My answer would be 1945. But a British friend says he has a sense that “the world began in 1688”.
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Our era is the industrial era, which began gradually, sometime in 1600-1800.
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I think the fact that I don’t exactly believe that underlies most of the differences between us that aren’t simply demographic.
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The question seems meaningless to me because you can modify the definition to justify any date for practical purposes.
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But there are no practical purposes here. The question is very meaningful, only that subjective. Both your definition and the dates you give are probably of interest to Sarah I guess
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August 9, 1945, specifically
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Plausible but the date in my mind was Yalta (which was Feb 4-11.)
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My first thought was of course 13.778 gigayears ago, but more in the spirit of the question: there is a layering of worlds from Jan 1 1970, Aug 6 1945, Jul 5 1687, Jun 6 1523, 387 BC, 50,000 ya, ... that forms the onion layers of the world as we know it.
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> Jan 1 1970 Unix epoch?
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The late Triassic just over 200 million years ago: the Paleozoic is over and it's the beginning of a new world with mammals, crocodilians, turtles, bird ancestors (dinosaurs), modern plankton, conifers, and stony corals, and invertebrates w defenses against shell-crushing/boring
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Hmm. Perhaps. What you say is true, certainly, but I was convinced by a recent story in the NYT about the rise of mammals after the K/Pg Event. And, NOVA did a wonderful film, The Rise of the Mammals. Maybe, since I'm a mammal I'm partial.
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