A billion years of plate tectonics, condensed into 40 seconds. 
This dance of continents and oceans has gone hand in hand with the emergence of complex life on Earth. 
https://set.adelaide.edu.au/news/list/2021/02/12/tectonic-time-lapse-one-billion-years-of-earths-history-in-40-seconds #earth #science #history

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/134/220/467/411/715/original/5b66d3162f2a6182.mp4 

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Fascinating… Just passengers on a tectonic plate on a planet in an insignificant solar system in the milky way is what we are, in a tiny fraction of infinity…