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And? I think human civilization is a lot more impressive now than 200 years ago.

Yeah, early humans were only capable of extincting megafauna. Today, we're doing dozens of species per day! We'd be much more impressive as a species if we didn't limit the use of DDT, CFCs, etc

Crazy to think that in the life span of this planet is ??? Before christ? After christ? A million years or two?

Exactly, no one knows the answer....

We can't agree as a civilization when this planet started, but everyone knows when it's going to end.... irony is thick around these parts...

"One thing I know, I know nothing."

Weird troll. You don't need to know what day a person was born, to recognize that they've got a dangerously high fever.

The world will keep turning, regardless of fitness for human life.

That's a pretty bad metric for success.

Agreed, I'm playing with the neutrality of the word "impressive." A tsunami is certainly impressive...

Modern humans are more impressive than our ancestors, according to you. Is that good, or are we a tsunami?

Well, in the very least our language AI bots can probably create better wordplay than this train wreck. Not especially impressive though.

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