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Our earth is only 4 billion years old in a universe that is 14 billion years old. What could a species learn, create, and do that has a 2 or 3 billion year head start on us? what about 10?

No.619893946
they probably have better memes.

  • Lord_McAlister@lemmy.world
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    A civilization that started in the first billion years of the universe would be immediately destroyed by the violent nature of the early universe.

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      That basically continues to be true until about 7.5-8 BYA. So at max a species might have 3-4 billion years on us. Even that’s a bit debatable as the complexity of our DNA indicates that it started evolving about 7.5 BYA.

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        Where exactly is this information from? That would just mean the methods to calculate this are probably not very precise.