[blueplum]

also, the annual "Quadrantid' meteor shower is here and will last thru Jan 3.

[Larry Lucido]

Can you repeat that? I was taking a meteor shower.

[GreenLanternCorps]

[CIB-173RDABN]

every 50,000 years

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Same amount of time between an honest politician is elected.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Since everything reported is twisted to include man made climate change I was interested to know what the earth was like 50,000 ago

“50,000 years BP the world was in a glacial stage (ice age), and megafauna (think mammoths and mastadons) still roamed the land. Neanderthals walked (among other things) alongside anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens). Humans looked very similar to us today, and lived in all parts of the world, probably (but not definitely) excluding the Americas (it’s debatable). Humans were already burying their dead and making art (and so were Neanderthals).

Animals back then were similar to those we see today (particularly in Africa), but bigger, and looked slightly different. There were cave (“short-faced”) bears and “sabre-tooth cats” (Smilodon), larger hyenas, larger “Dire” wolves, and elephant-sized sloths (Megatherium).

The world and its species were different depending on where you looked (North America’s ecosystem changed about 10,000 years ago, for example), and you would have to look into all the different species to see which ones completely died out versus those that evolved into the creatures we see today. To ask what all animals were like back then is complicated, but I believe “megafauna” is the best simple answer you’ll get.

https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-world-like-50-000-years-ago-What-were-the-humans-and-animals-like?share=1

Damn Neanderthals and their SUVs caused global warming and melted all the glaciers /s

[Candor7]

The neanderthals called this comet "UG!"( Not again!)

You can see it in their cave etchings.

[Adder]

Amazing that something so relatively small can travel so far and still be in the Sun’s grip.

[gitmo]

I missed seeing it last time. I’ll set an alarm for it this time.

[dynachrome]

“Lucifer’s Hammer” By Niven and Pournelle

[freefdny]

It’s hard to write a song about a comet that comes every 50 thousand years. But I like this one about another comet
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Om3j8VP1oCI

[Paal Gulli]

"Comet set to pass by Earth for the first time since Neanderthals existed 50,000 years ago is revealed in a new image"

There also still were some Denisovans hanging around 50k ago.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

If comets could talk this one would say “This planet has sure gone to he!! since I was here last”.

[RandallFlagg]

Anyone know if it’ll be visible in NA?