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Deep Time:
Strauss, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Calculator;
Map,
The Solar System
(to scale)
If each step you took measured a year, how far would you have
to walk from Gilman to get to the following destinations? Where on the map
would you wind up? At 15 minutes
per mile, how long would it take you to get there?
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Greek Golden Age Begins:
500 BC (1.4 miles) ;
21 minutes
- Agricultural
Revolution: 10,000 BC (6.8 miles); 1
hour and 42 minutes
- Ice Age Ends: 18,000
BC (11.35 miles); 2 hours and 50 minutes
- Cave Art:
50,000 BC (29.5 miles); 7 hours and 22 minutes
- The Cognitive Revolution: 60,000 BC
- Homo sapiens: 250,000
BC (285 miles); 71 hours and fifteen minutes
- Homo Erectus: 1, 800,000 BC (1.8 X 10>6)
- Lucy (Australopithecus
afarensis): 3,200,000 BC (3.2 X 10>6) (1805 miles); nearly
nineteen days
- Luca: Life on Earth Begins:
3,500,000,000 BC (3.5 X 10>9) about thirty-two years
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Earth
Forms: 4,570,000,000 BC (4.57 X 10>9) (2.5 million miles); 71.35 years
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Big
Bang: 13,700,000,000 BC (13.7 X 10>9) (6.81 million miles); about 194
years
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