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Would you watch earth form from nothing to this day for a million dollars? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I give you a cozy chair and you are now going to watch the beginning of earth til today with all your senses. You won't age, everything freezes. But once you reach this minute you will get a million dollars.

All you have to do is watch earth form from nothing to how it is now in this minute and then you will come down to earth with a million dollars and nothing changed.

Yes or no? You will see things nobody has ever seen and you can watch the dinos if you get to that point after a few million years. I will give you a chair and binoculars

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Only if sped up, and I can pause, go back, or forth. I can't speed up to instantly go to today though, obviously.

But like, 100,000 years per second? Sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Even at 100,000 years per second for only part of the time—I guess how much you’re allowed to use it really matters—would still be a fucking loooong ass time. From nothing to now? You’re not just talking about the time life first appeared on earth. From the Big Bang, through to the creation of earth, through to the dawn of life, to current day? like honestly 99% of the time you’d literally be watching grass grow or dust float. In the grand scheme of your relative time, anything halfway interesting would be literally a blink of an eye.

And in the end, all you get is 1,000,000. You come back to earth and still have to work for most of the rest of your life…you’d come back to earth and even if you never touched that money, and put it straight into retirement, you wouldn’t even have enough money in retirement lol In no way is that possibly close to being worth it.