What is one photo that defines the year 1,000,000 BC?
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shows a dwarf galaxy in Leo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_I_(dwarf_galaxy)
It is about 820 thousand light years away. That means the galaxy appears as it did almost 1 million years ago.
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albanian: .82 million years is very close to 1,000,000 BC. the next picture I found was from 1.3 light years away, and my pic is closer.
In either case, i doubt the picture will be that much different in another 182,009 years. (less than 20% error!)
You should save this one for when the 820,000 BC question comes around.
Even though your photo is literally close to the right date, as you point out the stars don't change much over a few thousand years, or even a million. So they don't define a year very well.
Good answer
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And a little bit about 1,000,000 BC
http://www.worldtimelines.org.uk/world/europe/1000000-8500BC
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Basically a good answer; but, this picture manages to be even more inaccurate than the Hollywood poster. Clothes hadn't been invented yet, and this family is wearing what appear to be modern shorts and dresses. Even the kids are wearing clothes, which is a very modern thing. Also, pottery had not been invented either, so there were no oil lamps. The cave paintings were much later, maybe 30000 BC at most. The whole family scene is 1950 not 1000000 BC.
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It does resemble the inside of a cave before the invention of fire; but, it is not a good likeness of the universe at that time. See hartwell's answer.
That picture is clearly from 16 billion BC. Right click, show properties. It's there in the EXIF data.
That really shows what the universe was like in 1,000,000 BC. Cuz the world hadn't been created yet!
The image is quite accurate. It looks the way it looks because they didn't have cameras yet, back then!
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I just don't understand this answer at all.
This question is about 1 million years ago, you lost count of the zeros.
@albanian : If you look at the history of the world, just over 3 billion years ago, blue-green algae formed up on the oceans and the first bacteria appeared. Keep going to 600 million years ago, and you start to find the first fossilized bacteria. Now, following evolution, the amoeba should have developed around around the 100-200mil bc mark...so, a picture of an amoeba is a picture of 100mil years ago
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As soon as I read the question, I knew that this would be the favorite photo. Too bad the movie wasn't any good.
You're so right. I'm usually a little more scientific with my responses, but this is such an iconic shot, I just couldn't pass it up.