Thanks to a blogger over at OpenSalon.com who recently wrote a clever satircal
post about how humans are the worst squatters in the universe (For Rent: One Planet), I was also tipped off to a fascinating little project posted online by students at the Worsley School in Canada.
I guess they have some long dark winters up there in northern Alberta, but whatever the impetus, the kids decided to plot the entire timeline of all Earth history on... {drumroll}.. a single roll of toilet paper.
Not surprisingly, it takes up to the last 10 squares to even get
to the dinosaurs. Then it takes up to the very last millimeter (these
are Canadians) to get to the first homo sapiens. And if you want to
zoom in on the period covered by our own recorded history (give that a
generous 10,000 years ago) you are now focused in on the last 1/10th of
1 millimeter of the last one of the 400 sheets. (Single or double ply
was not specified.)
But this is one of those times, when pictures say more than words. Click photo at left to see the whole roll, then hit the link at the end of this paragraph to see pics of the whole project, including instructions for how to roll your own if you or some kids want to try this closer to home: Worsley TP TImeline.
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