"putting time in perspective," and some fun facts!

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Must have missed it, before... :-s

What were we talking about? ah, time and perspective...
According to "Einstein":
- If you spend 4 hours with a beautiful girl, it will seem as though only 5 minutes passed by.
- If you spend 5 minutes with your hand over a burning fire, it will seem as though 4 hours have passed.

In essence, time flies, when you're having fun - that is relativity.

Haha, anyway, getting back to the OP...

I thought it was interesting to see all the stuff about the history of life on Earth and the universe. What did you think?

Oh..... that time... see? I didn't follow the link, or didn't read its contents and then I screwed up!

I'm always blown away at the timescales involved with anything cosmically speaking, or geologically speaking...
I liked the approach that they used on the new Cosmos, where they compressed the whole time since the Big bang until now, into one calendar year:

(this image is huge, so feel free to right click and open it on a different tab so you can expand it)

The Earth shows up in September... life somewhere in late October to early November... sex starts at the very ending of November... Dinosaurs die out at the 30th of December. We, humans, are a blip on this cosmic calendar... and yet, some think we're so important...