famished_armrest

famished_armrest t1_ix0bn2x wrote

Reply to comment by StrangeTangerine1525 in Mars was once covered by 300-meter deep oceans, study shows by magenta_placenta

Interesting. I'm sure humanity will be long gone by that point anyways. There's a really great book I read a while back called 'A Brief History of Everything' that really puts stuff like this into perspective and explains it well like you do. I remember it saying that if you looked at the history of the world as one day, humanity has been here for less than a minute, that blew my mind. Along with the fact that 99% of all creatures that have lived on this earth are already extinct. Really puts into perspective how frail and insignificant our existence really is.

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famished_armrest t1_ix01777 wrote

Reply to comment by StrangeTangerine1525 in Mars was once covered by 300-meter deep oceans, study shows by magenta_placenta

Maybe a complex answer but you did a great job explaining it, thanks for breaking it down for me. I didn't know elements could be lost to space, that's interesting. That doesn't happen on earth right? Naturally I mean.. I thought I remembered reading in a book that the amount of matter on earth and our atmosphere never changes, basically the whole death brings life thing etc. I could be remembering wrong though.

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