Evolving_Dore

500,000? More like 100,000. Fully developed Neanderthals hadn't appeared yet by 500k years ago. We're still trying to understand the timeline, but it would appear that Homo heidelbergensis and erectus were the big players around that period.

Even then, the Moon was the first time a human had ever set foot on another planetary body. A mission to Mars will be amazing, but it won't come with the same feeling of "can we even do this? Is this possible?" that the Moon came with.

At least I would think not. I wasn't around for the Moon landing. But I'll be watching the first Mars mission if ever it happens in my life.

Last semester I took an aquatic entomology class. On an overnight field trip we set up a light trap that attracted hundreds of mayflies and caddisflies, and a few I didn't recognize. I grabbed one to show to a friend, by this point completely desensitized to holding any insect. My friend looks at it and says "That's a reduv-" and then I screamed. I screamed and threw it down and held my hand in agony. It was a reduviid, an assassin bug, and I am apparently allergic to the bite of the Hemiptera.

One time he made a bow out of a tree and then shot a spear from it and then became as light as a feather and his brothers threw him and then in midair he became as heavy as a boulder and fell on a giant magical cow in a battle. This is what happened in the saga.

I was really hoping it was going to be that.