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L’étrange carte des plus grandes éruptions volcaniques de tous les temps.
This episode delves into the planet's most colossal volcanic eruptions over the last 250 million years, events of unparalleled duration, scale, and violence compared to anything witnessed in modern times. Although millions of years of erosion have obscured some traces, the monumental lava flows, known as "traps," still cover a significant portion of Earth's surface, making up nearly 10% of emerged land. These areas, marked in red on the global map, consist of several kilometers of dried lava. The scale of these ancient eruptions is extraordinary. To illustrate, the Laki eruption in Iceland in the late 18th century, one of the most violent in recent millennia, expelled 15 cubic kilometers of lava, causing a 20% mortality rate in Iceland and a temporary global temperature drop. In stark contrast, the eruptions discussed in this episode released hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions, of cubic kilometers of lava. This immense scale stems from their unique nature: they were formed by mantle plumes rising from deep within the Earth, fracturing the crust over hundreds of kilometers. Through these fissures, colossal amounts of highly fluid magma erupted, forming vast networks of lava fountains that spread across areas comparable to entire countries, rather than building conventional volcanoes. These intermittent eruptions, lasting hundreds of thousands of years, covered continents and even ocean floors with kilometers-thick layers of lava.
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Jusqu’où va l’Univers ? Un voyage vers l’infini étape par étape
This video aims to convey the immense scale of the universe, starting with a discussion of Opera, the video's sponsor. Opera's latest browser version offers features like tab organization into "islands" based on type, allowing users to reduce or expand them with a click and categorize them by theme or project using color codes. Users can also drag tabs down to divide their screen into four sections, useful for comparing sources or documents. The browser's theme and window appearance are fully customizable, allowing users to choose background colors and create a personalized work environment. Opera also enables users to transform videos into floating modules that can be moved across windows, which is convenient for multitasking. Additionally, Opera provides a built-in VPN, allowing users to change their geolocation to another continent with a single click. These and other features are available for free via a link in the description. The journey into the universe's immensity begins by acknowledging its incomprehensible size. Distances to other celestial bodies are often converted into light-years. Light travels at approximately 300,000 km per second in the vacuum of space. To visualize this speed, in the time it takes to blink, light covers a distance equivalent to the Earth's circumference. In just over a second, light travels from Earth to the Moon, covering about 384,000 km. If one were to travel this distance by car at 130 km/h, it would take four months non-stop. A standard airliner would take 18 days, while Apollo mission modules, traveling at an average of 5,300 km/h, took nearly four days. The space between Earth and the Moon is vast enough to contain all the planets of our solar system or 30 Earths.
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