Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals

Re:Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth m... by dieselgate on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @01:18PM (#40648935)

Pretty crazy how that’s not even 1k years ago. Humans have been the same for like, at least dozens of thousands of years? Maybe even more?

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Re:Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth m... by temp0826 on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @01:36PM (#40649170)

Homo sapiens (with the exact hardware that we carry today) emerged ~300k years ago. Wikipedia says-

"Humans began exhibiting behavioral modernity about 160,000–70,000 years ago, and possibly earlier."

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Re:Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth m... by datameta on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:13PM (#40649590)

I think modern hardware would be more like 200k, no? I believe 300k is robust/archaic Homo sapiens.

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