What Was The "Boring Billion" Really Like?

[@plixplop]

Dang imagine hoping nobody will notice the stain on your shirt, then the freaking narrator puts you on blast in the opening 10 seconds

[@robertagu5533]

An apparently this video his his acid trip an he's still standing there... Cuz it was some kinda halluncenagen

[@Kayenne54]

What white shirt? Guy wasn't wearing a white shirt. It was some kind of woven check shirt???

[@nightowl_.]

Easy point for Prof would have been "once more but with anKYlosaur"

[@tikaanipippin]

@@Kayenne54 When you are red/green colour-blind, there's a chance that orange/blue ain't in your spectrum either, but Turmeric is a blast in the UV fluorescence stakes!

[@vivaene]

@@robertagu5533 hope u had a fun trip :-)

[@AgiHammerthief]

when something has a billion to one chance of happening, you might want a billion years of stable conditions for it to happen in.

[@randymillhouse791]

What kind of horses were in that stable?

[@alexandergordon648]

@@randymillhouse791 thoroughbreds

[@Vespyr_]

@@randymillhouse791 Really patient ones. Bluest balls you've ever seen.

[@awogbob]

Still a miracle as the chances are far less than 1/billion

[@jackdud8793]

@@awogbob 1 in a billion what? And what is the miracle that you speak of, because by definition, a miracle is, "a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency" So by that you are saying this process was not a result of nature, but a result of a divine power?

[@FandersonUfo]

anything pre-Twitter is awesome

[@FranzJrob]

Love this comment

[@drago5819]

Fax

[@z33r0now3]

😂😂🙏👍✌

[@jacaanthony]

Wtf

[@joshkilluminadi7158]

Twiters full of hateful rejects

[@prometheuszero9]

I love the way he describes the ocean a few times, especially when he says, "That ocean is a stagnant, putrid expanse rimmed with black sludge and emitting a sulphurous stench that spans the globe". So many great words in there.

[@kellanhills1972]

He is actually referring to the Detroit River during the 1960s

[@vladifornication]

@@kellanhills1972 lol

[@kfstg6535]

he is so lovecraftian when he wants to be🥺🥺🥺

[@gabrielalejandrodoldan4722]

@@kfstg6535 Todo lo que provino de Ubbo-Sathla Retornará a Ubbo-Sathla

[@OnMyLunchBreak07]

Sounds like my ex.

[@bigcong7845]

Shout-out to the cameraman who dedicated a billion years of his life to record this.

[@zoeywomack6047]

no one can live a billion years LOL

[@boogieheads]

@@zoeywomack6047 u don’t deserve that name…

[@TheTophatGuy]

@@zoeywomack6047 no one as dumb as you cab understand this joke lol

[@DeepFriedOreoOffline]

It's interesting how making a bad follow-up joke now implies that the original joke was misunderstood. I'll have to keep that in mind, wouldn't want to make myself look stupid... ........ ..... ..

[@frankkibet]

😂😂😂😂funny

[@mikekolokowsky]

I had a philosophy professor who could make a single lecture feel like a boring billion.

[@bullwinklejmoos]

Didn’t we all have at least one professor that fit the bill?

[@thesecretlibrary890]

*You know what's funny?*

[@Readvfa192]

@@thesecretlibrary890 what

[@volvoxfraktalion5225]

@@Readvfa192 laughing gas

[@Readvfa192]

@@volvoxfraktalion5225 😂😂😂🤣

[@horntail-wyvern2803]

I can imagine the ultimate curse. Make someone Immortal then transport them back in time to 1.8 billion years ago.

[@MrTwille]

That’s an great movie Trilogy Idea

[@Fllippa00]

Isnt that what a camera man already does?

[@NarwahlGaming]

"The first 10 million years were the worst. And the second 10 million years were the worst, too." - Marvin the Paranoid Android

[@jimmydean239]

Be bad ass

[@kayden5238]

there is alot you can do in that situation with a billian years

[@CMBell1985]

Geology always sends me off on an existential panic because I remember how temporary the conditions for our survival are.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Add on top of that existential dread the fact that the heat death of the universe is inevitable.

[@daylightbright7675]

My guy, by the time ANY of that happens we'll either be long extinct, or chilling on other planets we've terrafomed. And if we're not around to save life on earth from this? It only took us a few million years to go from arboreal jungle dwellers to what we are now. Another sapient species could easily come around and pick up that torch

[@forumquorum8156]

@@daylightbright7675 screw that other species

[@lpcamargo]

Just remember that we are not a thing *in* the universe, we are a thing the universe *does*. That always makes me feel a bit better about these things...

[@hisyam1664]

@@TheCimbrianBull i'd be a disorganized bunch of particles WAY before that happens

[@jerrysstories711]

How boring could it have been if the whole atmosphere was laughing gas?

[@evanstrong8866]

because no one was there to laugh

[@snowleopard9463]

Everything just went 😐 due to their advanced humor

[@fariesz6786]

a one billion year laughing fit? sounds rather exasperating

[@TheMercilessEye]

@Eastern fence Lizard This was the time-period in Earth's history when the aliens showed up, strip-mined the f__k out of the place, and left the tailings for whatever happened to evolve...

[@8luntTrauma]

God stuck his face down into earths atmosphere took a big wiff laughed his tits off sayin watch this then created humans, got to love the bible God what an absolute legend

[@zibbitybibbitybop]

And people wonder why we haven't found signs of advanced alien life yet. If the most Earthlike planet of all - Earth - could spend an entire billion years with a stinking sludge ocean and not much going on evolutionarily, it's hardly a stretch to think that so many other Earthlike planets simply stay this way, if they ever get that far at all.

[@MP-vc4nu]

That aside, Unless you know how to instantly teleport to all planets in Milky Way (alone), you still can’t even find another alien life in your human life time alone. 1) It’s too big amounts to explore in our galaxy alone, let alone entire observable universe. 2) Our current equipments actually can’t detect another advanced life form in another planet unless they’re extremely close to us. If another Earth same as us exist in half way across our Galaxy, our current equipments can’t even fully detect or know that Earth exist even with our statetiles and everything.

[@WorldwideWyatt]

@@MP-vc4nu there could definitely be life on Enceladus, Titan, Callisto, or Europa. And there’s also a very real chance that Mars once had life.

[@Moses255337]

@@MP-vc4nu lets say there we did one day detect life and its 700 million light years away. Well we would be looking at that life 700 million years in the past.

[@MidxCity]

@@MP-vc4nu ever heard of instant transmission you seem really foolish now don’t u

[@nameless1016]

ask bob lazar

[@Greg-yu4ij]

The “Boring billion”is not boring when you narrate it. Great job!

[@aarondiaz5541]

he's not gonna fuck you, chill dude

[@camogrrl]

I was literally think how boring and plodding this narration was - about to click away and then I saw this comment. Wtf dude? Are you deaf? In still not watching the end. This was yawn city. You must be a sycophant as the above comment to eloquently posits.

[@seafire820]

@@camogrrl really? I thought it was great too. maybe my curiosity into what went on drove me to like his narration and that is what you lack

[@seafire820]

@@aarondiaz5541 you're the one who needs to chill, he's just stating that he liked the video. I don't see how you can take that places it obviously doesn't go.

[@gj4312]

@@camogrrl what do you want him to do? The stuff he's talking about is interesting and he's got a good script. His voice is pretty nice as well but at the very least it's well articulated.

[@flanneldaddy5220]

Our concept of time is so tiny. It’s absolutely insane thinking about that many years

[@John_Locke_108]

Trying to fathom 10,000 years is hard enough. A billion makes me dizzy.

[@AfricanBootyScratcher69420]

​@@John_Locke_108some stars can live for trillions of years

[@AfricanBootyScratcher69420]

​@@John_Locke_108and some backholes can live for an unfathomable number of years

[@Gandenkris]

I absolutely love how you focused on more modern scientists and theories, giving them the same honor and detail as you would an Einstein or Newton -- truly brilliant video showcasing brilliant science. The ocean of the Boring Billilon is truly astonishing

[@lvl5charmander]

i heckin love science

[@UnchartedThoughtsMusic]

*I heckin' love you guys ♡*

[@ericwheeler9792]

Crack babies

[@jordanjoestar-turniptruck]

On a similar note, I love how they honor the lesser-known scientists, engineers, explorers, philosophers, and physicians who laid the groundwork and theories that later technology and discovery could refine and prove.

[@KS4RonPaul]

What's astonishing is you can watch this fiction and take it seriously. Evolution has been disproven and that fact is accepted by those who aren't emotionally charged zealots for their religion. When one considers the amount of disingenuous research and claims that have been used to "prop-up" the lifeless corpse of the evolution theory, that alone should inspire more investigation into the matter. In my experience decent theories don't have to manufacture evidence to support themselves. A video presentation, re-creation of a purely imaginative scenario of a theory that is being put forth as fact, is manufactured evidence. Haeckle's forgeries, Archeo-raptor hoax, Lucy hoax, too many to list here, they are so desperate for evidence they just glue bones together, then get caught by actual scientists, and STILL use this as evidence. Vestigial appendages? Disproven. Geologic column? Disproven. Radiometric dating? Disproven. Darwinian evolution? Disproven by the discovery of the Cambrean explosion. Evolutionists pride themselves as "seeing the big picture". When in fact, I've never witnessed a more narrow-minded group of people incapable or unwilling to assemble the pieces of this puzzle. The amount of "mental gymnastics" performed by the evolutionist as they desperately cling to their dying religion is impressive.

[@e1123581321345589144]

for a time that's called boring, this was a quite fascinating part in the history of the Earth. I really like how geology, chemistry, biology and even astronomy come together to give us different pieces of the larger puzzle.

[@lockandloadlikehell]

And astrology

[@dannydevito7000]

@@lockandloadlikehell No astrology actually causes us to reach the wrong answers.

[@bryananderson3772]

That's mostly because they compacted a billion years into 45 minutes lol

[@halfpace1462]

@@lockandloadlikehell no

[@bubbanoob]

@@lockandloadlikehell no

[@pastlife960]

Conodonts aren’t tooth-shaped, it’s just that their teeth are typically the only part of them that fossilise. They would’ve looked a bit like modern lampreys or hagfish.

[@romankozak8728]

I noticed that as well

[@GrinninPig]

I was there I just don't really remember

[@Memesdotcom]

His voice is so calming omg

[@austins.2495]

False. Conodonts looked nothing like lampreys or hagfish. This person should be embarrassed for stating such nonsense. Conodonts were large, black, and phallic with a ribbed shaft. They were usually accompanied by a couple of hairy spherical specimens. Do your research before spouting fiction as fact, fella.

[@femimark5021]

@@austins.2495😂😂😂

[@Mousey10101]

This feels weirdly inspirational. Like no matter what you go through in life, when you somehow get to a deep end and feel like you cannot move on, nothing is happening in life and you feel stagnant, you will always do something that will lead to success in the future. It may take some time, but the end result would be a change into something better. There is always an end to bad events in life, even the Earth went through it.

[@DrFreeman9999]

Makes me wonder if the boring billion was the great filter. Perhaps most planets don't stabilize long enough for complex eukayotic life to properly form.

[@rulerworld1289]

Which means we're one of the only intelligent lifeforms that have made it this far...that sucks

[@KateeAngel]

@@rulerworld1289 define "intelligent". By some criteria most vertebrates and octopuses are very intelligent. By some criteria even humans aren't.

[@Shrouded_reaper]

My thoughts too, however we are super, super early in the history of the universe so it's almost guaranteed to happen again, maybe we are just the first. Who knows.

[@Rob-ws2kh]

With the vastness of the universe a billion years isn’t that long so it’s likely the conditions wil be replicated somewhere at some point if not already.

[@Angela-tx7hb]

@@KateeAngel you are so right, my cats are very intelligent; however think of this.. think of all the species on this planet. Many are intelligent. Dolphins are supposed to be as intelligent if not more. But how many look to the stars, and say “What is beyond the blue sky we see?” “What is space?” “What is the nature of reality?” One. Out of millions of variations of life on our planet, only one consider the stars. To me, I think life is likely elsewhere. Whether it’s life that looks to the stars and want to know more….. well that might be rare.

[@mathewadams2929]

So glad Curiosity Stream has recognized your skill. Amazing work as always.

[@Memesdotcom]

Yep his channel is great!

[@Pllayer064]

Hey Bsauce Mathew here

[@SlaveofGod777]

Matthew from b sauce 😍🤓🧠👁️

[@thesecretlibrary890]

*How much is your mother payed for services?*

[@NomicFin]

There was an article in Geological Society of America's publication last year that suggested that the "boring billion" and some of the geological oddities from that era could be explained if Earth's plate tectonics stopped during the time and temporarily transitioned to an arrangement where the lithosphere formed a stable unmoving "lid" over the astenosphere, where only volcanic activity would be from places where heat would built enough to cause rocks in the lithosphere to start melting (like in modern "hot spot" volcanism). This is also what the geology of Mars was probably like before the martian astenosphere cooled too much to allow for magmatism.

[@mpetersen6]

This could also explain the idea that Venus (which should have nearly as much internal heat as the Earth) periodically resurfaces itself through major caronal eruptions. Evidence of these is seen in the maps compiled from radar data obtained by the Magellan orbiter. Somehow I doubt that plate tectonics stopped. The formation of Columbia and later Rodinia show this. Also the idea that there were no islands anywhere in the vast ocean is in my mind absurb. There should have been some Hot Spot activity. And if any of these hot spots were located beneath the oceanic plates. And as long as both sub-duction along with sea floor spreading were taking place such island or at least seamount chains would form. It may well have been a situation were the spreading zones were one continuous band throught the ocean plates and all or most of the subduction was around the continental margins. In that case both Columbia and Rodinia may have been surrounded on the perimeters by mountain chains similiar to the Andes.

[@vascomanteigas9433]

3 global glaciations (Snowball Earth) happens during this period. Huge glaciers damage the geologic record.

[@ark2819]

Hmmm yes quite indeed 🧐

[@michaelcantu6071]

That was the longest sentence I’ve ever read

[@bingosunnoon9341]

When I started reading astronomy books, the age of the universe was given as 4.5 billion years. It is now 13.8 byo. I don't look too bad for a 9 billion year old man.

[@LendriMujina]

Seems to me like they mistook "the solar system" for "the universe"...

[@bingosunnoon9341]

@@LendriMujina The solar system was said to be between one and two billion year old, the universe was four byo.

[@spimbles]

@@LendriMujina no way youre a fully grown adult with that get up looool

[@markchurchill9426]

Our star is near the end of its exsentise as we know it.

[@stephaneldredvanhoek9634]

It's been suggested that it's as old as you can look for it's beginning. Infinite. Physics is in a weird place right now

[@stephengrimmer35]

Nothing boring about the Proterozoic. It has some of the most interesting and unique things I've ever studied in it. The Bushveld Layered Complex, the Torridonian and Roraima, the Premier, Karelian and Guaniamo kimberlites. As my old Prof. used to say: "after the Pre-cambrian it's just gardening"

[@dead.inside.585]

It's true. I was there, getting high on laughing gas.

[@brianthesnail3815]

I used to go for lectures in that Oxford museum as an undergrad. There is a big lecture theatre outside the main gallery. Walking past a dinosaur skeleton at 8.45 am just before diving into a lecture on organic chemistry exploring the very chemical building blocks that formed the biochemical soup that the ancestors of those dinosaurs emerged from. It doesn't get more inspiring than that.

[@aishwariyasweety2433]

Lucky!

[@mecha-sheep7674]

Red algae, the first fungi, brown algae, green algae, and probably the first metazoans : the boring billions is not so boring, and the relationship between all those living creatures is still mysterious.

[@alexanderplatypus3664]

Exactly. I don't think any biologist would ever think this time period is boring

[@joz6683]

I cannot recommend this channel highly enough. The narration, subjects and pacing are almost perfect.

[@doncoyote5766]

Unfortunately, Martin Brasier died already in 2015 of a car crash. A great person and mind was lost. May he now investigates stromatolites in heaven!

[@L_mattox]

Earth: Has an atmosphere with a lot of laughing gas Broke-ass alien college students looking to get high: "I know where I'm going for spring break!"

[@matthewparker9163]

Probably my birthday. Ll

[@riproar11]

Awful comment. A student from a wealthy family died at my university from a laughing gas overdose.

[@hemdvonlidl2613]

@@riproar11 as if, i want to read the article about him

[@riproar11]

@@hemdvonlidl2613 Wow, you have a warm personality. "as if" and speak like a tweenage girl. There are many deaths from nitrous oxide. Pick one article.

[@alifzaman7193]

@@riproar11 Dude talk about taking a joke dude

[@Wonmanbanned]

My twin 7 year old daughters love the museum at Oxford. Kids are a bit obsessed with Dinosaurs which mine are REALLY obsessed with which is developing into a healthy interest in animal science and evolutionary biology. It’s a very inspiring place indeed.

[@kingcosworth2643]

I was fascinated by Dinosaurs as a child, and that was before the theory that one branch of Dino's became the Birds and they still were not convinced on how the rest went extinct. Even the books I read depicted all the Sauropods as tail dragging lizards. What is amazing is the new knowledge science obtains, same with space. Up until very recently the only close up photos of the outer planets was from Voyager. It's all truly fascinating..

[@kwazhims3lf]

Me and my kids for years enjoyed again and again going to our museum... we all each have our fav exhibits... Now we can’t go anymore, because of the North Korean style vaccine mandates... Pity... glad you guys like going there, it’s a special place, a nice experience to share with eachother

[@esosaiyamu2581]

@@kingcosworth2643 Iiiiii

[@esosaiyamu2581]

Iiii

[@esosaiyamu2581]

@@kingcosworth2643 iiiii

[@michaelmercer8054]

Still find myself watching this video over and over again. A billion years of a Black Sea and a stagnant earth? It’s beyond fascinating to me.

[@henriquesantarem5565]

The boring billion was the time that I waited for you guys to upload again XD, Great video!

[@imagineimagining912]

Nerdy dad jokes ftw.

[@XxNebulaxXxx]

cringe

[@odalicio]

@@XxNebulaxXxx "look at me im so based" dude....

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

how do you trust a group to know what happened before humans existed if they cant even tell you whats going on today? 🤣 sorry wont* cause they are lying to you about everything for a reason

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@ShawnJonesHellion what happened before you existed?

[@kuzzbillington6392]

These revelations make my eyes water for some reason, and it's a comfort to know that these videos makes tiny life able to continue living in my eye drops.

[@Khmeriscool]

So romantic! Hugs to you, my friend. Why pirate flag though? Pirates were cruel and murderous, and you are gentle

[@londonspade5896]

@@Khmeriscool Pirates went from shore to shore looking for buried treasure, but the real treasure was in the friendships they were making

[@robertomurteira5913]

Man, these replies are weird

[@XraynPR]

@@Khmeriscool depends on the Pirates, in One Piece theres a bunch of different types

[@chelsealovelace4533]

To whomever wrote the script for this- ducking bravo. The narrative quality of whole video is brilliant. The marriage of great story-telling and science isn’t always smooth but this was immaculate. Very engaging.

[@nonamez169]

🦆

[@SlaveofGod777]

Couldn't agree more

[@Callebravo]

Turn off your autocorrect bro

[@tomhannah4158]

7 And the narrator's voice is superb.

[@thesecretlibrary890]

*What if it is not a duck?*

[@austinmchaney]

Loved the narrating and also really appreciate not being bombarded by commercials. This was really enjoyable to watch

[@seanmccann8368]

Your work is fantastic, an almost unbelieveably high standard of research and presentation, yet instantly accessible to ordinary members of the public without specialized knowledge. Thank you for the pleasure and education your videos give to so many.

[@stiedjes23]

Couln't have sait it better!

[@Artiz...]

Yup! Easily top 3 ever made YT channels. Perhaps the best even?

[@BlackSakura33]

This channel is above KZbin standard. All the videos are well made full documentaries.

[@InYourDreams-Andia]

Hard Agree!

[@datpeyton]

Lol

[@JaceDanielFilms]

bro why's you gotta go after the scientist's shirt stain? He's already self conscious as it is

[@mattwroe4776]

Shadap why are people such emotional weaklings these days, they want everyone to think their feelings, even change facts and figures because its hate speech lol get a life and all the little trauma filled whelks that liked

[@FloozieOne]

My foot (finger) slipped as I was travelling between nature documentaries and I ended up in one of your videos. I was immediately hooked. The presentation is so gentle yet filled with information, but also stresses places and times that scientists don't know much about; I love that you present many theories rather than simply stating the most (currently) popular. It is 3 am and I've been gobbling up your videos one after the other for about 8 hours now, gotta say I expect the sun will be coming up before I can tear myself away and head for the mattress. Thank you so much.

[@lockandloadlikehell]

You have feet for fingers? Daaam

[@kieranh2005]

3am? Thats commitment to cause.

[@CM_684]

Surprisingly, the boring billion is more interesting than the exam I have in 2 hours.

[@Rah514]

I hope you passed that exam 🤞🏽

[@Ancientreapers]

For 1 billion years the Earth was the ultimate fart joke.. Sulfur smell and laughing gas. While you smell the sulfur you laugh your arse off. Doesn't sound that boring to me. 😂

[@ruthanneseven]

😹

[@Kanitoxx]

Idk maaan, a billion years of the same joke seems stagnant to me

[@sumreensultana1860]

Well Earth was Invited to A party and It had a little to much Planetsulfarcake And was laughing itself to billion then good ol days

[@lisamo128]

Whoever wrote the text for this, thank you for not talking down to the audience. It was entertaining, refreshing, and informative.

[@muckinabaht]

This is my first watch of any of your videos, and I'm extremely impressed. The quality of everything -- be it the writing, the visuals, the editing, the narration, or the quality of the research conducted -- make for a spectacular presentation.

[@emigoldber]

This is a wonderful video, the structure, the introduction was perfect! It has been a long time since I got so hooked so swiftly by a video. Amazing, bravo!!!! And the music, your voice, fits beautifully.

[@Bloodknok]

Once again, a big round of applause from me. I learned an awful lot, particularly about the conditions leading to the long gestation of eukaryotes, which paved the way for us. These films remain utterly compelling, in no small part due to the narration.

[@tomhannah4158]

Yes, the eukaryotes became my focus too.

[@danfrasin3220]

you learned bullshit ! how can you be sure it was like that ??? what guarantee make you believe this shit ???

[@Disappointed_Philosoraptor]

The narration and musical composition at just the right moment - this video itself is a work of art. I got chills many times during the video despite it being about the "boring billion", truly amazing.

[@timmccaffery4826]

Awesome presentation for this geologic time period. As a life long practicing earth scientist, this gave me something to learn about the so-called Boring Billion! Thank you!

[@omarb7164]

I always watch your ads all the way through because you deserve every penny for these high quality videos. Love this content and history of the universe so much.

[@AchromaticChameleon]

The Boring Billion was just the young Earth taking a nap

[@kingkazuma2239]

Earth during the good ole days

[@coreym162]

Taking a nap after being upset that Cyanobacteria killed everything but, a few carbon-based lifeforms, then the Waters turned red again and again, then an ice-age hit, then an asteroid then another ice-age and so Earth wanted to die for a Billion years in agonizing failure is how I see it xDD Looking at at the fossil record in timelapse looks like the Earth fought so hard to keep life going after the Hadean to Late-Cambrian times.

[@BEASTMAN992]

@@coreym162 Earth be stressing about lifeforms continuing on during each extinction.

[@mkvv5687]

Billenials.

[@guidor.4161]

Certainly (one of) the best documentary series ever...

[@carlcarus7409]

The English have a sense of beauty in science. Look at this architecture

[@lockandloadlikehell]

What about The Killing of America That was even better

[@Vistico93]

When I was younger, I imagined a solar system with an ocean so deep there was no land (or, at least, only a few islands from the tallest of the tall mountains peeking above the surface before being quickly weathered away). I imagined it as a blue world with clouds. Now, should I revisit it, I may have to reconsider that view and find it a far more fetid place of wine dark seas

[@kwazhims3lf]

@Ranjit Tyagi yeesh... wait until you see words the welsh come up with

[@kwazhims3lf]

@Ranjit Tyagi watching the guy, walk down the aisle of train, to announce they were arriving in welsh town, i was impressed he pronounced it... i think the welsh hated the anglos, then the normans, so thats why this goofy ass shit exists, merely to piss them off.. oh and the pics too, i think they super hated them

[@ekothesilent9456]

In ancient space many millions of billions of years ago when the background radiation was warming enough to keep hydrogen and oxygen in water form, there were massive “orbs” of uninterrupted water the size of entire solar systems each one could have existed for billions of years before the universe cooled down enough to freeze and then sublimate the water. Imagine what could have existed in those seemingly infinite pitch black oceans with even less gravity than our oceans-do now. Absolutely mind blowing.

[@davelee3725]

These water. Earth's exist and the oceans are so deep that the water turns into ice 🧊 7 from the pressure

[@concept5631]

​@@ekothesilent9456 The universe is too big for us.

[@tonytaskforce3465]

The Boring Billion was unendurably dreadfully toxic and dull. It only ended when the Earth cooled, not as some inevitable turning point in the march of progress. Congratulations for making such an interesting video on the dullest of subjects. I use this to go to sleep with most nights. It's a bedtime story that gives me much to be grateful for.

[@jerroneous8549]

The quality of your work never ceases to amaze me. The narration, content, presentation..top tier all around. Cracking job I say. Wizard even! Cheers from across the pond

[@Honorablebenaiaha]

There’s too much white in the video.

[@Khmeriscool]

Indeed, especially the narration! Love and hugs from Mordor

[@BLD426]

@@Honorablebenaiaha You're just trying to go to sleep listening to it aren't you?

[@Honorablebenaiaha]

@@BLD426 yes

[@patrickkparrker413]

Pure nonsense.

[@nicosmind3]

This reminds me about learning about the Dark Ages. They weren't that dark and progress happened the entire time

[@ellenbryn]

Wonderful as ever. My first exposure to the "Boring Billion," was in Hazen's excellent _The Story of Earth_, but that's now almost ten years old, and was just at the beginning of the revolution in studying how life and the geology of Earth sometimes co-evolve. So much has been discovered even within the past ten years! That new observation that plate tectonics started sluggishly, because there wasn't the weight of already-subducted slabs dragging plates down, makes so much sense.

[@madrazz8888]

Excellent stuff!! Man, I miss documentaries like these. I used to watch them all the time as a kid in the 90's.

[@timezone5259]

I remember watching your video of about the world's oldest fossil long ago and felt it re ignited a spark of curiosity and wonder I had as a child watching walking with dinosaurs and walking with beast Unfortunately had forgotten the title and the video was buried in my history, until today when I got randomly recommended your video... Subscribed and man I have a lot to catch up. Really like your style of how you come up with a story to tell the actual story

[@tlmoller]

Most of our understanding of the past is based in the findings we have today. By far most traces of past life does not have a record. So just because we cannot find traces today does not mean it was not there. Many form of life does not leave marks.

[@coreym162]

Yeah but, science focuses on what is provable. The rest is unknowable.

[@danodamano2581]

Scientists cannot get famous unless you assume their theories are the last word.

[@shenloken2]

Human existence on this planet is but a small blip in time compared to the many millions upon billions of years this planet had no complex life at all. And once man’s reign on this planet is through (it is inevitable) our entire existence will still be nothing but a tiny blip in time. It truly is staggering when you think about it.

[@Honorablebenaiaha]

To inundate one’s self in nihilism for $500?

[@spankyham4658]

Complex life existed over three hundred million years ago before humans evolved !!!!

[@debbieanne7962]

And I gather that when we go out of existence our planet will breathe a sigh of relief

[@keepthechange2811]

Nah we've always been here

[@KINGSNADDY]

To think as well our time on earth has only been a blip of the blip that humanity has been around for. Time is truly incredible lmao

[@mantidream8179]

This is a masterclass in how one should start an educational video. Bringing us into the shoes of a professor at Oxford, briskly walking us through Earth's grand history, and settling nicely on the topic. In a word, engrossing.

[@FriedEgg101]

Afaik "laughing gas" or Entonox is a 50/50 mix of nitrous oxide and oxygen. Pure nitrous oxide is a general anaesthetic, so will make you unconscious pretty quickly. I presume the atmosphere at the time would've had some oxygen in it too though.

[@ms-jl6dl]

100 % NO will kill you.

[@kathykarns9829]

I bet there was a lot of H2NO3! From ordinary chemical “disproportionation”. Bad stuff for organic material. So what would the family of all equilibrium chemical species include?

[@paintfatpurple7394]

I wonder how Nitrous oxide could be produced in those quantities.

[@armoredchimp]

Beautifully done. I'm not in to science normally, and when I do find something interesting it is very rarely geology but this was fascinating from start to finish.

[@erlybird3122]

Your writing is really nice. I am mostly annoyed when listening to documentary-type videos that either try to make me laugh so that I keep watching, or just insult my intelligence. Your approach allows the viewer to ponder big ideas and doesn't discount the current knowledge base whatsoever.

[@keidthwshza]

Wdym "insult my intelligence"??

[@josephheslin822]

Holy smokes. What an astounding journey. You are an amazing writer. Thanks for this time well spent.

[@stevenschilizzi4104]

One single word of appreciation: brilliant! Or two: truly brilliant. Great how you keep the surprising “yes, but no” to the end. I had actually been muttering to myself: surely SOMETHING must have been happening for -0.8m to be different from -1.8m?

[@ganymede242]

Brilliant script and narration. I really enjoyed the precise enunciation and pacing.

[@DanceBeforeTheStorm_]

I can't love your videos enough. Priceless yet for free. THANK YOU.

[@weaselhack]

I really enjoyed this. i appreciate content that assumes some prior familiarity with the sciences, rather than the kind of edu-tainment for the pre-highschool priors. good stuff!

[@pikmin4743]

excellent! especially the inclusion of GCRs in cloud nucleation, but it should not be neglected that GCRs are at a high point only when our Star is at its minimal activity. So many dynamic cycles and factors at play. great work!!!!

[@SuperCameronMan]

I had no idea cosmic rays could seed clouds! Very cool

[@87street79]

The atmospheric chemical mechanisms described in the bizarre GCR climate theories can't be reproduced in laboratory conditions and the GCR records in Iron meteorites have no actual correlation with paleoclimate records. Don't believe everything a guy says after reading from Wikipedia as Wikipedia has a problem in niche fields with giving pseudoscience undue weight.

[@worklion50]

I am subscribed because this channel has intelligence, great narration, visual excellence, and informative content. Thanks!

[@gregoryreinhart2304]

I agree. too, subscribed

[@red_nikolai]

My favorite part of watching these videos is finding the archetypal similarities between these ancient, eon-spanning, unthinking processes, and the patterns of human life. There was the deep-ocean colonies around heat vents taking the easy food which were eventually outcompeted by outliers that learned to make use of the far more abundant sunlight - opportunity lurks where people aren't putting the effort in. Photosynthetic life blooms but doesn't control its own waste, eventually dooming itself to near-extinction - I don't think anyone needs an explanation of this one. Out of the chaos of the early Earth, and the rapid changes after the end of the Boring Billion, a world repeatedly cleansed by extinction events allows mutations to thrive and genetic innovation to flourish - out of chaos comes new order. But this video taught me something I almost never think about and should remember: Sometimes you need a period of rest, and peace, to consolidate and develop more methodically. It seemed fitting as well when you mentioned that sexual reproduction probably evolved during this time.

[@Jibbie49]

Google says: Martin David Brasier FGS, FLS (12 April 1947 - 16 December 2014) was an English palaeobiologist and astrobiologist known for his conceptual analysis of microfossils and evolution in the Precambrian and Cambrian. He was Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Oxford[1] and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall. His research critically examined the context and character of the early fossil record, making use of field mapping, logging, optical petrography, stable isotope geochemistry, confocal microscopy, NanoSims microprobes, and lasers for high resolution 3D scanning and laser Raman spectroscopy. Brasier died in a car accident near Burford, Oxfordshire, UK, on 16 December 2014.[2][3]

[@lawneymalbrough4309]

Bear in mind that you cannot get ice core samples from the period of time when there were no ice caps and such a time did exist.

[@coffeetime.3063]

Ya after seeing old photos ,I believe these creatures were around alot more recently. Native stories about fighting off the giants and being overrun by their animals. Alot more recent than they want to admitt. And there are actually still a few species alive today. Ex.crocks,Greenland shark ...

[@alexv3357]

"Never, in the course of Earth history, did so little happen to so much for so long." Damn

[@hmxr715]

There was plenty of erosion.

[@alexv3357]

@@hmxr715 Still, a sick Earth burn. He roasted Mother Earth like global warming

[@Kayenne54]

Maybe there was a whole lotta stuff going on, so the next stage could happen. Obviously. Or the next stage wouldn't have happened, right? More going on beneath the surface...Just because we cannot see something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist or didn't have an effect.

[@harrietharlow9929]

Wonderful images and narration as well as a lovely soundtrack. I look forward to each new episode.

[@TravisBon615]

I love how the narrator is the same one for the History of the Universe channel. His voice is a pleasure to listen to

[@tubehound8]

The more we learn the more there is to learn. Thank you

[@waynejohnstone3685]

Yeah Sudbury! I live here. There’s trees now it’s beautiful here. Over 200 lakes in the city limits, perfect for ppl who like the outdoors. I live at the bottom of the crater in what we call “The Valley”

[@87street79]

Two video ideas for you: 1: How has the length of a day changed over the Earth's history? How valid is the evidence for a consistent 21-hour day length from 2000mya to 600mya? 2: An in-depth summary of glaciation in the Cenozoic. How did the end-Eocene Antarctic glaciation start? Was there any southern hemisphere glaciation in the earlier parts of the Cenozoic? How did the Pleistocene northern hemisphere glaciation start? Was there any northern hemisphere glaciation in earlier parts of the Cenozoic? A good summary would interest a lot of people.

[@87street79]

Thought of a third one, although maybe only 20-30 minutes: The Azolla event

[@joshuapatrick682]

People don’t know this but the tweed jacket and “mysterious” stain are part of the position’s uniform and are kept under lock and key at the university so that you put it on when you get there.

[@QDWhite]

This channel is written so well it reminds me of the non-fiction authour Simon Winchester. He (like this channel) can take seemingly mundane topics, like the making of the Oxford dictionary or the history of machining and turn them into thrilling adventures.

[@kg_canuck]

Appreciate the fact that when talking about the astronauts in their training, you said "in Sudbury, Ontario" instead of just "in Canada". It's a pet peeve of mine when people aren't specific about Canada, it's a huge place, kind of need to be specific to get any idea of where these things happen. Strangely, Canada seems to be one of the onlly places this happens with.

[@jkatttt1699]

You are so right!!!!

[@JesusFriedChrist]

Bingo. It’s like…if something happens in New York, people don’t just say “USA”, they specify it’s on New York. Because New York is not the same as Ohio, which is not the same as Montana, which is not the same as California, which is not the same as Colorado, which is not the same as Alabama, which is not the same as Florida, which is not the same as Alaska. Likewise, Canada is not just one big monolith. Newfoundland is not the same as the Maritimes, which aren’t the same as Québec, which isn’t the same as Ontario, which isn’t the same as the North West Territories, which isn’t the same as Alberta, which isn’t the same as BC. There is no “in Canada” in the exact same way there is no “in America”. You specify which place in America because every place is different. Well every place in Canada is different too so people should specify where.

[@Numba003]

Oddly enough, I just read a book on Earth's development with a chapter on the boring billion. Thank you for another wonderfully presented and fascinating video. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends! :)

[@therationalcollection2999]

When I think about all the intricate details of the history that lead us to this point it really makes me appreciate just how precious life and the oasis of a planet we live on is.. the magnetosphere, the stability of our sun, the super good luck that life spontaneously, the good luck that rubisco spontaneously arouse, the earth's tilt and now I know two more things, how lucky life was to survive such a inhospitable time and how this time lead to the antotomic complexity that we see in the world today.

[@wrybreadspread]

Stressing the geologists. "Blimey, We mislaid those eons. Now where are those sedimentary layers?"

[@NotEvents]

"There's only so many times you can watch Squid Game..." 😂 This month we are living in will be remembered as that time when Squid Game was released.

[@OnwardToMail]

Never expected a channel like this would make a Squid Game reference. That show is literally everywhere, can't escape the game LOL

[@RavingKats]

Interesting, as an Ontarian I had no idea. Kinda sad that in a few billion the sun will either scorch earth into oblivion or just eat it up in its entirety. And afterwards any future life forms will likely never even know we even existed.

[@Specoups]

By this time there's hope that we, or another sentient terrestrial lifeform, have had enough time to send monuments in safe space, as testimonies that we existed. Even hope that someone, out there, could stumble upon those. Yes that's less likely than even unlikely, but that's a consoling thought.

[@chrisd997]

Recognized instantly your voice from your first channel and instantly subscribed! Great work and phenomenal narration

[@ZephyrGlaze]

Not only did we get a return to the Earth from the Universe, but we got a plus 1 to the Swaddle count. Overall a good day to be a fan of The Entire History of Things.

[@HistoryoftheEarth]

I also mispronounced the word scarce, another classic.

[@ZephyrGlaze]

@@HistoryoftheEarth you had us Americans all fooled that was just a UK pronunciation.

[@teaburg]

Always nice to see Ont-airy-airy-airy-oh play a part.

[@RickClark58]

I have to say the intro to this is one of the best. Really nice writing. 😁

[@CharlesZink]

Wow. Less than 10 minutes in and I am absolutely mesmerized by your writing and narration. Bravo.

[@ernestweaver9720]

You certainly elaborate more than most in these fields and keep it in a decent time frame. Love too learn. Keep up the excellent work.

[@ziggy4thefacts441]

This period reminds me of watching chess engines, like stockfish, play. Constant shuffling until what a human can observe as "perceptible progress".

[@eyekhan2414]

I really just watched a 40 minute documentary on how absolutely nothing happened for a billion years

[@160p2GHz]

Agree with other comments that this is brilliant scripting-- the way you've (Leila Battison, apparently, bravo!) managed to work in key concepts of how science works more broadly is particularly fantastic.

[@allenrussell1947]

This makes me wonder how unlikely complex intelligent life may be in the universe. So many steps in the evolutionarily process of the planet and it's life that had to happen exactly they way they did to eventually lead to humanity contemplating it's origins. Beings like us may be extremely rare.

[@anibaldamiao]

I agree. I think that scientists are biased toward the exciting story that emerges with the existence of other intelligent life, preferring to downplay the rarity / unlikely-ness of our existence

[@KateeAngel]

Even our criteria for what intelligent means are biased. An artificial line driven in a continuum, in order to imagine, that we humans are "special", and excuse our mistreatment of other species

[@_kaleido]

@@KateeAngel true

[@glidershower]

Goes on to show that even Earth got depressed at one point of its existence before overcoming it. That's quite uplifting.

[@atinimaedigresyl]

It was a loser nitrous addict, actually. Well, addiction usually leads to severe depression anyway. Lack of hygiene too. Damn stinky dirty oceans. 🤪

[@tarstarkusz]

I don't believe most of it. A billion years of laughing gas being at 10 times the current level would have left its mark everywhere. Same for the ocean being so different. It would be much more certain. They wouldn't need to say "it could have been...." because they would know.

[@Viqtor]

@@tarstarkusz most of the time someone says could it probably wasn’t lmao. Could is just a way to say a theory while making it sound certain

[@cameronsafford9758]

Omg I'm gonna cry. Another episode!!! 😭

[@joe_hoeller_chicago]

One of the few quality documentaries on KZbin these days. Kudos for quality content. 👏

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

THANK YOU! This was a wonderfully informative video. I look forward to watching more in this series.

[@Danthaman1971]

I remember my school days feeling like a billion years where nothing happened...

[@IamCoalfoot]

So what you're saying is, if Pre-BB was the fertilization of the egg of life, and Post-BB was the growth and development of life, the Boring Billion was the Incubation of life. Boring from the outside, but vital.

[@KateeAngel]

Earth was full of life long before it

[@mansi_b]

Why is this documentary the most relaxing I've ever seen? Im probably imagining the seas and skies free of pollution and noise, crowds and things....?