What Was Earth Like 4 Billion Years Ago?

Written & researched by Leila Battison. Check out her channel:-
Edited by Pete Kelly. Check out his channel:-
Narrated by David Kelly. Check out his channel:-
Art by Khail Kupsky
Thumbnail art by Ettore Manza

References:-

Extra thanks to:-
Giuseppe Donatiello
Slim Sepp
H. Martin, Blaise Pascal University
Pedroalexandrade
Tim Bertelink
NASA / JPL / Doug Ellison

[HistoryoftheEarth]

Hi everybody! Thanks so much for watching. Couple of *corrections* At one point in the video the word million sounds like the word billion. And the Canadian Shield got mixed up for the Rockies. Apologies!

[Apanblod]

I for one remember those early days of earth with great fondness. It wasn't nearly as bad as the narrator makes it out to be. Sure, there were the occasional asteroid bombardment on the way to school, and the lack of breathable air or sustenance of any kind may not sound that cushy to you modern kids, but we didn't need luxuries like that. We had gneiss rocks to play with and a giant, nightmare inducing moon to look at at night. Those were simpler times..

[middler]

This used to be confined to tv channels. Now they have nothing like it and here it is free to view on YouTube. Great work.

[forsagebone]

A geologist uncovers a rock that's 69mil years old.

*"Gneiss."*

[fuckamericanidiot]

Brilliant, love the narration - I'd never heard of the Moon being closer than it is now, tearing up the crust as it moved, terrifying.

[hellscream]

The narrator describes everything in such a profound way.

[scarabvoodoo]

I feel blessed to have found and followed this channel from the beginning. Awesome!

[joanfrellburg]

This blows the doors off any history class I slept through. Written, and narrated so amazingly too. Hoping one day you folks will do a " What Will Earth Be Like In 4 Billion Years ? ''

[red_nikolai]

This is SO COOL! You turned a boring looking rock from part of the timeline in a school textbook into The Last Survivor of the Hadean Era. Way to go for reaching my anthropomorphizing monkey brain! Also, thank you for covering this period of Earth's history at all! A while ago I was compiling a chronological playlist of Youtube history videos and there was a distinct gap in the very beginning where I couldn't find anything like this that was any good. Props to you guys for bringing a more complete historical perspective to Youtube.

[ericodijk]

Beautifully done. The Acasta Gneiss might truly be the oldest rock to be found. It does include zircons, which themselves had to be formed prior to that. Mind this: in Australia there are zircons that reach back probably 4.4 billion years, much much older.
For zircons to form, the presence of some water in liquid form is needed. This means that at 4.4 billion years ago, the surface temperature on Earth had already dropped below the boiling point of water. It may have gone up and down a few times (late heavy bombardment etc) but new scientific evidence shows that the real hell lasted for maybe only the first 100 to 130 million years.
Then again: your movie skills, narrating and feel for creating a good documentary are top.

[KarenMcAda]

Stunning. I have watched many, many documentaries, and this series is shaping up to be one of my favorites. I cannot wait until the next one! Such great work. Thank you!

[janina]

All I can say is Wow! What a fantastic Job you guys do on your Docs. I enjoyed this more than Discovery and Nat Geo shows with high budgets! Perfect for CuriosityStream and Magellan channels. They all should be knocking by now!

[kanyekubrick]

What the heck Man I don’t even know what words to use to describe how dope this was. 🤙🏽 cant wait for the next episode

[seamusmaye]

Narrator: “this is gneiss”

Me: “nice.”

[SarcasticDragonGaming]

I’ve watched hundreds of videos on geological history, some better than others, but yours have by far the best “wow factor” to them. Keep it up, I’ve got a lot of popcorn to go through!

[lucasjames]

WHY DOES THIS CHANNEL NOT HAVE A MILLION SUBSCRIBERS?!

[just_another_retired_hooligan]

My life long pal Kyle does the art for this video his work is amazing. very cool so I'm gonna take a watch. already a supporter here.

[solanceDarkMOW]

Leila Battison, truly incredible work you've done here. May your name go down in history with the likes of Carl Sagan as the greatest of science presenters for writing such phenomenal documentaries. My hat comes off to you.

[GeraBrown]

I love both episodes so far. I'm sharing them with my daughters. I love the intense, inexorable delivery and the opulent metaphorical flourishings which serve to bring a long-dead past to breathtaking life!

[dobypilgrim]

What an amazing project. And you covered over 500, 000, 000 years in under 22 minutes. Thank you for this.