Originally Posted by Jeff_O

I WISH I could find a YouTube of that thing I saw once many years ago- with the scientist in the Porsche driving 100 mph down a timeline of the Earth, etc.

It was the most effective demonstration I've ever seen for demonstrating the disconnect between "human" time and time on the scale of life on earth.

It's easy to think that say the Egyptians building pyramids, or cavemen in France, or (fill in the blank involving humans) were a long time ago. They were not. They were the merest hint of a blink of an eye ago.
Very true.