Mr. Reed - Deep Time

Dan Reed se graduó en Biología y Ciencias de la Tierra en la University of Wisconsin-River Falls y actualmente es profesor de Ciencias de la Tierra en el Friendly Hills Middle School (Mendota Heights, Minnesota). Además Mr. Reed, como le conocen sus alumnos, es un gran amante del arte y de la música y una de sus pasiones es crear parodias de canciones conocidas para darles un toque científico. Hoy traemos este homenaje a los trilobites a partir del tema "Dynamite" de Taio Cruz:

A continuación dejamos la letra que Reed escribió sobre la melodía de "Dynamite":

I came to date. 

Give evidence, tectonic plates.

Learn just how he met his fate. 

Don't like deep time? Try not to hate.

Deep time.

And it goes on and on and on...

I mean eon, eon, eon... 

We used to wonder when these things lived life.

Like, "I don't know. It's way too old." 

Radiometrics tell us when they died.

Now we know, two-fifty mil' ago.

Relatively date this rock.

It'll shed some light.

Index fossils talk.

Use this trilobite.

Because they went extinct.

Half-lives measured right.

Find that missing link.

Use this trilobite.

Now let's advance. 

Look back into Earth's deep time spans.

Evolution of birds and plants.

Deny the proof, I know you can't.

Deep time.

And it goes on and on and on...

I mean eon, eon, eon...

You can deny deep time if you choose.

You'll be alone, here's how we know.

Radioactive decay is what we use.

Atoms throw, a small neutrino. 

Relatively date this rock.

It'll shed some light.

Index fossils talk.

Use this trilobite.

Because they went extinct.

Half-lives measured right.

Find that missing link.

Use this trilobite.

For years they were so great.

But then quickly their shells were sinkin'.

How'd he meet his fate?

Volcanoes caused a mass extinction.

Cause I, I, I can see it. 

And I want you to see it too. 

Can you see it too?

Ecosystems got bad there.

Trilobites got rare.

There was ash in the air.

We used to wonder when these things lived life.

Now we know, two-fifty mil' ago.

Extinction's not always a part of life.

Don't be too slow, let's adapt yo'.

Relatively date this rock.

It'll shed some light.

Index fossils talk.

Use this trilobite.

Because they went extinct.

Half-lives measured right.

Find that missing link.

Use this trilobite.