Note that the above years have been computed up to 4.5 billion years due to the scientists suggest the age of the earth to be that.
The two strands of the narrative converge when the connections between them (such as the implications of geology for the age of the earth and the origin of species) intensify.
The long-lifers' heroes are the likes of John Glenn, who circled the earth at the age of 77, and Goya, who was still painting rather well at 80.
We believe that in its early history - remember, Earth and Mars, the solar system, 4.6 billion years old. 4.6 billion years old the age of Earth and Mars and the solar system.
Completed in 1979, it was one of the great engineering feats of the age, crossing some of the most difficult mountain terrain on Earth.
The only woman allowed into the stadium to watch the contests was, in fact, the high priestess of Demeter of the Earth-bed a relic of an age when the goddesses dominated Olympia.
It would have spanned millions years of history, from the Precambrian Era when land was barren and devoid of life to the age when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
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Today we look at these achievements, much as Dark Age peasants looked on the mighty works of the Roman Era, feeling like some golden age has passed when giants walked the Earth.
This would mean that 4 billion years ago, the age of the earliest signs of life on earth, interstellar distances were much smaller.
In the history of the planet, Pearce argues, the past 10, 000 years since the end of the last ice age, in which humanity has established itself as the earth's dominant species, have been unusually benign in climatological terms.
Six years later on 20 January, 1983 at the age of 49 - just 21 years after he was widely recognised as the greatest footballer on earth - Garrincha died of cirrhosis of the liver, attached to a drip in a Rio hospital.
Amazingly, after all that, Telstar is still up there, orbiting the Earth, a sleeping relic of a bygone age.
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