How much is "sone time"?

Really truly makes you wonder what life was really like in that time. All we know is work eat sleep repeat. All we know is time. Gotta go gotta go lifestyle. I couldn’t imagine living in those old times with no tools. No houses. No warmth from a home. Didn’t have to wake up at 3 in the morning to go to some job and be miserable all day. Every single day. I can talk about this stuff for hours. Just really makes you think what life was like then. I bet it was craaaaazy. You literally had to survive every single day

I think you just spend some time to prepare an answer where you contradicted yourself in the same paragraph

I on the other hand took only a few seconds to intimate a possibility humorously

Let's see what survival of the fittest says about that

Some constellations are ancient, such as Scorpius, going back thousands of years. People used to put their stories in the skies. Shamans and night watch came to know the sky, noticed changes like planetary movement, the sun, moon and such, and sought meaning in what they saw. Learning when to plant crops came from observing the skies.

That isn't how it works. Natural selection is a filter limiting what is possible. It isn't like if people with bad eyesight are more likely to survive today compared to the past that all of us will have bad eyesight it is more like there is going to be people with bad eyesight not dying as much now.

Besides we have bad eyesight now because we are indoors all the time. But on the plus side lazy eye is becoming a thing of the past.

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I can get you there for 500k. How do you feel about skydiving back?

Record Breaking Skydive

Well, of all the points I think L3 would be stable the longest since the attraction between planets is minimized. Over time the extra force might cause them to spiral inwards, but the effects of other planets would destabilize things more quickly.

I’m reading that now. Have you read The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant? It actually begins with the story of the Lascaux caves.

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I remember when I was watching Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix graham Hancock believe ancient civilizations were experts in astronomy and created megastructures dedicated to keeping track of astronomical events and specific celestial objects.

I don’t know if his theory of an ancient Neolithic civilization that spanned the entire world was true but I do like to believe that humans in the past were far more knowledgeable on ancient astronomy than we thought

Except earth being a rock in space is new information in humanity’s history of knowledge

Civilization is about ten thousand years old and the species has been around for probably at least a quarter million years. 5000 years isn’t all that long from that point of view.

So the answer is no. You cannot live off the interest of 50k

Yeah I messed up with the 12 hrs, probes make sense.

That's not how natural selection works.

That’s very trusting and honorable of you to think they have that money.

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So long as they're well within each other's Hill Spheres I don't think the sun should be an issue any more than it is with our moon. (The moon's orbit is about 1/4 of the way to Earth's Sphere) And Earth already orbits our combined center of mass with the moon, it's just that the size discrepancy (it's only ~1% of our mass) means that's still within Earth's volume, about 3/4 of the ways up from the core.

Forming would be a different question, but e.g. if Theia had been considerably bigger (or faster?) when it hit proto-Earth the "splash cloud" might have coalesced into two much more similarly-sized sister-planets.

Exactly the same size (to how many significant digits?) would indeed take crazy long odds. But within 10% or 20% is probably not too outlandish.

If this were the case, then all modern humans would have what you call "good eyesight". Predation hasn't been an issue for humans for only a few thousand years, which is not generally enough for a trait like bad eyesight to diffuse into society if it were previously under selective pressure.

For instance, modern (and honestly eve ancient) humans have no need for the ability to wiggle their ears, but most people have the muscle and can be taught to use it. Non-human ancestors used this muscle to detect predators more accurately.

Additionally: strong acuity distance vision isn't what helps spot predators. Hearing, motion sensitivity, and color vision are way more effective in this regard. In fact, I'd wager that the invention of the bow actually increased the visual acuity of the human population, since ability to use a bow and thrown spear at long ranges was a heavily favorable trait for tens of thousands of years, and, critically, during the ice age, when natural selection was particularly heavy.

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There’s a ton of earth left. The problem is that it’s all inhospitable and difficult to access.

A large percentage of what history refers to as “exploring the world” is just Europeans traveling to places where humans already live. It was new to them, but not to humanity

Ah, Southern Hemisphere. No wonder I didn’t recognize any of them.

If you got 500k to spend on a 10min trip, i wanna be your friend…