You would not recognise Earth if you saw it 500 million years ago - the lands, oceans, climate and life were all very different. Around 130,000-110,000 years ago the Earth's climates were generally much like those of today, though somewhat warmer and moister in many regions. For a long time we thought there was little more stationary and stable than the Earth beneath us. 500 Millions of years ago 1 0 15. As the cold grew more severe, the Earth's climate also became drier because the global 'weather machine'. The Earth in 5,000 years would be a very different place because of climate change. 10,000 years ago. Glacial ice sheets likely reached all the way the equator producing a "Snowball Earth." Continents in collision pangea ultima what did the continents look like what will earth look like in 500 years humans look like in a million years meet supercontinent pangaea proxima in. 1 26. By contrast, evidence shows there have been at least five major ice ages on Planet Earth. 5 21. Time frame: Millions of years. The rearrangement of land masses on Earths crust can slowly shift the weathering thermostat to a new setting. Although the term Wilson Cycle is sometimes used for the opening and closing of oceans, there is no cycle. For most of the time, global temperatures appear to have been too warm (red portions of line) for persistent polar ice caps. In 2014, a supercomputer carried out the most accurate simulation of the human brain to date.In 1,000 years from now, computers are predicted to match and overtake the computational speed of the human brain and solve tasks that take a normal computer a decade to solve.. Now, humans are rapidly warming the climate again (5). 250 Million Years From Now The World Will Be Scientists now have a new map of the deep history of Earth. One of the most well-documented and largest, occurred from 850 to 630 million years ago, is called the Cryogenian period. Back 500 years ago, humanity was engaged in the Age of Exploration, seeding the far flung corners of the Earth with settlements galore. It will be entirely paved with Starbucks, several stories deep. It made me wake up and realise that the whole history of social planet Earth for the last 500 years is the diorama of the individual countries on Earth right now - the richest countries now were pretty unpleasant places back then, and that given the right conditions all countries now will follow a similar pattern. Things have changed so fast in the last 20 years that it might seem crazy to predict what things might look like in 200 years. Preliminary results from a Smithsonian Institution project led by Scott Wing and Brian Huber, showing Earth's average surface temperature over the past 500 million years. Magnitude: Roughly 30 degrees Celsius over the past 500 million years. But that's why we reached out to people who do this for a livingfuturists, tech experts, and forecasters who don't just think about what next year might bring, but macrotrends that are transforming the world around us over the long run. Learn about the Earth in 5,000 years. And at 500 million years, says Scotese, the fossil record also becomes less detailed. 7 32. There is no rhythmic predictability to plate motions. Astronomers Use Earth S Natural As To Spot.