What If Earth’s Atmosphere Ignited Tomorrow?
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A massive earthquake knocks you off your feet. There's a blinding flash of white, and then you see a tsunami of lava rising on the horizon. A nuclear reaction has gone off the rails. And Earth’s atmosphere is on fire. How long would it be before you exploded into flames? What would happen to our land and oceans? Where could you hide to survive this hellfire?
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00:00 A nuclear reaction gone wrong.
00:45 What's a fusion reaction?
02:31 Hydrogen, deuterium and tritium reaction.
04:26 Coming back to a lifeless world.
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