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The universe is approximately 14 billion years old.

That's about 9 billion years of formation in dead space until a happenstance planet Earth formed.

That's a million years a thousand times 9 times over. Which is a thousand years a thousand times.

Andromeda is located 2.5 million lightyears away and is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way.

4.5 billion years of evolution which is likewise.

260,000,000 years of dinosaurs amidst that.

Amidst mass physical time where Andromeda is 2.5 million lightyears away, there are currently about 6,000 years of human civilization.

Which is live and current in the universe as of me writing this.

As of today, we are literally living in the dawn of the future with science and technology.

I'm 35 years old and Thomas Edison died 85 years ago, the inventor of the lightbulb.

What if civilization were only 500 years old? That would be really weird, wouldn't it? I mean, really weird. Extremely weird. Incomprehensibly strange. For there to be only 500 years of civilization. Especially amidst natural history.

But what about 1000 years? Still likewise strange, right?

Well if 500 years is truly THAT strange, what does 6,000 years of civilization imply?

Is 6,000 years of civilization as suspicious as 500 years would suggest?

I'd dare to say that it is. Discuss.

I think you're trying to make a point. I'm not sure what it is.

Well, we're living directly upon the dawn of science and technology. Where Elvis Presley is literally jingling back there in the 1950's. Edison is 85 years dead and I'm personally 35.

14 billion years? Science and technology? We're the only species in the universe to speak a language.

If civilization were only 500 years old, that would be suspicious as all hell. Definitively and absurdly. Even if this were the first thousand years that would be asininely current.

Is 6000 years any different, or are our perceptions obscured?

14 billion years, 260 million years of dinosaurs... 6000 years of civilization and now we're at the dawn of science and technology. Doesn't add up.

Supposedly we're all people at the shopping mall. Is it we're all going to die? Is it the eternal darkness in the dead of space? I mean, what's the deal?

500 years or 6000 years... how is this possible?

Why do you say that it "doesn't add up"?

Things just take time to happen. Some things happen in a picosecond. Some things take billions of years. I don't see anything spooky or suspicions about this.

But maybe I'm missing something.