The Daily Planet #122: More on Deep Time

It's very hard to imagine oneself dead, and its even harder to imagine the absence of everyone like me. But that too shall come to pass: via Frederic Hanusch's "The Politics of Deep Time":

human societies should comprehend the fact that planet Earth existed before and during, and will exist after Homo sapiens. Consequently, the past covers a timeframe ranging from the first Homo sapiens ca. 315,000years ago back to the Big Bang. A closer look at processes taking place within this timeframe demonstrates that the separation between cosmic, geological, and biological timeframes becomes blurred.