#geological time

[a-guy-named-ben]

Once upon a time, there was an enormous landmass called Pangea. Millions of years passed. Continents drifted apart. Single-celled life emerged from a biochemical soup. Photosynthesis arrived on the scene, and eventually, the tree of life began branching out. Prokaryotes and eukaryotes pursued different evolutionary paths.

Unfathomably, life began to organize, to become more complex. Multicellular organisms developed, exploited various ecological niches, and evolved. Early hominids descended from the trees, and as endless generations marched onward, one small branch of life became human. Civilizations rose and fell; millions battled, loved, experienced joy and terror.

Today, you sit there reading these words on an electronic screen. Tomorrow, you'll read more words on screens, and so on into the future, until eventually you die somehow.

Life will march on after you're gone. Your boss will hire someone else. Your descendants, if you have any, will gradually forget about you. You, like countless others before you, will be whisked away into the past.

So maybe chill the fuck out a little.

#chill the fuck out #geological time #multicellular life #random #good advice #parables

[loneberry]

“At my place we used to have a hymn which began

Great God, what do I see and hear?”

said Jacob.

Gulls rode gently swaying in little companies of two or three quite near the boat; the cormorant, as if following his long strained neck in eternal pursuit, skimmed an inch above the water to the next rock; and the drone of the tide in the caves came across the water, low, monotonous, like the voice of some one talking to himself.

“Rock of Ages, cleft for me,

Let me hide myself in thee,”

sang Jacob.

Like the blunt tooth of some monster, a rock broke the surface; brown; overflown with perpetual waterfalls.

“Rock of Ages,”

Jacob sang, lying on his back, looking up into the sky at mid-day, from which every shred of cloud had been withdrawn, so that it was like something permanently displayed with the cover off.”

—Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

#literature #jacob’s room #water #oceanic feeling #virginia woolf #woolf #geological time

[auressea]

Volcano: Mauna Loa (VNUM #332020)

Current Volcano Alert Level: WARNING Current Aviation Color Code: RED

Issued: Monday, November 28, 2022, 7:20 AM HST Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Notice Number: 2022/H603 Location: N 19 deg 28 min W 155 deg 36 min Elevation: 13681 ft (4170 m) Area: Hawaii

Volcanic Activity Summary:

The eruption of Mauna Loa has migrated from the summit to the Northeast Rift Zone where fissures are feeding several lava flows. HVO staff on an overflight at approximately 6:30 a.m. HST confirmed fissures at high elevations within Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park are feeding lava flows upslope of the Mauna Loa Weather Observatory. Lava flows are not threatening any downslope communities and all indications are that the eruption will remain in the Northeast Rift Zone. Volcanic gas and possibly fine ash and Pele's Hair may be carried downwind.

#Hawai‘i #Mauna Loa #natrual disasters #volcano #geological time #global news #may you be well #may you be safe #may you be free from harm

[jennicresswell]

Creative Projects: Dover's History At Night

Work has now moved on to the final piece as the time ticks along and the deadline creeps closer.

I've been busy creating dyed grounds for the 4 Eon names which will form the first layer on top of the base fabric. So far I have sewed applique lettering for the the first Eon: Hadean, and part of the second Eon: Archean. The applique letters are cut from muslin died with tea for both of these eons.

The 2 remaining Eons cover the periods when life burgeoned. So for this I have started dyeing fabric with contact dyeing techniques using leaves and other natural items. These will form the letters for the third Eon: Proterozoic and fourth Eon: Phanerozoic.

I will represent the ratio of the timespan for each of these Eons by how much space they take up on the dress. And I'm using an ancient dress style - 'peplos' - which requires almost zero sewing and no cutting to create the final dress. I may love sewing by hand and happily pass hours embroidering endless words but I have zero skill or patience for dressmaking or tailoring.

A word on the base fabric: it is a found piece - my favourite - in this case an old 100% Egyptian Cotton double sheet of my parents which was then used as a dust sheet for multiple painting and DIY work around the house I grew up in. It has since reclined for over 2 decades in the garage and is beautiful in its own way - the marks and spots and drips and rips themselves telling the story of all the years and happenings the sheet has seen.

#textiles #dresses #embroidery #memory #family history #autoethnography #hand dyeing #applique #Dover At Night #Installation #geology #geological time

[nemfrog]

Geologic Time Chart. Guide for beginning fossil hunters. 1959.

Internet Archive

#geologic time #scientific illustration #chart #charts #processed image #red #paleontology #nemfrog #1959 #1950s

[chwyyy]

#article #science #interesting #human evolution #geological time

[duscarasheddinn]

Thousands of years are an instant in geological time. It’s perfectly justified to think that climate change will cause the apocalypse in my lifetime, and the Industrial Revolution started the planet down that path mere centuries ago. I say “mere centuries” even though a single year is exceptionally long because in geological time, humans as a species will have destroyed the planet in LESS THAN AN INSTANT.

#climate change #global warming #apocalypse #climate apocalypse #climate change apocalypse #geological time #geologic time

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Confirm Age of the Earth At 3,000,000,000 Years,” Kingston Whig-Standard. October 18, 1932. Page 1. ---- TORONTO, Oct. 18 — Two Toronto scientists by means of their experiments claim today to have confirmed the age of the earth at three thousand million years. 

Professor X. F. Burton, chairman cf the physics department at the University of Toronto and Professor J. C. McLennan claim that experiments with liquefied helium in glass vacuum bottles confirm deductions from analyses of radio-active rocks.

#toronto #university of toronto #physicists #radiometric dating #radioactive dating #radioisotope #liquid helium #age of the earth #geological time #deep time #great depression in canada

[megladonic]

#Astrid Lundberg #thank you #geological time #song

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Thought you would enjoy :)

By: @zoe248

It me!

#geologic time scale #pride flag

[vickysaurus]

Life on Our Planet trailer dropped!

#life on our planet #love how many creatures from how many different periods it's showing #i hope there's enough time to cover such a breadth of geologic history #Youtube

[tmkeesey]

Chart with PhyloPic silhouettes from an essay in the upcoming comic book, Paleocene #4. These are lineages that survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event but died out before the Holocene Epoch (which is almost too brief to be visible here—it is a thin sliver atop the Pleistocene). Figures are not to scale, and do not line up perfectly to lineage extinction dates, just to epochs. This chart is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

For more information about the silhouettes in the chart, see: https://www.phylopic.org/.../7dc1ae186d11d8c2ad9f502fc47d...

For more about the comic book, see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

#extinction #paleontology #dinosaur #paleoart #palaeontology #prehistoric #biology #zoology #botany #extinct animals #extinct species #extinct birds #cenozoic #sciart #palaeoblr #deep time #geologic time

[swan2swan]

It's very frightening that most deserts are just seas that you missed.

#brrrrrrr #geological time is terrifying #'hi this used to be a beach' #'this was an island' #'this was just a rock with'

[honorthysalad]

i love how hgsn has just become Yoshiki’s independent research project with the occasional ghost roadblock

#Our next enemy will be Yoshiki’s pencil breaking while he’s in the middle of a sentence! #hikaru ga shinda natsu #the summer hikaru died #hgsn #my hgsn shit #I’ll need about 5 maps of varying styles (political; topographical; geologic; physical; and maybe a resource map) #And 7 more flow charts and a comprehensive time line before I truly understand what’s going on #How many mountains are there again

[deermouth]

Transdles (trans candles)

#obtained at pride; comsecrated just now bc i have geologic time management skills #dionysos #aphrodite #desc in alt text #mine #rl

[nemfrog]

"History of the atmosphere." Enciclopedia Estudiantil. April 1961.

Internet Archive

#diagram #encyclopedia illustration #arrows #atmosphere #volcano #geologic time #1961 #1960s