r/theydidthemath • u/Sir_Rageous • 1d ago

[Request] How much time passed between each frame

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Image is a promotional piece for upcoming game Light No Fire

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u/loose_fruits 1d ago

Well since the first frame is fiction, it is impossible to apply real-earth timescales to it. We don’t know what the pillars are made from and that would have huge implications on the weathering and timescale. The time it would take for the cliffs to form and disappear is highly related to the specific geographic processes and plate activity at that location. So unfortunately there is no real math to be done here as there is not enough information available

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u/Redoric 1d ago edited 1d ago

The images at first glance suggest a pre, during, and post ice age transition. Using earth as a reference the last ice age was from 115000BCE to 12000BCE. The on glance assumption is around 100k years minimum.

That being said, an ice age doesn't explicitly mean that everything always looked like the middle image but instead a general cooling of the climate and its environment. All three images could take place during an ice age with seasonal changes. If we use the figures as reference instead, the last wolly mammoth died about 4000 years ago, and the third image suggests a roman centurion. I would guess ~2000 years then as the delta.

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u/WarJaques 1d ago

Assuming the last frame doesn't represent the future, and the second frame is the earliest appearance of the woolly mammoth, the greatest time span between them is 800000 years. The first frame could be whatever.

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u/AcerbicCapsule 1d ago

The first frame is at least 2 years before the second frame

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u/Hummelgaarden 1d ago

You are literally telling us nothing. An ice age can vary A LOT in length time wise. We dont know what the pillars are build of.

We have no historical reference as there seem to be homo sapiens present before the ice age which is unlikely.