Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
What&#x27;s really striking to me about timelapse videos of the Earth is how, at a grand enough scale, the growth of human settlements on Earth really looks no different than the growth of bacterial and fungal colonies on Petri dishes.<p>We think of ourself as special, as having conquered environments, technology and more - and when zoomed out you could explain everything we&#x27;ve built and accomplished as the achievements of a sufficiently robust slime mold simply using available resources to continue growing.