The Whole History of the Earth in 24 hours - 5 minute Freewrite

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For those of you not familiar with the freewrite, you basically have 5 minutes to write a story, beginning to end. Then post it to your page.

Below is my attempt to tell a story in 5 minutes using the prompt "Before midnight"

Thanks to @mariannewest as always for the wonderful job she does in keeping this going every day!

The prompt post can be found here

Why not give it a go yourself!!

When I saw this prompt, this image came straight to mind for some reason.

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I happened upon it randomly a couple of weeks ago and I found it fascinating. So, I thought, hey some of my freewriting buddies may find it fascinating too, or maybe not! But, I'll chance it!!

In this illustration, the whole history of the Earth has been condensed into a 24 hour clock. From the moment the debris that was thrown out by a cosmic supernovae that coalesced together over millions of year to form the Earth to this moment of you sitting down reading what Ablaze is rabbiting on about today.. It's all captured in this really cool image, which really cleverly manages to convey the four and half billion year life of our planet into a little snapshot of time.

Note, midday is at the 6 O'Clock position and Midnight is at the 12 O'Clock position, so it does actually cover the full 24 hours, even at first glance you think that it doesn't..

We don't arrive on the scene until 23:58:43!!

The dinosaurs only arrived at 10:56, which really gives you some appreciation of how old this floating lump rock we call earth actually is!

I was quite surprised to see the origin of life as early as 4am and the first fossils at 6am.

So we got here at 23:58:43 and it's just gone midnight now, so how long will we last going into a new day?

Could we end up like the dinosaurs who were wiped out by a meteorite??

To be honest, I fear, we will do it ourselves.

Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons and Artificial Intelligence gone wrong are three scary dystopias that spring to mind. They are all very real and rational fears, and we may only see another few seconds on this clock if we don't collectively wake up and smell the coffee!!

This starts with electing the right leaders and above all educating ourselves..