM (#28646711)

"When humanity was younger" would have been a perfect phrasing.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by dylan604 on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:41PM (#28646901)

or even just an hour ago.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by Sharlin on Friday September 24, 2021 @04:40PM (#28647531)

When the universe was an appreciable fraction younger, all life on Earth was unicellular.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by scollet on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:30PM (#28648060)

And those uncultured bastards didn't even think to leave a note.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by 7773777 on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:55PM (#28649744)

A monoculture is still a culture!

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by scollet on Sunday September 26, 2021 @10:35PM (#28666536)

My gut biome is just projecting.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by edgyquant on Saturday September 25, 2021 @01:25AM (#28650743)

It’s fascinating to think how they lived full lives and probably even pondered the ancients (relative to them.)

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by tejtm on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:43PM (#28646922)

It was, (and still is), 40-50 million years since the mountains formed.

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