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BILLIONS
A billion is a thousand million.
A billion is nine zeros, 1000000000.
Billions means any amount of billion.
Things that can be described using billions are...
for example...
It is said that big bang the beginning of the universe occurred 15 billion years ago.
（According to the newest study, it is 13.8 billion years ago）
Whether it is true or not,
the age of the universe is more than 10 billion at least.
For example,
the earth was created 4.6 billion yeas ago.
Whoever saw the earth from space says...
this is a tiny blue planet but...
a precious oasis!
Do we live as authentic lives on such an irreplaceable planet?
For example,
human history is three thousand years old.
Compared with history of the universe, it is about nothing.
Even compared with earth's history, it is a moment.
What have we done at all in such a moment?
Do we know the worth of the moment?
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Big Bang 'Inflation' was going on the first 10-35 seconds. About a second later, electron, proton and neutron became common. About three minutes later, helium appeared in space that had only hydrogen. About three hundred thousand years later, light separated from matter and was released. |
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| 11300000000 | Space was expanding indifferently. Hydrogen atoms were gathered and became atomic clouds so as to be sources of stars. |
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| 11000000000 | the Birth of Nebulas Galaxies in Hubbell deep field |
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| 10900000000 | A quaker is also a very old galaxy in these era. | |
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| 9000000000 | The first star of the Milky Way was created. | |
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| 8200000000 | Galaxies collided and combined frequently. Spiral galaxies appeared. |
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| 8000000000 | MS1054-03, the group of galaxies | |
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| 4700000000 | The solar system began forming itself. | |
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4600000000 | the Birth of the Earth |
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4000000000 | Earth's crust and sea were created. Plate tectonics started. |
| 3900000000 | the First Living Thing | |
| 3800000000 | the oldest rock (a lava in Greenland) | |
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| 3500000000 | the oldest fossil of a living thing (in Western Australia) | |
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| 2700000000 | Terrestrial Magnetism Originated Living things that photosynthesize and produce oxygen gained ground to the shallow. 'stromatolite' |
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| 2600000000 | Oxygen in atmosphere began to increase. Hematite settled at the bottom of the sea. |
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| 2100000000 | 'eucaryota' appeared. | |
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| 1900000000 | a Super Continent Appeared River currents made a sandy beach. |
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| 1000000000 | Seawater began to pour into the mantle. The pacific super plume appeared. |
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| 900000000 | Multi-cellular beings appeared. | |
| 800000000 | Concentration of salt in the seawater was going higher. Seawater began to flow backward. |
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| 700000000 | 'ediacara' | |
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600000000 | Crustaceans appeared. 'trilobite' Oxygen increased rapidly in atmosphere. |
| 500000000 | 'graptolite', 'coral', 'cephalopoda', 'crinoid The ozone layer formed and life appeared on land. Vertebrates appeared. |
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| 400000000 | the Height of Fish's Prosperity 'bivalvia', '無顎類', 'chondrichthyes', 'fern' Amphibian and gymnosperm came to the fore. |
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300000000 | Super Anoxia Caused the Great Extinction Reptile came to the fore. |
| 200000000 | the Height of Dinosaur's Prosperity 'archaeopteryx', 'angiosperm' |
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| 100000000 | Dinosaurs were extinct and mammals came to the fore. |
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| present | Human | |
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| What human has principally done these three thousand years is killing each
other. Even now. Is it continuing from now on? |
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By the way, "the sun will expire in five billion years, and the universe will end in ten billion years" said authority. |
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Billions (drawn by Isao Hirasawa and published by Bungeisya) is now on sale at
nationwide bookstores in Japan. (B5 / deluxe edition / 220pages / 1500yen(tax extra)) It might be difficult to buy in some areas because of 2000 copies limited publication. If not over the counter, please ask the store to order a copy from publisher. Sorry it is Japanese version only so far, and if you are not in Japan, it is quite hopeless to get. However, I translated it to English and it has been already proofread by my American friend. Now, I am looking for the opportunity that it will be published in North America or other countries. Do you know the best way for it? |
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