Watch the entire history of the planet in under two minutes

Friday 02 November 2012 11:00 GMT

The 'blue marble' shot from Apollo 17

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Curious about the history of our planet, but quite busy today? Internet artists melodysheep have the solution. They've edited together various pieces of footage and some lovely music to create a visualisation of the entire history of our planet in under two minutes.

It's like 2001: A Space Odyssey meets that trippy scene from Terence Malik's A Tree of Life with a bit of David Attenborough's The Blue Planet documentary at the beginning.

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