(I’m doing some tab clearing. I’m not sure where this should be attributed.)
66-ish million years ago, a 6 mile asteroid impacted the Earth. Odds are that if not for that impact we humans would not be here. Now, a paleontologist has found evidence of that day in history.
WOW. We can make optical storage media that will last for a few hundred years and we think that's impressive. Here's stuff recorded in mud 65 frikkin-million-years ago. Just, wow.