@elonmusk: The entire span of human civilization is a just a flash in the pan so far
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Elon Musk comments on the fleeting nature of human civilization in cosmic terms, and Ray Dalio expands with astronomical scales of time and space.
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The entire span of human civilization is a just a flash in the pan so far
Ray Dalio (@RayDalio): Earth is just one of about 100 billion planets in our galaxy, which is just one of about two trillion galaxies in the universe. And our lifetimes are only about 1/3,000 of humanity’s existence, which itself is only 1/20,000 of the Earth’s existence.
In other words, we are
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