The Scale of Geologic Time

[@Smile200-z4y]

This feels like a video from 2006 and i like it

[@YESYES0k-0]

No way

[@tammo100]

32 million years in the future: the US finally changes to the metric system

[@duncanluciak5516]

Even metric time?

[@whiskeymonk4085]

Do you want tariffs? Because that kinda talk will give you tarrifs.

[@jasongarcia2140]

​@@whiskeymonk4085sure I'll take one what's a teriff?

[@WhiteCheddar.]

Why is that so important to you?

[@maartenvandervalk6062]

Hahaha😂

[@Jwinius]

Using the metric system instead, imagine geological time as a distance of 1 millimeter (mm) for every year. On this scale, every kilometer (km) represents 1 million years and every thousand kilometers a billion years. Thus, a distance of 4,567 kilometers (according to the IUGS) -- roughly from the city center of Seattle WA to Guatemala -- represents Earth's entire geological timescale. Yet, the first visible lifeforms, the Ediacaran biota, appear at only 635 km (extreme southern Oregon) from today, the Cambrian explosion (of new lifeforms) is at 538.8 km (north of Kirk OR), the Paleozoic ends at 251.9 km (Mt. Hood OR), the dinosaurs go extinct at 66 km (north of Electron WA), humanoids first appear at 2.8 km (within Seattle), modern humans at 300 meters (m), the last Neanderthals die out at 40 m, the Gregorian calendar starts at 202.5 centimeters (cm), Columbus discovers the New World at 53.3 cm and WWII starts at 8,5 cm.

[@martinwall8006]

Nicely done! Thanks.

[@idiotburns]

Cause its not about time but coincidence

[@jarekmarkieta3496]

This is how the time to distance conversion should be made to get a grasp of how the Earth is old, and as in this scale - the historical events are close by. The same trick can be used to understand the amount of money, 1 USD per 1 mm, so one can understand how far it is from 1k USD (1m) to 10k USD (10m) and from 10k USD (10m) to 100k USD (100m), and from 100k USD (100m) to 1M USD (1 km), and how insane 1B USD is, 1000 km with dollar after dollar after dollar.

[@Jwinius]

@jarekmarkieta3496 Exactly! And to think that at this scale Musk's current fortune would take him around the world more than ten times over while others fight and die over less than a meter.

[@anthonydoyle7370]

I have to admit I prefer Olympic swimming pools and football fields.

[@larryparis925]

Well done and highly informative.

[@Mewhenifinalltgetallthebugs]

I'm putting those dates on my calendar

[@noelvalenzarro]

I hope this helps a lot of people put some more thought into deep time

[@duncanluciak5516]

I'm not sure that most of us are built to consider it too deeply for too long. Decades are enough.

[@robinhodgkinson]

Every time we have a major flood or landslide or earthquake in some area that reshapes the landscape and we say, wow that’s never happened in living memory, I like to think just how many thousands of times that’s actually happened there, before us newcomers arrived in that place, or indeed on this Earth. Go back a billion years and nothing would be recognisable. The earth’s surface is constantly being broken down and rebuilt.

[@IcelanderUSer]

With that being said humans have done more to transform the landscape than billions of years of time ever could have. Our time here is a blip in time and yet we speak about our changes as if they’re comparable to changes over millions of years.

[@EricLS]

Far and away the most striking example of geologic time for me was in a Myron Cook video. He is standing at a shale that is 4000 feet high, and then mentions that is built up at a rate of 1/4 inch................*per century.* My head about exploded when I realized it took 192,000 CENTURIES to make a shale that large. Just boggles the mind.

[@jamesstrawn6087]

I grew up in western Nebraska where all sorts of fossils can be found around the base of the bluffs that rise from the prairie. When whole fossils are preserved, with some exceptions, you have to think of things happening quickly. Massive changes can be slow and gradual, but they can also happen in minutes, as we saw with Mt. St. Helen's. Circumspection about commonly repeated ages and periods is sensible. It seems more and more sensible as the story (narrative) repeatedly changes through the course of a person's life.

[@k1ng401]

Catastrophe can give the appearance of the same formations that happen slowly, but there are key differences that allow us to differentiate between the catastrophic and the gradual. Also a carcass can be quickly buried under a meter of sediment, preserving it, but then have the subsequent 20 meters above that slowly deposited over millenia. Rapid deposition followed by slow deposition. All must be taken into account

[@fabianmckenna8197]

20 metres......... Yeah, try 190 metres as in the Jurassic cliffs in Dorset where a two metre long Pliosaur head was discovered.

[@k1ng401]

@@fabianmckenna8197 what’s your point? Mine is that deposition happens at different rates in different places and you have to account for it.

[@AlHart-w5g]

The top of Chimney rock, Courthouse rock, and Jail Rock were at one time grade level for the entire region. Those are only remnants of an earlier terrain. The fact that so many thousands of cubic miles of material are removed coupled with the idea that nature hates vertical surfaces and tries to bevel them leads me to conclude that the narrative of Noah’s Flood is actually the only scientific explanation for conditions as you observe them in Nebraska. I believe in Catastrophism and Western Nebraska has gives some powerful evidence.

[@seektruth1599]

All of our land masses are the final product of catastrophism..... Streams don't form valleys, gradualism is not the answer. Tectonic upheaval, volcanic activity and rapid water removal accounts for the strata on the continents that spread hundreds of miles in different directions. Roughly 80% of the land is made up of sedimentary deposits. Massive boneyards, comprised of thousands of species, with hundreds of thousands of bones, exist on all the continents.... small local floods cannot account for the size and nature of such depositions. Look at the thousands of coal deposits on every continent, buried vegetation compressed between layers of silts and clay and sand. The coal seams extend hundreds of miles and they all have the same carbon date.

[@prototropo]

For me the lesson is that momentous events, like the emergence of simplest life, are at first spaced very far from each other, but as complexity is compounded, the great developments beging to snowball. From eukaryotic to bilateral to tetrapodal to terrestrial anatomy, the potential for deep, technological intelligence gathers momentum, until today we risk rolling faster than our own potential can hold together. Time to learn self-control?

[@skyemac8]

Simple life returning to the White House.

[@robertjones1730]

We have more ways of collecting historical information the closer to our time. It's completely possible that many more cycles of complex organisms coming and going happened but in so far as our science is concerned, if they can't see it, it didn't happen. We never would have believed that Archimedes would have had access to precision metal machining technology...until we found the Antikythera mechanism by chance. We're still bickering about whether some ancient civilizations had giant equipment to machine some of the hardest stone like on a lathe to mind boggling precision, yet we have examples staring at us in the face.

[@hellodean4]

I really liked the calendar comparison, a very good way of visualizing it.

[@timcase2494]

I need this video in metric...

[@EverybodysWrong]

That’s too bad

[@tenfodaddy4351]

Excellent, excellent- thank you for making this available to all of us. Real science by real people and real specialists in the field. A breath of fresh air after all the junk AI science content channels.

[@edwardfindley8483]

This is an example of why you should live and not care what other people think. Our lives arent even measurable in the big picture.

[@TomGrubbe]

Nicely done.

[@kevinwilson6804]

James, Paul, Veronica, Sammy………..Nice work. Truly. Thanks. Kevin

[@bowez9]

Just imagine if was honest and took pictures of Mt St Helens on May 17 1980 and May 19 1980. Or the site of the St Francis Dam....

[@romanvarcolac2238]

Man, both the Roman Empire and the United States submitted their assignments at the last instant.

[@arthurlevine1840]

Looking at the comments, perhaps I'm the only one who finds this scary. It feels like if I contemplate on it too deeply it could become a horror that could damage me. On the other hand, perhaps liberating.

[@SwampyColorado420]

It is a scary universe for sure. Don't let it bother you too much. While each of us mean very little to the universe, the chances of us existing are infinitely small. And maybe the only purpose of our existence is just for you to experience life. So enjoy it while you have it. ☮️

[@humansustainability]

good assembly and description of this data. geologic time should include geologic events not just biologic events :)

[@brunonikodemski2420]

George Carlin, in his parody "The Earth With Plastic", points out that the Earth probably sees Humans, as a contaminating slime on its surface, and is trying to get rid of us. The Earth will be just fine after the Human Era disappears. It will recover to its normal self, and truck along for another 4+Billion years. Mr Sun will then determine how to dispose of it, along with some other planets. There is a definite "pecking order" to the Universe, and we are just another player in that scheme.

[@detroitredwings7130]

At my desk job time passes at a geological pace.

[@oneeyedchihuahua]

So if you live to be 50 years old that translate to the last 7.5 seconds of December 31st on Carl Sagans cosmic calendar, how immensely significant we humans are 😐

[@williamdusseau7583]

Thank you for the perspective of time

[@Saturn-Matrix]

It's not science. Made up time because a Cataclysm shapped the landscape and it is recorded in recent human expierence as mythology. The land was craved out by interplanetary electrical arcs and super sonic winds harder than steel. Gigantic boulders, some large enough that they now have cities on them were picked up and tossed across the land by electrical sputtering. Earth was the moon of Saturn during the Golden age before the flood. Saturn was in axial alligment with Venus, Mars and earth under a purple opaque sky during the golden age. They don't want you to know this documented fact.

[@ChrisAnnasMom]

Music is totally distracting.

[@vhil364]

It's also some of the most annoying type of music: the typical fake happiness guitar background music.

[@YESYES0k-0]

I agre

[@Sailor376also]

BOOM !! Bowknot Bend is on the Green River in Canyonlands National Park. Not the San Juan. The San Juan is not in Canyonlands N P. Annnd Been there, right where that photo was taken up on the ridge,, and paddled the river,, Twice.

[@robertjones1730]

actually, those two examples show us how much we don't know about all the gaps. There could have been human forms pop up many millions of years ago, and been gone again after a couple hundred thousand years and we would know absolutely nothing of that time

[@oe542]

Totally true. It’s not that one says that’s incorrect, it’s that there hasn’t been evidence discovered to support that.

[@shauncooper9942]

Fascinating presentation, thank you!

[@nadjagalimova1659]

Nice presentation... I will safe this in my archive...

[@TelscombeTerror]

Wish you had 3 photos the extra photo being current.

[@Robbo1966]

Once a prestine planet now well underway for human extinction I wonder how many seconds it will take

[@philipstevenson5166]

another point's that all present organisms have been evolving for 4 billion years. so our human-specific characteristics are only a tiny part of how we function.

[@JOBT0]

Excellent illustration, thanks.👍

[@divinwill]

Never knew a minute has 100 seconds! You learn something new every day! 😂

[@leechild4655]

lol

[@krmeadows0001]

Centiseconds.

[@andrewhancock7812]

Bowknot bend is on the Green River not the San Juan!

[@jasongarcia2140]

You had to yell it? A kind correction would be sufficient!

[@wilfinley]

The genus Homo is about 3 million years old, but Homo sapiens like you and me are only roughly 300,000 years old. When you say "humans" in the video, you are technically correct because we're all in the Homo genus, but it's still pretty misleading for almost everyone who think of humans as being only Homo sapiens. 😕

[@johngilmore4416]

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[@koltoncrane3099]

The scale or old picture and new picture could have included the U.S. federal government debt how it’s exploded over time. Would have been a good comparison too

[@artistjoh]

People like to imagine going back in a time machine to observe changes, but don't realize there is only a tiny portion of Earth's history where human's could breathe the air without dying. Sure there has been oxygen for a long time, but most of the time there has been either too much oxygen, or too little for us to survive.

[@lynnensley7879]

Nice photos of the San Juan mountains.

[@aeromodeller1]

The river bend pictures can be viewed in 3D stereo. I'm guessing the 1871 picture was made by Jackson.

[@tonyfield2360]

A shame religious fundamentalists will never sit through this clip, or if they did, do so without throwing a shoe at the TV.

[@arthurvanberkel7293]

I use a time-distance timescale of 1 year = 1 mm, 1000 years = 1 meter, 1 million years= 1 km, 1 billion years=1000 km.

[@StevenRud]

Very nicely done!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@rene2106]

5:50 11.59.75 and 11.59.97 pm. Of course the Imperial minutes where there are 100 seconds in 1 minute.

[@johnschut164]

Maybe you could make a video about the last 2 minutes and describe what happened in them…(?) After a general explanation about this 1 year comparison.

[@SwampyColorado420]

That is wild how early life arose and still only once. 🤯

[@Username9182736451]

I'll agree that those pictures show not much happeninq quickly. Just a few rocks moved a couple of feet. Maybe somebody kicked them. But glaciers move vast amounts of material quickly: A large glacier like Margerie can erode and transport millions of tons of material in a single year. Over a few decades, this can completely reshape a valley. Glacial Landscapes Form Rapidly: Features like U-shaped valleys, fjords, and moraines-which define entire regions like Alaska-can form in just a few thousand years, or less, during active glaciation. Historical Examples: The last Ice Age (~20,000 years ago) sculpted much of North America, carving out features like the Great Lakes. In geological terms, this is a blink of an eye. While some Earth processes (like mountain formation) are slow, glaciers provide clear evidence that Earth's surface can change dramatically in relatively short periods

[@razony]

Something to ponder. As some religious interpretation puts the universe/earth at appropriately 6000 years. That would put the creation of the Grand Canyon starting 2 days ago at midnight, ending to what is present day Grand Canyon, about 30 seconds later. Does anyone see the decrepancy here. I need not elaborate any further.

[@williamedwards1528]

Nope, the Canyon is about ~6,000,000 years old

[@apple54345]

but mah holy book says..

[@snydedon9636]

What a cool way to put into perspective the history of earth and humans time on it. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks.

[@markshepardsongs]

It's about time...

[@cslivestockllc138]

Nice video, thanks!

[@revazquez]

My takeaway is: Even though we’ve only been on earth for a relatively short time, we’ve really screwed it up. Perhaps the best thing for earth is to have AI take over 😂.

[@oe542]

The earth is fine. It’s going to be here long after we are.

[@nigelsmith721]

Wow, we got so close to not having to deal with Donald Trump.

[@davidaustin7697]

I moved a rock hundreds of yards I’m ahead of my time

[@Rizz_Messiah]

Me and the earliest life finally have something in common.

[@OldBroadAbroad]

What a great way to explain geological time! And so surprising that humans have only just come into play. I just hope we don’t become an infestation on Mother Earth. Or are we already?

[@JohnSmith-o1o6s]

great video, but I guess you will have to come back each year and update it

[@lost4468yt]

It's crazy we live on a planet that's literally hundreds of years old, and live in a universe with literally thousands of stars

[@bogtrotter5110]

You are kidding, of course, unless maybe you are a creationist.

[@andrew30m]

😂😂

[@russtaylor2122]

Literally the most incorrect use of the word literally... ; )

[@struanpeat5116]

Americans really will use anything but the metric system (this is a joke, this is a cool video)

[@robbhays8077]

Metric is gay.

[@oe542]

No bro our desire to appease the world and our arrogance to not care has us using both. It’s a pile of fun.

[@billyandrews4728]

Thank You !

[@dmlevitt]

beautifully done. humans are a spec.

[@aubreyleonae4108]

So ... not 6,000 years ? 😊

[@SuperManning11]

😂

[@DeltaAlfaRomeo]

Consider the possibility that the water was moving torrentially at some point and therefore easily cut these hills in centuries, not millennia. Them crazy believers may be onto something..: 🤔

[@aubreyleonae4108]

@ light speed

[@DeltaAlfaRomeo]

@@aubreyleonae4108 w/ a mile-high glacier melting into the trenches

[@oe542]

6000 metric years = 4.5 billion regular years

[@cinezoic]

It’s this channels first video in three years ?am I seeing that right?

[@roverdover4449]

In my humble opinion, scientific presentations should not use "freedom units". 2:20

[@pcatful]

Except Canyonlands National Park doesn't include the San Juan River. There is a bow knot bend on the Green River near Canyonlands.

[@harrybenson9983]

Geology and geography have similar spelling so maybe that explains the error. Another thing current "scientists" practice is the use of "BCE" and "CE" which basically cancels the most influential individual, Jesus Christ, from history. My guess is that it is supposed to be inclusive even though it mimics the same dates as AD and BC. So "scientists" can't get the location right and they allow politics to seep into their discipline.

[@TheBigRichRandom]

Please use metric

[@bcraftin7846]

Wow the photo from 1871 is crystal clear…but here in 2025 we can’t take a clear UFO picture or video?🤔

[@secularsunshine9036]

*Let the Sunshine In...*

[@mkk3a]

2:30 Yards? Inches? Really? If you really have to use them, then at least provide values in metric system at the same time.

[@Peter_Valoczi]

Americans use everything but the metric system 😂

[@krmeadows0001]

You don't learn inches, we Americans don't learn centimeters. If I speak Spanish and you speak English, do you go around and insist I speak English?

[@oe542]

@@krmeadows0001imagine going to Spain and yelling at the road signs for being in kilometers

[@wk3818]

I was born on June 16th. So you're welcome for the O2. Had to edit my poor grammar and ruin an even poorer joke.

[@breakthroughmadeinusa9184]

So what happened 4.6 billion years ago and one day.

[@mbterabytesjc2036]

IDN, the opening above the middle red arrow @1:55 looks like the floor of the opening goes from a "V" shape in the older picture to a flat bottom in the newer picture. Either man has been there or something needed a place to rest and built up the floor of the opening. Here I thought erosion only worked with gravity. 😏

[@martinphilip8998]

Not to be confused with the Doomsday Clock analogy, I hope.

[@barrythomson899]

Great stuff but please lose the music.

[@modalmixture]

And that's just the earth. The solar system formed in early August by the Universe's even vaster calendar.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

As a general frame of reference, using that calendar as reference the solar system began forming BEFORE this calendar even started. The formation of the accretion disc that rotated around the main mass which would become the sun began tens of millions of years before this calendar started with the beginning of the earth.

[@plinkfuture2557]

Great!❤

[@Emprivan]

I was taught that an Eon was the time it would take you to climb Mt Everest everyday to pee and wear it down to sea level.... Just saying :}

[@dogwater4u]

well, done

[@robert-wr6md]

Maybe loose the music.

[@jandrew0639]

Once the dinosaurs died out and before the arrival of humans, that's when the world would have been in perfect balance.

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

I once mentioned that standing on the pile of rocks at the bottom of a waterfall to have a shower is a bad idea. One response was "That stuff happens in geologic time!!!" as if those events happen only when you're not looking. ;)

[@lost4468yt]

They were on about risk. Not impossibility. More chance of doing a car crash.

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

​@@lost4468yt These events happen regularly "in geological time", just look at the shape of any waterfall valley. Capitólio rockfall killed 10. There was another from Brazil I can remember where 40+ died when the sides of the valley slid.

[@lost4468yt]

@whatilearnttoday5295 and how many die in car accidents?

[@leonlerdo]

Why in imperial system? What a shame.

[@jellybean288]

Imperial units, is it really a system. He even reverts to decimal so ...

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

The length used is purely arbitrary and in this case the Imperial system is used because it is familiar to the most people at least in the US. I would have used the meter as the scale as others too. But it's still arbitrary!

[@oe542]

It’s a US video. If I watched a video made in Italy wouldn’t it sound strange for me to be angry about it being metric?

[@leonlerdo]

​@@oe542I understand your point but also is true that metric is more "natural". A lot of US channels and companies uses metric system (ex: SpaceX, a US company, shows velocity and altitude of rockets launches in metric).

[@oe542]

@ it feels natural because you’re used to it. I’m 43 and have been exposed to both systems for my entire life. As an American when someone says kilometer I can’t put a picture in my brain of what that is. If you say mile I can. It’s not because it’s better, it’s because I’m used to it. When someone says kilo to me I have to remind myself that a kilo is 2.2 pounds. Then it makes sense. It’s not because kilo is wrong it’s because I’m not as used to it.

[@DanRyan-pq2ov]

Thanks : )

[@crushlogic]

2:00 That 1871 picture is very clear and light gray for a picture from that era. Any pictures I've seen from then are very grainy and yellowish brown. I'm skeptical.

[@oe542]

It was taken with an iPhone Pro

[@marcelw6827]

And we managed to ruin the world on december 31 at half a second before new year. Good to now that we humans will never make it to the 2nd of January.

[@oe542]

We didn’t ruin the earth and we never will.

[@marcelw6827]

@ sure! That flag says enough to me. Drill baby drill.

[@oe542]

@@marcelw6827 fuck yea! Your comment says enough to me. We don’t need ya. Again the earth is fine. The earth will be around a long long time.

[@oe542]

@@marcelw6827 hell yea!

[@marcelw6827]

@@oe542 my dear American. Did I really triggered you to be offensive? Is it necessary to start swearing? My comment does not say anything, only that I’am way above your level. Maybe in the future you will see that you are very pathetic. Sleep well.

[@Firebrand55]

...the drop wearith away the stone.....given time.

[@harriehausenman8623]

"yard"? srsly? 😆

[@guesswhaturit2197]

only a mo would buy this ..

[@phonehenge]

Watch Washington’s Dream and also Washington’s Dream, in that order.

[@MarkNOTW]

The problem here is we’re comparing photos from 1871 with 1968, during which there were no catastrophes, and concluding it took millions of years for the canyon to have formed. That’s false. If the canyon was rapidly covered by water and then the water rapidly dispersed, the effects we observe could have happened in less than a year. Notice the massive landscape difference before and after the mt st Helen’s eruption.

[@robertjones1730]

I agree with you. "hypothetically speaking" if North America was covered with an ice sheet, oh, say around 11,600 years ago or so and a massive celestial impact happened in that weird perfectly circular area of Canada called Hudson Bay, you could have flash melting that would cause epic flooding that would have carved out these areas in a matter of weeks if not days. But who am I to say, I'm not a scientist so I'm not allowed to have any ideas that might challenge the currently accepted mythology.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

You really need to study physical geology to get some perspective and understanding of basic geologic processes. That bend in Green River, mistakenly listed as the San Juan River was created as water eroded down through layers of hard rock. That did not happen in a short time. So your silly hypothetical has no relation to reality. Hard rock is not eroded quickly. There are examples of massive floods eroding an area quickly, but they wouldn't look like this sculpted canyon at all.

[@MarkNOTW]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 nope. The rock hardened after the water receded. Which is why we observe bent rock layers all over the world. Additionally, these layers you speak of are also examples of rapid deposition and run off. My silly hypothetical are known facts.

[@slingslang2934]

​@@MarkNOTW Why are there only signs the biblical flood in these high desert canyons? Isn't it common knowledge to watch out for floods in the desert?

[@slingslang2934]

​@MarkNOTW Why do only deserts and specifically the western high deserts only have signs of the bibles flood? Isn't it common knowledge that there's flash floods in the desert?

[@seektruth1599]

All of our land masses are the final product of catastrophism..... Streams don't form valleys, gradualism is not the answer. Tectonic upheaval, volcanic activity and rapid water removal accounts for the strata on the continents that spread hundreds of miles in different directions. Roughly 80% of the land is made up of sedimentary deposits. Massive boneyards, comprised of thousands of species, with hundreds of thousands of bones, exist on all the continents.... small local floods cannot account for the size and nature of such depositions. Look at the thousands of coal deposits on every continent, buried vegetation compressed between layers of silts and clay and sand. The coal seams extend hundreds of miles and they all have the same carbon date.

[@railwaymechanicalengineer4587]

THE GRAND CANYON - CREATED IN 30 MINUTES !!! "The planet is extremely old". But that does NOT mean the Geological situation as viewed by many Geologists is old. For the simple reason they totally overlook or understand the massive effect the Planets "Electrical Field" has had on what you see out there ! The Grand Canyon is a classis example. Stated by the ignorant USGS Geologists to have been carved by river water erosion over Millions of years. But on personal examination of that Canyon back in 1985. And right opposite the USGS Headquarters building at Flagstaff just 100ft from the Canyons edge. I pointed out to a very confused USGS Geologist. "But where is the visible and horizontal water erosion evidence. There is NONE. Quite the Contrary there are numerous, vertical pinnacles of rock some hundreds of feet high, standing in the Canyon, here, there and everywhere. Totally impossible if water erosion had been the Canyons creator ". So the Canyon was there before the Colorado River. So what else could have created that 500 mile long, 5 mile wide and 1 mile deep Canyon ? I had no answer at that time, but I knew there had to be an alternative. Today I have the solution thanks to the Plasma Electric Universe branch of Science. And there is visible supporting electrical evidence all around the Grand Canyon. Assuming you can recognise the very distinct Lichtenburg Electrical carving patterns, and numerous electrical carved features in large parts of the whole Rocky Mountain region. Indeed the Canyon would have been "carved" most likely during the well known period in human History (No longer taught it seems in American Schools, but still taught elsewhere), of the "Cataclysms" of 6,000-8,000 years ago. Cataclysmic events now known to have been the result of major electrical disturbance in the Inner Solar system. Indeed as the Plasma Electric Scientific Paradigm clearly shows, the much larger Canyon Valles Marinaris on Mars (near 2000miles long, 25 miles wide & 15 miles deep) is also clearly carved by "Electrical Forces" we have not seen the likes of since the era of the "Cataclysms". Only Saturn & Jupiter still have massive and visible "Thunderbolts" on the sort of scale necessary to "carve out" electrically large gouges in rocky planet surfaces. So the "Mythology" that Mother Nature spends Million or even Billions of years doing virtually anything & everything, as seen across the Universe, is in many cases not correct. The powers available to Mother Nature can clearly be seen in the example of massive numbers of Stars literally being formed concurrently in a 3000 Light Year long "Lightning Bolt" that forms a central feature of the Large Magellanic Cloud (a small young Galaxy close to our own). So carving whopping Canyons and the Solar systems biggest mountain "Mons Olympus" 80,000ft high, also on little Mars, and also covered in Lichtenburg electrical striking patterns, means the Grand Canyon in the USA could have been formed in less than 30 minutes. Indeed even the limited electrical behaviour on Earth today was filmed "carving a gouge across a Cricket pitch in Britain in just a few seconds". 300ft long, 18 inches wide and about 2 feet deep !

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

"Stated by the ignorant geologists". Tell us then what papers have you ever published in geology and other science journals?? Where is any of your material published that can be reviewed by trained geologists. And what is your training in geology?? I await your response.

[@railwaymechanicalengineer4587]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 I'm not a Geologist. But I quickly discovered when in the USA back in the 1980's that the USGS, can't even IDENTIFY the necessary evidence to support their claim that the Grand Canyon was created primarily by water erosion over a period of hundreds of Millions of Years. My qualifications in this direction only include Geography "A" Level (one step behind a British degree) which includes only basic Geology & Vulcanism, and Human Geography. But my assertions to the USGS Geologist at that time, were "show me the evidence" as we looked over the edge into the Canyon. So I pointed out "the only water erosion evidence we can see, is the Rills at our feet. Proving that when it rains, water has trickled over the edge into the Canyon leaving vertical grooves". But there was absolutely NO evidence anywhere of "Horizontal" water scouring of the Canyon sides. Necessary if water had cut that Canyon ! Now 40 years on, I have the evidence for what really cut that Canyon. It's just the same as Valles Marinaris on Mars, which is 10 times bigger than the Grand Canyon. And both were cut (probably in the same era) by the massive electrical upheaval going on in the inner Solar system at that time (6,000-8,000 years ago). Known in History classes as the "Era of the Cataclysms", which you should have learnt the basics of in school ? Indeed the IEEE (The Institute for Electricity) Scientists, which include Astro Electrical Geologists & Plasma Physicists. Have indicated both Canyons were carved Electrically. And can now show the visible Electrical scalping marks known as "Lichtenburg patterns" all around both Canyons. The interest therefore shifts to exactly what went on in the Solar System to allow for the necessarily huge electrical behaviour. Professor Velikovsky was the first to point the finger at the "Electrical" possibilities in his book "Worlds in Collison" published by Macmillan (Science publisher), way back in 1950. Although we now know a lot more today, some of Velikovsky's predictions in that book, have been confirmed by NASA. Most recently in November 2019. When NASA confirmed the water in Saturn's Rings is exactly the same water as on Earth down to the last ISOTOPE. Scientifically only possible if Earth has been in VERY close proximity to Saturn in the recent past !!! Indeed Saturn's arrival in the Solar system is suspected as the primary cause of the electrical turmoil, that caused serious damage to both Earth & Mars, and also explains all the odd "facts" about Venus. Venus as all the ancient records always claimed (Egyptian, Sumerian, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Chinese & Japanese) all concur on this issue. That Venus was tearing around the inner Solar system (not on its current orbit) but behaving as a gigantic Comet. That on a number of occasions, it came very close to Earth. Venus today is still a highly electrically overcharged body trying to discharge. So when Earth & Venus are in Perihelion, Earth's man made Satellites, and Surface Electrical Grids repeatedly suffer electrical problems and damage ! Check out the "THUNDERBOLTS PROJECT" expansive website. Which includes many of the Documentaries, about the Electrical nature of the Universe, as posted by Radio Astronomers, Plasma Physicists, Astro Electrical Physicists, even Mythologists. And gives more detail on what happened in Earth & Mars recent past. And pinpoints and shows the evidence. Obviously a little basic electrical understanding will be needed, to grasp this rather huge story. Happy Electrical Science Discoveries ! 😝

[@phonehenge]

Climate change? Nothing WE can do about it. Excellent video. The wonder, the awe of our planet!

[@marcjones1139]

So they show massive change in floods, landslides etc but none in erosion over 100yrs in the 1st split screen.... but the penny doesnt drop. It just goes to show, you believe what you want to believe 😅😅😅

[@oe542]

Seriously?

[@7inrain]

Looks like your penny hasn't dropped. Geology has *always* to look how a certain landscape formed. And does. If you wanted to hint at an idiotic fairytale from the bronze age you failed. Badly.

[@grkobylka]

Cool video, but inches? Come on! You know it's not scientific if they use inches.

[@sentientflower7891]

Keep in mind that within the context of the calendar the extinction of humankind occurs very soon after New Year. There's very little time left for humanity.

[@gustavgnoettgen]

How do you know? Edit: too bad, my reply is hidden.

[@sentientflower7891]

@gustavgnoettgen have you seen the Earth? Have you examined the state of the human species?

[@gustavgnoettgen]

@@sentientflower7891 It's shitty, but I can't read the future. Maybe we sterilize the planet but survive.

[@oe542]

@@sentientflower7891earth is fine. Humans….. not so much

[@rancher12121]

it has taken humans one beat of a flys wing to f up the entire earth

[@bogtrotter5110]

Exactly!

[@papabeats13]

To loosely paraphrase George Carlin- we haven’t f’ed up the Earth at all. The Earth isn’t prejudiced against styrofoam. It doesn’t care if the cute fuzzy animals are lost to extinction while the creepy boring ones live on. They’re all Earth’s children. The Earth isn’t going anywhere. We are.

[@oe542]

@@papabeats13the earth is fine!…. We’re fucked

[@georgew.5639]

The age of the universe and the age of the earth are based upon assumptions that are based upon assumptions based upon assumptions. And none of these assumptions are verifiable because no one was here 4 billion years ago to prove them. The age of the universe and the earth are strictly theoretical.

[@Fdigreg]

Absolutely agree

[@NotSure723]

You are truly ignorant.

[@7inrain]

No, they are based on evidence. And if you made your comment because of a dumb holy book about an invisible man in the sky who spoke everything into existence a few thousand years ago and maroons like Ken Ham who has as much clue about Geology as a Hippo has about figure skating then you have to learn a lot.

[@idiotburns]

It took 2:08 like 2-3 days from a massive MASSIVE sudden flood

[@idiotburns]

weather is like that dripper in your plant pot or mister, but then straight up pour 10 5 gallon buckets of water on a house plant and it will massively erode the soil in seconds, 100 years of years doent compare to 1 year of massive floods

[@williamcroslow]

Ok, but what's an "inch"?