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Time...
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makes sense in small pieces.
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But when you look at huge stretches of time,
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it's almost impossible to wrap your head around things.
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So, let's start small--
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with minutes, hours, days.
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You probably spent the last 24 hours mostly sleeping and working,
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and you probably wasted a good chunk of yesterday
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on the Internet.
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Days become weeks, weeks become months,
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and then we have a year.
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Let's look at 2017.
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France started to train eagles to hunt terrorist drones,
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A Czech nuclear power plant held a bikini contest
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to pick their new intern,
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and people on the Internet made a challenge
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out of eating bleach.
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You know, the usual stuff.
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Let's go back further.
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A kid born in the first year of the 21st Century
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is 18 years old now.
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But the century is still young, even if you're not.
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It was largely shaped by the attacks on 9/11,
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which led to the war in Afghanistan
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and the invasion of Iraq.
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In March 2011,
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the Syrian Civil War began,
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and is still ongoing after seven years.
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Most of us were born in the 20th century,
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which had the two most devastating wars in human history,
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and the Cold War.
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For the first time ever,
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we could destroy ourselves with the nuclear weapons,
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and we almost did,
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but we also had a space race and left Earth for the first time.
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The Internet was also invented,
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which led to memes ,
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but also to Facebook and Twitter,
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so all in all,
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we're not sure if this was a GOOD development.
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The average human lives about 79 years,
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which covers a good chunk of recent history.
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The oldest living person on Earth is currently Celino Jaramillo,
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who was born in 1896,
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which means that his birth was closer to Napoleon ruling Europe
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than to the current day.
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Only 250 years ago,
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the Industrial Revolution turned the world into a progress machine.
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Farmers became workers, and knowledge became easier to distribute.
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Around this time,
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we started the progress that is causing climate change today.
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Not that long ago, actually.
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The Theory of Evolution changed how we saw ourselves
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and the world we live in.
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Newton wrote down his theory of gravity.
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We discovered distant stars
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and very close bacteria.
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The 15th century was very eventful.
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Columbus's "discovery" of America
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and the fall of Constantinople
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marked the end of the Middle Ages.
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War was all the rage in the Middle Ages,
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but the number one killer was disease.
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The Black Plague killed every third European
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in just six years.
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Around 2,000 years ago,
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we set the arbitrary Year 1 of our calendar
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that most of the world follows today.
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But to a Roman, the world was already ancient.
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The Great Pyramids were constructed 4,500 years ago.
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So, to a Roman,
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the pyramids were older than the Romans are to us today.
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So long ago,
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that there were still living mammoths on Earth.
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A lot of history happened before that, even.
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Around 7,000 years ago,
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humans began writing things down.
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About 12,000 years ago,
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human organization exploded.
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We built our first temple,
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and around the world, mankind began farming,
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which enabled the rise of larger communities.
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Our dominance over planet Earth really begins here.
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Homo sapiens sapiens, the modern human,
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evolved at least 200,000 years ago.
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50,000 years ago,
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the Cognitive Revolution expanded our minds and innovation.
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Back then, we shared Earth with at least five other human species
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that either died out or were killed by us.
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At least 2 million years ago,
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our ancestors already had control over fire
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and constructed tools from wood and stone.
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And six million years ago,
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the last common ancestors of chimpanzees and humans existed.
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So this graph is all of human history.
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Our close relative, Homo erectus,
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survived 10 times longer than we have existed.
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This tiny part is the human era.
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We have to zoom in a lot
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to even see your lifetime.
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Still, all of human history is not that long.
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65 million years ago,
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the age of the dinosaurs ended in an enormous explosion.
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The dinosaurs ruled the Earth
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for over 165 million years.
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27 times as long as all humans.
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That's so long,
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that it means a T-rex that lived at 65 million years ago
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is closer to us today
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than to a live Stegosaurus.
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Dinosaurs in the form of mighty chickens
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are still around today.
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Animal life on this planet started 600 million years ago.
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The earliest animals were fish and other small simple sea creatures,
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then came insects, then reptiles
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and finally, around 200 million years ago,
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mammals joined the party.
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Life itself began much further back.
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There is evidence that it appeared up to
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4.1 BILLION years ago.
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For at least 3.5 billion years,
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life consisted only of single-celled organisms.
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4.5 billion years ago,
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the Sun was born from a gigantic imploding gas cloud.
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60 million years later, Earth formed.
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In those early years,
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frequent bombardment by comets and asteroids
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supplied the Earth with large oceans.
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But as far as the whole universe goes,
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our solar system is pretty new.
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13.75 billion years ago,
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the universe was born.
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And about half a billion years later,
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our own galaxy formed from billions of stars.
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But what came before the Big Bang?
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The truth is...
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we don't know, and maybe we never will.
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And there you have it...
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The past.
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Now let's take a look at what we know about the future.
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In roughly 1 billion years,
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the Sun will be so hot
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that life on Earth becomes impossible.
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The death of the Sun 4 billion years later
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marks the end of life in the solar system.
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If we want to have a chance to survive,
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we need to have ventured to the stars.
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And what happens after that?
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In the next 100 billion years,
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most of the biggest stars around will die.
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The universe becomes dimmer and dimmer,
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illuminated only by smaller red and white dwarfs.
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But they too will eventually burn out
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and one day...
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the last star in the universe will die.
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The universe will turn dark,
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and at some point,
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even black holes will evaporate and die.
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When they do our, universe will reach its final stage:
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Heat death.
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Nothing changes anymore; the universe is dead.
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Forever.
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Now, you're feeling some pretty weird feelings right now, aren't you?
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We are, too.
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It's only natural.
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The good news is
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this is all far, far away.
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The only time that actually matters
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is now.
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That cute girl or boy you like,
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ask them out!
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Time is precious.
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Make it count!
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One of the questions we get asked the most is how we make animated videos.
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The short answer is with Adobe After Effects and years of training.
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But if you'd like to get a glimpse, we now have something for you.
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We made Skillshare tutorials
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explaining in detail how we animate scenes from our videos.
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If you aren't already familiar with it,
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Skillshare is an online learning community with more than 18,000 classes
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in things like writing, animation, and video editing.
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Their premium membership gives you unlimited access
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to high-quality classes from professionals working in their fields
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so you can improve your skills,
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unlock new opportunities,
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and do work that you really enjoy.
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It's also extremely affordable.
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The annual subscription is less than $10 a month.
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The first 1,000 people to sign up
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So if you want to learn new things and support Kurzgesagt,
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give it a try.
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How did you like this remake?
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We're thinking about redoing a few of our older videos in the next one or two years
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