Comments on: Little History, Big History

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:22:38 +0000

Greatest events in history? I’d either go with Benjamin Franklin discovering electricity or the invention of nuclear weapons in the cold war. Probably the first one because it’s more optimistic.

By: me

me — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:33:06 +0000

Hey hey hey

i got a projet on Volcanos

By: yami

yami — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:36:00 +0000

True, true. Are there dynamical considerations that lead to some preferred range of orbital ellipticity?

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:50:00 +0000

But if Jupiter hadn’t accreted in a near-circular orbit, none of these other things would have happened…

By: Gengar

Gengar — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:05:00 +0000

My vote is for the Evolution of sex. Good in so many ways (and not just the obvious one)…

By: Ximena

Ximena — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:02:00 +0000

Well yeah, but now they’re for whining thirtysomethings as well.

By: yami

yami — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:52:00 +0000

I thought blogs had always been whining for twentysomethings!

By: Ximena

Ximena — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:54:00 +0000

The day someone first became self-aware.
The first use of language. The first use of language to describe an abstract concept.
Sometime in the ’70s when some nerds built an internet prototype.
The not-just-for-whining-teenagers-anymore explosion of the blog.
The day someone discovered God.
The invention of spaghetti.

By: yami

yami — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:57:00 +0000

What about the Toba supervolcano?

By: Rew

Rew — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:02:00 +0000

The Tambora Volcano Explosion, 1815. Preferably from a safe distance. It’d be neat to see an explosion big enough to change the climate for years.
Thera eruption and subsequent tsunami. From a purely humanist viewpoint, it would be interesting to see how the Minoans dealt with it (aside from being dead).
Okay, so maybe I just like volcanoes.