10⁹ Years; geological unit of time.
1Links: Did Andromeda crash into the Milky Way 10 billion years ago?
2In other words: It's hard to debug 3 billion years of evolution.
3More than two billion years ago, sand settled on the ocean floor.
4We've had like a stable amount for the last several billion years.
5And Earth will probably be habitable for another billion years or so.
6After all, life did perfectly well for three billion years without them.
7The Sun is a fairly young star, only five billion years old.
8A hint at what was to befall in a few billion years.
9For two billion years bacterial organisms were the only forms of life.
10Twenty million years feels short when it is half a billion years ago.
11Four billion years later people began to wonder how it had all happened.
12Estimates run from forty billion years to one hundred billion years.
13And four billion years ago, Earth was frequently struck by meteors.
14The company says fusion could eventually supply a billion years worth of electricity.
15Once, we were assured that it would take five billion years to happen.
16But rest assured, that won't happen for another six billion years or so.
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