Episode #018: Firestorm Black Mat, Nano-Diamonds - Younger Dryas Impact

Summary

In this episode, Randall Carlson discusses the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis and its implications for understanding past catastrophes on Earth. He examines evidence such as 'black mat' and hexagonal nano-diamonds that suggest significant impact events occurred during this period. Through exploring various scientific papers, Carlson speculates on the nature and causes of these catastrophic occurrences.

Key takeaways

• 1Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) suggests significant impact events occurred around 12,900 years ago.
• 2Evidence cited includes findings of 'black mat' sediment and hexagonal nano-diamonds.
• 3Discussion of Hall's Cave in Texas and Santa Rosa from Channel Islands as critical locations for YDIH data.
• 4The episode features collaboration with authors of scientific papers on the hypothesis.
• 5Randall Carlson connects impacts to mass extinction events affecting megafauna like mammoths.

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Transcript excerpt

That's ancientnutrition.com code protein. This is Cosmographia, the Randall Carlson Podcast. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the Cosmographia Podcast. I am Russ. This is my co-host, Kyle. We also are joined by Brad and Randall, as always. This is the eve of New Year's Eve? This is the eve of New Year's Eve, yes. Yeah, we are in the final days of the second decade of the 21st century. It was interesting. It's the end of a decade here. Pretty cool. There was so much buildup to 2012 and then years and years before that, and now we're like seven, eight years past that. Right, yeah. 2012 is a long time ago. That's crazy to consider. It is. We made it. We made it. What's the next catastrophe somebody's talking about? I think there's a micro nova coming in 20 years or something. It was a great tinfoil hat party we had in 2012. Yes. Everybody showed up with all these different awesome tinfoil hats they made, and we partied for the end of the world. Yeah, it didn't end. We were going all out because you're not going to wake up with a hangover because the world will be ended, right? But dang, hat hangovers. Eh. Yeah, yeah, and about, oh, maybe two years, what was maybe 2010, I had lunch with an author who had written a best-selling book on 2012 and pretty much convinced that it was going to be, I don't know, the apocalypse or some extraordinary thing that was going to happen. And he said, you know, well, I wanted to know my take on it, and I said, well, you know, I think it's probably just going to be, you know, he named the date. ...

Excerpt from Kosmographia, Feb 17, 2020. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.