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#13 - ugoboom ONLINE (12/27/2015) [+] (4 replies)
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this post ****** with my mind harder than any of those other inforgraphics ever have
I want to get off OP's wild ride
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#3 - magicmace (12/26/2015) [-]
How can we be recording history for longer than we've been here...

it should be "represents all of time."
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#84 to #3 - fullfrontal ONLINE (12/27/2015) [-]
GOD GOOMBA CHOOS

that meaans yes recorded history is only the size of our arms and humans are the one fingernail slice. and yes we can go back millions of years arthropods dinosaurs hairy mamals yo mama etc we dont have to be there to know things were happening.


we still know they were around

you asking for how they felt or hwat?

also heres a pic yes we are only 48 secconds out of a 86400 seconds daily in the histy chart timeframe



"how can we history before we were. BECAUSE WERE HUMANS AND WERE LIKE NOTHING EVER BEFORE."
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User avatar #93 to #84 - coldclaws (12/28/2015) [-]
Recorded history implies we were around to record it, duh. That's different than history, which is what we know from clues of the past. Yes, we know that **** happened before there were humans, but nothing on our level of intellect was around to record events as they were happening.
Dumbass.
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#94 to #93 - fullfrontal ONLINE (12/28/2015) [-]
thats right theres no records of dianasours or big building in WHICH WE ******* LEARN THEIR HISTORY, YOU TWAT.

**** it going back to space
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#95 to #94 - coldclaws (12/28/2015) [-]
CUZ WE MADE THE RECORDS IN THE LAST LIKE 15 MINUTES THEY WERENT THERE BEFORE
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#96 to #95 - fullfrontal ONLINE (12/28/2015) [-]
SO YOU JUST ADMITTED ITS ******* RECORDED



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#97 to #96 - coldclaws (12/28/2015) [-]
ITS NOT RECORDED IT'S




documented
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#85 to #84 - fullfrontal ONLINE (12/27/2015) [-]
WRONG PIC BUT IT FIT
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#87 to #3 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]
That and human "wing span"
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#50 to #3 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]
are you really that stupid?
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User avatar #78 to #3 - askafj (12/27/2015) [-]
I think they just had some bad choice of words for it.

But you probably understand what they meant.
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User avatar #79 to #78 - magicmace (12/27/2015) [-]
I think my comment received way more attention than it deserved.
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User avatar #80 to #79 - askafj (12/27/2015) [-]
Well you pointed it out first and you have a picture of a dog.
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User avatar #89 to #79 - destaice (12/27/2015) [-]
it was mostly just stupid people trying to call you stupid
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#31 to #3 - lollypopalopicus (12/27/2015) [-]
Because we can look at light that is reaching us today, from events that occurred billions of years ago.
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User avatar #72 to #31 - destaice (12/27/2015) [-]
That's not what he means.

"Recorded history" is history where humans created and left records of events that happened. Whether it's a stone with lines on it from the ancient Sumerians or hieroglyphics left by the Egyptians it's recorded history.

Anything not recorded is just "History"
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User avatar #88 to #72 - NinjaHermit (12/27/2015) [-]
Technically, anything before writing is "prehistory", which starts and ends at different times, depending on the location ('cuz not all ancient civilizations developed writing at the same time).
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#81 to #3 - matamune (12/27/2015) [-]
Click to show spoiler
But are we the only ones watching?
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#4 to #3 - locke (12/26/2015) [-]
it's more likely they're referring to the geological records which date back quite a ways towards the formation of the earth.
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#8 to #4 - hairybaboon (12/26/2015) [-]
Yeah, which we all probably understand, but either way, it is incorrect, recorded history is different than understood history.
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#35 to #8 - thumpingbear (12/27/2015) [-]
In case anyone doesn't:

Recorded history: history recorded by humans.

Geologic history: human interpretation of stratum that indicates what the Earth was like before recorded history.

Recorded history deals with all the stupid ******** that humans do, Geologic history is what we think Earth was like before we showed up. The distinction is important.
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#39 to #35 - locke (12/27/2015) [-]
I know the difference, I was simply saying I think they meant from the earliest layers of sediment that humans have found something i've heard referenced as the geologic record beyond that idk what the hell it could be referencing.
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#36 to #4 - amuzen (12/27/2015) [-]
Ok so then what they said is meaningless because it's an arbitrary point in time, recorded history is known as the time when people started keeping RECORDS of history, thus the name. Everything before that is known as 'ancient' history all the way from the oldest of known writings (estimated to be around 3500 BC), Obviously they're not saying that humanity hasn't been around for fraction of the time that humans have been recording history so that must mean they're actually referring to something older, but whether that's the history of life on earth (3.5 billion years ago), the history of the earth itself (4.5 billion years ago) the history of the galaxy (13.5 billion) or the history of the universe (14 billion years ago) is completely in the air.
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#5 to #4 - locke (12/26/2015) [-]
you know, the "if all of earths history was represented on a clock, human history is the last 10 seconds"
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#16 - mrdarp (12/27/2015) [-]
As a scienctific person who is interested in scientific things, I request a scientific source to these extraordinary claims.
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#51 to #16 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]
um... all of these are common sense
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User avatar #68 to #16 - rejakted ONLINE (12/27/2015) [-]
The atom and the stadium thing seems to be a common knowledge type of thing since it's also stated in our Chemistry textbook.
The rest.
Gaggle oit.
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User avatar #21 to #16 - reyden (12/27/2015) [-]
well i can vouche for the first one.
I'm too lazy to look, but you can easily find that the earth is 4.6 billion years old. The first prokaryotic organisms appeared about 3.5 billion years ago. 2.1 billion years ago was around when eukaryotic organisms first arose. 1.5 billion years ago is when the FIRST multicellular organisms that evolved into humans appeared. A little over 0.5 billion years ago is when animals came about. The earliest chordates (The phylum containing humans) appeared about 542 MILLION years ago.
Now for the nitty gritty: 65.5 Million years ago=major mammal, bird, and insect diversity occurs
33.9 Million years ago= origin of primate species
23 Million years ago= earliest direct human ancestor
5.3 Milion years ago= bipedal (walk on two legs) human ancestors
2.6 Million years ago= origin of our genus "Homo" hah gay
~10 THOUSAND years ago= start of historical time
Source: Bio major who just finished his semester involving Eukaryotic diversity
Once again, i do not have any source, but tomorrow i can provide informative pictures if you wish once i find my notes
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#24 to #16 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]
Just How Small is an Atom?
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#25 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]
Im just gonna leave this here
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#34 to #25 - lollypopalopicus (12/27/2015) [-]
Thumbnail bruh.
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#44 to #25 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]
GIF
This has to do with the strength of earths gravity in certain areas, not the actual shape of our planet. “High areas on this map, colored red, indicate areas where gravity is slightly stronger than usual, while in blue areas gravity is slightly weaker,” It was made by Ales Bezdek if you want to look it up and find more info on it.
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#22 - englman (12/27/2015) [-]
Honestly saw this one going in a different direction with the whole "dense" bit..
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User avatar #17 - platinumaltaria (12/27/2015) [-]
"recorded history"... I think you meant all of time, recorded history is far shorter than human history.
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#57 to #17 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]
Could've meant recorded history from stuff like fossils, like from fossils we can record life on earth to be around 3 billion years old
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#27 - kameken (12/27/2015) [-]
Though
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#33 to #27 - lollypopalopicus (12/27/2015) [-]
Same.
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#7 - mycathascancer ONLINE (12/26/2015) [-]
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its all about perspective
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#1 - natabre (12/26/2015) [-]
That probably wouldn't be ideal for living conditions at all, but it's fascinating how the whole population can fit in the state of Colorado. Makes you think of how overpopulation's not really an issue if we just utilize space on Earth for farming and the such.

Thoughts?
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User avatar #23 to #1 - maniacaltomcat (12/27/2015) [-]
Unless i did my math wrong it isnt quite true. Came down to about 40k people per square mile in Manhattan and the world population living in Colorado would be about 70k
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#82 to #1 - fergin (12/27/2015) [-]
It's not about living space or food, its about the amount of pollution humans produce. Species are already becoming endangered due to humans and human pollution. There are many other reasons that a high population is not sustainable, but food and space isn't a big issue. We have no truly practical way to dispose of garbage other than dumping it around the place. Theres also the fact that the earth has a limited amount of oil and metals. When we run out of oil food WILL become an issue. Pretty much everything we have is made with oil or made by something that uses oil. I'm no scientist but I've been to a lecture about it, i don't remember all the main points.
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#2 to #1 - chusmimax (12/26/2015) [-]
The problem of overpopulation is not space itself for the person, but the space to grow the food they need at least
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#6 to #2 - locke (12/26/2015) [-]
space to grow the food, the issues of over crowding large cities, the fact that 99.9% of the earths surface is owned by someone already. I kinda wish there was a law in the U.S. that said if you're a U.S. citizen and you find a place in the U.S. that isn't being used for anything and it's not a national park that it's completely legal to claim the land so long as you live on it.
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#11 to #1 - misternobodie ONLINE (12/26/2015) [-]
Did you know that in the future we will have artificial cities floating above oceans ?...


Pic is half-related, even though its not a living city and its military ( and evil )
Its from NYT
'' www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/what-china-has-been-building-in-the-south-china-sea.html?_r=0 ''
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User avatar #14 to #11 - xoyv (12/27/2015) [-]
...resident evil revelations
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User avatar #15 to #14 - misternobodie ONLINE (12/27/2015) [-]
Yes !
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User avatar #10 - rockmanfan (12/26/2015) [-]
anyone who tried to organize the human race like that would immediately be called a fascist and compared to hitler. it's sad how people cant rule the world now a days without being scrutinized.
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User avatar #18 to #10 - lathyrusvii (12/27/2015) [-]
I'm my own robot; I do what I want.
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User avatar #40 to #10 - masterboll (12/27/2015) [-]
the kind of power to organise an entire planet should never be left to one group of people, let alone one person
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User avatar #69 to #40 - rejakted ONLINE (12/27/2015) [-]
La Li Lu Le Lo
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User avatar #90 to #69 - masterboll (12/27/2015) [-]
eat dick, faggot
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User avatar #91 to #90 - rejakted ONLINE (12/27/2015) [-]
O-Ok?
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#71 - brownline (12/27/2015) [-]
"Average human wing span"
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#19 - volksworgen (12/27/2015) [-]
I'm pretty sure warren buffet is just a myth like I have to go by his house a lot and the dude is never in it.
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User avatar #60 - augisnvm (12/27/2015) [-]
Recorded history or written history is a historical narrative based on a written record or other documented communication.

Recorded history only goes as far back as 5000 BC or something close to it.
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User avatar #61 to #60 - augisnvm (12/27/2015) [-]
3400 BC* My mistake.
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#83 - thismustbeseen (12/27/2015) [-]
I disagree with this.

Recorded history *is* human history, otherwise it wouldn't be recorded. It should say all history or the history of the earth or some **** .

Also... "wing span"?? The **** .

I hate these ******* science comps that get the science completely wrong.
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User avatar #75 - recoveryone (12/27/2015) [-]
Vsauce Music Compilation (Jake Chudnow) Here's some thinking music for you guys...
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User avatar #74 - franklyimaperson (12/27/2015) [-]
What atom, per say? I mean I highly doubt all nucli are the same size given that helium is literally 4 times as large as hydrogen
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#76 to #74 - anonymoose (12/27/2015) [-]
A helium atom is smaller than a hydrogen atom.
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User avatar #77 to #76 - franklyimaperson (12/27/2015) [-]
Damn I knew I got that backward, size increases down a column and decreases across a period

Still curious what atom they were talking about
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#73 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]
If all of recorded history was on a human wingspan, then the whole of recorded history would be on that exact wingspan, since we are the only ones who record history.
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User avatar #66 - wedgehead (12/27/2015) [-]
It's like the Warren Bufett billionaire says:
The more you earn, the more you DRIVE UP HERE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS
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#67 to #66 - captaincapital ONLINE (12/27/2015) [-]
WITH ONLY 47 BANK ACCOUNTS IN MY BANK ACCOUNT ACCOUNT
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#63 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]
But recorded history is only about 5500 years (possibly a bit longer, but not much)...
And all of it is human history...

Also, I get the feeling that these are meant to be slightly mindblowing, in which case number three just fails miserably...
"You know, if the sun exploded it would be really, really bright"
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