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Originally Posted by Imperator
You know seriously, everyone needs to sand back for a minute, imagine if you will, looking a the timeline on the floor in a large building or out doors where you have enough space and clear your head, totally outside yourself, at least try and drop pre conceived judgments, and start at say 1950's and there after as on a number line add in all the forecasted environmental/ecological scares/events that took place and where all supposed, at the time, to be the real deal......
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Hey, you sound like Carl Segan!
I seem to remember him displaying this concept of time in his Cosmos series, or maybe it was some other program. It went something like: Lay out the history of the Earth on a long timeline, say the length of a football field. If the planet was created at one goal line, mankind didn't come along until the last half inch before the opposite goal line.
The concept of very long lengths of time can be hard for people to grasp. Segan had a great knack for simple analogies that made things easier to understand.