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Re:Whistleblower tells Congress US is concealing 'multi-deca... by techbuttman on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:48PM (#36901151)
The universe is thought to be about 13.8 billion years old. The Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. I don't think humanity has even been around for 500k years.
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Re:Whistleblower tells Congress US is concealing 'multi-deca... by Shawnj2 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:55PM (#36901200)
Yep so life on earth evolved about as early as reasonably possible.
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Re:Whistleblower tells Congress US is concealing 'multi-deca... by gorjusborg on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:34AM (#36905914)
Easy to claim when your sample size is 1/1.

Hard to know for sure.

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Re:Whistleblower tells Congress US is concealing 'multi-deca... by Shawnj2 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:37PM (#36923140)
There are other factors that stop the kind of life we see on earth from appearing earlier in the universe’s history. For example the first stars (the pure hydrogen ones) could not have had planets that supported life and they burned too hot and quick to reasonably do so.
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