[QUOTE=153x;43071230][img]http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/12/05/science/05dna-1/05dna-1-articleLarge.jpg[/img]
Also in the article, "An artist's interpretation of the hominins that lived near the Sima de los Huesos cave in Spain."
Really makes you wonder how much different they were compared to us.[/QUOTE]
lookit the guy on the left. Forkbeards represent!
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;43075101]I always get a chuckle out of the people who out rightly deny the possibility of past civilizations whose records were utterly destroyed. What could we make that will last 400,000 years?[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure all the capitols and other massive constructions we've built around the globe will last a HECK of a long time. Even if left totally unattended.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;43077266] There's landbridges and places like Doggerland that disappeared followed the Ice Age, but the position of the continents hasn't changed worth a damn. My dick's probably larger that the total amount of distance moved in the last ten thousand years.
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You're right in that half a million years ago the continents were essentially located the same but that last sentence is lol
you don't have a 110 meter dick, do you? Cause 10 000 years at ~1.1 cm a year for the North American plate nets you that.
[QUOTE=EcksDee;43077578]You're right in that half a million years ago the continents were essentially located the same but that last sentence is lol
you don't have a 110 meter dick, do you? Cause 10 000 years at ~1.1 cm a year for the North American plate nets you that.[/QUOTE]
Why don't you hop over the North Sea and see for yourself?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;43071209]It's weird knowing that humans have been around to close to half a million years yet all we have of recorded history has been in the past few thousand.[/QUOTE]
I do wonder what caused the start of the whole exponential growth of technology/civilization. Is there just a certain threshold where an animal gains the capability to begin that exponential rollercoaster. Did it start with simple stone tools? Did it start with agriculture? What caused us to all of a sudden realize something we hadn't in a million years?
goddammit man
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;43077535]Pretty sure all the capitols and other massive constructions we've built around the globe will last a HECK of a long time. Even if left totally unattended.[/QUOTE]
The Earth has a way of taking things back, however there's 4 things I can think of that I can't see completely disappearing for a long time, things that could clue future civilizations into our existence if we stop existing:
Metal rails, I-beams, the like.
Underground Nuclear Bunkers.
Nuclear Waste Dumps.
Plastics.
Teachers were telling us bullshit... all these years...
Denisovans in Spain? Both them and Neanderthals are thought to have interbred with sapiens. but if Denisovans prove to be more wide spread than previously thought, why is their genetic heritage so much smaller?
[QUOTE=153x;43071230][img]http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/12/05/science/05dna-1/05dna-1-articleLarge.jpg[/img]
Also in the article, "An artist's interpretation of the hominins that lived near the Sima de los Huesos cave in Spain."
Really makes you wonder how much different they were compared to us.[/QUOTE]
A race of people who all looked like what happens when you click randomise on oblivion
[QUOTE=Ivars;43077896]Teachers were telling us bullshit... all these years...[/QUOTE]
Uh, no? How did you get that from this article?
[QUOTE=Benjimon007;43078026]Denisovans in Spain? Both them and Neanderthals are thought to have interbred with sapiens. but if Denisovans prove to be more wide spread than previously thought, why is their genetic heritage so much smaller?[/QUOTE]
sapiens liked that neanderthal booty more I guess
[QUOTE=lifehole;43077642]I do wonder what caused the start of the whole exponential growth of technology/civilization. Is there just a certain threshold where an animal gains the capability to begin that exponential rollercoaster. Did it start with simple stone tools? Did it start with agriculture? What caused us to all of a sudden realize something we hadn't in a million years?
goddammit man[/QUOTE]
Technology has always snowballed because the more technology man has made, the more free time members of society have to create more technology.
Using stone tools to cut wood and carve meat made it get done faster with less energy, meaning there was more time and energy to put into other activities. These activities were eventually put toward farming, which freed up even more time and energy when you don't have to worry every single day where your next meal would come from.
[QUOTE=nick_9_8;43074979]Um no this isn't real the bible says do[/QUOTE]
Bloody stereotype-r's.
It is in fact possible, that we Christians are not total derps who think humans haven't been around for quite a fricken long while.
[QUOTE=frozensoda;43073882]Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't it possible for shifting ground to fuck up the test they use for age? I mean, suppose an earthquake happens, and sends it 20 or 30 feet lower than where it was originally preserved, wouldn't that make it seem older than it is?[/QUOTE]
If there's DNA, and you know the rate of mutations, you can look at common regions of DNA from extant related species (like us) and roughly determine the age just by comparing the 2. Calculations work the same way as carbon dating, as random mutations occur every x years on average. No rocks needed.
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