Fire, no doubt It is one of the biggest disasters that destroys everything.. Even hearing or seeing the ‘y’ of fire, so to speak, makes us very anxious.

Now to the history of these major fires let’s go down

You might even expect the first fire to have occurred somewhere in the universe.

Although Earth is the only planet where we have evidence that fire exists, scientists say volcanoes that expel hot magma It can also happen.

On the other hand, on the surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system, Mercury, Jupiter, that is, on one of the planets that surround us or There has never been a fire on any other star.

Moreover Over billions of years of Earth history It was not observed to be common.

At this point I think of volcanoes and their production of fire fountains.

However, these movements of volcanoes are caused by the formation of magma and not by an actual fire. It spews its lava upwards. The reason for this spraying is the lack of oxygen.

Billions of years ago there was also a dense methane nebula, probably due to the emergence of bacteria on the planet Ross.

Then cyanobacteria started producing energy from sunlight and released into the atmosphere. major oxidation event in which oxygen-releasing molecules begin to accumulate happened.

Although there is still not enough concentration to cause a fire, it is likely that a major oxidation event, known as an oxygen catastrophe, will occur. It dragged the earth into a deep freeze.

Because this oxygen virtually canceled out the greenhouse effect by scavenging methane.

On the other hand, plant material It cannot burn oxygen in amounts greater than 35% and will burn itself. So much so that forests cannot grow and sustain themselves for this reason.

470 million years ago, the first plants and algae began to produce more oxygen and eventually They found the strength to start a fire themselves.

50 years later, a fossil record of the first fire on Earth was found. But while oxygen levels were still running high, the first major fires occurred. It was about 383 million years ago.

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