2,000 years old? Nope.
4,000 years old? Not even close.
10,000 years old? Still not close.
100,000 years old? Warmer, but no.
The oldest living thing on Earth is more than 500,000 years old. That's half a MILLION years old!!!
Artist, philosopher and biologist Rachel Sussman has spent the last five years traveling the globe in search of the world's oldest living things. She sees this project as an opportunity for humans to reconsider our idea of time. Watching her presentation from the TED Global 2010 conference has helped me fully comprehend the insignificance of this little blip we call humanity. Again, I am left to wonder why humans continue to pretend to be superior to all other life on Earth. I don't understand how we ever got this idea in our heads. Clearly we just don't look around enough anymore.
Take a moment to look around you every once in a while...
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