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Start taking 1 photo from space every 10 or 100 years.

Ididntdothis 7y ago
May have to procure a little cubesat. Now I just have to eat healthy to stay around for the final video :)
dredmorbius 7y ago
At 30 frames/second, shooting at one frame every 100,000 years, a film of the whole 4.5 billion years of Earth's evolution would run 25 minutes. If you wanted more detail, you could shoot every 10,000 years, running a bit over 4 hours. Humans would appear in this long version of the film, in the final 0.667 seconds, or the final 20 frames. The 2,000 years since Christ's death would be a blur on the final frame. All of human history for the past 10,000 years would almost fill out that frame. The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs would appear 3 minutes 33 seconds before the end. The Cambrian Explosion, about 27 minutes from the end. That's the history of all multicellular life. At one frame every 100 years, the film would run 17 days 8 hours and change. And at a frame every decade, 300 years a seconds: 5 months 3 weeks. YouTube sees 500 hours of video uploaded every minute. If that were to corrspond with our movie of Earth's history, you'd need 150,000 years to upload all of it. Space is big, as you may have heard. Time is long.
- inetknght 7y ago
  We can bullet time through humanity's time.
- Mirioron 7y ago
  And in this video you would witness how trees became the dominant lifeform on Earth and have remained as such ever since.
  - dredmorbius 7y ago
    Or algae and plankton. Regards plant life generally, one rather stunning realisation for me is how recent many of the now-dominant forms are. Grass is younger than the dinosaurs. Flowering plants evolved during their reign. The major crops of the world (wheat, maize, rice) are all largely human-engineered, through artificial selection over the past few thousand years. There's a lot of competition in the primary-producer niche.
- stOneskull 7y ago
  push the framerate up.

May have to procure a little cubesat. Now I just have to eat healthy to stay around for the final video :)

At 30 frames/second, shooting at one frame every 100,000 years, a film of the whole 4.5 billion years of Earth's evolution would run 25 minutes. If you wanted more detail, you could shoot every 10,000 years, running a bit over 4 hours. Humans would appear in this long version of the film, in the final 0.667 seconds, or the final 20 frames. The 2,000 years since Christ's death would be a blur on the final frame. All of human history for the past 10,000 years would almost fill out that frame. The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs would appear 3 minutes 33 seconds before the end. The Cambrian Explosion, about 27 minutes from the end. That's the history of all multicellular life. At one frame every 100 years, the film would run 17 days 8 hours and change. And at a frame every decade, 300 years a seconds: 5 months 3 weeks. YouTube sees 500 hours of video uploaded every minute. If that were to corrspond with our movie of Earth's history, you'd need 150,000 years to upload all of it. Space is big, as you may have heard. Time is long.

inetknght 7y ago
We can bullet time through humanity's time.
Mirioron 7y ago
And in this video you would witness how trees became the dominant lifeform on Earth and have remained as such ever since.
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  Or algae and plankton. Regards plant life generally, one rather stunning realisation for me is how recent many of the now-dominant forms are. Grass is younger than the dinosaurs. Flowering plants evolved during their reign. The major crops of the world (wheat, maize, rice) are all largely human-engineered, through artificial selection over the past few thousand years. There's a lot of competition in the primary-producer niche.
stOneskull 7y ago
push the framerate up.