Discussions #2 - The Cosmic Calendar: Reference the Cosmic Calendar on page 14 o
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Discussions #2 - The Cosmic Calendar:
Reference the Cosmic Calendar on page 14 of your text and view the associated video clip found under the Module 2: Discovering the Universe for Yourself page and consider the following statement: In the last few tenths of a second before midnight of December 31 humans have developed an incredible civilization and learned a great deal about the universe. We are continuing to develop technology that is used to explore the vast cosmological expanse; however humans have also developed technology with which we could destroy ourselves. The dinosaurs survived about one week on the Cosmic Calendar: But, what about our species, all of humanity....will humans become extinct like countless other species on Earth? Incorporate time values within your reply and defend your position with supporting evidence. Please remember to respond from either the position that humans will become extinct or that humans will continue to survive.
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Above quesiton is a topic of my assingnment and two of my peers wrote their answers down below. I need to write responses of each of their answers by using the examples of well rooted questions. It is also down below. Please read the instruction carefully. It needs to be no more than 4 sentences. Very easy and simple!
Responding to Peers: Please be certain to read and comment on two other classmates' posts. Your comments should include well rooted questions (examples below). Note: Brief responses like “I agree” or “I disagree” will receive no credit.
- Why are you saying that?
- What exactly does this mean?
- Can you give me an example?
- How did you choose those assumptions?
- How can you verify or disprove that assumption?
- What would happen if …?
- How do you know this?
- Can you give me an example?
- Then what would happen?
- What are the consequences of that assumption?
First peer's answer and you need to write a response to this:
Although humans have only been alive for the last few seconds on the cosmic calendar we have changed a lot and I don’t think we are immortal. I think that our extinction, like dinosaurs, is inevitable and partly out of our control, at the mercy of the universe, and the only question is when? The dinosaurs lasted a week on the cosmic calendar with no technological or other advances, but the advances humans have made could allow us to wipe ourselves out. These play a part in environmental effects that could cause humans to be “casualties of our own environmental recklessness” (Drake, 2015).
Since we are partly responsible for extinction of other species, and our own, how long do we have? Looking back on history each time an extinction has happened it has been, mostly, due to an event out of anyone’s control but I think that we, humans, are capable of doing to ourselves before our time is near. I think that humans can last 1.5 – 2 weeks on the cosmic calendar before we extinct ourselves. If humans still exist then I believe it will be on another planet that can sustain life because we have probably ruined Earth.
Second peer's answer and you need to write a response to this:
The cosmic that take billions of years of evolution that transform into matter of life. A person named Carl Sagan arranged the universe age into a single year by chronologically. For human, it is difficult to wrap around their head for time intervals with barely one hundred years of lifespan. Sagan help people to understand how a far apart on a time scale events by giving single year Cosmic Calendar which help visualized how it took place. For example, “if someone were to ask an 8-year-old kid how much older his elder sister is, he’d probably give the answer correctly as 4 or maybe 5 years between them. However, that age difference looks huge to his 8-year-old self. However, it might not seem like a big deal to him when he’s fifty and there is no observable different between his and his sister’s age”. It is very hard to condensed down the number that took billion and millions of year into per day.
Whatever we have heard about the history of mankind on Earth happened on December 31st of the cosmic calendar. Humanity is quite literally a blip on this calendar, as everything that follows happened on the final day of the year. The Big Bang creation determined with cosmic background radiation from the explosion and the solar system was formed into existence. According to ScienceABc, it stated that “evolutionary jump from primitive bacteria to multi-cellular organisms took a very long time, but responsible for life on Earth” which take three months longer than the time to take the first galaxies to form. The history of dinosaurs, species, and mankind of Earth are shown on December 31st of the cosmic calendar.
Explanation / Answer
Cosmic Calender is actuallly a shorter version of the entire timeline of the earth. Around 13.7 Billion years have been scaled in this calender containing 365 days. Each second of this calender probably contains 434 yerars.
Response to the first peer ' -
- How do you say that humans extinction is inevitable? Because this is not in the cosmic calender nor it is inevitable , like we humans have always tackled with every situation we have faced.
- How did you choose those assumptions? About the time duration?. In cosmic calender even a second is huge no. of years while a week or 2 can mean a lot. Assuming such nos. without any actual proof is simply just a theory.
-A different planet ? Well life is only possible on Earth . There hasnt been any discoveries of a planet which supports or has ideal conditions for supporting life . So again its just a baseless theory which doesnt highlight anything.
Response to 2nd Peer -
-What exactly does this mean? Actually this just about beating around the bush and not getting to the main topic i.e whether or not humans will go extinct over time.
-Why Time difference? This wasnt even needed to mention . A cosmic calender as all of us know is a huge itself and around 13.7 B years and its events has been settled over a single year so it goes without saying there is massive difference is real time and time that has been scaled shorter.
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Regarding the existence of humans by the end of the cosmic calender will depend on a lot of other things and events which occur later over time and those events will actually decide the fate of life on earth.Assuming anything like some events are inevitable etc is nothing more than a theory and those thoery too has several probabilities thus life on earth is totally possible but our life style will get molded according to the situation we are put on.