The Influence Of The Cosmic Calendar

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The Cosmic Calendar condenses the lifespan of the universe, being 15,000,000,000 years old, into one calendar year, and provides several major incidents throughout our universe’s history and places them along the 1 year timeline with a date and a specific time. We can see when the dinosaurs first appeared, and when the dinosaurs were wiped out, as well as when the first humans appeared. Humans have been on Earth for quite some time from our personal perspective, but when you compare it to the cosmic calendar, humans have only been in existence for less than 2 hours, in 1 year. The cosmic calendar has affected my views of human history dramatically, and that we, as humans compared to the universe, are incredibly insignificant. Humans are intelligent,

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