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authorAndrew Cady <d@cryptonomic.net>2022-09-21 23:52:26 -0400
committerAndrew Cady <d@cryptonomic.net>2022-09-21 23:52:26 -0400
commita792d95b66a38da5778bcc3ad0ce6fd825adbb2c (patch)
tree4ed05bd1e1a74505ec5bcff212bf997345fdfea9
parent4b55341ea57977b93c716949c957a4cb3210e287 (diff)
move calendar events to separate file
-rw-r--r--CosmicCalendar.hs935
-rw-r--r--CosmicCalendarEvents.hs930
-rwxr-xr-xcountdown.hs13
-rw-r--r--package.yaml2
4 files changed, 946 insertions, 934 deletions
diff --git a/CosmicCalendar.hs b/CosmicCalendar.hs
index 5e7ef4a..bab94da 100644
--- a/CosmicCalendar.hs
+++ b/CosmicCalendar.hs
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ data CalendarEntry = CalendarEntry {
75currentYear :: Integer 75currentYear :: Integer
76currentYear = unsafePerformIO $ getZonedTime <&> toGregorian . localDay . zonedTimeToLocalTime <&> view _1 76currentYear = unsafePerformIO $ getZonedTime <&> toGregorian . localDay . zonedTimeToLocalTime <&> view _1
77 77
78theCalendar :: Map NominalDiffTime CalendarEntry
79theCalendar = Map.fromList $ map (\x -> (calBeginTime x, x)) theCalendarList
80
81years :: Rational -> NominalDiffTime 78years :: Rational -> NominalDiffTime
82years = (* lengthOfYear) . fromRational 79years = (* lengthOfYear) . fromRational
83 80
@@ -115,14 +112,16 @@ yearStart (LocalTime d _) = LocalTime d' t'
115localTimeToYearElapsed :: LocalTime -> NominalDiffTime 112localTimeToYearElapsed :: LocalTime -> NominalDiffTime
116localTimeToYearElapsed t = t `diffLocalTime` yearStart t 113localTimeToYearElapsed t = t `diffLocalTime` yearStart t
117 114
118getPreviousCalendarEntry :: LocalTime -> Maybe CalendarEntry 115getPreviousCalendarEntry :: Calendar -> LocalTime -> Maybe CalendarEntry
119getPreviousCalendarEntry (localTimeToYearElapsed -> t) = snd <$> Map.lookupLT t theCalendar 116getPreviousCalendarEntry cal (localTimeToYearElapsed -> t) = snd <$> Map.lookupLT t cal
117
118getCurrentCalendarEntry :: Calendar -> LocalTime -> Maybe CalendarEntry
119getCurrentCalendarEntry cal (localTimeToYearElapsed -> t) = snd <$> Map.lookupLE t cal
120 120
121getCurrentCalendarEntry :: LocalTime -> Maybe CalendarEntry 121type Calendar = Map NominalDiffTime CalendarEntry
122getCurrentCalendarEntry (localTimeToYearElapsed -> t) = snd <$> Map.lookupLE t theCalendar
123 122
124getNextCalendarEntry :: LocalTime -> Maybe CalendarEntry 123getNextCalendarEntry :: Calendar -> LocalTime -> Maybe CalendarEntry
125getNextCalendarEntry (localTimeToYearElapsed -> t) = snd <$> Map.lookupGT t theCalendar 124getNextCalendarEntry cal (localTimeToYearElapsed -> t) = snd <$> Map.lookupGT t cal
126 125
127unwrap :: CalendarEntry -> CalendarEntry 126unwrap :: CalendarEntry -> CalendarEntry
128unwrap x@CalendarEntry{..} = x { calDescription = unwrapText calDescription } 127unwrap x@CalendarEntry{..} = x { calDescription = unwrapText calDescription }
@@ -136,921 +135,3 @@ unwrap x@CalendarEntry{..} = x { calDescription = unwrapText calDescription }
136 shouldMerge "" _ = False 135 shouldMerge "" _ = False
137 shouldMerge _ "" = False 136 shouldMerge _ "" = False
138 shouldMerge _ _ = True 137 shouldMerge _ _ = True
139
140theCalendarList :: [CalendarEntry]
141theCalendarList = map unwrap
142 [
143 CalendarEntry 0 Nothing "The Big Bang" "The universe begins" "" "",
144 CalendarEntry (370 & thousandYears & afterBigBang)
145 Nothing
146 "Recombination"
147 "The universe becomes transparent"
148 recombinationDescription
149 recombinationReferences,
150 CalendarEntry (13.4 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
151 "The first observed star"
152 ""
153 "First Light Viewed Through the Rich Cluster Abell 2218"
154 "https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/~rse/firstlight/",
155 CalendarEntry (4.6 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
156 "Formation of the Sun"
157 "The formation of the solar system begins"
158 [text|
159 The formation of the Solar System began about 4.6 billion years ago with the
160 gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud.[1] Most
161 of the collapsing mass collected in the center, forming the Sun, while the
162 rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons,
163 asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed.
164 |]
165 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the_Solar_System",
166 CalendarEntry (4.54 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
167 "Formation of Earth"
168 ""
169 earthDescription
170 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth#Solar_System_formation",
171
172 CalendarEntry (2.6 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
173 "First Stone Tools"
174 "Mode I: The Oldowan Industry"
175 [text|
176 (Stones with sharp edges.)
177
178 The earliest known Oldowan tools yet found date from 2.6 million years ago,
179 during the Lower Palaeolithic period, and have been uncovered at Gona in
180 Ethiopia.[16] After this date, the Oldowan Industry subsequently spread
181 throughout much of Africa, although archaeologists are currently unsure
182 which Hominan species first developed them, with some speculating that it
183 was Australopithecus garhi, and others believing that it was in fact Homo
184 habilis.[17]
185
186 Homo habilis was the hominin who used the tools for most of the Oldowan in
187 Africa, but at about 1.9-1.8 million years ago Homo erectus inherited them.
188 The Industry flourished in southern and eastern Africa between 2.6 and 1.7
189 million years ago, but was also spread out of Africa and into Eurasia by
190 travelling bands of H. erectus, who took it as far east as Java by 1.8
191 million years ago and Northern China by 1.6 million years ago.
192 |]
193 "",
194
195 CalendarEntry (1.8 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
196 "First major transition in stone tool technology"
197 "Mode II: The Acheulean Industry"
198 [text|
199 From the Konso Formation of Ethiopia, Acheulean hand-axes are dated to about
200 1.5 million years ago using radiometric dating of deposits containing
201 volcanic ashes.[6] Acheulean tools in South Asia have also been found to be
202 dated as far as 1.5 million years ago.[7] However, the earliest accepted
203 examples of the Acheulean currently known come from the West Turkana region
204 of Kenya and were first described by a French-led archaeology team.[8] These
205 particular Acheulean tools were recently dated through the method of
206 magnetostratigraphy to about 1.76 million years ago, making them the oldest
207 not only in Africa but the world.[9] The earliest user of Acheulean tools
208 was Homo ergaster, who first appeared about 1.8 million years ago. Not all
209 researchers use this formal name, and instead prefer to call these users
210 early Homo erectus.[3]
211 |]
212 "",
213
214 CalendarEntry (160 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
215 "Second major transition in stone tool technology"
216 "Mode III: The Levallois technique; The Mousterian Industry"
217 [text|
218 (Stone scrapers, knives, and projectile points)
219
220 The technique is first found in the Lower Palaeolithic but is most commonly
221 associated with the Neanderthal Mousterian industries of the Middle
222 Palaeolithic. In the Levant, the Levallois technique was also used by
223 anatomically modern humans during the Middle Stone Age. In North Africa, the
224 Levallois technique was used in the Middle Stone Age, most notably in the
225 Aterian industry to produce very small projectile points. While Levallois
226 cores do display some variability in their platforms, their flake production
227 surfaces show remarkable uniformity. As the Levallois technique is
228 counterintuitive, teaching the process is necessary and thus language is a
229 prerequisite for such technology.[2]
230
231 The Mousterian (or Mode III) is a techno-complex (archaeological industry)
232 of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to
233 a lesser extent the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and
234 West Asia. The Mousterian largely defines the latter part of the Middle
235 Paleolithic, the middle of the West Eurasian Old Stone Age. It lasted
236 roughly from 160,000 to 40,000 BP. If its predecessor, known as Levallois or
237 Levallois-Mousterian, is included, the range is extended to as early as c.
238 300,000–200,000 BP.[2] The main following period is the Aurignacian (c.
239 43,000–28,000 BP) of Homo sapiens.
240 |]
241 "",
242
243 CalendarEntry (115 & thousandYearsAgo) (Just $ 11.7 & thousandYearsAgo)
244 "The Ice Age begins"
245 "The Last Glacial Period"
246 [text|
247 The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known colloquially as the last ice age
248 or simply ice age,[1] occurred from the end of the Eemian to the end of the
249 Younger Dryas, encompassing the period c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago. The
250 LGP is part of a larger sequence of glacial and interglacial periods known
251 as the Quaternary glaciation which started around 2,588,000 years ago and is
252 ongoing.[2] The definition of the Quaternary as beginning 2.58 million years
253 ago (Mya) is based on the formation of the Arctic ice cap. The Antarctic ice
254 sheet began to form earlier, at about 34 Mya, in the mid-Cenozoic
255 (Eocene–Oligocene extinction event). The term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used
256 to include this early phase.[3]
257 |]
258 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period",
259
260 CalendarEntry (50 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
261 "Third major transition in stone tool technology"
262 "Mode IV: The Aurignacian Industry"
263 [text|
264 The widespread use of long blades (rather than flakes) of the Upper
265 Palaeolithic Mode 4 industries appeared during the Upper Palaeolithic
266 between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, although blades were produced in small
267 quantities much earlier by Neanderthals.[20] The Aurignacian culture seems
268 to have been the first to rely largely on blades.[21] The use of blades
269 exponentially increases the efficiency of core usage compared to the
270 Levallois flake technique, which had a similar advantage over Acheulean
271 technology which was worked from cores.
272 |]
273 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool#Mode_IV:_The_Aurignacian_Industry",
274
275 CalendarEntry (35 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
276 "Last major transition in stone tool technology"
277 "Mode V: The Microlithic Industries"
278 [text|
279 Mode 5 stone tools involve the production of microliths, which were
280 used in composite tools, mainly fastened to a shaft.[22] Examples include
281 the Magdalenian culture. Such a technology makes much more efficient use of
282 available materials like flint, although required greater skill in
283 manufacturing the small flakes. Mounting sharp flint edges in a wood or bone
284 handle is the key innovation in microliths, essentially because the handle
285 gives the user protection against the flint and also improves leverage of
286 the device.
287 |]
288 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool#Mode_V:_The_Microlithic_Industries"
289 ,
290
291 CalendarEntry (12 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
292 "Agriculture leads to permanent settlements"
293 "Neolithic age (\"new stone age\")"
294 [text|
295 Wild grains were collected and eaten from at least 105,000 years ago.[2]
296 However, domestication did not occur until much later. The earliest evidence
297 of small-scale cultivation of edible grasses is from around 21,000 BC with
298 the Ohalo II people on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.[3] By around 9500
299 BC, the eight Neolithic founder crops – emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, hulled
300 barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chickpeas, and flax – were cultivated
301 in the Levant.[4] Rye may have been cultivated earlier, but this claim
302 remains controversial.[5] Rice was domesticated in China by 6200 BC[6] with
303 earliest known cultivation from 5700 BC, followed by mung, soy and azuki
304 beans. Rice was also independently domesticated in West Africa and
305 cultivated by 1000 BC.[7][8] Pigs were domesticated in Mesopotamia around
306 11,000 years ago, followed by sheep. Cattle were domesticated from the wild
307 aurochs in the areas of modern Turkey and India around 8500 BC. Camels were
308 domesticated late, perhaps around 3000 BC.
309 |]
310 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture",
311
312 CalendarEntry (6.5 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
313 "First copper tools"
314 ""
315 ""
316 "",
317
318 CalendarEntry (5.3 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
319 "First bronze tools, first written language"
320 "The Bronze Age"
321 ""
322 "",
323
324 CalendarEntry (3000 & yearsBeforeCommonEra) (Just $ 2350 & yearsBeforeCommonEra)
325 "Corded Ware culture"
326 "Indo-European languages spread across Europe and Asia"
327 [text|
328 The Corded Ware culture comprises a broad archaeological horizon of Europe
329 between ca. 3000 BCE – 2350 BCE, thus from the late Neolithic, through the
330 Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age.[2] Corded Ware culture
331 encompassed a vast area, from the contact zone between the Yamnaya culture
332 and the Corded Ware culture in south Central Europe, to the Rhine on the
333 west and the Volga in the east, occupying parts of Northern Europe, Central
334 Europe and Eastern Europe.[2][3] The Corded Ware culture is thought to have
335 originated from the westward migration of Yamnaya-related people from the
336 steppe-forest zone into the territory of late Neolithic European cultures
337 such as the Globular Amphora and Funnelbeaker cultures,[4][5][6] and is
338 considered to be a likely vector for the spread of many of the Indo-European
339 languages in Europe and Asia.[1][7][8][9]
340
341 Corded Ware encompassed most of continental northern Europe from the Rhine
342 on the west to the Volga in the east, including most of modern-day Germany,
343 the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Czech
344 Republic, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland, northwestern Romania,
345 northern Ukraine, and the European part of Russia, as well as coastal Norway
346 and the southern portions of Sweden and Finland.[2] In the Late
347 Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age, it encompassed the territory of nearly the
348 entire Balkan Peninsula, where Corded Ware mixed with other steppe
349 elements.[11]
350
351 Archaeologists note that Corded Ware was not a "unified culture," as Corded
352 Ware groups inhabiting a vast geographical area from the Rhine to Volga seem
353 to have regionally specific subsistence strategies and economies.[2]: 226 
354 There are differences in the material culture and in settlements and
355 society.[2] At the same time, they had several shared elements that are
356 characteristic of all Corded Ware groups, such as their burial practices,
357 pottery with "cord" decoration and unique stone-axes.[2]
358 |]
359 "",
360
361 CalendarEntry (2800 & yearsBeforeCommonEra) (Just $ 1800 & yearsBeforeCommonEra)
362 "Bell Beaker culture"
363 [text|
364 copper daggers, v-perforated buttons, stone wrist-guards
365 copper, bronze, and gold working
366 long-distance exchange networks, archery
367 social stratification and the emergence of regional elites
368 |]
369 [text|
370 The Bell Beaker culture (also described as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell
371 Beaker phenomenon) is an archaeological culture named after the
372 inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the
373 European Bronze Age. Arising from around 2800 BC, it lasted in Britain until
374 as late as 1800 BC[1][2] but in continental Europe only until 2300 BC, when
375 it was succeeded by the Unetice culture. The culture was widely dispersed
376 throughout Western Europe, being present in many regions of Iberia and
377 stretching eastward to the Danubian plains, and northward to the islands of
378 Great Britain and Ireland, and was also present in the islands of Sicily and
379 Sardinia and some small coastal areas in north-western Africa. The Bell
380 Beaker phenomenon shows substantial regional variation, and a study[3] from
381 2018 found that it was associated with genetically diverse populations.
382
383 In its mature phase, the Bell Beaker culture is understood as not only a
384 collection of characteristic artefact types, but a complex cultural
385 phenomenon involving metalwork in copper and gold, long-distance exchange
386 networks, archery, specific types of ornamentation, and (presumably) shared
387 ideological, cultural and religious ideas, as well as social stratification
388 and the emergence of regional elites.[6][7] A wide range of regional
389 diversity persists within the widespread late Beaker culture, particularly
390 in local burial styles (including incidences of cremation rather than
391 burial), housing styles, economic profile, and local ceramic wares
392 (Begleitkeramik). Nonetheless, according to Lemercier (2018) the mature
393 phase of the Beaker culture represents "the appearance of a kind of Bell
394 Beaker civilization of continental scale."[8]
395
396 Bell Beaker people took advantage of transport by sea and rivers, creating a
397 cultural spread extending from Ireland to the Carpathian Basin and south
398 along the Atlantic coast and along the Rhône valley to Portugal, North
399 Africa, and Sicily, even penetrating northern and central Italy.[50] Its
400 remains have been found in what is now Portugal, Spain, France (excluding
401 the central massif), Ireland and Great Britain, the Low Countries and
402 Germany between the Elbe and Rhine, with an extension along the upper Danube
403 into the Vienna Basin (Austria), Hungary and the Czech Republic, with
404 Mediterranean outposts on Sardinia and Sicily; there is less certain
405 evidence for direct penetration in the east.
406 |]
407 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Beaker_culture",
408
409 CalendarEntry (11.7 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
410 "Ice Age ends"
411 ""
412 ""
413 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period",
414
415 CalendarEntry (1600 & yearsBeforeCommonEra) Nothing
416 "Dynastic China"
417 "History begins"
418 [text|
419 The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as
420 early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), during the king
421 Wu Ding's reign
422
423 The state-sponsored Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project dated them from c.
424 1600 to 1046 BC based on the carbon 14 dates of the Erligang site.
425 |]
426 "",
427
428 CalendarEntry (theYear 1492) Nothing
429 "Columbus arrives in America"
430 ""
431 ""
432 "",
433
434 CalendarEntry (theYear 570) Nothing
435 "Muhammad born"
436 ""
437 ""
438 "",
439
440 CalendarEntry (480 & yearsBeforeCommonEra) Nothing
441 "Old Testament, Buddha"
442 ""
443 ""
444 "",
445
446 CalendarEntry (8.8 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
447 "Thin disk of the Milky Way Galaxy"
448 "Our galaxy begins to form"
449 [text|
450 The age of stars in the galactic thin disk has also been estimated using
451 nucleocosmochronology. Measurements of thin disk stars yield an estimate
452 that the thin disk formed 8.8 ± 1.7 billion years ago. These measurements
453 suggest there was a hiatus of almost 5 billion years between the formation
454 of the galactic halo and the thin disk.[253] Recent analysis of the chemical
455 signatures of thousands of stars suggests that stellar formation might have
456 dropped by an order of magnitude at the time of disk formation, 10 to 8
457 billion years ago, when interstellar gas was too hot to form new stars at
458 the same rate as before.[254]
459 |]
460 "",
461
462 CalendarEntry (3.4 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
463 "First photosynthetic bacteria"
464 "(Still no Oxygen)"
465 [text|
466 They absorbed near-infrared rather than visible light and produced sulfur or
467 sulfate compounds rather than oxygen. Their pigments (possibly
468 bacteriochlorophylls) were predecessors to chlorophyll.
469 |]
470 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
471
472 CalendarEntry (2.7 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
473 "Oxygen from photosynthesis"
474 "Cyanobacteria"
475 [text|
476 These ubiquitous bacteria were the first oxygen producers. They absorb
477 visible light using a mix of pigments: phycobilins, carotenoids and several
478 forms of chlorophyll.
479 |]
480 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
481
482 CalendarEntry (1.2 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
483 "Red and brown algae"
484 ""
485 [text|
486 These organisms have more complex cellular structures than bacteria do. Like
487 cyanobacteria, they contain phycobilin pigments as well as various forms of
488 chlorophyll.
489 |]
490 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
491
492 CalendarEntry (0.75 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
493 "Green algae"
494 ""
495 [text|
496 Green algae do better than red and brown algae in the strong light of
497 shallow water. They make do without phycobilins.
498 |]
499 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
500
501 CalendarEntry (0.475 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
502 "First land plants"
503 ""
504 [text|
505 Mosses and liverworts descended from green algae. Lacking vascular structure
506 (stems and roots) to pull water from the soil, they are unable to grow
507 tall.
508 |]
509 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
510
511 CalendarEntry (0.423 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
512 "Vascular plants"
513 ""
514 [text|
515 These are literally garden-variety plants, such as ferns, grasses, trees and
516 cacti. They are able to grow tall canopies to capture more light.
517 |]
518 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
519
520 CalendarEntry (2.05 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
521 "Eukaryotic cells"
522 "Cells with nucleus (inner membrane holding DNA)"
523 [text|
524 Eukaryotes (/juːˈkærioʊts, -əts/) are organisms whose cells have a nucleus
525 enclosed within a nuclear envelope.[1][2][3] They belong to the group of
526 organisms Eukaryota or Eukarya; their name comes from the Greek εὖ (eu,
527 "well" or "good") and κάρυον (karyon, "nut" or "kernel").[4] The domain
528 Eukaryota makes up one of the three domains of life; bacteria and archaea
529 (both prokaryotes) make up the other two domains.[5][6] The eukaryotes are
530 usually now regarded as having emerged in the Archaea or as a sister of the
531 Asgard archaea.[7][8] This implies that there are only two domains of life,
532 Bacteria and Archaea, with eukaryotes incorporated among archaea.[9][10]
533 Eukaryotes represent a small minority of the number of organisms;[11]
534 however, due to their generally much larger size, their collective global
535 biomass is estimated to be about equal to that of prokaryotes.[11]
536 Eukaryotes emerged approximately 2.3–1.8 billion years ago, during the
537 Proterozoic eon, likely as flagellated phagotrophs.[12][13]
538 |]
539 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote",
540
541 CalendarEntry (3.77 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
542 "Life on Earth"
543 ""
544 [text|
545 The earliest time for the origin of life on Earth is at least 3.77 billion
546 years ago, possibly as early as 4.28 billion years,[2] or even 4.41 billion
547 years[4][5]—not long after the oceans formed 4.5 billion years ago, and
548 after the formation of the Earth 4.54 billion years ago.[2][3][6][7]
549 |]
550 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms",
551
552 CalendarEntry (3.42 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
553 "Earliest known life on Earth"
554 ""
555 [text|
556 The earliest known life forms on Earth are putative fossilized
557 microorganisms found in hydrothermal vent precipitates, considered to be
558 about 3.42 billion years old.[1][2] The earliest time for the origin of life
559 on Earth is at least 3.77 billion years ago, possibly as early as 4.28
560 billion years,[2] or even 4.41 billion years[4][5]—not long after the oceans
561 formed 4.5 billion years ago, and after the formation of the Earth 4.54
562 billion years ago.[2][3][6][7] The earliest direct evidence of life on Earth
563 is from microfossils of microorganisms permineralized in
564 3.465-billion-year-old Australian Apex chert rocks.[8][9]
565 |]
566 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms",
567
568 CalendarEntry (750 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
569 "Bones and shells"
570 ""
571 [text|
572 A series of spectacularly preserved, 750-million-year-old fossils represent
573 the microscopic origins of biomineralization, or the ability to convert
574 minerals into hard, physical structures. This process is what makes bones,
575 shells, teeth and hair possible, literally shaping the animal kingdom and
576 even Earth itself.
577
578 The fossils were pried from ancient rock formations in Canada's Yukon by
579 earth scientists Francis Macdonald and Phoebe Cohen of Harvard University.
580 In a June Geology paper, they describe their findings as providing "a unique
581 window into the diversity of early eukaryotes."
582
583 Using molecular clocks and genetic trees to reverse-engineer evolutionary
584 histories, previous research placed the beginning of biomineralization at
585 about 750 million years ago. Around that time, the fossil record gets
586 suggestive, turning up vase-shaped amoebas with something like scales in
587 their cell walls, algae with cell walls possibly made from calcium carbonate
588 and sponge-like creatures with seemingly mineralized bodies.
589 |]
590 "https://www.wired.com/2011/06/first-shells/",
591
592 CalendarEntry (440 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
593 "Fish with jaws"
594 ""
595 [text|
596 Prehistoric armoured fishes called placoderms were the first fishes to have
597 jaws. They arose some time in the Silurian Period, about 440 million years
598 ago, to become the most abundant and diverse fishes of their day.
599
600 Placoderms dominated the oceans, rivers and lakes for some 80 million years,
601 before their sudden extinction around 359 million years ago. This is possibly
602 due to the depletion of trace elements in our oceans.
603 |]
604 "",
605
606 CalendarEntry (518 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
607 "Vertebrates"
608 "Animals with backbones"
609 [text|
610 Vertebrates (/ˈvɜːrtəbrɪts, -ˌbreɪts/)[3] comprise all animal taxa within
611 the subphylum Vertebrata (/ˌvɜːrtəˈbreɪtə/)[4] (chordates with backbones),
612 including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates
613 represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, with currently
614 about 69,963 species described.[5]
615 |]
616 "",
617
618 CalendarEntry (385 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
619 "Insects"
620 ""
621 [text|
622 Comprising up to 10 million living species, insects today can be found on
623 all seven continents and inhabit every terrestrial niche imaginable. But
624 according to the fossil record, they were scarce before about 325 million
625 years ago, outnumbered by their arthropod cousins the arachnids (spiders,
626 scorpions and mites) and myriapods (centipedes and millipedes).
627
628 The oldest confirmed insect fossil is that of a wingless, silverfish-like
629 creature that lived about 385 million years ago. It’s not until about 60
630 million years later, during a period of the Earth’s history known as the
631 Pennsylvanian, that insect fossils become abundant.
632 |]
633 "https://earth.stanford.edu/news/insects-took-when-they-evolved-wings",
634
635 CalendarEntry (368 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
636 "Amphibians"
637 ""
638 [text|
639 The earliest well-known amphibian, Ichthyostega, was found in Late Devonian
640 deposits in Greenland, dating back about 363 million years. The earliest
641 amphibian discovered to date is Elginerpeton, found in Late Devonian rocks
642 of Scotland dating to approximately 368 million years ago. The later
643 Paleozoic saw a great diversity of amphibians, ranging from small legless
644 swimming forms (Aistopoda) to bizarre "horned" forms (Nectridea). Other
645 Paleozoic amphibians more or less resembled salamanders outwardly but
646 differed in details of skeletal structure. Exactly how to classify these
647 fossils, and how they might be related to living amphibians, is still
648 debated by paleontologists. Shown at the right is Phlegethontia, an aistopod
649 from the Pennsylvanian.
650
651 The familiar frogs, toads, and salamanders have been present since at least
652 the Jurassic Period. (The fossil frog pictured to the left is much younger,
653 coming from the Eocene, only 45 to 55 million years ago). Fossil caecilians
654 are very rare; until recently the oldest known caecilians were Cenozoic in
655 age (that is, less than 65 million years old), but recent finds have pushed
656 back the ancestry of the legless caecilians to Jurassic ancestors that had
657 short legs. The rarity of fossil caecilians is probably due to their
658 burrowing habitat and reduced skeleton, both of which lessen the chances of
659 preservation.
660 |]
661 "https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/tetrapods/amphibfr.html",
662
663 CalendarEntry (320 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
664 "Reptiles"
665 ""
666 [text|
667 Reptiles, in the traditional sense of the term, are defined as animals that
668 have scales or scutes, lay land-based hard-shelled eggs, and possess
669 ectothermic metabolisms.
670
671 Though few reptiles today are apex predators, many examples of apex reptiles
672 have existed in the past. Reptiles have an extremely diverse evolutionary
673 history that has led to biological successes, such as dinosaurs, pterosaurs,
674 plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and ichthyosaurs.
675 |]
676 [text|
677 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_reptiles
678 https://www.thoughtco.com/the-first-reptiles-1093767
679 |],
680
681 CalendarEntry (335 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
682 "Pangea forms"
683 ""
684 [text|
685 Pangaea or Pangea (/pænˈdʒiː.ə/)[1] was a supercontinent that existed during
686 the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.[2] It assembled from the earlier
687 continental units of Gondwana, Euramerica and Siberia during the
688 Carboniferous approximately 335 million years ago, and began to break apart
689 about 200 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic and beginning of the
690 Jurassic.[3] In contrast to the present Earth and its distribution of
691 continental mass, Pangaea was centred on the Equator and surrounded by the
692 superocean Panthalassa and the Paleo-Tethys and subsequent Tethys Oceans.
693 Pangaea is the most recent supercontinent to have existed and the first to
694 be reconstructed by geologists.
695 |]
696 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea",
697
698 CalendarEntry (243 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
699 "Dinosaurs"
700 ""
701 [text|
702 For the past twenty years, Eoraptor has represented the beginning of the Age
703 of Dinosaurs. This controversial little creature–found in the roughly
704 231-million-year-old rock of Argentina–has often been cited as the earliest
705 known dinosaur. But Eoraptor has either just been stripped of that title, or
706 soon will be. A newly-described fossil found decades ago in Tanzania extends
707 the dawn of the dinosaurs more than 10 million years further back in time.
708
709 Named Nyasasaurus parringtoni, the roughly 243-million-year-old fossils
710 represent either the oldest known dinosaur or the closest known relative to
711 the earliest dinosaurs. The find was announced by University of Washington
712 paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt and colleagues in Biology Letters, and I
713 wrote a short news item about the discovery for Nature News. The paper
714 presents a significant find that is also a tribute to the work of Alan
715 Charig–who studied and named the animal, but never formally published a
716 description–but it isn’t just that. The recognition of Nyasasaurus right
717 near the base of the dinosaur family tree adds to a growing body of evidence
718 that the ancestors of dinosaurs proliferated in the wake of a catastrophic
719 mass extinction.
720 |]
721 [text|
722 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-discover-oldest-known-dinosaur-152807497/
723 |],
724
725 CalendarEntry (210 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
726 "Mammals"
727 ""
728 [text|
729 The earliest known mammals were the morganucodontids, tiny shrew-size
730 creatures that lived in the shadows of the dinosaurs 210 million years ago.
731 They were one of several different mammal lineages that emerged around that
732 time. All living mammals today, including us, descend from the one line that
733 survived.
734 |]
735 "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/rise-mammals",
736
737 CalendarEntry (150 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
738 "Birds"
739 ""
740 [text|
741 The first birds had sharp teeth, long bony tails and claws on their hands.
742 The clear distinction we see between living birds and other animals did not
743 exist with early birds. The first birds were in fact more like small
744 dinosaurs than they were like any bird today.
745
746 The earliest known (from fossils) bird is the 150-million-year-old
747 Archaeopteryx, but birds had evolved before then. A range of birds with more
748 advanced features appeared soon after Archaeopteryx. One group gave rise to
749 modern birds in the Late Cretaceous.
750 |]
751 "https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/the-first-birds/",
752
753 CalendarEntry (130 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
754 "Flowers"
755 ""
756 [text|
757 Today, plants with flowers--called angiosperms--dominate the landscape.
758 Around 80 percent of green plants alive today, from oak trees to grass, are
759 flowering plants. In all of these plants, flowers are part of the
760 reproductive system. But 130 million years ago, flowering plants were rare.
761 Most plants reproduced with spores, found today on ferns, or with seeds and
762 cones, found today on pine trees. The plant fossils found in Liaoning,
763 China, show evidence of plants with spores or seeds--and perhaps one of the
764 first flowering plants.
765
766 Researchers have found an ancient plant in Liaoning, Archaefructus, that has
767 very small, simple flowers and could be one of the first flowering plants.
768 Archaefructus lived around 130 million years ago and probably grew in or
769 near the water.
770 |]
771 "https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/liaoning-diorama/when-flowers-first-bloomed",
772
773 CalendarEntry (85 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
774 "Tyranosaurids"
775 "The Tyrant Lizards"
776 [text|
777 The name says it all. This group of huge carnivores must have tyrannically
778 ruled the land during the last part of the Cretaceous, 85 to 65 million
779 years ago. Short but deep jaws with banana-sized sharp teeth, long hind
780 limbs, small beady eyes, and tiny forelimbs (arms) typify a tyrannosaur. The
781 Tyrannosauridae included such similar animals (in rough order of increasing
782 size) as Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Tarbosaurus, and of
783 course Tyrannosaurus rex.
784
785 T. rex was one of the largest terrestrial carnivores of all time. It stood
786 approximately 15 feet high and was about 40 feet in length, roughly six tons
787 in weight. In its large mouth were six-inch long, sharp, serrated teeth.
788
789 Just about two dozen good specimens of these animals have been found and
790 these finds are from highly restricted areas in western North America. Henry
791 Fairfield Osborn, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York
792 City, first described Tyrannosaurus rex in 1905. This first specimen of
793 Tyrannosaurus is now on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in
794 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
795 |]
796 "",
797
798 CalendarEntry (445 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
799 "The first mass extinction"
800 "Fluctuating sea levels cause mass die-off of marine invertebrates"
801 [text|
802 The earliest known mass extinction, the Ordovician Extinction, took place at
803 a time when most of the life on Earth lived in its seas. Its major
804 casualties were marine invertebrates including brachiopods, trilobites,
805 bivalves and corals; many species from each of these groups went extinct
806 during this time. The cause of this extinction? It’s thought that the main
807 catalyst was the movement of the supercontinent Gondwana into Earth’s
808 southern hemisphere, which caused sea levels to rise and fall repeatedly
809 over a period of millions of years, eliminating habitats and species. The
810 onset of a late Ordovician ice age and changes in water chemistry may also
811 have been factors in this extinction.
812 |]
813 "https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions",
814
815 CalendarEntry (370 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
816 "Late Devonian Extinction"
817 "The Kellwasser Event and the Hangenberg Event combine to cause an enormous loss in biodiversity"
818 [text|
819 Given that it took place over a huge span of time—estimates range from
820 500,000 to 25 million years—it isn’t possible to point to a single cause for
821 the Devonian extinction, though some suggest that the amazing spread of
822 plant life on land during this time may have changed the environment in ways
823 that made life harder, and eventually impossible, for the species that died
824 out.
825
826 The brunt of this extinction was borne by marine invertebrates. As in the
827 Ordovician Extinction, many species of corals, trilobites, and brachiopods
828 vanished. Corals in particular were so hard hit that they were nearly wiped
829 out, and didn’t recover until the Mesozoic Era, nearly 120 million years
830 later. Not all vertebrate species were spared, however; the early bony
831 fishes known as placoderms met their end in this extinction.
832 |]
833 "https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions",
834
835 CalendarEntry (252 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
836 "The Great Dying"
837 "Mass extinction kills more than 95 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land-dwelling vertebrates"
838 [text|
839 So many species were wiped out by this mass extinction it took more than 10
840 million years to recover from the huge blow to global biodiversity. This
841 extinction is thought to be the result of a gradual change in climate,
842 followed by a sudden catastrophe. Causes including volcanic eruptions,
843 asteroid impacts, and a sudden release of greenhouse gasses from the
844 seafloor have been proposed, but the mechanism behind the Great Dying
845 remains a mystery.
846 |]
847 "https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions",
848
849 CalendarEntry (201 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
850 "Triassic-Jurassic Extinction"
851 "Death of more than a third of marine species and of most large amphibians"
852 [text|
853 This extinction occurred just a few millennia before the breakup of the
854 supercontinent of Pangaea. While its causes are not definitively
855 understood—researchers have suggested climate change, an asteroid impact, or
856 a spate of enormous volcanic eruptions as possible culprits—its effects are
857 indisputable.
858
859 More than a third of marine species vanished, as did most large amphibians
860 of the time, as well as many species related to crocodiles and dinosaurs.
861 |]
862 "https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions",
863
864 CalendarEntry (66 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
865 "Dinosaurs extinct"
866 "Mammals take over land & sea"
867 [text|
868 An asteroid more than 6 miles across strikes the Yucatan Peninsula,
869 triggering the fifth mass extinction in the world’s history.
870
871 Some of the debris thrown into the atmosphere returned to Earth, the
872 friction turning the air into an oven and sparking forest fires as it landed
873 all over the world. The intensity of the heat pulse gave way to a prolonged
874 impact winter, the sky blotted out by soot and ash as temperatures fell.
875
876 More than 75 percent of species known from the end of the Cretaceous period,
877 66 million years ago, didn’t make it to the following Paleogene period. The
878 geologic break between the two is called the K-Pg boundary, and beaked birds
879 were the only dinosaurs to survive the disaster.|]
880 [text|
881 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-birds-survived-and-dinosaurs-went-extinct-after-asteroid-hit-earth-180975801/,
882 https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions
883 |],
884
885 CalendarEntry (27.5 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
886 "Apes and monkeys split"
887 ""
888 [text|
889 Studies of clock-like mutations in primate DNA have indicated that the split
890 between apes and Old World monkeys occurred between 30 million and 25
891 million years ago.
892 |]
893 "https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127930",
894
895 CalendarEntry (12.1 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
896 "Humans and chimpanzees split"
897 ""
898 [text|
899 A 2016 study analyzed transitions at CpG sites in genome sequences, which
900 exhibit a more clocklike behavior than other substitutions, arriving at an
901 estimate for human and chimpanzee divergence time of 12.1 million years.[20]
902 |]
903 [text|
904 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee%E2%80%93human_last_common_ancestor
905 |],
906
907 CalendarEntry (4.4 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
908 "Humans first walk upright"
909 ""
910 [text|
911 The earliest hominid with the most extensive evidence for bipedalism is the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus.
912 |]
913 [text|
914 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/becoming-human-the-evolution-of-walking-upright-13837658/
915 |],
916
917 CalendarEntry (300 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
918 "Modern humans evolve"
919 ""
920 [text|
921 Among the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens are those found at the
922 Omo-Kibish I archaeological site in south-western Ethiopia, dating to about
923 233,000[2] to 196,000 years ago,[3] the Florisbad site in South Africa,
924 dating to about 259,000 years ago, and the Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco,
925 dated about 300,000 years ago.
926 |]
927 [text|
928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human
929 |],
930
931 CalendarEntry (100 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
932 "Human migration out of Africa"
933 ""
934 [text|
935 Between 70,000 and 100,000 years ago, Homo sapiens began migrating from the
936 African continent and populating parts of Europe and Asia. They reached the
937 Australian continent in canoes sometime between 35,000 and 65,000 years ago.
938
939 Map of the world showing the spread of Homo sapiens throughout the Earth
940 over time.
941 |]
942 [text|
943 https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/a/where-did-humans-come-from
944 |],
945
946 CalendarEntry (4.4 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
947 "Formation of the moon"
948 "A collision of the planet Theia with Earth creates the moon"
949 [text|
950 Astronomers think the collision between Earth and Theia happened at about
951 4.4 to 4.45 bya; about 0.1 billion years after the Solar System began to
952 form.[15][16] In astronomical terms, the impact would have been of moderate
953 velocity. Theia is thought to have struck Earth at an oblique angle when
954 Earth was nearly fully formed. Computer simulations of this "late-impact"
955 scenario suggest an initial impactor velocity at infinity below 4 kilometres
956 per second (2.5 mi/s), increasing as it fell to over 9.3 km/s (5.8 mi/s) at
957 impact, and an impact angle of about 45°.[17] However, oxygen isotope
958 abundance in lunar rock suggests "vigorous mixing" of Theia and Earth,
959 indicating a steep impact angle.[3][18] Theia's iron core would have sunk
960 into the young Earth's core, and most of Theia's mantle accreted onto
961 Earth's mantle. However, a significant portion of the mantle material from
962 both Theia and Earth would have been ejected into orbit around Earth (if
963 ejected with velocities between orbital velocity and escape velocity) or
964 into individual orbits around the Sun (if ejected at higher velocities).
965 Modelling[19] has hypothesised that material in orbit around Earth may have
966 accreted to form the Moon in three consecutive phases; accreting first from
967 the bodies initially present outside Earth's Roche limit, which acted to
968 confine the inner disk material within the Roche limit. The inner disk
969 slowly and viscously spread back out to Earth's Roche limit, pushing along
970 outer bodies via resonant interactions. After several tens of years, the
971 disk spread beyond the Roche limit, and started producing new objects that
972 continued the growth of the Moon, until the inner disk was depleted in mass
973 after several hundreds of years.
974 |]
975 [text|
976 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis#Basic_model
977 https://www.psi.edu/epo/moon/moon.html
978 |],
979
980 CalendarEntry (600 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
981 "Multicellular life"
982 ""
983 [text|
984 |]
985 ""
986 ]
987
988 where
989 theYear = yearsAgo . toRational . (currentYear -)
990 yearsBeforeCommonEra = yearsAgo . toRational . ((+) (currentYear - 1))
991 earthDescription = [text|
992 The standard model for the formation of the Solar System (including the
993 Earth) is the solar nebula hypothesis.[23] In this model, the Solar System
994 formed from a large, rotating cloud of interstellar dust and gas called the
995 solar nebula. It was composed of hydrogen and helium created shortly after
996 the Big Bang 13.8 Ga (billion years ago) and heavier elements ejected by
997 supernovae. About 4.5 Ga, the nebula began a contraction that may have been
998 triggered by the shock wave from a nearby supernova.[24] A shock wave would
999 have also made the nebula rotate. As the cloud began to accelerate, its
1000 angular momentum, gravity, and inertia flattened it into a protoplanetary
1001 disk perpendicular to its axis of rotation. Small perturbations due to
1002 collisions and the angular momentum of other large debris created the means
1003 by which kilometer-sized protoplanets began to form, orbiting the nebular
1004 center.[25]
1005
1006 The center of the nebula, not having much angular momentum, collapsed
1007 rapidly, the compression heating it until nuclear fusion of hydrogen into
1008 helium began. After more contraction, a T Tauri star ignited and evolved
1009 into the Sun. Meanwhile, in the outer part of the nebula gravity caused
1010 matter to condense around density perturbations and dust particles, and the
1011 rest of the protoplanetary disk began separating into rings. In a process
1012 known as runaway accretion, successively larger fragments of dust and debris
1013 clumped together to form planets.[25] Earth formed in this manner about 4.54
1014 billion years ago (with an uncertainty of 1%)[26][27][4] and was largely
1015 completed within 10–20 million years.[28] The solar wind of the newly formed
1016 T Tauri star cleared out most of the material in the disk that had not
1017 already condensed into larger bodies. The same process is expected to
1018 produce accretion disks around virtually all newly forming stars in the
1019 universe, some of which yield planets.[29]
1020 |]
1021 recombinationDescription = [text|
1022 At about 370,000 years,[3][4][5][6] neutral hydrogen atoms finish forming
1023 ("recombination"), and as a result the universe also became transparent for
1024 the first time. The newly formed atoms—mainly hydrogen and helium with
1025 traces of lithium—quickly reach their lowest energy state (ground state) by
1026 releasing photons ("photon decoupling"), and these photons can still be
1027 detected today as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This is the oldest
1028 direct observation we currently have of the universe.
1029 |]
1030 recombinationReferences = [text|
1031 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe#The_very_early_universe
1032
1033 3. Tanabashi, M. 2018, p. 358, chpt. 21.4.1: "Big-Bang Cosmology" (Revised
1034 September 2017) by Keith A. Olive and John A. Peacock.
1035
1036 4. Notes: Edward L. Wright's Javascript Cosmology Calculator (last modified
1037 23 July 2018). With a default H 0 {\displaystyle H_{0}} H_{0} = 69.6 (based
1038 on WMAP9+SPT+ACT+6dFGS+BOSS/DR11+H0/Riess) parameters, the calculated age of
1039 the universe with a redshift of z = 1100 is in agreement with Olive and
1040 Peacock (about 370,000 years).
1041
1042 5. Hinshaw, Weiland & Hill 2009. See PDF: page 45, Table 7, Age at
1043 decoupling, last column. Based on WMAP+BAO+SN parameters, the age of
1044 decoupling occurred 376971+3162−3167 years after the Big Bang.
1045
1046 6. Ryden 2006, pp. 194–195. "Without going into the details of the
1047 non-equilibrium physics, let's content ourselves by saying, in round
1048 numbers, zdec ≈ 1100, corresponding to a temperature Tdec ≈ 3000 K, when the
1049 age of the universe was tdec ≈ 350,000 yr in the Benchmark Model. (...) The
1050 relevant times of various events around the time of recombination are shown
1051 in Table 9.1. (...) Note that all these times are approximate, and are
1052 dependent on the cosmological model you choose. (I have chosen the Benchmark
1053 Model in calculating these numbers.)"
1054
1055 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombination_(cosmology)#cite_note-2
1056 |]
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1{-# OPTIONS_GHC -Wall #-}
2{-# language NoImplicitPrelude #-}
3{-# language OverloadedStrings #-}
4{-# language QuasiQuotes #-}
5
6module CosmicCalendarEvents where
7
8import Rebase.Prelude
9import NeatInterpolation
10import qualified Rebase.Data.Map.Strict as Map
11
12import CosmicCalendar
13
14theCalendar :: Map NominalDiffTime CalendarEntry
15theCalendar = Map.fromList $ map (\x -> (calBeginTime x, x)) $ map unwrap
16 [
17 CalendarEntry 0 Nothing "The Big Bang" "The universe begins" "" "",
18 CalendarEntry (370 & thousandYears & afterBigBang)
19 Nothing
20 "Recombination"
21 "The universe becomes transparent"
22 recombinationDescription
23 recombinationReferences,
24 CalendarEntry (13.4 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
25 "The first observed star"
26 ""
27 "First Light Viewed Through the Rich Cluster Abell 2218"
28 "https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/~rse/firstlight/",
29 CalendarEntry (4.6 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
30 "Formation of the Sun"
31 "The formation of the solar system begins"
32 [text|
33 The formation of the Solar System began about 4.6 billion years ago with the
34 gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud.[1] Most
35 of the collapsing mass collected in the center, forming the Sun, while the
36 rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons,
37 asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed.
38 |]
39 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the_Solar_System",
40 CalendarEntry (4.54 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
41 "Formation of Earth"
42 ""
43 earthDescription
44 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth#Solar_System_formation",
45
46 CalendarEntry (2.6 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
47 "First Stone Tools"
48 "Mode I: The Oldowan Industry"
49 [text|
50 (Stones with sharp edges.)
51
52 The earliest known Oldowan tools yet found date from 2.6 million years ago,
53 during the Lower Palaeolithic period, and have been uncovered at Gona in
54 Ethiopia.[16] After this date, the Oldowan Industry subsequently spread
55 throughout much of Africa, although archaeologists are currently unsure
56 which Hominan species first developed them, with some speculating that it
57 was Australopithecus garhi, and others believing that it was in fact Homo
58 habilis.[17]
59
60 Homo habilis was the hominin who used the tools for most of the Oldowan in
61 Africa, but at about 1.9-1.8 million years ago Homo erectus inherited them.
62 The Industry flourished in southern and eastern Africa between 2.6 and 1.7
63 million years ago, but was also spread out of Africa and into Eurasia by
64 travelling bands of H. erectus, who took it as far east as Java by 1.8
65 million years ago and Northern China by 1.6 million years ago.
66 |]
67 "",
68
69 CalendarEntry (1.8 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
70 "First major transition in stone tool technology"
71 "Mode II: The Acheulean Industry"
72 [text|
73 From the Konso Formation of Ethiopia, Acheulean hand-axes are dated to about
74 1.5 million years ago using radiometric dating of deposits containing
75 volcanic ashes.[6] Acheulean tools in South Asia have also been found to be
76 dated as far as 1.5 million years ago.[7] However, the earliest accepted
77 examples of the Acheulean currently known come from the West Turkana region
78 of Kenya and were first described by a French-led archaeology team.[8] These
79 particular Acheulean tools were recently dated through the method of
80 magnetostratigraphy to about 1.76 million years ago, making them the oldest
81 not only in Africa but the world.[9] The earliest user of Acheulean tools
82 was Homo ergaster, who first appeared about 1.8 million years ago. Not all
83 researchers use this formal name, and instead prefer to call these users
84 early Homo erectus.[3]
85 |]
86 "",
87
88 CalendarEntry (160 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
89 "Second major transition in stone tool technology"
90 "Mode III: The Levallois technique; The Mousterian Industry"
91 [text|
92 (Stone scrapers, knives, and projectile points)
93
94 The technique is first found in the Lower Palaeolithic but is most commonly
95 associated with the Neanderthal Mousterian industries of the Middle
96 Palaeolithic. In the Levant, the Levallois technique was also used by
97 anatomically modern humans during the Middle Stone Age. In North Africa, the
98 Levallois technique was used in the Middle Stone Age, most notably in the
99 Aterian industry to produce very small projectile points. While Levallois
100 cores do display some variability in their platforms, their flake production
101 surfaces show remarkable uniformity. As the Levallois technique is
102 counterintuitive, teaching the process is necessary and thus language is a
103 prerequisite for such technology.[2]
104
105 The Mousterian (or Mode III) is a techno-complex (archaeological industry)
106 of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to
107 a lesser extent the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and
108 West Asia. The Mousterian largely defines the latter part of the Middle
109 Paleolithic, the middle of the West Eurasian Old Stone Age. It lasted
110 roughly from 160,000 to 40,000 BP. If its predecessor, known as Levallois or
111 Levallois-Mousterian, is included, the range is extended to as early as c.
112 300,000–200,000 BP.[2] The main following period is the Aurignacian (c.
113 43,000–28,000 BP) of Homo sapiens.
114 |]
115 "",
116
117 CalendarEntry (115 & thousandYearsAgo) (Just $ 11.7 & thousandYearsAgo)
118 "The Ice Age begins"
119 "The Last Glacial Period"
120 [text|
121 The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known colloquially as the last ice age
122 or simply ice age,[1] occurred from the end of the Eemian to the end of the
123 Younger Dryas, encompassing the period c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago. The
124 LGP is part of a larger sequence of glacial and interglacial periods known
125 as the Quaternary glaciation which started around 2,588,000 years ago and is
126 ongoing.[2] The definition of the Quaternary as beginning 2.58 million years
127 ago (Mya) is based on the formation of the Arctic ice cap. The Antarctic ice
128 sheet began to form earlier, at about 34 Mya, in the mid-Cenozoic
129 (Eocene–Oligocene extinction event). The term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used
130 to include this early phase.[3]
131 |]
132 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period",
133
134 CalendarEntry (50 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
135 "Third major transition in stone tool technology"
136 "Mode IV: The Aurignacian Industry"
137 [text|
138 The widespread use of long blades (rather than flakes) of the Upper
139 Palaeolithic Mode 4 industries appeared during the Upper Palaeolithic
140 between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, although blades were produced in small
141 quantities much earlier by Neanderthals.[20] The Aurignacian culture seems
142 to have been the first to rely largely on blades.[21] The use of blades
143 exponentially increases the efficiency of core usage compared to the
144 Levallois flake technique, which had a similar advantage over Acheulean
145 technology which was worked from cores.
146 |]
147 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool#Mode_IV:_The_Aurignacian_Industry",
148
149 CalendarEntry (35 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
150 "Last major transition in stone tool technology"
151 "Mode V: The Microlithic Industries"
152 [text|
153 Mode 5 stone tools involve the production of microliths, which were
154 used in composite tools, mainly fastened to a shaft.[22] Examples include
155 the Magdalenian culture. Such a technology makes much more efficient use of
156 available materials like flint, although required greater skill in
157 manufacturing the small flakes. Mounting sharp flint edges in a wood or bone
158 handle is the key innovation in microliths, essentially because the handle
159 gives the user protection against the flint and also improves leverage of
160 the device.
161 |]
162 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool#Mode_V:_The_Microlithic_Industries"
163 ,
164
165 CalendarEntry (12 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
166 "Agriculture leads to permanent settlements"
167 "Neolithic age (\"new stone age\")"
168 [text|
169 Wild grains were collected and eaten from at least 105,000 years ago.[2]
170 However, domestication did not occur until much later. The earliest evidence
171 of small-scale cultivation of edible grasses is from around 21,000 BC with
172 the Ohalo II people on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.[3] By around 9500
173 BC, the eight Neolithic founder crops – emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, hulled
174 barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chickpeas, and flax – were cultivated
175 in the Levant.[4] Rye may have been cultivated earlier, but this claim
176 remains controversial.[5] Rice was domesticated in China by 6200 BC[6] with
177 earliest known cultivation from 5700 BC, followed by mung, soy and azuki
178 beans. Rice was also independently domesticated in West Africa and
179 cultivated by 1000 BC.[7][8] Pigs were domesticated in Mesopotamia around
180 11,000 years ago, followed by sheep. Cattle were domesticated from the wild
181 aurochs in the areas of modern Turkey and India around 8500 BC. Camels were
182 domesticated late, perhaps around 3000 BC.
183 |]
184 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture",
185
186 CalendarEntry (6.5 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
187 "First copper tools"
188 ""
189 ""
190 "",
191
192 CalendarEntry (5.3 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
193 "First bronze tools, first written language"
194 "The Bronze Age"
195 ""
196 "",
197
198 CalendarEntry (3000 & yearsBeforeCommonEra) (Just $ 2350 & yearsBeforeCommonEra)
199 "Corded Ware culture"
200 "Indo-European languages spread across Europe and Asia"
201 [text|
202 The Corded Ware culture comprises a broad archaeological horizon of Europe
203 between ca. 3000 BCE – 2350 BCE, thus from the late Neolithic, through the
204 Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age.[2] Corded Ware culture
205 encompassed a vast area, from the contact zone between the Yamnaya culture
206 and the Corded Ware culture in south Central Europe, to the Rhine on the
207 west and the Volga in the east, occupying parts of Northern Europe, Central
208 Europe and Eastern Europe.[2][3] The Corded Ware culture is thought to have
209 originated from the westward migration of Yamnaya-related people from the
210 steppe-forest zone into the territory of late Neolithic European cultures
211 such as the Globular Amphora and Funnelbeaker cultures,[4][5][6] and is
212 considered to be a likely vector for the spread of many of the Indo-European
213 languages in Europe and Asia.[1][7][8][9]
214
215 Corded Ware encompassed most of continental northern Europe from the Rhine
216 on the west to the Volga in the east, including most of modern-day Germany,
217 the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Czech
218 Republic, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland, northwestern Romania,
219 northern Ukraine, and the European part of Russia, as well as coastal Norway
220 and the southern portions of Sweden and Finland.[2] In the Late
221 Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age, it encompassed the territory of nearly the
222 entire Balkan Peninsula, where Corded Ware mixed with other steppe
223 elements.[11]
224
225 Archaeologists note that Corded Ware was not a "unified culture," as Corded
226 Ware groups inhabiting a vast geographical area from the Rhine to Volga seem
227 to have regionally specific subsistence strategies and economies.[2]: 226 
228 There are differences in the material culture and in settlements and
229 society.[2] At the same time, they had several shared elements that are
230 characteristic of all Corded Ware groups, such as their burial practices,
231 pottery with "cord" decoration and unique stone-axes.[2]
232 |]
233 "",
234
235 CalendarEntry (2800 & yearsBeforeCommonEra) (Just $ 1800 & yearsBeforeCommonEra)
236 "Bell Beaker culture"
237 [text|
238 copper daggers, v-perforated buttons, stone wrist-guards
239 copper, bronze, and gold working
240 long-distance exchange networks, archery
241 social stratification and the emergence of regional elites
242 |]
243 [text|
244 The Bell Beaker culture (also described as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell
245 Beaker phenomenon) is an archaeological culture named after the
246 inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the
247 European Bronze Age. Arising from around 2800 BC, it lasted in Britain until
248 as late as 1800 BC[1][2] but in continental Europe only until 2300 BC, when
249 it was succeeded by the Unetice culture. The culture was widely dispersed
250 throughout Western Europe, being present in many regions of Iberia and
251 stretching eastward to the Danubian plains, and northward to the islands of
252 Great Britain and Ireland, and was also present in the islands of Sicily and
253 Sardinia and some small coastal areas in north-western Africa. The Bell
254 Beaker phenomenon shows substantial regional variation, and a study[3] from
255 2018 found that it was associated with genetically diverse populations.
256
257 In its mature phase, the Bell Beaker culture is understood as not only a
258 collection of characteristic artefact types, but a complex cultural
259 phenomenon involving metalwork in copper and gold, long-distance exchange
260 networks, archery, specific types of ornamentation, and (presumably) shared
261 ideological, cultural and religious ideas, as well as social stratification
262 and the emergence of regional elites.[6][7] A wide range of regional
263 diversity persists within the widespread late Beaker culture, particularly
264 in local burial styles (including incidences of cremation rather than
265 burial), housing styles, economic profile, and local ceramic wares
266 (Begleitkeramik). Nonetheless, according to Lemercier (2018) the mature
267 phase of the Beaker culture represents "the appearance of a kind of Bell
268 Beaker civilization of continental scale."[8]
269
270 Bell Beaker people took advantage of transport by sea and rivers, creating a
271 cultural spread extending from Ireland to the Carpathian Basin and south
272 along the Atlantic coast and along the Rhône valley to Portugal, North
273 Africa, and Sicily, even penetrating northern and central Italy.[50] Its
274 remains have been found in what is now Portugal, Spain, France (excluding
275 the central massif), Ireland and Great Britain, the Low Countries and
276 Germany between the Elbe and Rhine, with an extension along the upper Danube
277 into the Vienna Basin (Austria), Hungary and the Czech Republic, with
278 Mediterranean outposts on Sardinia and Sicily; there is less certain
279 evidence for direct penetration in the east.
280 |]
281 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Beaker_culture",
282
283 CalendarEntry (11.7 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
284 "Ice Age ends"
285 ""
286 ""
287 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period",
288
289 CalendarEntry (1600 & yearsBeforeCommonEra) Nothing
290 "Dynastic China"
291 "History begins"
292 [text|
293 The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as
294 early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), during the king
295 Wu Ding's reign
296
297 The state-sponsored Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project dated them from c.
298 1600 to 1046 BC based on the carbon 14 dates of the Erligang site.
299 |]
300 "",
301
302 CalendarEntry (theYear 1492) Nothing
303 "Columbus arrives in America"
304 ""
305 ""
306 "",
307
308 CalendarEntry (theYear 570) Nothing
309 "Muhammad born"
310 ""
311 ""
312 "",
313
314 CalendarEntry (480 & yearsBeforeCommonEra) Nothing
315 "Old Testament, Buddha"
316 ""
317 ""
318 "",
319
320 CalendarEntry (8.8 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
321 "Thin disk of the Milky Way Galaxy"
322 "Our galaxy begins to form"
323 [text|
324 The age of stars in the galactic thin disk has also been estimated using
325 nucleocosmochronology. Measurements of thin disk stars yield an estimate
326 that the thin disk formed 8.8 ± 1.7 billion years ago. These measurements
327 suggest there was a hiatus of almost 5 billion years between the formation
328 of the galactic halo and the thin disk.[253] Recent analysis of the chemical
329 signatures of thousands of stars suggests that stellar formation might have
330 dropped by an order of magnitude at the time of disk formation, 10 to 8
331 billion years ago, when interstellar gas was too hot to form new stars at
332 the same rate as before.[254]
333 |]
334 "",
335
336 CalendarEntry (3.4 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
337 "First photosynthetic bacteria"
338 "(Still no Oxygen)"
339 [text|
340 They absorbed near-infrared rather than visible light and produced sulfur or
341 sulfate compounds rather than oxygen. Their pigments (possibly
342 bacteriochlorophylls) were predecessors to chlorophyll.
343 |]
344 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
345
346 CalendarEntry (2.7 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
347 "Oxygen from photosynthesis"
348 "Cyanobacteria"
349 [text|
350 These ubiquitous bacteria were the first oxygen producers. They absorb
351 visible light using a mix of pigments: phycobilins, carotenoids and several
352 forms of chlorophyll.
353 |]
354 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
355
356 CalendarEntry (1.2 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
357 "Red and brown algae"
358 ""
359 [text|
360 These organisms have more complex cellular structures than bacteria do. Like
361 cyanobacteria, they contain phycobilin pigments as well as various forms of
362 chlorophyll.
363 |]
364 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
365
366 CalendarEntry (0.75 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
367 "Green algae"
368 ""
369 [text|
370 Green algae do better than red and brown algae in the strong light of
371 shallow water. They make do without phycobilins.
372 |]
373 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
374
375 CalendarEntry (0.475 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
376 "First land plants"
377 ""
378 [text|
379 Mosses and liverworts descended from green algae. Lacking vascular structure
380 (stems and roots) to pull water from the soil, they are unable to grow
381 tall.
382 |]
383 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
384
385 CalendarEntry (0.423 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
386 "Vascular plants"
387 ""
388 [text|
389 These are literally garden-variety plants, such as ferns, grasses, trees and
390 cacti. They are able to grow tall canopies to capture more light.
391 |]
392 "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/",
393
394 CalendarEntry (2.05 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
395 "Eukaryotic cells"
396 "Cells with nucleus (inner membrane holding DNA)"
397 [text|
398 Eukaryotes (/juːˈkærioʊts, -əts/) are organisms whose cells have a nucleus
399 enclosed within a nuclear envelope.[1][2][3] They belong to the group of
400 organisms Eukaryota or Eukarya; their name comes from the Greek εὖ (eu,
401 "well" or "good") and κάρυον (karyon, "nut" or "kernel").[4] The domain
402 Eukaryota makes up one of the three domains of life; bacteria and archaea
403 (both prokaryotes) make up the other two domains.[5][6] The eukaryotes are
404 usually now regarded as having emerged in the Archaea or as a sister of the
405 Asgard archaea.[7][8] This implies that there are only two domains of life,
406 Bacteria and Archaea, with eukaryotes incorporated among archaea.[9][10]
407 Eukaryotes represent a small minority of the number of organisms;[11]
408 however, due to their generally much larger size, their collective global
409 biomass is estimated to be about equal to that of prokaryotes.[11]
410 Eukaryotes emerged approximately 2.3–1.8 billion years ago, during the
411 Proterozoic eon, likely as flagellated phagotrophs.[12][13]
412 |]
413 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote",
414
415 CalendarEntry (3.77 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
416 "Life on Earth"
417 ""
418 [text|
419 The earliest time for the origin of life on Earth is at least 3.77 billion
420 years ago, possibly as early as 4.28 billion years,[2] or even 4.41 billion
421 years[4][5]—not long after the oceans formed 4.5 billion years ago, and
422 after the formation of the Earth 4.54 billion years ago.[2][3][6][7]
423 |]
424 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms",
425
426 CalendarEntry (3.42 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
427 "Earliest known life on Earth"
428 ""
429 [text|
430 The earliest known life forms on Earth are putative fossilized
431 microorganisms found in hydrothermal vent precipitates, considered to be
432 about 3.42 billion years old.[1][2] The earliest time for the origin of life
433 on Earth is at least 3.77 billion years ago, possibly as early as 4.28
434 billion years,[2] or even 4.41 billion years[4][5]—not long after the oceans
435 formed 4.5 billion years ago, and after the formation of the Earth 4.54
436 billion years ago.[2][3][6][7] The earliest direct evidence of life on Earth
437 is from microfossils of microorganisms permineralized in
438 3.465-billion-year-old Australian Apex chert rocks.[8][9]
439 |]
440 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms",
441
442 CalendarEntry (750 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
443 "Bones and shells"
444 ""
445 [text|
446 A series of spectacularly preserved, 750-million-year-old fossils represent
447 the microscopic origins of biomineralization, or the ability to convert
448 minerals into hard, physical structures. This process is what makes bones,
449 shells, teeth and hair possible, literally shaping the animal kingdom and
450 even Earth itself.
451
452 The fossils were pried from ancient rock formations in Canada's Yukon by
453 earth scientists Francis Macdonald and Phoebe Cohen of Harvard University.
454 In a June Geology paper, they describe their findings as providing "a unique
455 window into the diversity of early eukaryotes."
456
457 Using molecular clocks and genetic trees to reverse-engineer evolutionary
458 histories, previous research placed the beginning of biomineralization at
459 about 750 million years ago. Around that time, the fossil record gets
460 suggestive, turning up vase-shaped amoebas with something like scales in
461 their cell walls, algae with cell walls possibly made from calcium carbonate
462 and sponge-like creatures with seemingly mineralized bodies.
463 |]
464 "https://www.wired.com/2011/06/first-shells/",
465
466 CalendarEntry (440 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
467 "Fish with jaws"
468 ""
469 [text|
470 Prehistoric armoured fishes called placoderms were the first fishes to have
471 jaws. They arose some time in the Silurian Period, about 440 million years
472 ago, to become the most abundant and diverse fishes of their day.
473
474 Placoderms dominated the oceans, rivers and lakes for some 80 million years,
475 before their sudden extinction around 359 million years ago. This is possibly
476 due to the depletion of trace elements in our oceans.
477 |]
478 "",
479
480 CalendarEntry (518 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
481 "Vertebrates"
482 "Animals with backbones"
483 [text|
484 Vertebrates (/ˈvɜːrtəbrɪts, -ˌbreɪts/)[3] comprise all animal taxa within
485 the subphylum Vertebrata (/ˌvɜːrtəˈbreɪtə/)[4] (chordates with backbones),
486 including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates
487 represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, with currently
488 about 69,963 species described.[5]
489 |]
490 "",
491
492 CalendarEntry (385 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
493 "Insects"
494 ""
495 [text|
496 Comprising up to 10 million living species, insects today can be found on
497 all seven continents and inhabit every terrestrial niche imaginable. But
498 according to the fossil record, they were scarce before about 325 million
499 years ago, outnumbered by their arthropod cousins the arachnids (spiders,
500 scorpions and mites) and myriapods (centipedes and millipedes).
501
502 The oldest confirmed insect fossil is that of a wingless, silverfish-like
503 creature that lived about 385 million years ago. It’s not until about 60
504 million years later, during a period of the Earth’s history known as the
505 Pennsylvanian, that insect fossils become abundant.
506 |]
507 "https://earth.stanford.edu/news/insects-took-when-they-evolved-wings",
508
509 CalendarEntry (368 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
510 "Amphibians"
511 ""
512 [text|
513 The earliest well-known amphibian, Ichthyostega, was found in Late Devonian
514 deposits in Greenland, dating back about 363 million years. The earliest
515 amphibian discovered to date is Elginerpeton, found in Late Devonian rocks
516 of Scotland dating to approximately 368 million years ago. The later
517 Paleozoic saw a great diversity of amphibians, ranging from small legless
518 swimming forms (Aistopoda) to bizarre "horned" forms (Nectridea). Other
519 Paleozoic amphibians more or less resembled salamanders outwardly but
520 differed in details of skeletal structure. Exactly how to classify these
521 fossils, and how they might be related to living amphibians, is still
522 debated by paleontologists. Shown at the right is Phlegethontia, an aistopod
523 from the Pennsylvanian.
524
525 The familiar frogs, toads, and salamanders have been present since at least
526 the Jurassic Period. (The fossil frog pictured to the left is much younger,
527 coming from the Eocene, only 45 to 55 million years ago). Fossil caecilians
528 are very rare; until recently the oldest known caecilians were Cenozoic in
529 age (that is, less than 65 million years old), but recent finds have pushed
530 back the ancestry of the legless caecilians to Jurassic ancestors that had
531 short legs. The rarity of fossil caecilians is probably due to their
532 burrowing habitat and reduced skeleton, both of which lessen the chances of
533 preservation.
534 |]
535 "https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/tetrapods/amphibfr.html",
536
537 CalendarEntry (320 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
538 "Reptiles"
539 ""
540 [text|
541 Reptiles, in the traditional sense of the term, are defined as animals that
542 have scales or scutes, lay land-based hard-shelled eggs, and possess
543 ectothermic metabolisms.
544
545 Though few reptiles today are apex predators, many examples of apex reptiles
546 have existed in the past. Reptiles have an extremely diverse evolutionary
547 history that has led to biological successes, such as dinosaurs, pterosaurs,
548 plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and ichthyosaurs.
549 |]
550 [text|
551 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_reptiles
552 https://www.thoughtco.com/the-first-reptiles-1093767
553 |],
554
555 CalendarEntry (335 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
556 "Pangea forms"
557 ""
558 [text|
559 Pangaea or Pangea (/pænˈdʒiː.ə/)[1] was a supercontinent that existed during
560 the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.[2] It assembled from the earlier
561 continental units of Gondwana, Euramerica and Siberia during the
562 Carboniferous approximately 335 million years ago, and began to break apart
563 about 200 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic and beginning of the
564 Jurassic.[3] In contrast to the present Earth and its distribution of
565 continental mass, Pangaea was centred on the Equator and surrounded by the
566 superocean Panthalassa and the Paleo-Tethys and subsequent Tethys Oceans.
567 Pangaea is the most recent supercontinent to have existed and the first to
568 be reconstructed by geologists.
569 |]
570 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea",
571
572 CalendarEntry (243 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
573 "Dinosaurs"
574 ""
575 [text|
576 For the past twenty years, Eoraptor has represented the beginning of the Age
577 of Dinosaurs. This controversial little creature–found in the roughly
578 231-million-year-old rock of Argentina–has often been cited as the earliest
579 known dinosaur. But Eoraptor has either just been stripped of that title, or
580 soon will be. A newly-described fossil found decades ago in Tanzania extends
581 the dawn of the dinosaurs more than 10 million years further back in time.
582
583 Named Nyasasaurus parringtoni, the roughly 243-million-year-old fossils
584 represent either the oldest known dinosaur or the closest known relative to
585 the earliest dinosaurs. The find was announced by University of Washington
586 paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt and colleagues in Biology Letters, and I
587 wrote a short news item about the discovery for Nature News. The paper
588 presents a significant find that is also a tribute to the work of Alan
589 Charig–who studied and named the animal, but never formally published a
590 description–but it isn’t just that. The recognition of Nyasasaurus right
591 near the base of the dinosaur family tree adds to a growing body of evidence
592 that the ancestors of dinosaurs proliferated in the wake of a catastrophic
593 mass extinction.
594 |]
595 [text|
596 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-discover-oldest-known-dinosaur-152807497/
597 |],
598
599 CalendarEntry (210 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
600 "Mammals"
601 ""
602 [text|
603 The earliest known mammals were the morganucodontids, tiny shrew-size
604 creatures that lived in the shadows of the dinosaurs 210 million years ago.
605 They were one of several different mammal lineages that emerged around that
606 time. All living mammals today, including us, descend from the one line that
607 survived.
608 |]
609 "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/rise-mammals",
610
611 CalendarEntry (150 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
612 "Birds"
613 ""
614 [text|
615 The first birds had sharp teeth, long bony tails and claws on their hands.
616 The clear distinction we see between living birds and other animals did not
617 exist with early birds. The first birds were in fact more like small
618 dinosaurs than they were like any bird today.
619
620 The earliest known (from fossils) bird is the 150-million-year-old
621 Archaeopteryx, but birds had evolved before then. A range of birds with more
622 advanced features appeared soon after Archaeopteryx. One group gave rise to
623 modern birds in the Late Cretaceous.
624 |]
625 "https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/the-first-birds/",
626
627 CalendarEntry (130 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
628 "Flowers"
629 ""
630 [text|
631 Today, plants with flowers--called angiosperms--dominate the landscape.
632 Around 80 percent of green plants alive today, from oak trees to grass, are
633 flowering plants. In all of these plants, flowers are part of the
634 reproductive system. But 130 million years ago, flowering plants were rare.
635 Most plants reproduced with spores, found today on ferns, or with seeds and
636 cones, found today on pine trees. The plant fossils found in Liaoning,
637 China, show evidence of plants with spores or seeds--and perhaps one of the
638 first flowering plants.
639
640 Researchers have found an ancient plant in Liaoning, Archaefructus, that has
641 very small, simple flowers and could be one of the first flowering plants.
642 Archaefructus lived around 130 million years ago and probably grew in or
643 near the water.
644 |]
645 "https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/liaoning-diorama/when-flowers-first-bloomed",
646
647 CalendarEntry (85 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
648 "Tyranosaurids"
649 "The Tyrant Lizards"
650 [text|
651 The name says it all. This group of huge carnivores must have tyrannically
652 ruled the land during the last part of the Cretaceous, 85 to 65 million
653 years ago. Short but deep jaws with banana-sized sharp teeth, long hind
654 limbs, small beady eyes, and tiny forelimbs (arms) typify a tyrannosaur. The
655 Tyrannosauridae included such similar animals (in rough order of increasing
656 size) as Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Tarbosaurus, and of
657 course Tyrannosaurus rex.
658
659 T. rex was one of the largest terrestrial carnivores of all time. It stood
660 approximately 15 feet high and was about 40 feet in length, roughly six tons
661 in weight. In its large mouth were six-inch long, sharp, serrated teeth.
662
663 Just about two dozen good specimens of these animals have been found and
664 these finds are from highly restricted areas in western North America. Henry
665 Fairfield Osborn, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York
666 City, first described Tyrannosaurus rex in 1905. This first specimen of
667 Tyrannosaurus is now on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in
668 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
669 |]
670 "",
671
672 CalendarEntry (445 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
673 "The first mass extinction"
674 "Fluctuating sea levels cause mass die-off of marine invertebrates"
675 [text|
676 The earliest known mass extinction, the Ordovician Extinction, took place at
677 a time when most of the life on Earth lived in its seas. Its major
678 casualties were marine invertebrates including brachiopods, trilobites,
679 bivalves and corals; many species from each of these groups went extinct
680 during this time. The cause of this extinction? It’s thought that the main
681 catalyst was the movement of the supercontinent Gondwana into Earth’s
682 southern hemisphere, which caused sea levels to rise and fall repeatedly
683 over a period of millions of years, eliminating habitats and species. The
684 onset of a late Ordovician ice age and changes in water chemistry may also
685 have been factors in this extinction.
686 |]
687 "https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions",
688
689 CalendarEntry (370 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
690 "Late Devonian Extinction"
691 "The Kellwasser Event and the Hangenberg Event combine to cause an enormous loss in biodiversity"
692 [text|
693 Given that it took place over a huge span of time—estimates range from
694 500,000 to 25 million years—it isn’t possible to point to a single cause for
695 the Devonian extinction, though some suggest that the amazing spread of
696 plant life on land during this time may have changed the environment in ways
697 that made life harder, and eventually impossible, for the species that died
698 out.
699
700 The brunt of this extinction was borne by marine invertebrates. As in the
701 Ordovician Extinction, many species of corals, trilobites, and brachiopods
702 vanished. Corals in particular were so hard hit that they were nearly wiped
703 out, and didn’t recover until the Mesozoic Era, nearly 120 million years
704 later. Not all vertebrate species were spared, however; the early bony
705 fishes known as placoderms met their end in this extinction.
706 |]
707 "https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions",
708
709 CalendarEntry (252 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
710 "The Great Dying"
711 "Mass extinction kills more than 95 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land-dwelling vertebrates"
712 [text|
713 So many species were wiped out by this mass extinction it took more than 10
714 million years to recover from the huge blow to global biodiversity. This
715 extinction is thought to be the result of a gradual change in climate,
716 followed by a sudden catastrophe. Causes including volcanic eruptions,
717 asteroid impacts, and a sudden release of greenhouse gasses from the
718 seafloor have been proposed, but the mechanism behind the Great Dying
719 remains a mystery.
720 |]
721 "https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions",
722
723 CalendarEntry (201 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
724 "Triassic-Jurassic Extinction"
725 "Death of more than a third of marine species and of most large amphibians"
726 [text|
727 This extinction occurred just a few millennia before the breakup of the
728 supercontinent of Pangaea. While its causes are not definitively
729 understood—researchers have suggested climate change, an asteroid impact, or
730 a spate of enormous volcanic eruptions as possible culprits—its effects are
731 indisputable.
732
733 More than a third of marine species vanished, as did most large amphibians
734 of the time, as well as many species related to crocodiles and dinosaurs.
735 |]
736 "https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions",
737
738 CalendarEntry (66 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
739 "Dinosaurs extinct"
740 "Mammals take over land & sea"
741 [text|
742 An asteroid more than 6 miles across strikes the Yucatan Peninsula,
743 triggering the fifth mass extinction in the world’s history.
744
745 Some of the debris thrown into the atmosphere returned to Earth, the
746 friction turning the air into an oven and sparking forest fires as it landed
747 all over the world. The intensity of the heat pulse gave way to a prolonged
748 impact winter, the sky blotted out by soot and ash as temperatures fell.
749
750 More than 75 percent of species known from the end of the Cretaceous period,
751 66 million years ago, didn’t make it to the following Paleogene period. The
752 geologic break between the two is called the K-Pg boundary, and beaked birds
753 were the only dinosaurs to survive the disaster.|]
754 [text|
755 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-birds-survived-and-dinosaurs-went-extinct-after-asteroid-hit-earth-180975801/,
756 https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions
757 |],
758
759 CalendarEntry (27.5 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
760 "Apes and monkeys split"
761 ""
762 [text|
763 Studies of clock-like mutations in primate DNA have indicated that the split
764 between apes and Old World monkeys occurred between 30 million and 25
765 million years ago.
766 |]
767 "https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127930",
768
769 CalendarEntry (12.1 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
770 "Humans and chimpanzees split"
771 ""
772 [text|
773 A 2016 study analyzed transitions at CpG sites in genome sequences, which
774 exhibit a more clocklike behavior than other substitutions, arriving at an
775 estimate for human and chimpanzee divergence time of 12.1 million years.[20]
776 |]
777 [text|
778 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee%E2%80%93human_last_common_ancestor
779 |],
780
781 CalendarEntry (4.4 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
782 "Humans first walk upright"
783 ""
784 [text|
785 The earliest hominid with the most extensive evidence for bipedalism is the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus.
786 |]
787 [text|
788 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/becoming-human-the-evolution-of-walking-upright-13837658/
789 |],
790
791 CalendarEntry (300 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
792 "Modern humans evolve"
793 ""
794 [text|
795 Among the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens are those found at the
796 Omo-Kibish I archaeological site in south-western Ethiopia, dating to about
797 233,000[2] to 196,000 years ago,[3] the Florisbad site in South Africa,
798 dating to about 259,000 years ago, and the Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco,
799 dated about 300,000 years ago.
800 |]
801 [text|
802 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human
803 |],
804
805 CalendarEntry (100 & thousandYearsAgo) Nothing
806 "Human migration out of Africa"
807 ""
808 [text|
809 Between 70,000 and 100,000 years ago, Homo sapiens began migrating from the
810 African continent and populating parts of Europe and Asia. They reached the
811 Australian continent in canoes sometime between 35,000 and 65,000 years ago.
812
813 Map of the world showing the spread of Homo sapiens throughout the Earth
814 over time.
815 |]
816 [text|
817 https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/a/where-did-humans-come-from
818 |],
819
820 CalendarEntry (4.4 & billionYearsAgo) Nothing
821 "Formation of the moon"
822 "A collision of the planet Theia with Earth creates the moon"
823 [text|
824 Astronomers think the collision between Earth and Theia happened at about
825 4.4 to 4.45 bya; about 0.1 billion years after the Solar System began to
826 form.[15][16] In astronomical terms, the impact would have been of moderate
827 velocity. Theia is thought to have struck Earth at an oblique angle when
828 Earth was nearly fully formed. Computer simulations of this "late-impact"
829 scenario suggest an initial impactor velocity at infinity below 4 kilometres
830 per second (2.5 mi/s), increasing as it fell to over 9.3 km/s (5.8 mi/s) at
831 impact, and an impact angle of about 45°.[17] However, oxygen isotope
832 abundance in lunar rock suggests "vigorous mixing" of Theia and Earth,
833 indicating a steep impact angle.[3][18] Theia's iron core would have sunk
834 into the young Earth's core, and most of Theia's mantle accreted onto
835 Earth's mantle. However, a significant portion of the mantle material from
836 both Theia and Earth would have been ejected into orbit around Earth (if
837 ejected with velocities between orbital velocity and escape velocity) or
838 into individual orbits around the Sun (if ejected at higher velocities).
839 Modelling[19] has hypothesised that material in orbit around Earth may have
840 accreted to form the Moon in three consecutive phases; accreting first from
841 the bodies initially present outside Earth's Roche limit, which acted to
842 confine the inner disk material within the Roche limit. The inner disk
843 slowly and viscously spread back out to Earth's Roche limit, pushing along
844 outer bodies via resonant interactions. After several tens of years, the
845 disk spread beyond the Roche limit, and started producing new objects that
846 continued the growth of the Moon, until the inner disk was depleted in mass
847 after several hundreds of years.
848 |]
849 [text|
850 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis#Basic_model
851 https://www.psi.edu/epo/moon/moon.html
852 |],
853
854 CalendarEntry (600 & millionYearsAgo) Nothing
855 "Multicellular life"
856 ""
857 [text|
858 |]
859 ""
860 ]
861
862 where
863 theYear = yearsAgo . toRational . (currentYear -)
864 yearsBeforeCommonEra = yearsAgo . toRational . ((+) (currentYear - 1))
865 earthDescription = [text|
866 The standard model for the formation of the Solar System (including the
867 Earth) is the solar nebula hypothesis.[23] In this model, the Solar System
868 formed from a large, rotating cloud of interstellar dust and gas called the
869 solar nebula. It was composed of hydrogen and helium created shortly after
870 the Big Bang 13.8 Ga (billion years ago) and heavier elements ejected by
871 supernovae. About 4.5 Ga, the nebula began a contraction that may have been
872 triggered by the shock wave from a nearby supernova.[24] A shock wave would
873 have also made the nebula rotate. As the cloud began to accelerate, its
874 angular momentum, gravity, and inertia flattened it into a protoplanetary
875 disk perpendicular to its axis of rotation. Small perturbations due to
876 collisions and the angular momentum of other large debris created the means
877 by which kilometer-sized protoplanets began to form, orbiting the nebular
878 center.[25]
879
880 The center of the nebula, not having much angular momentum, collapsed
881 rapidly, the compression heating it until nuclear fusion of hydrogen into
882 helium began. After more contraction, a T Tauri star ignited and evolved
883 into the Sun. Meanwhile, in the outer part of the nebula gravity caused
884 matter to condense around density perturbations and dust particles, and the
885 rest of the protoplanetary disk began separating into rings. In a process
886 known as runaway accretion, successively larger fragments of dust and debris
887 clumped together to form planets.[25] Earth formed in this manner about 4.54
888 billion years ago (with an uncertainty of 1%)[26][27][4] and was largely
889 completed within 10–20 million years.[28] The solar wind of the newly formed
890 T Tauri star cleared out most of the material in the disk that had not
891 already condensed into larger bodies. The same process is expected to
892 produce accretion disks around virtually all newly forming stars in the
893 universe, some of which yield planets.[29]
894 |]
895 recombinationDescription = [text|
896 At about 370,000 years,[3][4][5][6] neutral hydrogen atoms finish forming
897 ("recombination"), and as a result the universe also became transparent for
898 the first time. The newly formed atoms—mainly hydrogen and helium with
899 traces of lithium—quickly reach their lowest energy state (ground state) by
900 releasing photons ("photon decoupling"), and these photons can still be
901 detected today as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This is the oldest
902 direct observation we currently have of the universe.
903 |]
904 recombinationReferences = [text|
905 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe#The_very_early_universe
906
907 3. Tanabashi, M. 2018, p. 358, chpt. 21.4.1: "Big-Bang Cosmology" (Revised
908 September 2017) by Keith A. Olive and John A. Peacock.
909
910 4. Notes: Edward L. Wright's Javascript Cosmology Calculator (last modified
911 23 July 2018). With a default H 0 {\displaystyle H_{0}} H_{0} = 69.6 (based
912 on WMAP9+SPT+ACT+6dFGS+BOSS/DR11+H0/Riess) parameters, the calculated age of
913 the universe with a redshift of z = 1100 is in agreement with Olive and
914 Peacock (about 370,000 years).
915
916 5. Hinshaw, Weiland & Hill 2009. See PDF: page 45, Table 7, Age at
917 decoupling, last column. Based on WMAP+BAO+SN parameters, the age of
918 decoupling occurred 376971+3162−3167 years after the Big Bang.
919
920 6. Ryden 2006, pp. 194–195. "Without going into the details of the
921 non-equilibrium physics, let's content ourselves by saying, in round
922 numbers, zdec ≈ 1100, corresponding to a temperature Tdec ≈ 3000 K, when the
923 age of the universe was tdec ≈ 350,000 yr in the Benchmark Model. (...) The
924 relevant times of various events around the time of recombination are shown
925 in Table 9.1. (...) Note that all these times are approximate, and are
926 dependent on the cosmological model you choose. (I have chosen the Benchmark
927 Model in calculating these numbers.)"
928
929 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombination_(cosmology)#cite_note-2
930 |]
diff --git a/countdown.hs b/countdown.hs
index 5a5d718..b64b685 100755
--- a/countdown.hs
+++ b/countdown.hs
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ import Brick.Widgets.Core
64import Brick.Widgets.Table 64import Brick.Widgets.Table
65 65
66import CosmicCalendar 66import CosmicCalendar
67import CosmicCalendarEvents
67 68
68data CustomEvent = TimeChanged ZonedTime deriving Show 69data CustomEvent = TimeChanged ZonedTime deriving Show
69 70
@@ -238,12 +239,12 @@ countdownWidget showConversion isSimulated t =
238 -- If it's a stage, we want to say how long it lasts; how long since it started, and how long until it ends 239 -- If it's a stage, we want to say how long it lasts; how long since it started, and how long until it ends
239 240
240 currentEntryIsCurrent = fromMaybe True $ do 241 currentEntryIsCurrent = fromMaybe True $ do
241 (LocalTime entryDay _) <- (`addLocalTime` yearStart t) . calBeginTime <$> getCurrentCalendarEntry t 242 (LocalTime entryDay _) <- (`addLocalTime` yearStart t) . calBeginTime <$> getCurrentCalendarEntry theCalendar t
242 let (LocalTime nowDay _) = t 243 let (LocalTime nowDay _) = t
243 return $ entryDay == nowDay 244 return $ entryDay == nowDay
244 currentEntry = fromMaybe (str "none") $ calendarWidget False <$> getCurrentCalendarEntry t 245 currentEntry = fromMaybe (str "none") $ calendarWidget False <$> getCurrentCalendarEntry theCalendar t
245 nextEntry = fromMaybe (str "none") $ calendarWidget False <$> getNextCalendarEntry t 246 nextEntry = fromMaybe (str "none") $ calendarWidget False <$> getNextCalendarEntry theCalendar t
246 nextEntryShort = fmap (str "\n" <=>) (calendarWidget True <$> getNextCalendarEntry t) 247 nextEntryShort = fmap (str "\n" <=>) (calendarWidget True <$> getNextCalendarEntry theCalendar t)
247 248
248 calendarWidget short CalendarEntry{..} = box -- vBox [eventCountdown, str "\n", box] 249 calendarWidget short CalendarEntry{..} = box -- vBox [eventCountdown, str "\n", box]
249 where 250 where
@@ -394,12 +395,12 @@ isSimulatedTime :: St -> Bool
394isSimulatedTime st = st ^. stDisplayTime /= st ^. stClockTime 395isSimulatedTime st = st ^. stDisplayTime /= st ^. stClockTime
395 396
396nextCalendarEntryTime :: LocalTime -> LocalTime 397nextCalendarEntryTime :: LocalTime -> LocalTime
397nextCalendarEntryTime t = fromMaybe t $ getNextCalendarEntry t <&> (`addLocalTime` yearStart t) . calBeginTime 398nextCalendarEntryTime t = fromMaybe t $ getNextCalendarEntry theCalendar t <&> (`addLocalTime` yearStart t) . calBeginTime
398 399
399previousCalendarEntryTime :: LocalTime -> LocalTime 400previousCalendarEntryTime :: LocalTime -> LocalTime
400previousCalendarEntryTime t = fromMaybe t $ goBack t 401previousCalendarEntryTime t = fromMaybe t $ goBack t
401 where 402 where
402 goBack t = getPreviousCalendarEntry t <&> (`addLocalTime` yearStart t) . calBeginTime 403 goBack t = getPreviousCalendarEntry theCalendar t <&> (`addLocalTime` yearStart t) . calBeginTime
403 404
404handleEvent :: BChan CustomEvent -> St -> BrickEvent () CustomEvent -> EventM () (Next St) 405handleEvent :: BChan CustomEvent -> St -> BrickEvent () CustomEvent -> EventM () (Next St)
405handleEvent chan st e = 406handleEvent chan st e =
diff --git a/package.yaml b/package.yaml
index 6b9e489..0791194 100644
--- a/package.yaml
+++ b/package.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dependencies:
18executables: 18executables:
19 countdown: 19 countdown:
20 main: countdown.hs 20 main: countdown.hs
21 other-modules: CosmicCalendar 21 other-modules: CosmicCalendar, CosmicCalendarEvents
22 ghc-options: 22 ghc-options:
23 - -threaded 23 - -threaded
24 - -rtsopts 24 - -rtsopts