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  • Giant Comet Exonerates Native Americans?

    From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 13 10:35:44 2022
    Scientists have discovered glass in the Atacama Desert (home to a large observatory!) was made by a cometary airburst:

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/an-ancient-fireball-turned-kilometres-of-the-world-s-driest-desert-into-glass-1.5652482

    about 12,000 years ago.

    Could it be that the extinction of the megafauna, like iguanas that were as big as dinosaurs, was due to this, and not to the first people of the Americas? At first, despite the coincidence in time, that seems unlikely, as it wasn't enough to cause a
    mass extinction. Or was it?

    John Savard

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Thu Apr 14 19:28:59 2022
    On Wednesday, 13 April 2022 at 13:35:46 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
    Scientists have discovered glass in the Atacama Desert (home to a large observatory!) was made by a cometary airburst:

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/an-ancient-fireball-turned-kilometres-of-the-world-s-driest-desert-into-glass-1.5652482

    about 12,000 years ago.

    Could it be that the extinction of the megafauna, like iguanas that were as big as dinosaurs, was due to this, and not to the first people of the Americas? At first, despite the coincidence in time, that seems unlikely, as it wasn't enough to cause a
    mass extinction. Or was it?

    John Savard

    Well, they just exonerated primitive man for wiping out the mastodon, apparently they didn't drive them off cliffs to extinction.

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to RichA on Thu Apr 14 21:08:25 2022
    On Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 8:29:00 PM UTC-6, RichA wrote:

    Well, they just exonerated primitive man for wiping out the mastodon, apparently they didn't drive them off cliffs to extinction.

    The next thing you know, they'll have to rename Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a location in my current province of Alberta.

    John Savard

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