The Worst Time in History to Be Born as a Human

► Subscribe: https://goo.gl/r5jd1F Take a deep breath. Feel the air filling your lungs. Look out the window at the calm blue sky. It may seem as though it’s always been this way. You’re used to thinking of Earth as a perfect home, created especially for you. Cozy, safe, and stable. But this is the most dangerous illusion humanity believes. The truth is, that our existence is a statistical error. If the entire history of our planet were compressed into a single day, the period when living conditions were comfortable for humans wouldn’t take up an hour or even for a minute, but only the last three seconds. The rest of the time, Earth was not a cradle of life, but a completely alien, extreme, and undeniably terrifying world. Toxic acid oceans, molten glass raining from the sky, radiation that burns through skin in a matter of moments, and cold that turns air into ice. For most of its history, our planet tried to kill everything on it. So today we propose an experiment. Imagine that with a snap of your fingers, you vanish from your comfortable chair. No time machine. No guided tours or protective glass. Just you and the hostile environment. We will take nine trips into the past, from the birth of our planet to the ice age. Using modern scientific understanding and theoretical models of Earth’s past, we have simulated the most likely scenarios of what awaits you. At what point in Earth’s timeline would you be crushed by pressure? When would you become easy prey for giant insects from the distant past, capable of biting a human in half? And when would your brain deceive you with a false sense of safety just before you suffocate?