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Time makes sense in small pieces

But when you look at huge stretches of time it's almost impossible to wrap your head around things

So let's start small with minutes hours days

You probably spent the last 24 hours mostly sleeping and working and you probably wasted a good chunk of

yesterday on the Internet

Days become weeks weeks become months and then we have a year

Let's look at 2017

France started to train eagles to hunt terrorist drones

a Czech nuclear power plant held a bikini contest to pick their new intern

and people on the Internet made a challenge out of eating bleach. You know, the usual stuff.

Let's go back further...

A kid born in the first year of the 21st century is 18 years old now

But the century is still young even if you're not

It was largely shaped by the attacks on 9/11 which led to the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq

In March 2011 the Syrian civil war began and is still ongoing after seven years

Most of us were born in the 20th century

Which had the two most devastating wars in human history and the Cold War

For the first time ever, we could destroy ourselves with the nuclear weapons, and we almost did

But we also had a space race and left earth for the first time

The internet was also invented which led to memes but also to Facebook and Twitter

So all in all we're not sure if this was a good development

The average human lives about 79 years, which covers a good chunk of recent history

The oldest living person on earth is currently Celino Jaramillo, who was born in 1896

Which means that his birth was closer to Napoleon ruling Europe than to the current day

Only 250 years ago the Industrial Revolution

Turned the world into a progress machine. The farmers became workers and knowledge became easier to distribute

Around this time we started the progress that is causing climate change today

Not that long ago actually

The theory of evolution changed how we saw ourselves and the world we live in

Newton wrote down his theory of gravity. We discovered distant stars and very close bacteria

The 15th century was very eventful

Columbus's discovery of america and the fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Middle Ages

War was all the rage in the Middle Ages

But the number one killer was disease. The Black Plague killed every third European in just six years

Around 2,000 years ago, we set the arbitrary year one of our calendar that most of the world follows today

But to a Roman the world was already ancient

The great pyramids were constructed

4,500 years ago. So, to a Roman, the pyramids were older than the Romans are to us today

so long ago that there was still living mammoths on earth

A lot of history happened before that even around 7,000 years ago humans began writing things down

About 12,000 years ago human organization exploded

We built our first temple and around the world mankind began farming

Which enabled the rise of larger communities. Our dominance over planet Earth really begins here

Homo sapiens sapiens, the modern human, evolved at least 200,000 years ago

50,000 years ago the cognitive revolution expanded our minds and innovation

Back then, we shared earth with at least five other human species that either died out or were killed by us

At least 2 million years ago, our ancestors already had control over fire and constructed tools from wood and stone

And six million years ago, the last common ancestors of chimpanzees and humans existed

So this graph is all of human history

Our close relative, Homo erectus, survived 10 times longer than we have existed

This tiny part is the human era. We have to zoom in a lot to even see your lifetime

Still, all of human history is not that long

65 million years ago the age of the dinosaurs ended in an enormous explosion

The dinosaurs ruled the earth for over 165 million years

27 times as long as all humans

That's so long that it means a T-rex that lived at 65 million years ago is closer to us today

than to a live Stegosaurus

Dinosaurs in the form of mighty chickens are still around today

Animal life on this planet started 600 million years ago

The earliest animals were fish and other small simple sea creatures. Then came insects, then reptiles

and finally, around 200 million years ago, mammals joined the party

Life itself began much further back. There is evidence that it appeared up to 4.1 billion years ago

For at least 3.5 billion years life consisted only of single-celled organisms

4.5 billion years ago, the Sun was born from a gigantic imploding gas cloud. 60 million years later, earth formed

In those early years, frequent bombardment by comets and asteroids supplied the earth with large oceans

But as far as the whole universe goes, our solar system is pretty new

Thirteen point seven five billion years ago, the universe was born

And about half a billion years later, our own galaxy formed from billions of stars

But what came before the Big Bang? The truth is we don't know and maybe we never will

And there you have it: The past

Now let's take a look at what we know about the future

In roughly 1 billion years, the Sun will be so hot that life on Earth becomes impossible. The death of the Sun 4 billion years later

marks the end of life in the solar system

If we want to have a chance to survive, we need to have ventured to the Stars. And what happens after that?

In the next 100 billion years, most of the biggest stars around will die. The universe becomes dimmer and dimmer

illuminated only by smaller red and white dwarfs

But they too will eventually burn out and one day, the last star in the universe will die

The universe will turn dark and at some point even black holes will evaporate and die

When they do our universe will reach its final stage: Heat death.

Nothing changes anymore; the universe is dead

Forever

Now, you're feeling some pretty weird feelings right now, aren't you? We are too. It's only natural

The good news is this is all far far away

The only time that actually matters is now

That cute girl or boy you like, ask them out! Time is precious

Make it count

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How did you like this remake? We're thinking about redoing a few of our older videos in the next one or two years

Any videos you would like to see redone?