I have thoughts on how âadvancedâ people were 12,000 years ago and where the equator âusedâ to be before a celestial event knocked the planet off itâs former axis, but mostly for the purpose of this thread I am demonstrating very young impact sites and their disastrous effects on Earthâs climate.
The Tunguska meteor was less than 200 feet in diameter, never actually hit the ground, yielded a blast of 15 megatons (1,000 times greater than Hiroshima), and flattened 770 square miles of fully matured trees, leaving a âdead spotâ in the middle where no trees grow to this day.
A one mile wide comet and itâs semi-porous structure traveling at around 50,000 mph (12 miles per second) would yield a blast of over 110,000 megatons. An iron asteroid of the same diameter could easily exceed 250,000 megatons. For reference, the worldâs nuclear arsenal is under 15,000 megatons combined.
The Younger Dryas Cold Period may very well have been a type of nuclear winter.
In Platoâs accounts of Atlantis, heâs basically describing how 9,000 years before his ancestor Solon (638 â 558 BC), an enlightened civilization of people once existed and were destroyed by catastrophe. This was according to the Egyptians.
9,000 years before Solon is ~9,600 BC. Wait a minute, thatâs 11,600 years before present! What a coincidence, thatâs exactly when the Younger Dryas Event was in full swing. lol
Speaking of dinosaurs, the asteroid theory was given credibility when the K-T boundary was discovered to be at the exact same depth in the sediment no matter where you went on the globe (containing nanodiamonds, metallic microspherules, carbon spherules, magnetic spherules, iridium, platinum, charcoal, soot, fullerenes enriched in helium-3, etcâŚ).
Those scientists were mocked and laughed at because, âWhere is the crater??â
We now know that the K-T boundary originates in the Gulf of Mexico.
Similarly, there is a black mat layer (containing nanodiamonds, metallic microspherules, carbon spherules, magnetic spherules, iridium, platinum, charcoal, soot, fullerenes enriched in helium-3, etcâŚ) that can be found on at least 5 continents which dates back to around 12-13,000 years ago.
That combined with the evidence of geologically recent impact events (including an 18 mile wide crater in Greenland), makes for a hard case at a near-extinction event for humans (biblical flood perhaps).
Speaking of extinctions, this event also wiped out over 70% of all North American mammals that weighed over 100 lbs, apparently including the Clovis People.
If everyone except for the hunter-gatherer tribes of the equator were to all suddenly disappear, nothing would be left of our civilization in 5-10,000 years⌠except maybe a few forms of plastic, which at that point would be crumbled into the sediment and unrecognizable anyway.
It wouldnât take that long. Everything man has built that isnât of stone would be gone in a couple of thousand years.
Weâve got buildings around here built in the mid 1800âs made of stone that are in better shape than buildings made of concrete built around the turn of the century which are literally crumbling.
Glass erodes into sand pretty quickly. There are beaches in California where you can harvest multi colored pebbles and sand that used to be glass bottles and fixtures long ago dumped into the ocean.
Definitely, and the kinetic energy built up as a result of that velocity is more than the total energy keeping the molecules together in the first place.