Dinosaurs
So, maybe I’m just a simple person with a simple brain but I just read this fact and it is BLOWING MY MIND:
Early humans, or Homo sapiens, evolved just under 65 million years after dinosaurs died out.
SIXTY FIVE MILLION YEARS. How fucking long is that?! I generally try not to pay attention to these kind of earth history facts, because I’ll just stand there staring off into space thinking "WHooooooaaaaa man, that is insane. THAT IS SUCH A LONG TIME." And that’s just the gap between dinosaurs and humans. EARLY humans. What the fuck! Sometimes I’m like "urgghhhh this thing that takes ten minutes is taking AGES. TEN MINUTES IS AGES." and then I hear "sixty five million years" and I’m just like…. "My mind has turned into an Escher painting, help meeeeeeee!"
And then i forget that fact and just continue with my day as if nothing ever happened.
If I didn’t push these crazy things to the back of my head, I don’t think I would ever get anything done. Like, think about how massive and big the universe is. WHhhhooooooaaaaasososoaooOQOsiaoiieufjhe. My mind has fallen into some sort of infinite black hole of ever expanding size and depth, swirling and climbing and falling and rowing and shrinking and ARGGHHHHHHH!
And now let’s just pretend that fact doesn’t exist.
Aaaaand back to work.
Oh god, that’s exactly how I feel when I look at stars. I’m all like “Oh my god that light is SOOOOOO old and SOOOOOOO far away” heaven forbid if I look up at the night sky whilst stoned
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What’s the huge smiley for?
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ryn: Ha! There must have been some kind of memo going around, telling everyone to light up.
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Your fact blew my mind a little and I pretty much had the exact same train of thought that you described. Damn.
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