Everybody knows that Earth is old, but it’s quite hard to put into perception just how old it is. In the end, what do 4.5 billion years *actually* mean? How do you even grasp that amount of time with our short-term human brains?
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Well, Business Insider has finally done a pretty unbelievable job of it in this 3-minute simulation, by showing the timeline of Earth if time was the distance from Los Angeles to New York. And, oh boy, our world-view will never be the same.