Animations Tells Earth History in 140 Seconds

The Sun published a short video featuring a stunning animation that "snaps" or shortens Earth's history by 140 seconds. The video shows the 4.5 billion year timeline of the Earth, as if traveling from London to Edinburgh to the UK.

The video is shown as a journey from London to Edinburgh, and upon arrival in Yorkshire, an invasion of the earth by oxygen-producing bacteria occurs.

By the time an apocalyptic asteroid wipes out the dinosaurs we're just five miles from the end of our journey. Modern humans evolve around 200,000 years ago, or just 78ft from the centre of Edinburgh, according to tech news.

Earth History in 140 seconds

The Evolution of Earth History in 140 second is an experiment in scale: By condensing 4.5 billion years of history into a minute, the video is a self-contained timepiece. Like a specialized clock, it gives one a sense of perspective.

Everything from the formation of the Earth, to the Cambrian Explosion, to the evolution of mice and squirrels  is proportionate to everything else, displaying humankind as a blip, almost indiscernible in the layered course of history.

Noteworthy, Earth formed as part of the birth of the solar system: what eventually became the solar system initially existed as a large, rotating cloud of dust and gas. It was composed of hydrogen and helium produced in the Big Bang, as well as heavier elements produced by stars long gone.

The geological time scale (GTS), as defined by international convention, depicts the large spans of time from the beginning of the Earth to the present, and its pisions chronicle some definitive events of Earth history.

The earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth dates at least from 3.5 billion years ago,during the Eoarchean Era, after a geological crust started to solidify following the earlier molten Hadean Eon. There are microbial mat fossils such as stromatolites found in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone discovered in Western Australia.

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