History of the Earth

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Published 2020-01-04
The history of the Earth from its formation to present day, covering major events throughout its 4-billion-year history. Estimates of average temperature, atmospheric composition, and day length are given. The reconstruction is based off of the companion video (   • ⁸ᴷ Interactive Continental Drift  ) with changes to the coastline.

Forgot to add this event, but the little boom is in the video.:
(Impacts 2023Ma) Vredefort impact - This impact is the largest confirmed crater on Earth at 300 km wide. It is found in South Africa.

Music from filmmusic.io/
“Division”, “Ever Mindful”, “Soaring”, “Revival”, “Ossuary 6”, "Impact Intermezzo" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com/)
License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

All Comments (21)
  • @vesodus2937
    Last 20 seconds: "Oh yeah. It's all coming together."
  • Respect to the cameraman for capturing these! Edit: boomers stay away if you can't even get these jokes
  • @atismoke
    That last part was like the continents going like "Oh shit teachers coming" and arranging themselves as fast as possible
  • @GregJonson
    Until now I never realised that life literally had to exist for billions of years before even going multicellular. Wow.
  • @Gia1911Logous
    when you realize homo sapiens were only in two frames
  • @warpey5632
    Ocean: turns red Music: turns into horror music Earth: freezes Music: intensifies
  • @miloyall
    It’s trippy to thing that all of recorded human history is about 1/1000 of a second of this video.
  • @quepplerep8333
    I love how tense the music it gets when the ocean turned red
  • @cookii8588
    Earth: Turning red, turning to lava, turning to ice, etc. The other planets: boi what you doin
  • @axqrn
    that's not was i was expecting also it should've been 11 minutes but i paused like 50 times so it ended up being a 25 minute video xd
  • 0:10 starting a water vouper 3:19 first ice age 4:40 first snowball earth event 5:31 the end of first snowball event 6:20 beginning of the boring billion 6:37 beginning of the supercontinent Columbia 6:54 oceans turn purple. 7:56 oceans stop turning purple 9:21 second snowball earth event 9:34 the end of second snowball earth event 10:25 beginning of supercontinent pangea 11:20 last ice age
  • @arashino
    Credits to the cameraman who stood still for so long making notes in the space to record how the earth has changed.
  • @tlgk7697
    İ love how the dinosaurs and the humans are both in the last 20 seconds of an 11 min video. Mother earth is very old.
  • @CursedAnqxl
    is it just me or does it feel very beautiful and serene? because it keeps changing from things like a jade green ocean to a red ocean and then a blue ocean then a purple ocean then back to blue is very nice to say the least. I also think the video music really hammers it home for me, and the mystery of not ever experiencing all the way back then.
  • Imagine a 4 hour day. You’d literally work for 2 days straight before doing stuff for a day then sleeping for 2 days then doing more stuff for a day then back to work.
  • @sailboi7108
    “Hey can we go on land?” “N O.” “Why?” “THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER!”
  • @IreneSalmakis
    I've heard of proposals to divide the Hadean eon into eras based on the few things we have found from the time. The first era would be the Paleohadean, which is defined not by physical evidence from the period which does not survive but by things that we know must have taken place. The era lasted from about 4.6 bya to about 4.4 bya, encompassing two periods. The Chaotian period lasted 30 to 70 million years, from the formation of the original "Earthmoon" body until the Theia Impact, while the Titanomachean period lasted from the Theia Impact to the solidification of the Earth's crust about 80 million years later. After this would be the Neohadean Era, beginning at 4.404 bya and containing three periods. The Narryeric, Jackhillsian, or maybe the Australian period, named after the Narryer Gneiss from the Jack Hills of Australia, which preserves the oldest known zircons from the early Earth dating to 4.402 bya. After that is the Iwokranan or Guianan period, after the Iwokrana Formation in Guiana, in which Hadean xenocrysts with surviving zircon have been discovered dating to 4.22 bya, and the last is the Acastan or Canadian period, named after the Acasta Gneiss of northern Canada, which contain tonalites dating to 4.03 bya.
  • @pdgordon92
    That was damn formative. I hadn't seen anything prior to this that really contextualized my life... other than representations of the vastness of empty space. Well done to the Algol person/team.