Indeed that was a bit of an epiphany for me recently whe I read a site that listed major astronomical and terrestrian events in parralel. Despite knowing many of the numbers, somehow my gut feeling had always been that since Earth is so tiny in size compared to the universe at large, the same must be true about timescales.

Then if you imagine how long the Internet has existed compared to the universe, all of this hullabaloo on HN becomes even funnier .

Hmmm... but what about intelligent life? Or technologically sophisticated (relatively speaking) intelligent life. Still feeling small here.