Sentences with phrase «than a blink of an eye after»

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It found similar - looking dead galaxies existed about 10 billion years ago and, by careful examination of their light, showed they were actively building stars for less than a billion years — a blink of the eye compared with our Milky Way, which is still making stars after more than 12 billion years.

In fact, the world's interconnected ocean as a whole is sliding into the Holocene Mass Extinction, the geological event that some scientists use to divide the boundary of the Holocene and the Anthropocene epoch, the one that's named after us — and that may still be visible in the Earth's geological record hundreds of millions of years from now, because species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and other marine life, that were abundant on this planet for millions of years — suddenly, in less than the blink of a geologist's eye, vanished — for good.

I think we are seeing nothing more than climatic varation caused by our orbit, sun activty and a number of other related natural factors, but the trouble is that we take a short term view of weather and think in terms of what we remember as Children not what has gone on in recent history - After all 5000 years is the blink of an eye in the context of the age of the earth and mans habitation of it.