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[Coop and Dino singing]

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Movies and TV shows often deal with events happening in the real world and [Kids watching movie]

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with the effects of global warming becoming more and more apparent a new

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kind of Hollywood blockbuster has emerged the disaster movie children [Hollywood sign and Disaster movie advert appears]

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tsunamis is flooding hurricanes earthquakes tornadoes and more

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blockbusters are packed with extreme water intense action and special effects [Soldier appears]

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and sometimes even airborne sharks they're also often just a little bit

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over the top but unlike that thankfully make-believe event featured in movies [Statue of Liberte covered in ice]

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like The Day After Tomorrow and the perfect storm the amazing events that

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led to earth creation really did happen and boy were they extreme 4.6 billion

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years ago our solar system was simply a cloud of dust and gas that we called the [Nebula appears]

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solar nebula looks like the cover of us that means eventually this material

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began to clump together forming various planets including the one we call home

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but it sure did not look like home back then it was seized of hot melted [Earth appears as a red hot melted rock]

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rocks not exactly where we want to take a relaxing vacation

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thankfully earth was bombarded with a giant space rock [Meteorites in flight]

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we know that sounds very important but it was actually a good thing it cause

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the planet to solidify and cool thanks random floating space junk in fact this

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sort of space debris even went on to form our Moon the whole whammy space [Moon appears beside space debris]

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junk still like we were saying earth began to

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cool but take that with a grain of salt because sure it was technically cooling [Geyser spits out lava]

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down but at this point there was still plenty of magma erupting all over the

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place oh yeah I was cooling but it wasn't [Thermometer decreasing]

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exactly cool and if that whole there's liquid magma erupting all over the

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surface of the earth thing wasn't enough to make you think I'm maybe not the best

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place for humans to glue quite yet well this certainly well the entire

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planet's atmosphere consisted of totally poisonous gases that would have killed [Gas appears]

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Amy humans attempting to call earth whole toxic gas and boiling magma you

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swing the earth was doing its best to keep humans as far away as possible

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well too bad for you earth where a pretty stubborn group of people the

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earth can you need to cool and really why wouldn't it [Earth puts on pair of sunglasses]

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who in their right mind wouldn't want to get cooler and cooler as time went on

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and with his cooling came clouds water vapor and rain and pools of water that [Rain falls into ocean]

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eventually became of course we humans are not in fact a race of mermaids and

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mermen that would be pretty cool now unfortunately we need land to live [Mermaid on a rock and a man wearing scuba gear in the water]

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on so how did land get formed well when really hot rocks cool down enough it

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becomes not so liquid rock in other words solid rock

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otherwise known as land know when liquid rocket all of that water is solidified

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informal and madmen we don't know about you but we say this planet looks about [People in spacecraft in space looking at Earth]

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ready for some organisms huh and so about 2.5 billion years ago

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primitive organisms began to appear on earth that go by the name of blue-green

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algae ah just look at those little guys okay [Blue green algae appear on Earth]

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they may not look that impressive but you gotta start somewhere right?

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