How Far Back In Earth's History Could You Have Survived?

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  @HistoryoftheEarth · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @someoneelse1441 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m only in the half, but I can&apos;t keep thinking how accidentally exposing the young Earth with modern microbes could&apos;ve changed the entire history.

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  @cyriak · 3 years ago

  Plot twist: the time traveller eventually returns to their own time only to discover they accidentally ate the ancestor of the whole human race, which no longer exists

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  @lild1583 · 3 years ago

  I think an interesting point not normally talked about in time travel is if you are going back in time to that exact point, you would be floating at a random point in space however many years back.

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  @KiwiCatherineJemma · 3 years ago

  Clarification and Correction, at 38m50 seconds, the Native Alaskan woman was NOT entirely alone. A cat had been taken up with their expedition and the cat also survived, and returned &nbsp;safely back to civilisation in Southern Alaska, with her.

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  @Maderyne · 3 years ago (edited)

  I would think any time travel to the past would be suicidal. You don&apos;t know for certain if you will be safe when the machine stops, and you appear. It could be miles above the earth, or deep within, buried under tons of rock. &nbsp;If time travel to the past were feasible, wouldn&apos;t it be safer to be in orbit with the ability to land back on earth, thus avoiding any surface irregularities? &nbsp;It would be a shame to go back 4.5 billion years only to find yourself floating briefly in a lake of lava.

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  @jasonyee6533 · 3 years ago

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  @purplehaze2358 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Technically speaking, the farthest back you can go and still survive is a pretty debatable subject because, if you go back far enough, your immune system will be aeons ahead of its time; and, thus, you likely won&apos;t have resistances against many of the current viral, bacterial, and other microbial threats of whatever period you go back to, with a good chunk being extinct in your time, and the rest being very, very different from their modern counterparts.

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  @Tkmined · 3 years ago

  As soon as I heard &quot;Edicarian&quot;, I got really excited!<br>Then the traveler ate my favorite fleshy mat... :(

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  @williamlangley1610 · 3 years ago

  During post Hadean the moon was almost fully developed, but was ONLY 1/3 of today&apos;distance away and moving fast. The tidal forces served to add energy to the moon to move it out and earth&apos;s rotation slowed...this means that at post Hadean the tides were more like gigantic tsunamis!!!

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  @CarloTheAtheist2.1 · 2 years ago

  only a cameraman would survive no matter what catastrophic events happened on earth

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  @imienazwisko6527 · 3 years ago

  Honestly I think a human probably could live in the carboniferous. If the inuit can survive on a diet of mostly arctic marine mammals, with little to no plant matter, I think the right balance of terrestrial arthropods, shellfish, fish, primitive amphibians, and the few edible plants would also suffice.

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