The Anthropocene Is a Joke

If, in the final 7,000 years of their reign, dinosaurs became hyperintelligent, built a civilization, started asteroid mining, and did so for centuries before forgetting to carry the one on an orbital calculation, thereby sending that famous valedictory six-mile space rock hurtling senselessly toward the Earth them (View Highlight)

selves—it would be virtually impossible to tell (View Highlight)