time
It’s midnight right now.
Last midnight the Earth formed.
Thirty seconds later the Moon began to orbit the Earth.
At about 4:42 AM, the first microscopic life appeared.
Around 11:00 AM, mass photosynthesis introduced oxygen into the Earth’s atmosphere.
At 9:00 PM, multicellular life began to appear.
At 9:30 PM, the first vertebrates evolved.
At 10:05 PM, animals began to live on land.
At 10:50 PM, the first dinosaurs hatched; at 11:40 PM the last non-avian dinosaurs died.
The first primates appeared one minute after that.
The family tree of humans diverged from chimpanzees at 11:58 PM.
The oldest stone tools were created at 11:59 PM.
The earliest anatomically modern humans appeared 5 seconds ago.
The pyramids in Egypt were built 0.085 seconds ago.
84 milliseconds after building the pyramids, we walked on the moon.
(ALL NUMBERS ARE APPROXIMATIONS, THIS POST IS MEANT TO GIVE ONE A SENSE OF TIME AND PLACE.)
