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If you took the entire 13.8 billion year history of our Universe and squished it down into just a single calendar year, 365 days, what would that look like? When would our Sun form? What about the Earth? And perhaps most interestingly, when do humans enter the picture?
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:28 The Big Bang
02:04 The first stars
03:04 The first galaxies
04:02 The first sun-like stars
04:30 The Sun and Solar System are born
05:50 Life emerges on Earth
07:10 Photosynthesis develops
08:07 Fish, Sharks and Trees
08:41 Life leaves the waters
09:15 The Dinosaur Killer hits Earth
11:31 The Evolution of Humans
12:50 The last second of the year
14:06 Sponsor
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Written, produced and edited by Kobi Brown
Animations by Mikael Jutbo
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Sources:
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/articles/what-were-the-first-stars-like
https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-webb-identifies-the-earliest-strands-of-the-cosmic-web/
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/milky-way-old-universe/
https://www.planetary.org/worlds/solar-system-timeline
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A number of the key animations used in this video are sourced from https://www.youtube.com/@UCR9sFzaG9Ia_kXJhfxtFMBA , I would specifically recommend watching his latest video about humanity's chances of survival against the dinosaur killer asteroid, https://youtu.be/FiO7Vyq8Rn8?si=uh-iKlVBez1oP_5J
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kc7rEQXpI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4VDwaV-oo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LowU9vKZzJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps2GlGs8oso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0pe5SG-oaw
