@Sheril I wonder at what time the Theia collision happens...? Probably those first few hours?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia_%28hypothetical_planet%29

@Sheril @glynmoody UGH. 24hr clock 12hr times. WHY?

@Sheril every detail past ‘noon’ is not represented in 24hr time. 🤷

@Sheril Great, next Earth is only 77 seconds away!

@Sheril a fascinating graphic, although not really a clock?

@Sheril Reminds me of the Carl Sagan Cosmic Calendar episode where he represented the life of the universe as a monthly calendar... big bang on Jan 1 12:00am and evolved humans the last few minutes in December.

https://youtu.be/Ln8UwPd1z20?si=zpgeqe2Q9PvEPe9Q

@Sheril That’s pretty good! Lines up with this earth and universal 24 hour clock list, for even more perspective: https://web.archive.org/web/20150325080603/http://cassian.memphis.edu/history/jmblythe/Global%20F05/UniversalClock.htm

@Sheril The new arrivals are pillaging and destroying so much of what came before. 😔

@Sheril In the hotel business, it's a 'short stay'-- two-three hours for a tryst or assignation, wham-bam, thankyou...

@Sheril 6pm is just a wild choice of time for sexual reproduction.

@Sheril What's this?” whispered Max, wild-eyed, “what's happening?”

“A big hand please, ladies and gentlemen,” he hollered, “for the Great Prophet
Zarquon! He has come! Zarquon has come again!”

“Er ...” he said, “hello. Er, look, I'm sorry I'm a bit late. I've had the most ghastly
time, all sorts of things cropping up at the last moment.”
He seemed nervous of the expectant awed hush. He cleared his throat.
“Er, how are we for time?” he said, “have I just got a min-”
And so the Universe ended

@Sheril why a clock though? Should we be expecting another formation of earth in a minute?

@Sheril I have looked for that image

@Sheril very cool. one question though, if the origin of life was so early at 0400 yet ten hours later at 1400 single cell algae turn up, what form did life have for that intervening massive block of time? just rna squigglin around or what

@Sheril is that humans homo sapiens, or earlier forms of human?

@Sheril and already wrecking it.