Thread:CirUmeUela/@comment-27496405-20180307074410/@comment-2112031-20180531234853

BEJT wrote:

Nice catch. It looks like not just one of the first touchscreens, but more of a modern one. I guess we'll see in a week's time. Funny enough, I had honestly forgotten that the show was going to be coming out so soon. Oh well, it means we'll get to enjoy it alongside Luke Cage: Season 2.

BEJT wrote:

Ah good point about him having killed their mother aged 12, that was a big oversight on my part!

As for him being old millions of years in the future - maybe as they get older, their ageing continues to slow. The best rough guess I can find from some quick use of this site is something along the lines of "[age in human years] = 11.48067*[Titan actual age]^0.132632". This would mean at age 12, he's about 15-16 in human years, at age 20 when he leaves Titan he's about 17 in human years, at age 100 when he has gathered his armada he's about 21 in human years, you'd be in your human 30s from about 1400-12,000, your human 40s from about 12,000-66,000, and eventually your human 70s from about 830,000-2.3 million, 80s from 2.3 million-5.5 million, 90s from 5.5 million-12 million, 100s from 12 million to 25 million. So he'd be roughly the right ages at 12, 20, and 100, Starfox would be roughly the right age for his appearance when he's "well over 1000", and millions of years in the future, Thanos is an old man.

Comic Thanos must be no more than 12 years older than Starfox, and if Starfox is about 35ish, then that translates to about 4466. + 11 years, say, would make Thanos about 4477ish, which translates back to about 35.01104 in human years.

Going by this approximated comic-based ageing curve, a Titan at 47.355 in human years (Josh Brolin's rough age as above) would be more like 43,641.

So we've got the option now of either taking it that Thanos is the same age as he is in the comics (about 4477) or that Titan ageing is the same as it is in the comics (which, considering his appearance like a man in his late 40s would make him about 43,641).

Going with roughly the middle of these two figures' human ages would be 41.18302 in human years (considering it's a curve, it's better to take an average of that axis than the 4477 and 43,641, because while the value would be halfway, where it sits on the curve would be much closer to the 4477 than the 43,641). That translates to Thanos being, very roughly, about 15,228 in actual years.

It's, er, well... it's very rough. Basically though, the comics would then suggest that this Thanos is somewhere between 1000 and 50,000... Yeah, it's rough, but you're calculations remain quite impressive.

In any case, I've read the recent storyline regarding Thanos. A recap of his life mentions that he was born on a Wednesday "some forgotten centuries ago" and reaffirms that he killed his mother at age 12.

We also see a flashback of him killing Galactus and recruiting Ghost Rider an unspecified number of centuries after present day. In these flashbacks, Thanos has a grey beard, but otherwise appears less wrinkled and still in peak physical shape.