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Floatbox  ·  4120 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Will We Ever Know Everything About Human Evolution?

It's fascinating thinking that modern man has been around for two hundred million years, and written history/civilization extends to... what six thousand years ago?

Also, if you could build a telescope the size of a solar system, maybe it's possible that the telescope could move with the planet it's trying to get an exposure of?





theadvancedapes  ·  4120 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    It's fascinating thinking that modern man has been around for two hundred million years, and written history/civilization extends to... what six thousand years ago?

Modern humans have been around for 200 thousand years. Our genus has been around for 2 million. The first agricultural city-states started to form 10,000 years ago; with writing around 6,000-7,000 years ago.

    Also, if you could build a telescope the size of a solar system, maybe it's possible that the telescope could move with the planet it's trying to get an exposure of?

Well, there may be a way around the exposure problem but I doubt it would be able to move in accordance with a planet over 1 million light years away. Who knows, if any intelligence ever builds such a device they will obviously be able to solve problems that we find incomprehensible.