Bear with me on this for a moment.
Have you ever been anywhere, and I mean anywhere, that you believed you were the first person to ever be there? Yeah, it's a big planet but there are lots of people and the chances of being the first to be anywhere are just about none. And yet...
"Humans first appeared on Earth at least 315,000 years ago, based on fossil remains found in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. The oldest hominins are thought to have appeared as early as 7 million B.C.E. The first human ancestors appeared between five million and seven million years ago, probably when some apelike creatures in Africa began to walk habitually on two legs. They were flaking crude stone tools 2.5 million years ago.
"The first evidence for cooking appears approximately 700,000 years ago, and the first evidence for clothing appears about 500,000 years ago. The first Homo sapiens, anatomically modern humans, arose alongside other hominid relatives approximately 300,000 years ago. They developed a capacity for language about 50,000 years ago. The first modern humans began moving outside of Africa starting about 70,000-100,000 years ago." (*AI-Generated)
When I was a kid, we used to laugh at the definition of primeval, 'where the hand of man has yet to set foot,' because we were empty-headed prattlers, and look at us now in our declining years, former masters of the universe and world titans.
I call bullshit. I take that back; rather, I call Ozymandias and Romain Veillon.
-bill kenny
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