Superquark

Episode 2

This episode of Superquark opens with a magnificent documentary from the USHUAIA series: One day the earth sank. From the Bahamas to Mexico, crossing Cuba and the island of Montserrat, Hulot and his team tell us the story of the geological, animal and human evolution of those places that witnessed an upheaval, 60 million years ago, due to the fall of a meteorite, one of the probable causes of the disappearance of the dinosaurs. A few hundred thousand years later, the immense desert was transformed into a sea, due to the melting of the polar ice caps caused by global warming. In this episode, many reports, guests in the studio and columns: the Apocalypse of 2012 is a lie. Superquark explains why, starting from the Mayan prophecy. Alberto Angela in the Etruscan necropolis of Tolle, near Siena, for the live opening of tomb no. 1000. A city of science in the desert of Qatar. Even the emirs invest colossal sums in research. 3D: new technologies applied to cinema and television.