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Sources: https://sites.google.com/view/sources... The Earth is a gigantic ball of half-molten rock with a core as hot as the surface of the sun. This enormous heat, which is left over from its formation and the decay of trillions of tons of radioactive elements, has nowhere else to go but to the surface. Thousands of kilometers of streams of rock carry this energy to the Earth's crust. There, only the Earth's crust stands in its way. It may feel solid to us, but it is actually just a fragile film, an apple skin around a flaming giant. Beneath it lurks the apocalypse. Eruptions that are tens of times more powerful than all our nuclear weapons combined. They suffocate entire continents in poisonous ash and toxic gases - thus causing centuries of climate change in just one year: supervolcanoes. How big can they get? Will they be the end of humanity, and could we stop them? Things Explained – Kurzgesagt is a science channel that explains complex topics from space research, physics, biology, politics, philosophy and technology in a simple and understandable way in animated form. We publish a new video in German every two weeks. Sometimes translations from our English-language channel, sometimes exclusive content for the German market. Since September 28, 2017, Things Explained – Kurzgesagt has been an offering from funk: YouTube: / funkofficial Instagram: / funk TikTok: / funk Website: https://go.funk.net Imprint: https://go.funk.net/impressum