I’ve been enjoying reading about people’s discoveries in a thread I recently started about the biggest backyard observations. This got me thinking… What if (by some magic) we had the ability that astronomers now have of getting photos from the far past? Like the Webb deep space telescope, except i…

I would love to see New York City back in the good old days. Floodplain forest :heart_eyes:! Also, I’d see if this was true.

LOVE the kurzgesagt animation! They helped produce one of my favourite phone apps, Universe – an animated journey through the physical dimension.

I live on limestone terrain in the Texas Hill Country. In the Cretaceous Era, on the order of 120 to 80 mya, this was a shallow sea. I would love to be able to go snorkling along the shores of that embayment to examine the seashells, corals, and sea life which thrived then and contributed to the b…

Some parts of the North Carolina Coastal Plain were part of the continental shelf even into the Pliocene. According to the Aurora Fossil Museum, “This was fossil rich material with predominantly shark teeth, marine mammal bones and teeth, fish bones, bivalves and phosphate rocks.” Of course, depen…

Ooohhh… I would go back to the Eocene and the rise of the mammals.

Wishful thinking: a time camera

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papernautilus December 25, 2024, 4:06pm 4

NYC in the good old days? Nope. I’d go all the way back to the Cambrian and watch the explosion happen.

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Wishful thinking: a time camera

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