This video of the Tonga volcano eruption is best appreciated full-screen. I think it’s more effective without the music.
Now I’m looking at this new image from the JWST. The Cartwheel Galaxy as it appeared 500 million years ago.
What a nearly impossible series of natural events there were — and weren’t — that made it possible for humans to evolve into the position where we are today. The difference between us and the dinosaurs is, we’ll probably know what it is that hits us, to bring about our extinction.