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The evidence points to something extraordinary happening between 11,600 and 12,900 years ago. Not a single impact, but multiple events spread across more than a thousand years. At the Lower Younger Dryas boundary, the data suggests the Earth may have been struck by 10 to 20 fragments in a...

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Reid Farmer (TR_Farmer_archaeology)19 天前

Except the evidence shows the megafauna didn’t go extinct at the Younger Dryas

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Reid Farmer (TR_Farmer_archaeology)19 天前

Like the man says

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Timewave220 天前

And the magnetic field was breaking down in the same window, the Gothenburg excursion culminates right inside the Younger Dryas, so the field event and the climate break share the same window. The timewave algorithm also confirms this through the first recorded resonance node…

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Case19 天前

Can someone explain the entry and exit ballistics of this impact? The angles are 23 degrees.

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🅷🅸🅿🅿🅾 🆅🆂 🅱🅰🅱🆈🅻🅾🅽19 天前

Can you speak to why Mt Saint Helen’s eruption led to sedimentary layers that previously science said would have taken millions of years, but in this instance occurred over 3 hours?

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El Profeto20 天前

Pole shift where the north pole launched from South Africa to its current position, burying Atlantis at the south pole to be covered in ice.

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Jason Michael Bennetch19 天前

This multi-event window is what keeps drawing me back — not one clean strike, but repeated shocks across more than a thousand years. That kind of pressure helps explain why some cultures didn’t just build monuments; they carved entire cities underground. Places like Derinkuyu in Cappadocia look less like curiosities and more like refuge systems: ventilation, wells, storage, shelter for thousands. If the surface world was getting hit again and again — ocean, land, ice sheet surviving beneath the ground starts to make brutal sense. I’m not locked to one mechanism. Cosmic fragments, ice-sheet collapse, flooding, volcanism can stack. What I’m hunting is the pattern: advanced work earlier than expected, then disruption, burial, and fragments left behind. Wrote more on the underground cities and that end-Ice-Age timing in Before the Flood.

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Decoding Things19 天前

Wait wait wait. There IS interesting evidence here. Platinum anomalies, microspherules, nanodiamonds and other weirdness around the Younger Dryas boundary. But 10 to 20 impacts, ice-sheet strikes and megafauna extinction is a much bigger claim. No confirmed crater. Serious replication disputes. Competing explanations. So I am interested. But until someone produces the 12,900-year-old potato-resolution security footage, I am keeping both eyebrows operational.

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Bill Ross19 天前

Clearly, the dinosaurs coulda have avoided extinction with more taxes.

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Keith19 天前

The ice age didn’t end. In fact, the planet has been in an ice age for the past 34 million years.

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Laserotti19 天前

@SunWeatherMan uh huh

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Ælder Wiga19 天前

No wonder that there are so many ancient huge underground structures scattered around the world. Humanity must have retreated underground en-masse during that time and possibly for some time after. They wouldn't have known the bombardment was lessening.

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J Fimps19 天前

I had a dream when I was 9 (40 yrs ago) about this, God or similar was holding my hand and took me around different places on Earth showing it to me. I went to school and wrote a paper about it and put it on the classroom share board. It freaked everyone out, including my teacher. She took it down and put it in her purse. Then I had to see the principle. That just brought that memory back...🤯

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Reid Farmer (TR_Farmer_archaeology)19 天前

Except all the papers on your YDIH theory have been retracted Except the data you cite that has to do with documenting an impact has been debunked

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Rye Gratton19 天前

Looking for this?

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Accidental Martian19 天前

Solar Mass Ejection. Happen every 12,000 years. Wipe civilizations off the Earth. Start Ice Ages. Look to the underground cities for true Earth history. Learn it. Love it. Accept it. We are overdue for the next one.

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Chris Costin20 天前

Randall, I’ve found an object that I’m currently writing a book on. It depicts an eyewitness account of the impact, and places an exact date on it. This leads me to understand that it was indeed a single event.

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Akhil Kumar Sahoo19 天前

Incorrect narratives; the Younger Dryas should be studied only by Ptolemy's World Maps which was the world map of the 2nd c AD. The Younger Dryas happened in the 8th-9th c AD. Without understanding the geography of the ancient Prime Meridian it is impossible to study this event.

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Karahan Billy19 天前

Any impacts or airbursts continued the ice age, the Sun nearing its maximum northern travel of ~24.5 degees ended it. The warming trend just before the YD at 14-13kya resumed 11.6kya. It's possible the YD was caused by the vast amounts of cold fresh water dumped into the oceans.

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D. Sennfelt19 天前

No impacts.

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Alaskan Gold REE and Antimony20 天前

York Meteor Event. May have hit Mt Mazama starting volcanic eruptions.

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Joey Bennet20 天前

How’s the shed business this season?

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Professor Dumbass, PhD19 天前

There are a few places in Alaska where mammoth tusks, etc. can be found literally falling out of river banks. While a few are found randomly, they’re uncommon. The concentration suggests a singular event.

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Ipad Sweeney19 天前

Control society by using religion to control the masses not science. I’m on the side of science

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Troela Ammehoela 🐭19 天前

I think it's more likely that they were hunted into extinction by humans in the very same way we're doing with other species today. If they all died off due to some catastrophe, why are humans still around? Supposedly, we still lived in caves back then. 👍

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Laura Wiley Haynes19 天前

@assoc1counsell

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Spiritus🌞19 天前

@big_simp

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𝕘 𝕥 𝕨 𝕪20 天前

starting to wonder if AI pushed meteors into our orbit to reset humanity and our memory of their existence

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D. Sennfelt19 天前

Rift shift

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joe walker19 天前

Randall, do you think there’s a possibility that we are looking at remains of a nuclear war 💁🏻‍♂️

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4CatDoc19 天前

Or, Clovis et al wiped them out. Pick your combos. Fire. Spear. Jumps. Fire was used by plains first nations to radically change it, and weren't they on the way to wiping out buffalo? Oh, that's inconvenient, so... CoMeT tRaInS.

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The Younger Dryas wasn't just a climate shift. It marked a turning point in human and natural history that shows up in the archaeological record as abandonment. Sites occupied for centuries prior to this boundary suddenly go quiet. The Clovis culture, which had established itself across North America, appears to vanish from the record at this same horizon. Megafaunal extinctions sweep across the continent during this same narrow window. When you line up the geological evidence, the archaeological record, and the extinction data, they all point to the same moment in time. Something happened at the Younger Dryas boundary that fundamentally disrupted both human settlement patterns and the broader ecosystem. The question isn't whether there was a major event. The question is what kind of forcing mechanism could produce that constellation of effects simultaneously across such a wide geographic area.
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The Younger Dryas wasn't just a climate shift. It marked a turning point in human and natural history that shows up in the archaeological record as abandonment. Sites occupied for centuries prior to this boundary suddenly go quiet. The Clovis culture, which had established itself across North America, appears to vanish from the record at this same horizon. Megafaunal extinctions sweep across the continent during this same narrow window. When you line up the geological evidence, the archaeological record, and the extinction data, they all point to the same moment in time. Something happened at the Younger Dryas boundary that fundamentally disrupted both human settlement patterns and the broader ecosystem. The question isn't whether there was a major event. The question is what kind of forcing mechanism could produce that constellation of effects simultaneously across such a wide geographic area.

Randall Carlson

31,313 次观看 • 1 个月前

The Younger Dryas event, beginning roughly 12,800 years ago, represents one of the most abrupt climate shifts in recent geological history. The evidence for catastrophic disruption during this period has grown substantially, yet resistance persists within mainstream archaeology. He points to a pattern of institutional reluctance to engage with data that challenges established narratives about human prehistory. The question isn't whether something dramatic happened. The geological record is clear on that front. The question is why the implications remain so controversial. When you look at the physical evidence, from the black mat layer across North America to the sudden disappearance of megafauna to the dramatic climate oscillations recorded in ice cores, the case for catastrophe becomes difficult to dismiss. The resistance suggests something deeper than scientific disagreement. It suggests a framework under threat.
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The Younger Dryas event, beginning roughly 12,800 years ago, represents one of the most abrupt climate shifts in recent geological history. The evidence for catastrophic disruption during this period has grown substantially, yet resistance persists within mainstream archaeology. He points to a pattern of institutional reluctance to engage with data that challenges established narratives about human prehistory. The question isn't whether something dramatic happened. The geological record is clear on that front. The question is why the implications remain so controversial. When you look at the physical evidence, from the black mat layer across North America to the sudden disappearance of megafauna to the dramatic climate oscillations recorded in ice cores, the case for catastrophe becomes difficult to dismiss. The resistance suggests something deeper than scientific disagreement. It suggests a framework under threat.

Randall Carlson

28,287 次观看 • 1 个月前

The last great ice age terminated in a geological instant - trillions of tons of ice melting away within a few thousand years. Randall’s challenge is direct and pointed. Where did the thermal energy come from to drive that transformation at that speed? There is no consensus answer. The mechanisms that trigger the onset of an ice age and those that bring about its termination remain scientifically unresolved - competing theories exist, but no framework has achieved the kind of broad agreement that would qualify as settled science. That gap matters enormously to Randall because of what is claimed in its absence. If the scientific community cannot reach consensus on what causes ice ages to begin or end - processes that have reshaped this planet repeatedly within the human timeline - then the assertion that climate science is settled becomes extremely difficult to defend. Randall is not dismissing the study of climate. He is pointing at a fundamental inconsistency - that the most dramatic climate events in Earth's recent geological history remain without agreed explanation, while certainty is simultaneously claimed about the mechanisms driving change today. The thermal energy that ended the last ice age is still unaccounted for. That is not a minor footnote. It is a problem at the center of the entire conversation.
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The last great ice age terminated in a geological instant - trillions of tons of ice melting away within a few thousand years. Randall’s challenge is direct and pointed. Where did the thermal energy come from to drive that transformation at that speed? There is no consensus answer. The mechanisms that trigger the onset of an ice age and those that bring about its termination remain scientifically unresolved - competing theories exist, but no framework has achieved the kind of broad agreement that would qualify as settled science. That gap matters enormously to Randall because of what is claimed in its absence. If the scientific community cannot reach consensus on what causes ice ages to begin or end - processes that have reshaped this planet repeatedly within the human timeline - then the assertion that climate science is settled becomes extremely difficult to defend. Randall is not dismissing the study of climate. He is pointing at a fundamental inconsistency - that the most dramatic climate events in Earth's recent geological history remain without agreed explanation, while certainty is simultaneously claimed about the mechanisms driving change today. The thermal energy that ended the last ice age is still unaccounted for. That is not a minor footnote. It is a problem at the center of the entire conversation.

Randall Carlson

19,756 次观看 • 6 个月前

Over fifty Clovis sites spread across unglaciated North America, occupied for roughly four hundred years. Then, right at the onset of the Younger Dryas, every single one of them was abandoned. The Clovis people, a culture fully accepted by mainstream archaeology, simply did not survive whatever happened at that boundary. The timing is precise: the sites go silent exactly when the climate shifts into the Younger Dryas cooling event. This is not fringe speculation. It is the archaeological record, and it raises an unavoidable question: what kind of event could cause the simultaneous collapse of a widespread, well-adapted culture? The evidence points to something rapid, something catastrophic, something that left no room for gradual adaptation.
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Over fifty Clovis sites spread across unglaciated North America, occupied for roughly four hundred years. Then, right at the onset of the Younger Dryas, every single one of them was abandoned. The Clovis people, a culture fully accepted by mainstream archaeology, simply did not survive whatever happened at that boundary. The timing is precise: the sites go silent exactly when the climate shifts into the Younger Dryas cooling event. This is not fringe speculation. It is the archaeological record, and it raises an unavoidable question: what kind of event could cause the simultaneous collapse of a widespread, well-adapted culture? The evidence points to something rapid, something catastrophic, something that left no room for gradual adaptation.

Randall Carlson

68,603 次观看 • 1 个月前

Physical evidence of cosmic impact doesn't always come from craters or sediment layers. Sometimes it's preserved in bone. He's examining micrometeorite debris patterns found embedded in Alaskan mammoth tusks and a Siberian bison skull, small hemispherical impact zones surrounded by carbonized rings. The impacts are clustered on one side of the specimens, suggesting a directional bombardment rather than random atmospheric entry. This is the kind of evidence that changes how we think about megafaunal extinction events at the end of the Pleistocene. If micrometeorites struck with enough force to shatter and carbonize organic material, what else was happening in that same moment? The distribution pattern points to a specific event, not gradual environmental change. It's one more thread in a larger story about catastrophic forcing mechanisms that shaped the boundary between ice age and Holocene.
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Physical evidence of cosmic impact doesn't always come from craters or sediment layers. Sometimes it's preserved in bone. He's examining micrometeorite debris patterns found embedded in Alaskan mammoth tusks and a Siberian bison skull, small hemispherical impact zones surrounded by carbonized rings. The impacts are clustered on one side of the specimens, suggesting a directional bombardment rather than random atmospheric entry. This is the kind of evidence that changes how we think about megafaunal extinction events at the end of the Pleistocene. If micrometeorites struck with enough force to shatter and carbonize organic material, what else was happening in that same moment? The distribution pattern points to a specific event, not gradual environmental change. It's one more thread in a larger story about catastrophic forcing mechanisms that shaped the boundary between ice age and Holocene.

Randall Carlson

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The Younger Dryas was not a single event. Randall Carlson argues it was bookended by two separate catastrophes - one at its onset approximately 12,800 years ago, where the proxy evidence for a cosmic impact is now substantial, and one at its termination approximately 11,700 years ago, where the picture is less clear. For the end of the Younger Dryas, Randall finds Robert Schoch's solar event hypothesis genuinely compelling. The proxy evidence for a cosmic impact at the termination is not as strong as at the onset, which leaves room for a different mechanism. What has emerged from solar observing satellites deployed in recent decades is a more dynamic and variable sun than previously modelled - one capable of producing significant coronal mass ejections and solar storms. Critically, there appears to be a correlation between cometary material falling into the sun and reactive events in the chromosphere that translate into exactly those kinds of solar outbursts. If a fragmenting comet was responsible for the onset of the Younger Dryas, the debris trail it left behind may have continued interacting with the solar system - and potentially with the sun itself - in ways that contributed to the abrupt warming event that ended it.
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The Younger Dryas was not a single event. Randall Carlson argues it was bookended by two separate catastrophes - one at its onset approximately 12,800 years ago, where the proxy evidence for a cosmic impact is now substantial, and one at its termination approximately 11,700 years ago, where the picture is less clear. For the end of the Younger Dryas, Randall finds Robert Schoch's solar event hypothesis genuinely compelling. The proxy evidence for a cosmic impact at the termination is not as strong as at the onset, which leaves room for a different mechanism. What has emerged from solar observing satellites deployed in recent decades is a more dynamic and variable sun than previously modelled - one capable of producing significant coronal mass ejections and solar storms. Critically, there appears to be a correlation between cometary material falling into the sun and reactive events in the chromosphere that translate into exactly those kinds of solar outbursts. If a fragmenting comet was responsible for the onset of the Younger Dryas, the debris trail it left behind may have continued interacting with the solar system - and potentially with the sun itself - in ways that contributed to the abrupt warming event that ended it.

Randall Carlson

16,433 次观看 • 4 个月前

The erosion patterns on the Sphinx tell a story that doesn't fit the conventional timeline. When you look at the weathering on that monument, you're looking at water erosion, not wind and sand. The question becomes: when was the last time the Giza Plateau experienced the kind of sustained rainfall necessary to produce that degree of erosion? You have to go back at least 10,000 years to find a climate wet enough in that region. That's the African Humid Period, when the Sahara was green and Egypt received significant precipitation. But even that may not be far enough. The depth and character of the erosion suggest something much older, potentially pushing the Sphinx back into a time frame that challenges everything we think we know about the rise of civilization. The evidence is in the stone itself. Ready to go deeper into sacred geometry, cosmic cycles, and the principles that shaped ancient civilizations? Join Kosmogonia University and explore the knowledge systems that integrate consciousness, landscape, and the cosmos:
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The erosion patterns on the Sphinx tell a story that doesn't fit the conventional timeline. When you look at the weathering on that monument, you're looking at water erosion, not wind and sand. The question becomes: when was the last time the Giza Plateau experienced the kind of sustained rainfall necessary to produce that degree of erosion? You have to go back at least 10,000 years to find a climate wet enough in that region. That's the African Humid Period, when the Sahara was green and Egypt received significant precipitation. But even that may not be far enough. The depth and character of the erosion suggest something much older, potentially pushing the Sphinx back into a time frame that challenges everything we think we know about the rise of civilization. The evidence is in the stone itself. Ready to go deeper into sacred geometry, cosmic cycles, and the principles that shaped ancient civilizations? Join Kosmogonia University and explore the knowledge systems that integrate consciousness, landscape, and the cosmos:

Randall Carlson

13,460 次观看 • 15 天前

The Atlantis account in Plato's dialogues includes a specific timeline: nine thousand years before Solon's visit to Egypt, around 590 BCE. Add those together and you arrive at 11,600 years ago, a date that aligns precisely with one of the major meltwater pulses at the end of the last ice age. This wasn't arbitrary storytelling. Plato describes a catastrophic subsidence in the Atlantic following a great war, an island civilization lost beneath the waves in a single event. The timing matters because 11,600 years ago marks a period of rapid deglaciation, massive flooding, and dramatic sea level rise as continental ice sheets collapsed and released enormous volumes of water into the world's oceans. Whether or not Atlantis existed as described, the date Plato preserved points directly to real, documented planetary upheaval. That kind of precision in an ancient text deserves more than dismissal. It suggests the story may encode actual memory of catastrophic environmental change at the close of the Pleistocene.
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The Atlantis account in Plato's dialogues includes a specific timeline: nine thousand years before Solon's visit to Egypt, around 590 BCE. Add those together and you arrive at 11,600 years ago, a date that aligns precisely with one of the major meltwater pulses at the end of the last ice age. This wasn't arbitrary storytelling. Plato describes a catastrophic subsidence in the Atlantic following a great war, an island civilization lost beneath the waves in a single event. The timing matters because 11,600 years ago marks a period of rapid deglaciation, massive flooding, and dramatic sea level rise as continental ice sheets collapsed and released enormous volumes of water into the world's oceans. Whether or not Atlantis existed as described, the date Plato preserved points directly to real, documented planetary upheaval. That kind of precision in an ancient text deserves more than dismissal. It suggests the story may encode actual memory of catastrophic environmental change at the close of the Pleistocene.

Randall Carlson

15,791 次观看 • 1 个月前

You have heard of Atlantis, the island civilization that vanished beneath the sea. What you may not know is that Plato gave a precise date for when it sank, and that modern science has found a real event that happened at almost exactly that moment. First, it is worth remembering what Plato actually wrote. We tend to treat Atlantis as a myth he invented. But in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written around 360 BC, Plato does not present it as a fable or an allegory at all... The story, he says, had been carried to Athens by the great lawgiver Solon, who had traveled to Egypt and heard it from the priests of the city of Sais, keepers of records far older than Greece. One old priest tells Solon: "O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you." The Greeks, he says, have forgotten their own past, while the Egyptians had written it down. And the priest gives a specific timeframe. The war between the Proto-Athenians and Atlantis, he says, took place 9,000 years before Solon's visit. Then, in Plato's words: "there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune... the island of Atlantis disappeared in the depths of the sea." Nine thousand years before Solon places the event at roughly 11,600 years ago. And here is where it becomes strange... That date, 11,600 years ago, is almost exactly when one of the most dramatic climate transitions in the recent history of the planet came to an end. Geologists call it the Younger Dryas: a period when the Earth, already warming out of the last Ice Age, suddenly plunged back into near-glacial cold for more than a thousand years. According to modern science, that cold period ended around 11,600 years ago, and it ended abruptly. The warming returned with great speed, and the great ice sheets resumed melting. That melting is the part that matters here. Some scientists have identified a phase of rapid sea-level rise at the close of the Younger Dryas, beginning around 11,500 years ago, known as Meltwater Pulse 1B. The studies that support it describe sea levels surging upward as the ice sheets collapsed, drowning coastlines that had stood for thousands of years. Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis, in other words, falls almost exactly on the moment when modern science says the oceans may have risen suddenly and swallowed land at the end of the Ice Age. I want to be careful and honest here: none of this proves that Atlantis was real. Most scholars believe Plato invented the story to illustrate his ideas about pride and the fall of great civilizations, and they may well be right. But the coincidence is hard to shake. A philosopher in the fourth century BC, insisting he was recording true history passed down from a people who kept ancient records, said that a great land was destroyed by floods roughly 11,600 years ago. And thousands of years later, with ice cores and radiocarbon dating, we discovered that the last Ice Age really did end at almost exactly that moment, in melting ice and rising seas. Plato could not have known any of this. He had no way to date the end of the Ice Age, no way to know that the oceans had once risen and erased the old coastlines of the world. And yet the moment he chose, for the drowning of his lost civilization, is the same moment the seas truly rose. Perhaps it's just a coincidence. Or perhaps the Egyptians, as the priest told Solon, simply remembered something the rest of us forgot. Maybe we really are a species with amnesia... I started this newsletter because our past is extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are showing us how to truly see it. Every week I try to. If that is something you would like to be part of, you can join at the link below, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible: Thanks for reading.
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You have heard of Atlantis, the island civilization that vanished beneath the sea. What you may not know is that Plato gave a precise date for when it sank, and that modern science has found a real event that happened at almost exactly that moment. First, it is worth remembering what Plato actually wrote. We tend to treat Atlantis as a myth he invented. But in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written around 360 BC, Plato does not present it as a fable or an allegory at all... The story, he says, had been carried to Athens by the great lawgiver Solon, who had traveled to Egypt and heard it from the priests of the city of Sais, keepers of records far older than Greece. One old priest tells Solon: "O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you." The Greeks, he says, have forgotten their own past, while the Egyptians had written it down. And the priest gives a specific timeframe. The war between the Proto-Athenians and Atlantis, he says, took place 9,000 years before Solon's visit. Then, in Plato's words: "there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune... the island of Atlantis disappeared in the depths of the sea." Nine thousand years before Solon places the event at roughly 11,600 years ago. And here is where it becomes strange... That date, 11,600 years ago, is almost exactly when one of the most dramatic climate transitions in the recent history of the planet came to an end. Geologists call it the Younger Dryas: a period when the Earth, already warming out of the last Ice Age, suddenly plunged back into near-glacial cold for more than a thousand years. According to modern science, that cold period ended around 11,600 years ago, and it ended abruptly. The warming returned with great speed, and the great ice sheets resumed melting. That melting is the part that matters here. Some scientists have identified a phase of rapid sea-level rise at the close of the Younger Dryas, beginning around 11,500 years ago, known as Meltwater Pulse 1B. The studies that support it describe sea levels surging upward as the ice sheets collapsed, drowning coastlines that had stood for thousands of years. Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis, in other words, falls almost exactly on the moment when modern science says the oceans may have risen suddenly and swallowed land at the end of the Ice Age. I want to be careful and honest here: none of this proves that Atlantis was real. Most scholars believe Plato invented the story to illustrate his ideas about pride and the fall of great civilizations, and they may well be right. But the coincidence is hard to shake. A philosopher in the fourth century BC, insisting he was recording true history passed down from a people who kept ancient records, said that a great land was destroyed by floods roughly 11,600 years ago. And thousands of years later, with ice cores and radiocarbon dating, we discovered that the last Ice Age really did end at almost exactly that moment, in melting ice and rising seas. Plato could not have known any of this. He had no way to date the end of the Ice Age, no way to know that the oceans had once risen and erased the old coastlines of the world. And yet the moment he chose, for the drowning of his lost civilization, is the same moment the seas truly rose. Perhaps it's just a coincidence. Or perhaps the Egyptians, as the priest told Solon, simply remembered something the rest of us forgot. Maybe we really are a species with amnesia... I started this newsletter because our past is extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are showing us how to truly see it. Every week I try to. If that is something you would like to be part of, you can join at the link below, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible: Thanks for reading.

James Lucas

39,911 次观看 • 3 个月前

Two completely independent lines of evidence are being laid side by side here, and they are telling the same story. On one side you have delta oxygen-18 isotope data from an ice core, one of the most reliable proxies available for reconstructing past temperature. On the other, a carbon-14 dated pollen study from Holland tracking vegetation changes across the last 100,000 years. When July temperatures dropped from around seven degrees centigrade down to five, the pollen record essentially collapses. No pollen means no vegetation. The landscape was stripped bare. What makes this worth paying attention to is not just the magnitude of that temperature drop but the fact that two entirely different methodologies, applied in two entirely different places, are capturing the same event. The Younger Dryas shows up in the ice core and it shows up in the pollen stratigraphy. When independent proxies converge like that, you are no longer looking at an artifact of any single technique. You are looking at something that actually happened, and the question then becomes what was powerful enough to cause it.
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Two completely independent lines of evidence are being laid side by side here, and they are telling the same story. On one side you have delta oxygen-18 isotope data from an ice core, one of the most reliable proxies available for reconstructing past temperature. On the other, a carbon-14 dated pollen study from Holland tracking vegetation changes across the last 100,000 years. When July temperatures dropped from around seven degrees centigrade down to five, the pollen record essentially collapses. No pollen means no vegetation. The landscape was stripped bare. What makes this worth paying attention to is not just the magnitude of that temperature drop but the fact that two entirely different methodologies, applied in two entirely different places, are capturing the same event. The Younger Dryas shows up in the ice core and it shows up in the pollen stratigraphy. When independent proxies converge like that, you are no longer looking at an artifact of any single technique. You are looking at something that actually happened, and the question then becomes what was powerful enough to cause it.

Randall Carlson

11,798 次观看 • 3 个月前

He describes the Younger Dryas as the last gasp of the ice age, a period that defies simple explanations. After thousands of years of gradual warming, the planet plunged back into full glacial conditions in less than a year. That reversal lasted twelve to thirteen hundred years before the climate lurched out of it just as abruptly, if not faster. The speed and magnitude of these shifts challenge conventional thinking about how climate systems operate. He emphasizes that this wasn't a slow drift but a catastrophic snap, both entering and exiting the cold period. The evidence points to mechanisms far more dramatic than the gradual processes typically invoked in mainstream climate science.
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He describes the Younger Dryas as the last gasp of the ice age, a period that defies simple explanations. After thousands of years of gradual warming, the planet plunged back into full glacial conditions in less than a year. That reversal lasted twelve to thirteen hundred years before the climate lurched out of it just as abruptly, if not faster. The speed and magnitude of these shifts challenge conventional thinking about how climate systems operate. He emphasizes that this wasn't a slow drift but a catastrophic snap, both entering and exiting the cold period. The evidence points to mechanisms far more dramatic than the gradual processes typically invoked in mainstream climate science.

Randall Carlson

27,079 次观看 • 3 个月前

At the peak of the last ice age, 20,000 years ago, sea levels were 400 feet lower than today. As the ice sheets melted, oceans surged upward, rising at an average of 15 mm per year between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago. During 'Meltwater Pulse 1A', seas shot up by 50 feet in just 500 years - a foot per decade as ice sheets collapsed. But by 6,000 years ago, the Great Melt was largely complete. Since then, sea levels have been relatively stable. Yet today, we're told to believe that the last few inches are catastrophic and all our fault, not part of the natural cycles that have driven Earth's climate time immemorial. That ignores history, data and basic science. The rate of rise we've seen over the past centuries is not increasing, according to global tidal gauge data. A recent study of 204 tidal gauges worldwide found 95% show no statistical acceleration, and the few that do are explained by local land motion/subsidence - not climate change.
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At the peak of the last ice age, 20,000 years ago, sea levels were 400 feet lower than today. As the ice sheets melted, oceans surged upward, rising at an average of 15 mm per year between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago. During 'Meltwater Pulse 1A', seas shot up by 50 feet in just 500 years - a foot per decade as ice sheets collapsed. But by 6,000 years ago, the Great Melt was largely complete. Since then, sea levels have been relatively stable. Yet today, we're told to believe that the last few inches are catastrophic and all our fault, not part of the natural cycles that have driven Earth's climate time immemorial. That ignores history, data and basic science. The rate of rise we've seen over the past centuries is not increasing, according to global tidal gauge data. A recent study of 204 tidal gauges worldwide found 95% show no statistical acceleration, and the few that do are explained by local land motion/subsidence - not climate change.

Electroverse

51,933 次观看 • 6 个月前

The nanodiamonds found at the Younger Dryas boundary are nearly identical to those from the KT impact 66 million years ago. The difference? The Younger Dryas event wasn't quite as catastrophic, because if it had been, we wouldn't be here to discuss it. But modern humans were alive during this period, witnessing whatever happened. The evidence suggests a cosmic impact event powerful enough to leave the same signature as the dinosaur extinction, just not quite at the same scale. If you were living near the impact zone, survival would have been impossible. The fact that humanity survived at all tells us something important: the event was catastrophic enough to leave a global marker layer, but localized enough that populations in other regions endured. That narrow margin between extinction and survival is written in the geological record, and it raises serious questions about how close we came to not making it through.
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The nanodiamonds found at the Younger Dryas boundary are nearly identical to those from the KT impact 66 million years ago. The difference? The Younger Dryas event wasn't quite as catastrophic, because if it had been, we wouldn't be here to discuss it. But modern humans were alive during this period, witnessing whatever happened. The evidence suggests a cosmic impact event powerful enough to leave the same signature as the dinosaur extinction, just not quite at the same scale. If you were living near the impact zone, survival would have been impossible. The fact that humanity survived at all tells us something important: the event was catastrophic enough to leave a global marker layer, but localized enough that populations in other regions endured. That narrow margin between extinction and survival is written in the geological record, and it raises serious questions about how close we came to not making it through.

Randall Carlson

27,016 次观看 • 1 个月前

Whatever struck the Earth at the Younger Dryas boundary is proving extraordinarily difficult to classify - and that difficulty is itself significant. The signature left behind is confusing in a specific and revealing way. The object appears to have been heterogeneous - carrying attributes of both a comet and an asteroid simultaneously. Not one or the other. Both. That combination places it outside the standard categories that impact science was built around and makes the task of reconstructing what actually happened considerably more complex. The geographic reach of the evidence is the detail that keeps expanding with each new study. The proxies - the byproducts and chemical signatures left behind by an impact of this kind - are now being identified across more than half the surface of the Earth. That distribution is not consistent with a localized regional impact. It is consistent with an event of global scale - one that deposited its chemical fingerprint across multiple continents simultaneously. And Randall notes that subsequent research will almost certainly continue to expand that picture. The proxies are turning up wherever researchers look for them - and the full global distribution of the Younger Dryas impact signature is, by all indications, still in the process of being mapped.
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Whatever struck the Earth at the Younger Dryas boundary is proving extraordinarily difficult to classify - and that difficulty is itself significant. The signature left behind is confusing in a specific and revealing way. The object appears to have been heterogeneous - carrying attributes of both a comet and an asteroid simultaneously. Not one or the other. Both. That combination places it outside the standard categories that impact science was built around and makes the task of reconstructing what actually happened considerably more complex. The geographic reach of the evidence is the detail that keeps expanding with each new study. The proxies - the byproducts and chemical signatures left behind by an impact of this kind - are now being identified across more than half the surface of the Earth. That distribution is not consistent with a localized regional impact. It is consistent with an event of global scale - one that deposited its chemical fingerprint across multiple continents simultaneously. And Randall notes that subsequent research will almost certainly continue to expand that picture. The proxies are turning up wherever researchers look for them - and the full global distribution of the Younger Dryas impact signature is, by all indications, still in the process of being mapped.

Randall Carlson

28,590 次观看 • 4 个月前

He points to a fact that reshapes how we think about lost civilizations: the coastlines of the Ice Age are now 400 feet underwater. During the Last Glacial Maximum, sea levels were dramatically lower, and the most habitable places on Earth would have been coastal zones with access to marine resources and milder climates. If advanced settlements existed 14,000 years ago, they would have been built where port cities still thrive today, along shorelines that are now deep beneath the ocean. He argues that the future of archaeology lies in marine exploration, not because of speculation, but because that's where the evidence would logically be. The drowned continental shelves hold the key to understanding what was lost when the ice melted and the seas rose.
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He points to a fact that reshapes how we think about lost civilizations: the coastlines of the Ice Age are now 400 feet underwater. During the Last Glacial Maximum, sea levels were dramatically lower, and the most habitable places on Earth would have been coastal zones with access to marine resources and milder climates. If advanced settlements existed 14,000 years ago, they would have been built where port cities still thrive today, along shorelines that are now deep beneath the ocean. He argues that the future of archaeology lies in marine exploration, not because of speculation, but because that's where the evidence would logically be. The drowned continental shelves hold the key to understanding what was lost when the ice melted and the seas rose.

Randall Carlson

18,760 次观看 • 2 个月前

Swedish researchers in the 1800s made a discovery that would reshape our understanding of climate history. They found fossilized remains of Dryas octopetala, an Arctic flower with eight petals, buried in the soil layers of southern Sweden, a region where it no longer grows. The closest living populations existed only at the northern tip of Scandinavia and on Svalbard, an Arctic island. This finding revealed something profound: the climate of southern Sweden had once been cold enough to support Arctic flora, then warmed significantly, pushing that species northward. The evidence was right there in the stratigraphy, a record of dramatic environmental change preserved in the earth itself. It was one of the earliest clues that our climate has undergone radical shifts within relatively recent geological time.
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Swedish researchers in the 1800s made a discovery that would reshape our understanding of climate history. They found fossilized remains of Dryas octopetala, an Arctic flower with eight petals, buried in the soil layers of southern Sweden, a region where it no longer grows. The closest living populations existed only at the northern tip of Scandinavia and on Svalbard, an Arctic island. This finding revealed something profound: the climate of southern Sweden had once been cold enough to support Arctic flora, then warmed significantly, pushing that species northward. The evidence was right there in the stratigraphy, a record of dramatic environmental change preserved in the earth itself. It was one of the earliest clues that our climate has undergone radical shifts within relatively recent geological time.

Randall Carlson

54,355 次观看 • 2 个月前