Deep Time, Baby
Deep Time, Baby
to the tune of Ice, Ice, Baby, by Vanilla Ice
(also Under Pressure, by Queen)
Deep
time,
baby
Deep
time,
baby
Take a trip, a long ride, in the opposite direction
Take a last look at the map in Mercator Projection
It's a long time for continental drift
Watching time flowing backward, closing the rift
Forget about man, forget about mammals
The time we're talking about goes back in annals
Tectonic plates flow like honey on molasses
Before dinosaurs the air drew different gasses
65 mil. is but a blink of an eye
On a day the thunderbeasts looked up to the sky
It wasn't a blip, not even a speed bump
Happened before, no reprieve, no cosmic slump
Extinction moving this evolutionary pump
We read it in a layer of iridium dump
That was nothing, a footnote in the layers
Let’s move beyond those dinosaur slayers
Time machines buzzin', yo, watch me drive it
Check out the ages as the planet survives it
We're done with the Mezozoic - Cretatious, Jurasic, and Triasic
Then an even bigger mass extinction at the edge of the Paleozoic
Flying back, the periods tick by through time's exposition
Watch what happens in the Cambrian explosion
543 million and the starfish appear
single cells in tidal pools before that, I fear
Time machines buzzin', yo, watch life evolve it
Check out the years while Gaia revolves it
Ice,
Ice,
Baby,
Snowball
Too Cold!
Ice,
Ice,
Baby,
Snowball
Too Cold!
Happened not once, not twice, but thrice
Earth dead solid, frozen with ice
All was not lost, volcanoes angrily they slumbered
Until they burst through, furiously they lumbered
Keep winding back eons, the numbers are staggering
Wasn't the first or the last catastrophe happening
Comet bombardment gave us water
Before that, lava seas were that much hotter
On a molten world with her crust still forming
Theia slammed hard - a planet transforming
That’s how it started to our maturation
When starstuff lumped in a planetary accretion
That's a different story, yo!
Time,
time,
baby,
Deep Time
Time,
time,
baby,
Deep Time
Rocks don't lie!
Here's Ice Ice Baby, in case you aren't familiar with it.
Ice Ice, Baby by Vanilla Ice
Or if you prefer the original.
Under Pressure, by Queen
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I thoroughly enjoyed this! Thank you for posting. This could absolutely be used on Bill Nye! (Meant as a compliment --- I don't know your precise feelings about Bill Nye the Science Guy).
Love him.
I know this stuff already, so I don't watch his programs all the way through. But , still love him for putting science out there in a positive way to the general pop., especially in this anti-science age we find ourselves stuck in.
I didn't get too many votes, maybe too many science-y concepts that are put to rap. That's okay. Paleontology and rap are not the best combination. It just came to me one night, all I had to do was fill in the gaps and match the rhyme to the original lyrics.