Help! My Heart is Full of Pony! - The Universe · 8:40am Nov 6th, 2019
Scientists calculate that the universe is 13.8 billion years old; that the earth is 4.5 billion. Actual life on Earth on the microbial level is believed to have begun approximately 3.5 billion years ago. And humans, as we know them (homo sapiens sapiens), have only been around for about 200,000 years.
That means that, for 99.9943% of the time that there has been life on Earth, there were no humans at all. It is estimated that there have been a total of 100,000,000,000 people who ever lived, and all of their lives - the history of our entire species - makes up only 0.0014% of the time that has elapsed since the Big Bang.
Within that microscopic window of time, was a nine year span where My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic aired. My Little Pony's run makes up 0.0045% of human history. 0.00000007% (7/10,000,000,000) of the Universe's history.
And YOU were around to experience it as it unfolded. We all were. (Even if you're a latecomer to the fandom).
How amazing this is! How privileged are we!
-Sprocket
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I spent countless lifetimes as cyanobacteria, algae, trilobites, echidnas and cockroaches before finally hitting the jackpot. I wonder what my next life will be?
/s, obviously.
From another perspective it's about a 7% chance because of those 100 billion humans about 7 billion are currently living.
Indeed, in that respect. :)
This does make us incredibly privileged. With how long the universe exists already, the chance to get born at the right time to see My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic live is tiny. And yet we did..... How can anyone believe in coincidences if we look at this?