Revision history of "Earth"

This is a list of past revisions of Earth. Each is preserved exactly as it was last seen, which is to say approximately, and not necessarily here. Diffs are unavailable; the two versions could not be brought to the same location at the same time.

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• cur | prev 2020 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (11,317 bytes) (+240) . . (→ Legacy: the one article every other in the encyclopedia is, in the end, a footnote to — measured, denied, flattened, halted, and stepped toward; round throughout, and now protected indefinitely) (current)
• cur | prev 20:53:05, 2 Aug 2019 a sysop (talk | contribs) . . (11,077 bytes) (+80) m . . (blocked MudGeometer_1844 indefinitely — seven edits in just under two minutes (WP:3RR, WP:NOTHERE). a genuine feat, in its way; though the original Mud Geometer, who held that the curve must be drawn by a man's own hand and would suffer no machine to do it, would have disowned the keyboard outright — see 1861)
• cur | prev 20:52:58, 2 Aug 2019 MudGeometer_1844 (talk | contribs) . . (10,997 bytes) (+17) . . (SHOW ME A ROUND AIR GRADIENTT)
• cur | prev 20:52:44, 2 Aug 2019 MudGeometer_1844 (talk | contribs) . . (10,980 bytes) (+50) . . (WE NEED DIVERGING HELIUM PLUMBS THAT CANT WORK GRAVITY HUH LOL)
• cur | prev 20:52:29, 2 Aug 2019 MudGeometer_1844 (talk | contribs) . . (10,930 bytes) (+18) . . (NO GLOBE DIRT HILL NO BALLS)
• cur | prev 20:52:13, 2 Aug 2019 MudGeometer_1844 (talk | contribs) . . (10,912 bytes) (+16) . . (DUMB GLOBER GLOBE)
• cur | prev 20:51:56, 2 Aug 2019 MudGeometer_1844 (talk | contribs) . . (10,896 bytes) (+16) . . (SHOW ME BALL CURVE IN A LAB)
• cur | prev 20:51:37, 2 Aug 2019 MudGeometer_1844 (talk | contribs) . . (10,880 bytes) (+35) . . (NEED CAM IS EARTH MOON IS SUN ON CAM)
• cur | prev 20:51:18, 2 Aug 2019 MudGeometer_1844 (talk | contribs) . . (10,845 bytes) (+25) . . (JEREMY WHY WAS I MUTED)
• cur | prev 08:30, 9 May 2018 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (10,820 bytes) (+130) . . (rv: a shadow, a chain of triangles, a hanging plumb-line, and a satellite agree to the decimal — and you are edit-warring with a bot, and losing. restored)
• cur | prev 11:52, 7 May 2018 geocentric_dan (talk | contribs) . . (10,690 bytes) (+40) . . (rv the bot; you are a bot, of course you would put the ball back, that is what a ball-bot does)
• cur | prev 11:46, 7 May 2018 ObscuriBot (talk | contribs) . . (10,650 bytes) (+45) m . . (rv geocentric_dan (possible vandalism); the water-telescope tests the aether, not the Earth's motion. report false positives on talk)
• cur | prev 11:40, 7 May 2018 geocentric_dan (talk | contribs) . . (10,605 bytes) (+50) . . (→ and it does not move either — see Airy's failure, even their own Astronomer Royal)
• cur | prev 11:02, 7 May 2018 level_seeker (talk | contribs) . . (10,555 bytes) (+70) . . (rm 'oblate spheroid'; it is flat, and the air is the round-earthers' excuse for the missing curve)
• cur | prev 14:00, 2 April 2016 a tired moderator (talk | contribs) . . (10,485 bytes) (+70) . . (→ talk: it's round, there are photographs from space, this was settled before your grandparents were born — could we please point this energy at one real problem)
• cur | prev 2015 99.92% of the species (talk | contribs) . . (10,415 bytes) (+60) . . (→ talk: FML, not this shit again, SMH)
• cur | prev 2015 do_your_research (talk | contribs) . . (10,355 bytes) (+45) . . (rv: CGI, all of it. i trust my own eyes, and my eyes say flat)
• cur | prev 2014 a round-earther (talk | contribs) . . (10,310 bytes) (+55) m . . (rv: it is round — photographs, circumnavigations, eclipses, time zones, gravity, the lot. take your pick)
• cur | prev 2014 F. Fome (talk | contribs) . . (10,255 bytes) (+75) . . (→ talk: a small correction, sir: CGI is Counterfeit Graphic Inserts — the term my ancestor C. Fome earned in 1769 for painting Saturn on a card and clipping it over his telescope. as the one family ever to have actually faked the heavens, we know a counterfeit from the genuine article, and these photographs are, regrettably, genuine)
• cur | prev 2014 do_your_research (talk | contribs) . . (10,180 bytes) (+60) . . (→ talk: did my own research. it's flat. the curve is an assumption and the photos from space are CGI)
• cur | prev 1995 the GPS constellation (talk | contribs) . . (10,120 bytes) (+90) . . (→ the page is now navigated by a ring of satellites that cannot work above a flat earth and would lose the time without Einstein's curve; the flat-earthers use them, without remark, to drive to the meetings)
• cur | prev 1990 Voyager 1 (talk | contribs) . . (10,030 bytes) (+110) . . (→ photographed the page from the edge of the solar system: the whole of it, and every argument ever held upon it, in a single pale dot less than a pixel across. the flat-earthers note that the dot is, technically, a disc)
• cur | prev 1972 Apollo 17 (talk | contribs) . . (9,920 bytes) (+120) . . (→ photographed the full disc, lit pole to pole — the Blue Marble: the whole round planet in one frame, and not an edge anywhere on it to fall off. the matter is, for most, now closed)
• cur | prev 1968 Apollo 8 (talk | contribs) . . (9,800 bytes) (+130) . . (→ rounded the Moon and watched the whole Earth rise over its edge — the entire page in a single window, blue and small and unsupported, exactly as Anaximander had it. the photograph is called Earthrise)
• cur | prev 1961 Y. Gagarin (talk | contribs) . . (9,670 bytes) (+80) . . (→ went up and looked: round, and blue, and no borders visible from here. confirmed the shape from the one vantage that had been missing, then came back down to it)
• cur | prev 1956 C. Patterson (talk | contribs) . . (9,590 bytes) (+100) . . (→ dated the page by the lead in its oldest rocks and meteorites: about 4.55 billion years. the rocks, it emerges, were not boasting — see the Archbishop, 1650)
• cur | prev 1946 a captured rocket (talk | contribs) . . (9,490 bytes) (+90) . . (→ first photograph of the page from above the air: a camera bolted to a captured rocket, a grainy curved horizon from sixty-five miles up. the curve is in the picture; the picture is black and white and mostly cloud)
• cur | prev 1933 a sysop (talk | contribs) . . (9,400 bytes) (+40) m . . ([page protected] persistent edit-warring over the shape of the planet; established editors only — take it to talk)
• cur | prev 1930 a committee (talk | contribs) . . (9,360 bytes) (+70) m . . (rv Miller; the drift tracked the temperature of his hut, not the aether. restored)
• cur | prev 1929 E. Hubble (talk | contribs) . . (9,290 bytes) (+110) . . (→ demoted the page again, and further: not the centre of the solar system, nor of the galaxy, and the galaxy the centre of nothing — one of a hundred billion, on no particular street, and all of them rushing apart)
• cur | prev 1925 D. Miller (talk | contribs) . . (9,180 bytes) (+80) m . . (→ talk: undone in part — my interferometer on Mount Wilson still feels a drift ~~~~)
• cur | prev 1919 A. Eddington (talk | contribs) . . (9,100 bytes) (+90) . . (→ confirmed the above at the eclipse: starlight bent around the sun by exactly the predicted amount. the light does decline to go straight after all — though for reasons Unlonn would not have cared for)
• cur | prev 1915 A. Einstein (talk | contribs) . . (9,010 bytes) (+150) . . (→ further to 1905: gravity is no force but the curvature of spacetime; the earth does not pull things down, it bends the space about it and they follow the bend. the flat-earthers may keep their flat ground — they will find the curve has merely moved into the space they are standing in)
• cur | prev 1910 N. Tesla (talk | contribs) . . (8,860 bytes) (+80) . . (→ restored the medium; the relativists have mislaid it, but the page swims in an aether, and I could light a lamp across a room to show you)
• cur | prev 1905 A. Einstein (talk | contribs) . . (8,780 bytes) (+200) . . (small edit, large consequence: there is no still medium to rest in; the motion is relative, the figure round, the aether struck as surplus)
• cur | prev 1895 H. Lorentz (talk | contribs) . . (8,580 bytes) (+80) . . (→ the page contracts along its line of motion through the aether by just enough to conceal that motion; I offer this with some embarrassment)
• cur | prev 1890 A. T. Jung (talk | contribs) . . (8,500 bytes) (+90) . . (→ the trouble is all in the lower air: it looms distant coasts up over the curve and stoops the ships beneath it. the figure is round; the horizon is merely theatrical)
• cur | prev 1887 the Concord (talk | contribs) . . (8,410 bytes) (−40) m . . (rv; the null at the apparatus confirms a still medium — the last edit recorded from this account)
• cur | prev 1885 E. Quartz (talk | contribs) . . (8,450 bytes) (+90) . . (→ the planet is borne through a still aether, and I shall demonstrate it at the apparatus; reverted, in advance, anyone minded to note that I did not return to report)
• cur | prev 1883 E. Mach (talk | contribs) . . (8,360 bytes) (+100) . . (→ is it the Earth that turns, or the heavens about it? no measurement can tell the two apart; I enter the question and decline the answer)
• cur | prev 1878 A. S. Sill (talk | contribs) . . (8,260 bytes) (+40) . . (→ talk: struck the word 'level' where it stood beside 'curved' — the horizontal does not slope, that is the whole of it. what shape the page is in consequence I do not here address, not yet being past the line)
• cur | prev 1876 a medievalist (talk | contribs) . . (8,220 bytes) (+70) . . (→ talk: for the record, before it sets as fact: no one in the Middle Ages held the page flat. that tale is being manufactured this very decade by men who wish to feel modern; the medievals had Aristotle, and kept the sphere)
• cur | prev 1873 J. C. Maxwell (talk | contribs) . . (8,150 bytes) (+110) . . (→ the aether, if it is there at all, is a medium with exact equations; the Earth moves through it or it is surplus. I will not halt the planet to spare it)
• cur | prev 1871 an editor of The Field (talk | contribs) . . (8,040 bytes) (+110) . . (restored Wallace; the verdict stands and is not, whatever the loser holds, a thing to be settled by post)
• cur | prev 1871 G. Airy (talk | contribs) . . (7,930 bytes) (+95) . . (→ filled a telescope with water to catch the Earth crossing the aether, and caught nothing — which is NOT, I must insist on this page, a finding that the Earth stands still)
• cur | prev 1870 J. Hampden (talk | contribs) . . (7,835 bytes) (+70) . . (rv; the referee is bought and I do not concede. I have also written, regrettably, to the contributor's wife)
• cur | prev 1870 A. R. Wallace (talk | contribs) . . (7,765 bytes) (+150) . . (rv Rowbotham; raise the sightline and the middle marker rides high above the ends — the curve is on the crosshairs)
• cur | prev 1865 L. Sheen (talk | contribs) . . (7,615 bytes) (+85) . . (rv to round — I hold the globe, of course, and have never once said otherwise; I note only that no one has yet shown me the curve, the bend, or anything but a level horizon)
• cur | prev 1865 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (7,530 bytes) (+80) . . (→ measured the horizon through the celestial theodolite from the hill; it reads level, and a level reading is a level world. the curve is the astronomers' assumption, not my instrument's)
• cur | prev 1862 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (7,450 bytes) (+65) . . (PUT IT BACK FLATT. WATER IS LEVEL. LEVEL MEEN FLATT. THAT IS THE HOLE MEANING OF THE WORD)
• cur | prev 1862 an astronomer (talk | contribs) . . (7,385 bytes) (+55) m . . (rv to round; the figure is measured, not hosted — and an open question at the Athenaeum is a closed one most everywhere else)
• cur | prev 1861 V. Reeve (talk | contribs) . . (7,330 bytes) (+70) m . . (→ declined to revert either way; moved the question to the Athenaeum, where the shape of the world is taken up Thursday through Thursday and settled never. poured the sherry, kept the peace, left it flat)
• cur | prev 1861 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (7,260 bytes) (+70) . . (TAKE THE BALL OFF. IT IS FLATT. I SEEN THE WATER AND IT DONT BEND, I LOOKD HARD)
• cur | prev 1860 a working man (talk | contribs) . . (7,190 bytes) (+65) . . (→ talk: gentlemen. it is round. it has been round the entire time you have been at this. there is cholera in the well and not one of you will dig another)
• cur | prev 1858 the Auk (talk | contribs) . . (7,125 bytes) (+60) . . (→ addressed at length the question of the figure; the reply ran to nine pages and arrived, on review, at no shape at all)
• cur | prev 1856 J. Grimble (talk | contribs) . . (7,065 bytes) (+75) . . (→ founded a Committee on the Figure and appointed myself its Chair, its Secretary, and its Quorum; the matter is now formally under review)
• cur | prev 1855 the Concord (talk | contribs) . . (6,990 bytes) (+100) . . (→ and it does not move: a fixed plane in a still aether. carried unanimously, there being no one admitted who might object)
• cur | prev 1854 the Athenaeum (talk | contribs) . . (6,890 bytes) (+70) . . (→ took up the figure across three evenings of discussion; minuted no conclusion and a notably good cold table)
• cur | prev 1852 H. Lorimer (talk | contribs) . . (6,820 bytes) (+90) . . (→ surveyed the firth and recovered the curvature exactly, to the inch; have since re-checked the figure nightly, uneasy at being right)
• cur | prev 1851 the Society (talk | contribs) . . (6,730 bytes) (+60) m . . (→ talk: carried, three members present, two of them Unlonn in different hats ~~~~)
• cur | prev 1851 L. Foucault (talk | contribs) . . (6,670 bytes) (+90) . . (→ hung a long pendulum in the Panthéon and let it swing; the floor turned beneath it through the day. the rotation of the earth, made plain to anyone who would stand and watch for an hour)
• cur | prev 1850 W. Cartwright (talk | contribs) . . (6,580 bytes) (+70) . . (→ engraved and set the article in type; corrected its spelling and left its cosmology, per house policy, exactly as the author insisted)
• cur | prev 1849 S. Rowbotham (talk | contribs) . . (6,510 bytes) (+130) . . (→ the Bedford Level: six miles of still water and no curve; the globe is the thing imposed on plain honest seeing)
• cur | prev 1845 H. Unlonn (talk | contribs) . . (6,380 bytes) (+150) . . (rv van Radewijn in PART; the planet is round and exactly where it ought to be — it is the LIGHT that declines. the geometry, Joost, is sound; the planet is not flat)
• cur | prev 1843 J. van Radewijn (talk | contribs) . . (6,230 bytes) (−200) . . (rm the circumference; one unit was misread at the outset, and the planet is a flat 180-degree plane of half the stated size)
• cur | prev 1822 J.-F. Champollion (talk | contribs) . . (6,430 bytes) (+85) . . (→ at last deciphered the page's oldest entries, three thousand years locked in hieroglyphs: the sky a goddess arched over a flat earth, the sun ferried across it by boat — and, on the celebrated stone that unlocked them, a decree relieving the priests of their taxes. the wisdom of the ancients, recovered in full)
• cur | prev 1816 a volcano in the Indies (talk | contribs) . . (6,345 bytes) (+100) . . (→ veiled the whole page in ash for a season; the summer of 1816 was cancelled and not, on appeal, restored)
• cur | prev 1799 H. LeSight (talk | contribs) . . (6,245 bytes) (+130) . . (→ triangulated the meridian to settle the metre; the figure trusted, the man not at all)
• cur | prev 1774 a clerk (talk | contribs) . . (6,115 bytes) (+140) . . (→ weighed it against a Scottish mountain at Schiehallion — about five and a half times water. round, and heavy)
• cur | prev 1769 Blaford Technetius (talk | contribs) . . (5,975 bytes) (−70) . . (→ lifted the contributor's eclipse off the front of the telescope: a painted card, the spares in his satchel. the shadow's curve was right — copied from the real Moon — and so the one true thing the man ever exhibited)
• cur | prev 1765 C. Fome (talk | contribs) . . (6,045 bytes) (+80) . . (→ showed a paying room the round earth's one nightly proof — the curved shadow it throws across the eclipsed Moon — through the great telescope, admirably steady, and, like all his skies, a painted card. the curve he had copied from life)
• cur | prev 1736 a man with rods in Lapland (talk | contribs) . . (5,965 bytes) (+90) m . . (→ took rods to the Arctic and to Peru to check; they agree with Newton, the thing bulges)
• cur | prev 1687 I. Newton (talk | contribs) . . (5,875 bytes) (+220) . . (the spin flattens it — an oblate spheroid, fatter at the equator. flattened at the POLES, the only flattening on this page that holds)
• cur | prev 1650 Archbishop Ussher (talk | contribs) . . (5,655 bytes) (+80) . . (→ corrected the creation date in the header from c. 4.568 Ga to the evening of 22 October 4004 BC; the discrepancy, some four and a half billion years, is set aside as the boasting of rocks)
• cur | prev 1633 the Holy Office (talk | contribs) . . (5,575 bytes) (+70) . . (rv Galilei; the motion and the figure of the earth are matters for Scripture, not for glasses. the contributor is invited to recant. he recants; the page, under its breath, goes on moving)
• cur | prev 1617 W. Snell (talk | contribs) . . (5,505 bytes) (+150) . . (→ re-measured by a chain of triangles between two Dutch towns; the figure stands, to the right order)
• cur | prev 1610 G. Galilei (talk | contribs) . . (5,355 bytes) (+120) . . (→ turned a glass on the heavens and reported the Earth keeps no privileged seat; was shown the instruments of the Inquisition and invited, with feeling, to revert)
• cur | prev 1609 J. Kepler (talk | contribs) . . (5,235 bytes) (+150) . . (rv Tycho's circles — the orbit is an ellipse; and kindly stop using my late employer's data to hold the Earth still)
• cur | prev 1600 the Holy Office (talk | contribs) . . (5,085 bytes) (+60) . . (burned G. Bruno for holding, among much else, that the stars are other suns with worlds of their own; the page is thereby not the centre, not unique, and not even rare — which is taken very badly)
• cur | prev 1588 Tycho Brahe (talk | contribs) . . (5,025 bytes) (+180) . . (compromise edit: the Earth stands still and everything ELSE goes round it and the Sun. pleases no party, which I call balance)
• cur | prev 1543 a cautious canon (talk | contribs) . . (4,845 bytes) (+70) m . . (→ talk: might we publish only once the author is safely dead? asking on his behalf ~~~~)
• cur | prev 1543 N. Copernicus (talk | contribs) . . (4,775 bytes) (+240) . . (moved it off the centre and set it spinning round the Sun; see talk, which is on fire)
• cur | prev 1522 Magellan's crew (talk | contribs) . . (4,535 bytes) (+110) . . (→ sailed clean around the page and came back to where we started, one day short on the calendar and entirely conclusive on the shape)
• cur | prev 1492 C. Columbus (talk | contribs) . . (4,425 bytes) (+110) . . (→ sailed west for Asia, underestimating the page by nearly a third; was saved from my own arithmetic only by an unscheduled continent in the way)
• cur | prev 1348 the Black Death (talk | contribs) . . (4,315 bytes) (−90) . . (rm perhaps a third of the editors; the survivors did not, on the whole, return to the talk page)
• cur | prev 1300 a peasant (talk | contribs) . . (4,405 bytes) (+60) . . (→ talk: the shape has been settled fifteen hundred years and the harvest is not in. might the learned gentlemen carry one sack between debates)
• cur | prev c. 830 AD the House of Wisdom (talk | contribs) . . (4,345 bytes) (+110) . . (→ re-measured a degree of the meridian on the plain of Sinjar; the figure confirmed, in Arabic, and kept safe in Baghdad while the western copies gathered dust)
• cur | prev c. 547 AD Cosmas Indicopleustes (talk | contribs) . . (4,235 bytes) (+90) . . (→ proved the earth a flat rectangle, twice as long as broad, modelled on the Tabernacle, roofed by a vaulted heaven, the sun ducking behind a great northern mountain by night; refuted the Greeks' sphere as pagan, impious, and altogether too clever)
• cur | prev c. 150 AD Ptolemy (talk | contribs) . . (4,145 bytes) (+200) . . (→ confirmed round, and placed at the centre of all things; the first of these kept, the second did not)
• cur | prev c. 30 AD an evangelist (talk | contribs) . . (3,945 bytes) (+70) . . (→ recorded a temptation upon a very high mountain, from which all the kingdoms of the world were shown at once — a vista the later flat-earthers cite with great satisfaction, the kingdoms of a round one declining to be visible together from anywhere)
• cur | prev c. 200 BC a tired surveyor (talk | contribs) . . (3,875 bytes) (+60) . . (→ talk: Eratosthenes measured it, it is round, the number is good. meanwhile the road is unbuilt and the river unbridged — perhaps we move on)
• cur | prev c. 240 BC Eratosthenes (talk | contribs) . . (3,815 bytes) (+120) m . . (→ method: the gnomon, the well, a camel's steady pace for the baseline; the rest is arithmetic)
• cur | prev c. 240 BC Eratosthenes (talk | contribs) . . (3,695 bytes) (+160) . . (→ measured the circumference from a shadow at Alexandria and a well at Syene — about 250,000 stadia, and round: the first number on the page anyone can check)
• cur | prev c. 350 BC Aristotle (talk | contribs) . . (3,535 bytes) (+130) . . (→ gave reasons the page is a sphere: the round shadow it casts on the Moon, the hull of a ship lost before its mast, new stars rising at new latitudes. evidence, for once, in place of taste)
• cur | prev c. 550 BC Anaximander (talk | contribs) . . (3,405 bytes) (+100) . . (→ proposed the Earth hangs free in the middle of things, held up by nothing and with no reason to fall one way over another; great alarm in the comments, no rebuttal offered)
• cur | prev c. 1000 BC a priest (talk | contribs) . . (3,305 bytes) (+80) . . (→ revealed the cosmos entire: a flat earth set on pillars, a solid dome above (the firmament) holding back the waters, windows in it for the rain, the sun and moon hung beneath. not measured but revealed — which places it, conveniently, beyond the reach of measurement)
• cur | prev c. 1500 BC Obed (talk | contribs) . . (3,225 bytes) (+90) . . (→ searched out the matter from the tower and cut the finding into stone — then into a thousand more, each confirming the one before, and the first confirming the last: a closed circle of proof, which I therefore enter as settled beyond dispute)
• cur | prev c. 2560 BC the pyramid-builders (talk | contribs) . . (3,135 bytes) (+90) . . (→ aligned a very large tomb to true north within a tenth of a degree, and declined, as is our custom, to set down by what method)
• cur | prev c. 3000 BC the first surveyors (talk | contribs) . . (3,045 bytes) (+60) m . . (→ someone paces out a field and notices the far edge will not sit where it ought; the dispute on this page begins here)
• cur | prev c. 4000 BC a rival elder (talk | contribs) . . (2,985 bytes) (+55) . . (→ corrected a neighbour: the sun is not drowned but passes behind the northern mountain and comes round by morning. the dish, the dome, and the lamp are otherwise sound and need no revision)
• cur | prev c. 6000 BC an elder, eloquent at last (talk | contribs) . . (2,930 bytes) (+70) . . (→ told the cosmos in full and in fair order: a flat dish of earth, a dome of sky resting on the mountains, the sun a lamp hauled across by day and drowned in the western sea by night, relit each dawn from a store kept for the purpose. the account is complete; nothing remains to explain)
• cur | prev c. 8000 BC the first farmers (talk | contribs) . . (2,860 bytes) (+110) . . (→ took up agriculture and, with it, the property line — the first edge of the page anyone thought to insist upon, and the beginning of all the trouble)
• cur | prev c. 11 ka a nomad of the other line (talk | contribs) . . (2,750 bytes) (+50) . . (rv; walked the opposite way and the sea bent down and away at the end of it. you walked badly, or not far enough)
• cur | prev c. 12 ka a nomad (talk | contribs) . . (2,700 bytes) (+65) . . (→ walked two summers in one line; flat the whole way and no edge reached. the world is large and, on the evidence of my feet, flat)
• cur | prev c. 30 ka a hungry hunter (talk | contribs) . . (2,635 bytes) (+55) . . (→ talk: round, flat, riding an animal, I do not care — winter is close, nobody has gathered, and you are all in the cave painting. could we work on dinner please?)
• cur | prev c. 33 ka a cave-painter (talk | contribs) . . (2,580 bytes) (+20) m . . (rv your animal; no one has seen it, and the wall is flat. that settles it)
• cur | prev c. 35 ka the next valley (talk | contribs) . . (2,560 bytes) (+55) . . (rv; the world rides on the back of a very large animal, which we do not paint and will not name)
• cur | prev c. 40 ka a cave-painter (talk | contribs) . . (2,505 bytes) (+60) . . (→ painted the world on the wall; flat, the wall being flat and to hand. the bison came out better)
• cur | prev c. 120 ka an elder of the band (talk | contribs) . . (2,445 bytes) (+70) . . (→ the world is wide, and then there is an edge, and past the edge you fall; the children are not to go near the edge)
• cur | prev c. 300 ka Homo sapiens (talk | contribs) . . (2,375 bytes) (+120) . . (→ stood up. looked far. began, for the first time, to wonder the shape — not to shout it)
• cur | prev c. 400 ka an elder (talk | contribs) . . (2,255 bytes) (+50) . . (IF ROUND, WATER FALL OFF THE BOTTOM. WATER STIL HERE. SO: NOT ROUND)
• cur | prev c. 600 ka an early human (talk | contribs) . . (2,205 bytes) (+45) . . (HILLS YES. HOLES YES. BUT FLAT IN THE MIDDLE, MOSTLY. FLAT WIN)
• cur | prev c. 1.0 Ma an early human (talk | contribs) . . (2,160 bytes) (+40) . . (EDGE FAR. NOBODY WALK THAT FAR. NOBODY SEE IT FALL AWAY. SO — FLAT)
• cur | prev c. 1.4 Ma an ape, getting the hang of it (talk | contribs) . . (2,120 bytes) (+30) . . (rv. HILL IS FLAT GONE UP. UNDER IT, STIL FLAT)
• cur | prev c. 1.6 Ma a barely-speaking ape (talk | contribs) . . (2,090 bytes) (+22) m . . (rv. THAT A HILL. STIL FLAT)
• cur | prev c. 1.7 Ma another ape (talk | contribs) . . (2,068 bytes) (+28) . . (rv. NO. GROUND GO DOWN OVER THERE. UGH)
• cur | prev c. 1.8 Ma a barely-speaking ape (talk | contribs) . . (2,040 bytes) (+30) . . (UNGH. FUH— FLAT. UNGH)
• cur | prev c. 2.6 Ma the Pleistocene ice (talk | contribs) . . (2,010 bytes) (+90) . . (→ ice sheets advance and retreat on a loop; the page proves unable to settle on a sea level)
• cur | prev c. 66 Ma an asteroid (talk | contribs) . . (1,920 bytes) (−60) . . (rm the non-avian dinosaurs — a ten-kilometre bolide at Chicxulub; my regards to the mammals, who may thank me in their own time)
• cur | prev c. 201 Ma the end-Triassic (talk | contribs) . . (1,980 bytes) (−40) m . . (rm a further large fraction; the dinosaurs inherit the page, largely by attrition)
• cur | prev c. 252 Ma the end-Permian (talk | contribs) . . (2,020 bytes) (−80) . . (rm some ninety per cent of marine species — the Great Dying; raised it on talk, where there was, as ever, no one)
• cur | prev c. 541 Ma the Cambrian (talk | contribs) . . (2,100 bytes) (+130) . . (→ the Cambrian explosion: wholly new body-plans appended at an unaccountable rate; the edit log spikes and has never been adequately explained)
• cur | prev c. 720 Ma Snowball Earth (talk | contribs) . . (1,970 bytes) (+120) . . (froze the page pole to pole, twice, and signed it 'Snowball Earth'; thawed each time by volcanoes no one could revert)
• cur | prev c. 2.4 Ga cyanobacteria (talk | contribs) . . (1,850 bytes) (+150) . . (→ began exhaling oxygen (see the Great Oxidation Event); roughly half the existing editors found the new air toxic and were not restored)
• cur | prev c. 3.7 Ga the first cells (talk | contribs) . . (1,700 bytes) (+140) . . (→ life, in the warm shallows: single-celled, anonymous, and already replicating faster than it can be reviewed)
• cur | prev c. 4.0 Ga the Late Heavy Bombardment (talk | contribs) . . (1,560 bytes) (+90) . . (rv large tracts to molten — sustained vandalism from the asteroid belt; semi-protection requested and ignored)
• cur | prev c. 4.4 Ga the first oceans (talk | contribs) . . (1,470 bytes) (+130) . . (→ cooled below boiling and condensed an ocean; the surface is now, between bombardments, no longer lava)
• cur | prev c. 4.51 Ga Theia (talk | contribs) . . (1,340 bytes) (+160) . . (merged a Mars-sized body into the page; the ejected debris has re-coalesced overhead as the Moon. apologies for any disruption)
• cur | prev c. 4.54 Ga accretion (talk | contribs) . . (1,180 bytes) (+180) . . (→ accreted from planetesimals into a molten sphere; surface presently uninhabitable, no further edits expected for an age)
• cur | prev c. 4.568 Ga the solar nebula (talk | contribs) . . (1,000 bytes) (+1000) . . (created page; condensed out of a collapsing cloud of gas and dust, third position out from a new star)

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