f time to develop ambitions. If youimagine tory compressed into a normal eart 4A.M.,  simple, single-celledorganisms, but t sixteen  until almost 8:30 into s arestless skin of microbes. t sea plants appear, folloy minuteslater by t jellyfisic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg inAustralia. At 9:04P.M. trilobites so tely bytures of t before 10P.M. plants begin to pop up on ter,  land creatures follow.

    to ten minutes or so of balmy carboniferous forests s areevident. Dinosaurs plod onto t before 11P.M. and  ters of an  ty-one minutes to midnige and seventeen seconds before midnigory, on timebarely an instant. t tly speeded-up day continents slide about and bangtoget a clip t seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt a t timesevery minute, some marking t ofa Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It’s a  anyt all can survive insuctled environment. In fact, not many things do for long.

    Perive reme recentness as a part of ture is to stretco t extent and imagine tire ory of to Joance from tips of one o t of ther is Precambrian.

    All of complex life is in one roke e ory.”

    Fortunately, t moment   t it erject a note of gloom just at t, but t is t tremely pertinent quality about life on Eart goes extinct. Quite regularly. For all trouble take to assemble and preserve tinely. And t, to go extinct.  terribly ambitious.

    So anytime life does somet is quite an event, and feful to t stage in our narrative and came out of the sea.