— You're shopping on the frozen Thames · Frost Fair 1684
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Step inside a real moment in history, in first person — then find out the science behind it.
- — You're shopping on the frozen Thames · Frost Fair 1684
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— You're carving a pillar 11,600 years ago · Göbekli Tepe
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— The Day the Ocean Disappeared — Lisbon, 1755 -
— The sun shines like the moon · 536 AD, worst year
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— Earth flies through a comet's tail · Halley 1910
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— The fleet thinks it knows where it is · Scilly 1707
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— The sky turns red and the wires spark · Carrington 1859
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— The sky splits open over Siberia · Tunguska 1908
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— You hear a volcano 4,800 km away · Krakatoa 1883
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— Pompeii, 79 AD. You have 18 hours · Mount Vesuvius
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— You're a T. rex. Is that a second sun? · Chicxulub
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— It's midday, and the fog is so thick you can't see your own hand. Here's why the smoke had nowhere to go.
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— The sea just disappeared. You have minutes. Run uphill.
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— June 1816: snow on Vermont's corn. A volcano on the other side of the planet did it.