The younger drias impact theory I'd wager.
That "Ancient Apocalypse" show
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The younger drias impact theory I'd wager.
We know shit got real we don't know how real.
Yes, the Missoula Floods, those are a known event; the ripples between the Kalispel and Missoula are the result of repeated glacial dam breach floods where arms of glaciers cut off and dammed massive parts of the Colombia River basin.
You can find similar things along the US Canada border all the way up into parts of BC. The masssive amount of water trapped in the North West during glacial events is staggering when you start trying to figure out the full extent of the basin's involved when accounting for paleo-terrains.
However, the scour marks in the Sahara and the debris slump off Maurutania...those are damn odd, and the Holocene volcano in Chad does tie the date of the erosive event down.
I doubt the two are directly tied, as Lake Missoula flooded and refilled multiple times, while that stuff in the Sahara...I got no good explanation for that stuff.
That polar shift theory I mentioned tackles that. The upshot is basically that the various materials that make up the Earth's core are not a nice, perfectly balanced sphere as is often depicted, but actually has these oblong offshoots which branch off of it, and every so often these cause the Earth's rotation to shift, and when that happens the oceans end up shifting around due to inertia before settling back into their basins.
Nah, that's not how polar shifts work.
Polar shifts might create some weird aurora's for a while, and might weaken the protection against UV and other harsher types of solar radiation.
They won't do much to the surface of the Earth however, except fuck with animals that use magnetic direction finding during migrations.
The certainly wouldn't cause the sort of sea level rise/shift needed to create the scours in the Sahara.
That seems more like...I would lean toward maybe a comet impact during/around the Younger Dryas in the Med pushed a shit load of water onto the surface of the landmass in the area very rapidly, and had enough force to push the tsunami all the way across the Sahara and out to the Atlantic coast.
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It wasn't blasted as much as it was a lot more fertile and well-irrigated place, one theory also says that muh Atlantis was there.
Well, Big E was born in Anatolia.
In any case, advanced and ancient are both relative terms.
The fact that we still had lots of coal, oil and iron deposits shows that those civilizations, while more advanced than what might have come before them, were not all that advanced.
My personal pet theory is that once there was an advanced civilization around the area of the Black not-Sea, when it was still a lake.
the massive flood that turned it into a sea linked with the Mediterranean wiped it and scattered it, and some bits and pieces of it ended up in other parts of the Eurasian and African land masses.
Did some go to the Americas and teach the locals about pyramids?
It is not impossible, but it is highly improbable.
It is far more probably that several groups of people, after they got to a certain level of societal and technological progress, started noticing things in nature, like the way shadows move, the way the stars change, the way simple mechanics work, and they all built what was basically an artificial mountain built out of smaller and smaller groupings of blocks.
I mean, building a decent-sized tower with the materials they had probably would have been harder, so a pyramid might have been the most practical home for the resting place of the local Big Pooh-Bah and communing with the local deities.
MrBirthday
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This interview Midnight's Edge did with Hancock is a followup to the video in the first post, so I'm linking it here:
