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Sheril KirshenbaumThe History of Earth as a 24 hr clock. Humans have only just arrived.
Note: I first came across this image through UW-Madison geology. #science #SharedPlanet
drfourny@Sheril And now there are 8 billion of us. Geesh.
Kathleen Ogrady
sdmunroe@Sheril
You don't need a 24-hour clock. You need a trillionth of a second clock.
You don't need a 24-hour clock. You need a trillionth of a second clock.
Kiki@Sheril and we are destroying the planet in record time.
@Cat532653 We're making it less hospitable to us. The planet doesn't care.
@catalina_marina the animals, insects, birds, plants going extinct do.
DJP (Darren John Pope)@Sheril ... the after 6pm boom seems to allign with knock off time and after work drinks - no connection, surely ๐คญ
Adam Collins@Sheril Fashionably late?
MrCopilot
Tris Hussey@Sheril itโs a lot nicer than the toilet paper roll metaphor!
teledyn ๐And "Ethnic Identity" less than a hair's width.
Sparkle Tea@Sheril
Perspective! Wonderful
Perspective! Wonderful
Elise Gravel@Sheril What are those oldest fossils if the first organisms arrived much later?
kiowa
Keith Daggett
Ann@Sheril
I'm less than a blip
I'm less than a blip
SarahMoonlightOfMine@Sheril Are you a fellow badger alum?
Austin@Sheril this is dope!
Chris@Sheril how can the earliest fossils predate the arrival of algae?
Stephen J Henstridge@henstridge @Sheril I didn't realise bacteria could be fossilised.
I learn something new (nearly) every day!
I learn something new (nearly) every day!
L@ZAnd yet so many tend to believe we're here forever. Well, so did the dinosaurs probably...
Hope ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ SNP@LarryStephenson @Sheril I was going to say they all died looking forward to Christmasโฆbut that creates a theological debate that could end in tears ๐๐๐
A little inaccurate regarding mammals.
They arrived around the same time as dinosaurs, in fact slightly before. They just didn't make such a fuss about it until much later.
Ross@Sheril I love the dinosaur hangover of cassowaries, turtles, sharks, and crocodiles, but it always shocks me jellyfish predate dinosaurs by 250 million years.
Russell England ๐๐๐ช๐บ๐งณ๐ป@Sheril Just a tip, there's a very simple too here that will convert images to 16:9 format - so images are displayed in full in Mastodon posts
Cosmic Oracle@Sheril we are going to need a bigger clock or go extinct 
goincyber โ ๐@Sheril And I was feeling bad all those times I came late to school / to the meetings...
It's in our genes!
It's in our genes!
Anne Sones@Sheril
That's brilliant!
That's brilliant!
Sue
Lew Boulton@Sheril Sexual Reproduction at 6:08pm? Earth was keen!
Flockysheep@Sheril This is a perspective that is more important than the traditional teaching of any โhistoryโ Iโve seen in schools. The the key event after #abiogenesis was the symbiotic relationship between two single celled #archaea an event that gave rise to every eukaryote that ever existed, every multicellular creature, every lineage of every animal, every hominid and each of the 8 billion Homo sapiens walking about thinking we, as a species are the bees knees. #history #evolution
Fish Id Wardrobe@Sheril That's not a 24 hour clock.
TVanhoof (hij/hem)(he/him)@fishidwardrobe @Sheril
When a circle is divided in such a way that 24 hours are divided equally over its circumference, one can safely describe it as "a 24hr clock", don't you think? ๐ But if you don't consider this to be a 24hr clock, then what does such a clock do look like, according to you?
When a circle is divided in such a way that 24 hours are divided equally over its circumference, one can safely describe it as "a 24hr clock", don't you think? ๐ But if you don't consider this to be a 24hr clock, then what does such a clock do look like, according to you?
@t_vanhoof @Sheril Well, a clock with hands is always a twelve hour clock. But more importantly, two in the afternoon in the 24 hour clock is not "2:00". It's "14:00". Because a 24 hour clock, by definition, does not go back to 0 after 12; that's a 12 hour clock.
@fishidwardrobe @Sheril
No it's not. Though I admit that the time indications better would have used 1400hrs syntax and so on, or at least mentioned AM and PM at the time indications of the events. This representation has just most probably been made by an American or at least someone used to AM and PM instead of SI notation. Which makes it look strange or even "wrong" for us.
No it's not. Though I admit that the time indications better would have used 1400hrs syntax and so on, or at least mentioned AM and PM at the time indications of the events. This representation has just most probably been made by an American or at least someone used to AM and PM instead of SI notation. Which makes it look strange or even "wrong" for us.
@t_vanhoof @Sheril
Come on. We learn this in junior school. It's not really up for debate. You can display the data any way you please, but a 24 hour clock goes 0-24.
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock
* https://www.thefreedictionary.com/24-hour%20clock
* https://www.math.net/24-hour-clock
* https://www.mathsisfun.com/time.html
Come on. We learn this in junior school. It's not really up for debate. You can display the data any way you please, but a 24 hour clock goes 0-24.
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock
* https://www.thefreedictionary.com/24-hour%20clock
* https://www.math.net/24-hour-clock
* https://www.mathsisfun.com/time.html
a-b@Sheril the earth's Cinderella moment.
Nikie Marston@Sheril This is brilliant, I love stuff like this. But like a lot of tooters are saying, look how long it's taken to get to here and look how fast we're destroying it!
aseking@Sheril An interesting visualisation. ๐
FayeS
LadyFluffyOrca@Sheril and in that 1 minute and 17 seconds what have we done? Destroyed everything.
@weaniejeanie53 @Sheril you beat me too it, what an indictment on the human race, looking more and more like an infestation than an evolutionary success.
@TheMorrigan @Sheril Iโve long said we are the virus on this planet that needs wiping out.
@weaniejeanie53 @Sheril I have to agreeโฆa parasite that is destroying nature and consuming the planet. I just hope there is some truth in the Gaia principle, and that nature will resolve the issue before itโs too late
deadbeef@Sheril Nice! The youtube channel Melodysheep's videos also do a good job of putting into context just how short of a time we've existed and will exist. Recommend checking out their videos, they make some really high quality documentaries!
John Ribbon@Sheril The Earth is gonna be fine. ๐
Ken M Sweeney@Sheril what happens at 12.01?
Oirectine73@Sheril We're like a cancer aren't we? ๐ซค
GJ Groothedde ๐ช๐บ@Sheril We'll have been a very short interlude, our knowledge gathered for no-one.
landiwellbeing@Sheril Worth bearing in mind when we start thinking we're uniquely important
Melissa Phillips@Sheril We have only just arrived, yet look at the mess we have made already :-(
๐โง๏ธstabithaโง๏ธ๐@Sheril this is why you don't show up at the club until after 11 ๐ฆ๐ฆ
@Sheril When did the first multicellular organisms appear?
Martin Veart
Bruce_Ak@Sheril important information made difficult to read and understand - especially for screen readers and the digital clock generation
Ah well
@Sheril this reminds me what a huge difference multi-cellular life means to the history of the Earth. In the 1990s I read an undergraduate degree in geology. The vast majority of the course focused on the Palaeozoic up to the Quaternary. For the benefit of other readers and in reference to the clock metaphor, from 9:04 onwards.
@Sheril thank you
Julio ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐จ๐บ ๐ช๐ธ ๐บ๐ธ@Sheril Geologists ... what do they know? Earthy things and rocks?
Lauralee Dukeshire (she/her)@Sheril Are humans the ultimate example of the Peter Principle?