Imagine sitting in a time machine and traveling back in time. Not a year. Not a thousand or a million years. I’m taking you 4.5 billion years back to witness the birth of this beautiful planet Earth we now call home. The journey is long, tiring, and arduous, but let’s use the time machine to breeze through the highlights.
While the formation of our planet was an exciting event, all we’ll see on our journey is fire and dust gradually settling to form the round ball of natural beauty. This predominantly red ball turns blue and builds its patches of land all over, without any major changes, for the next billion years.
A billion years later, something magical happens: organic life comes into being. The earth’s climate ...
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