Judging by the number of commercially successful movies of the cataclysms and catastrophes, pop-culture fascinated with the idea of doomsday. The film "28 Days Later," Danny Boyle’s Britain and its neighborhood devastated virus. In "2012" and "Armageddon," threatens the Earth a huge meteorite. "The Day After Tomorrow" tells of the terrible sudden climate change.
In fact, life arose on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago, very fragile, and death – a normal part of its history. Of the four billion species have existed on the planet, 99% have disappeared. Over the past 500 million years mass extinctions have occurred five times – in these times, the reasons are not fully understood, disappeared more than 75% of cash.
At least one mass extinction occurred partly because of what might be called the end of the world in Hollywood style. If a large asteroid hit the Earth, it could cause earthquakes and tsunamis around the globe. In addition, the explosion in the atmosphere has risen so much dust that the sun would have been closed for several years, and then the plants would die, and with them, and those who ate them. It is believed that 65 million years something like this took place after the fall of the meteorite with a diameter of 10 km in the area of modern Mexico. Read more »
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