Episode #024: Lost Civilization Veiled: Younger Dryas - The Big Picture

Summary

In this episode, Randall Carlson discusses the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to understanding human and Earth history, emphasizing events like the Younger Dryas Boundary. He highlights the devastating effects of expanding ice sheets and their role in potentially erasing ancient civilizations. Through graphs and research, he suggests a cosmic cause for catastrophic cycles that have impacted life on Earth.

Key takeaways

• 1Younger Dryas Boundary as a significant marker in human and Earth history.
• 2Anders Carlson's work connects cosmic events to periodic catastrophes on Earth.
• 3The immense floods from melting ice sheets are quantified by ocean current measurements.
• 4Interdisciplinary collaboration among generalist scientists is necessary for a holistic understanding.

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Transcript excerpt

That's ancientnutrition.com code protein. This is Cosmographia, the Randall Carlson Podcast. And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the Cosmographia Podcast. We are all quarantined in our houses, and this podcast goes on no matter what. So we are joined once again by Brad. Bradley, how are you doing, sir? Evening, quite well. Thanks, man. All right. Mike, silent Mike. Howdy. And Randall. Hello, guys. What comet is that behind you? That is Hayukataki. Ah. And we will be having some discussions about Hayukataki in the near future. All right. 1997. Is that right? That's what came to mind right around there. Yeah. 97. It came right on the heels of Hale Bob. Right. Now, we were talking a little bit before the show that Atlas, I can't remember the number designation, but it's coming in. It's about to do a sun grazing event. They're not sure how bright it will get, but it's actually been brightening a lot faster than they expected. So it may actually get visible to the naked eye. Visible. Yeah. It's going to be about 8 million miles away, though. Right. I'm not sure about the sun, but it's not going to come very close to the earth. Right. But if it survives the circuit around the sun, when it comes back around, it may be spectacular, is what they were saying. Yeah. Yeah. We'll just have to see. Shooting off some sparks. Yeah. Yeah. They said it might be visible in the daylight. Yeah. That'd be cool. All right. Well, it's this one right here. Can you see its track? Right. Randall has one comet behind him. Brad has all of them. That's right. Actually, guys, those are near-Earth asteroids, NEOs. Near-Earth objects, yeah. Near-Earth objects. Let's get that clear, okay? All right. ...

Excerpt from Kosmographia, Apr 6, 2020. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.