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00:00Time makes sense in small pieces, but when you look at huge stretches of time, it's

00:08almost impossible to wrap your head around things.

00:11So let's start small, with minutes, hours, days.

00:17You probably spent the last 24 hours mostly sleeping and working, and you probably wasted

00:22a good chunk of yesterday on the internet.

00:26Days become weeks, weeks become months, and then we have a year.

00:31Let's look at 2017.

00:33France started to train eagles to hunt terrorist drones, a Czech nuclear power plant held a

00:38bikini contest to pick their new intern, and people on the internet made a challenge out

00:43of eating bleach.

00:44You know, the usual stuff, followed by the attacks on 9-11, which led to the war in Afghanistan

00:50and the invasion of Iraq.

00:53In March 2011, the Syrian civil war began and is still ongoing after 7 years.

00:59Most of us were born in the 20th century, which had the two most devastating wars in

01:03human history and the cold war.

01:06For the first time ever, we could destroy ourselves with nuclear weapons, and we almost

01:11did, but we also had a space race and left Earth for the first time.

01:15The internet was also invented, which led to memes, but also to Facebook and Twitter,

01:20so all in all, we're not sure if this was a good development.

01:25The average human lives about 79 years, which covers a good chunk of recent history.

01:31The oldest living person on Earth is currently Celino Jaramillo, who was born in 1896, which

01:37means that his birth was closer to Napoleon ruling Europe than to the current day.

01:43Only 250 years ago, the industrial revolution turned the world into a progress machine.

01:49Engineers became workers and knowledge became easier to distribute.

01:53Around this time, we started the progress that is causing climate change today.

01:58Not that long ago, actually.

02:00The theory of evolution changed how we saw ourselves and the world we live in.

02:05Newton wrote down his theory of gravity.

02:08We discovered distant stars and very close bacteria.

02:14The 15th century was very eventful.

02:16Columbus' discovery of America and the fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Middle Ages.

02:23War was all the rage in the Middle Ages, but the number one killer was disease.

02:28The Black Plague killed every third European in just six years.

02:34Around 2,000 years ago, we set the arbitrary year one of our calendar that most of the

02:39world follows today.

02:41To a Roman, the world was already ancient.

02:44The Great Pyramids were constructed 4,500 years ago.

02:48So to a Roman, the pyramids were older than the Romans are to us today.

02:53So long ago that there were still living mammoths on Earth.

02:58A lot of history happened before that even.

03:01Around 7,000 years ago, humans began writing things down.

03:06About 12,000 years ago, human organization exploded.

03:10We built our first temple, and around the world, mankind began farming, which enabled

03:15the rise of larger communities.

03:18Our dominance over planet Earth really begins here.

03:22Homo sapiens sapiens, the modern human, evolved at least 200,000 years ago.

03:2750,000 years ago, the cognitive revolution expanded our minds and innovation.

03:33Back then, we shared Earth with at least five other human species that either died out or

03:37were killed by us.

03:40At least 2 million years ago, our ancestors already had control over fire and constructed

03:45tools from wood and stone.

03:48And 6 million years ago, the last common ancestors of chimpanzees and humans existed.

03:54So this graph is all of human history.

03:58Our close relative, Homo erectus, survived 10 times longer than we have existed.

04:04This tiny part is the human era.

04:07You have to zoom in a lot to even see your lifetime.

04:10Still, all of human history is not that long.

04:1465 million years ago, the age of the dinosaurs ended in an enormous explosion.

04:20The dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 165 million years, 27 times as long as all humans.

04:29That's so long that it means a T. rex that lived 65 million years ago is closer to us

04:35today than to a live Stegosaurus.

04:40Dinosaurs in the form of mighty chickens are still around today.

04:45Animal life on this planet started 600 million years ago.

04:49The earliest animals were fish and other small simple sea creatures, then came insects, then

04:55reptiles, and finally, around 200 million years ago, mammals joined the party.

05:01Life itself began much further back.

05:03There is evidence that it appeared up to 4.1 billion years ago.

05:08For at least 3.5 billion years, life consisted only of single-celled organisms.

05:144.5 billion years ago, the Sun was born from a gigantic imploding gas cloud.

05:2060 million years later, Earth formed.

05:24In those early years, frequent bombardment by comets and asteroids supplied the Earth

05:28with large oceans.

05:30But as far as the whole universe goes, our solar system is pretty new.

05:3513.75 billion years ago, the universe was born, and about half a billion years later,

05:43our own galaxy formed from billions of stars.

05:48But what came before the Big Bang?

05:50The truth is, we don't know, and maybe we never will.

05:54And there you have it, the past.

05:57Now let's take a look at what we know about the future.

06:00In roughly 1 billion years, the Sun will be so hot that life on Earth becomes impossible.

06:06The death of the Sun 4 billion years later marks the end of life in the solar system.

06:12If we want to have a chance to survive, we need to have ventured to the stars.

06:17And what happens after that?

06:20In the next 100 billion years, most of the bigger stars around will die.

06:25The universe becomes dimmer and dimmer, illuminated only by smaller red and white dwarfs.

06:31But they too will eventually burn out, and one day, the last star in the universe will

06:36die.

06:37The universe will turn dark.

06:40And at some point, even black holes will evaporate and die.

06:44When they do, our universe will reach its final stage, heat death.

06:49Nothing changes anymore, the universe is dead.

06:52Forever.

06:54Now you're feeling some pretty weird feelings right now, aren't you?

06:58We are too.

06:59It's only natural.

07:01The good news is, this is all far, far away.

07:05The only time that actually matters is now.

07:08That cute girl or boy you like, ask them out.

07:12Time is precious.

07:14Make it count.

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