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.
In the past, a one- to two-degree drop was all it took to plunge the Earth into the Little Ice Age.
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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.
Very few if any skeptics assert that the earth is still in the Little Ice Age.
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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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As the earth gradually recovers from the Little Ice Age (which lasted from approximately 1300 to 1900 A.D.), the frequency of major hurricane strikes is declining rather than increasing.
Photos, Christmas cards, magazines, invitations people under a certain age are wondering why on earth anybody ever sent anything in an envelope rather than via Facebook, e-mail, the iPad or the web.
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Amazingly, after all that, Telstar is still up there, orbiting the Earth, a sleeping relic of a bygone age.
Earlier projections apparently failed to account for rebounding changes in the Earth's crust following the last Ice Age (referred to as "glacial isostatic adjustment").
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.
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.
Completed in 1979, it was one of the great engineering feats of the age, crossing some of the most difficult mountain terrain on Earth.
He said the shuttle trip -- during which he will be subjected to a battery of tests to determine the physical effects of space on a person of Glenn's age -- should help provide new insights into aging that could help people on Earth.
The Earth is warmer now than during 70 to 80 percent of the time stretching back to the last Ice Age, according to researchers from Oregon State and Harvard universities who studied data from more than 73 global sites.
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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.
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