Episode #025: Comets' Life Cycle & Effects to Ice Age Earth

Summary

This episode of the Kosmographia podcast delves into the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) and the implications of historical meteor impacts on Earth's geology. Randall Carlson discusses the lessons learned from significant events like Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the Tunguska event. The episode also explores the geological features, such as drumlins, that might result from such cosmic events.

Key takeaways

• 1Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) suggests that a cosmic event caused significant climate change.
• 2Shoemaker-Levy 9: A comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994, demonstrating the destructive power of cosmic impacts.
• 3Tunguska event: A massive explosion in 1908 in Siberia caused by a comet or asteroid, which flattened trees over 2,000 square kilometers.
• 4Drumlins: Elongated hills formed by glacial activity, potentially influenced by ancient cosmic impacts.
• 5Ted Bunch: Researcher whose work correlates impact markers with evidence for the YDIH.

Source

Transcript excerpt

That's ancientnutrition.com, code protein. This is Cosmographia, the Randall Carlson Podcast. All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to Cosmographia, the Randall Carlson Podcast, where we are all still sheltering at home. So, how are you guys doing out there? Brad, how are you doing, buddy? I'm lost in space, brother. And, of course, Silent Mike. No comment. And our star of the show amidst what looks like a reigning asteroid or cometary bombardment, Randall Carlson. How are you doing there, buddy? Well, considering everything, I'm doing quite well. I think those are Leonids. Are those Leonids? Yeah, that was a photograph taken during the 2001 Leonid meteor shower, one of the great meteor showers of the year of Earth's circuit around the sun. I like this photograph because you can really see the parallelism of the debris within the stream. Of course, this is time lapse, but I'm sure it's pretty quick because these suckers are moving fast, 20, 30 miles per second. Wow, that's beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, Leonids, yes. That's one that had a crazy peak in like 1966, right? 66, I believe, was the year. They were expecting another one in 99, and it wasn't so extravagant, but it's on some kind of cycle where they've realized that the pocket of material, you know, in its orbit is going to show up on that cyclicity. Yeah. The clump. The clump. The clump. Yeah, so you've got – the idea is that the material is not uniformly distributed around the orbit, but is clustered in places and thin in other places. So, if the cluster happens to be intersecting the Earth's orbit at the time the Earth is there, then, yeah, we're going to get a spectacular shower. ...

Excerpt from Kosmographia, Apr 7, 2020. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.