Possible Younger Dryas impactor
October 5th, 2007 by SecureCare“New scientific findings suggest that a large comet may have exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, explaining riddles that scientists have wrestled with for decades, including an abrupt cooling of much of the planet and the extinction of large mammals…The period in question is called the Younger Dryas, an interval of abrupt cooling that lasted for about 1,000 years and occurred at the beginning of an inter-glacial warm period. Evidence for the temperature change is recorded in marine sediments and ice cores…” Full Slice
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October 5th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
A book by John Cogan (The New Order of Man’s History) suggests a similar scenario. He manages to explain the death of the megafauna, Atlantis, the origin of Quetzalcoatl and the Mayan calendar. A fun book, but add salt.
October 5th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Hmmm, Atlantis could fit in with this scenario which also is about impact(s) that have only recently been evidenced.
The more we learn, the less we know.
October 7th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Here is another opinion on all this with pictures of some of the locations. And The Rational Fool considers how this might match up with ancient myths.