• Bombastion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Darwin believed one of the more popular explanations of his time: expanding Earth theory. Basically, the planet was like an expanding dough ball. It decently explained why things looked like they fit together. Darwin even went out to Patagonia to investigate some cliffs, and basically “confirmed” the theory.

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      Wouldn’t Darwin have already known that the Greeks had calculated the circumference of the earth like 2000 years before him?

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        A slow enough rate of expansion would make 2000 years negligible. Same with plate tectonics.

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          Deep time is so annoying. Here I am walking around thinking that I am the main event. And really I will be dead for decades in 1 855,000th of the amount of time from us to the dinosaurs. What the hell universe!? There shouldn’t be 855,000 human lifespans between us and a bunch of overgrown lizards-bird things.

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      That theory sounds bad, like the opposite problem we’ve currently got. Eventually it’d turn into mad max