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| The universe is so old that you might be persuaded to think it has existed forever, but it has not. | The universe is so old that you might be persuaded to think it has existed forever, but it has not. | ||
| - | 13 billion years ago the universe was born. In an explosion, in one single moment, | + | 13 billion years ago the universe was born: In an explosion all of //time// and //matter// and //energy// was spat out. |
| - | The universe mixed into a multitude of star spun galaxies, | + | The universe mixed into a multitude of star spun galaxies, and 8 billion years after the big bang, the galaxy of the [[Milky Way Galaxy|Milky Way]] was born. |
| - | The [[Milky Way Galaxy|Milky Way]] was an insignificant galaxy, but after only half a Billion years, a orbiting planet of rolling iron was born. The ball of iron had a perculiar giant moon in the sky, able to protect it from the billions of tonnes of orbiting debris that constantly threatened to crash in and expunge the newborn atmosphere. | + | The [[Milky Way Galaxy|Milky Way]] was an insignificant galaxy, but after only half a Billion years, |
| The universe watched this little rusted crusted ball of molten iron was now thick with a warm cloak of gases. 1 billion years later the crust had cooled on this particular rock, and something totally new began: | The universe watched this little rusted crusted ball of molten iron was now thick with a warm cloak of gases. 1 billion years later the crust had cooled on this particular rock, and something totally new began: | ||
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| * Life was born. | * Life was born. | ||
| - | Life. Life Life. And the pace of life quickened and after barely 0.2 Billion years ago even more complex life appeared. First life, then complex independant | + | Life. Life and more life. The pace of life quickened and more and more complex life appeared: complex independant life. Then something happened that simply blew everything before it away. |
| 3 billion years after life started, [[Humans]] appeared | 3 billion years after life started, [[Humans]] appeared | ||
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| ====== Humans ====== | ====== Humans ====== | ||
| - | The collpase | + | The collapse |
| At the right [[technological age|technological ages]], [[Humans|human]] settlement of planets and their terraforming occurs (during an arc of expansion). Afterwards retraction is usually (but not always) cyclical too, due to the inherant processes of [[Pattern arcs|the arc the expansion was in]]. Inevitably [[Humans|human]] colonies on planets become isolated and lost potentially even eventually totally seperated. Unable to support themselves technologically, | At the right [[technological age|technological ages]], [[Humans|human]] settlement of planets and their terraforming occurs (during an arc of expansion). Afterwards retraction is usually (but not always) cyclical too, due to the inherant processes of [[Pattern arcs|the arc the expansion was in]]. Inevitably [[Humans|human]] colonies on planets become isolated and lost potentially even eventually totally seperated. Unable to support themselves technologically, | ||