Strange glassy blobs strewn across the Australian desert are evidence of an ancient meteorite impact that scientists hadn’t noticed until now. […]
“They formed when an asteroid slammed into Earth, melting surface rock and scattering debris for thousands of kilometres. These tiny pieces of glass are like little time capsules from deep in our planet’s history.
“What makes the discovery even more intriguing is that, although the impact must have been immense, scientists are yet to locate the crater.”
Younger Dryas, call your office.
Maybe Immanuel Velikovsky was right, and the glass is evidence of a large plasma discharge
(which wouldn’t leave a crater). At about the time of the Younger Dryas.
The tektites in question predate the Younger Dryas period by 11 million years. Did you actually read the article?
Also from the article:
I realize this board has a weird hard-on for Graham Hancock, but he’s an Erik von Daniken-level grifter.
I realize this board has a weird hard-on for Graham Hancock, but he’s an Erik von Daniken-level grifter.
Talk to me, Daniel. I’ve read a couple of Hancock’s books. Can you point me in a direction that scientifically refutes Hancock?
I don’t have to. That is not how this works. Hancock is the one making outlandish claims, so the burden of providing extraordinary proof of those claims lies on him. I can claim that there was an advanced civilization that had mastered fusion power in Doggerland prior to the Vistula-Wurm glaciation, but it was all destroyed by the ice; it’s not anyone else’s job to refute that, it’s my job to prove I’m not completely full of shit. And “the fact that there’s no evidence just proves it was all destroyed by the glacier” doesn’t count.
Hancock is full of shit. He’s provided not a whit of actual evidence for his claims that stands up to even basic scrutiny. Like von Daniken, he’s relying on the fact that most people know very little about geology, prehistory and astronomy and find the idea of Knowing Something That Everyone Else Doesn’t attractive. What he’s doing is no different than the Kamloops grifters banging on about GPR finding unmarked graves. They know most people have no idea how GPR works and want to believe the lie.
None of this matters, because whether Hancock is right or wrong is irrelevant to everyone (except maybe people hustling for meager archaeology grants). But if you can be taken in by an obvious grifter like Hancock, you’re likely to be taken in by people whose grifts do affect you.
Younger Dryas? I wish! I keep getting older, and well, the less said about my ass, the better…
Crater? What if the meteor struck a glancing blow? Does every meteor impact at 90deg. to the surface and leave a symmetrical crater? Perhaps glancing blows are defeated by the atmosphere … but if we know anything about nature (God’s creation) … random things can and do happen.