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2/2: #Bestof2021: Suppose a comet exploded on Planet Earth: #HotelMars: 2/2: The glass-strewn Atacama Desert twelve millennia after a comet bolide. Peter Schultz, @BrownUniversity, @BrownAlumniMag. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted Nove

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🗓️ 17 December 2022

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2/2: #Bestof2021: Suppose a comet exploded on Planet Earth: #HotelMars: 2/2: The glass-strewn Atacama Desert twelve millennia after a comet bolide. Peter Schultz, @BrownUniversity, @BrownAlumniMag. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted November 16,, 2021)

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/comet-exploded-over-atacama-desert-revealed-by-glass



https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/50/2/205/609354/Widespread-glasses-generated-by-cometary-fireballs

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1:21.9

Now, the question is, the day of the comet strikes, the bowline that never reached the earth,

1:29.5

but it didn't vaporize it, it glastized the surface. What was there before and that

1:36.2

amount of heat? What was the result? Now, Professor, there is speculation that there was

1:42.2

megafauna here. Human beings not living here, watching this or surviving this. Do you believe

1:48.1

they heat from the comet or the conditions created by the comet affected the climate of

1:53.8

this region or affected fossilized the region for 12,000 years? Was it already fossilized?

1:59.7

I think it was already fossilized. This was a period of time change and megamammals were

2:06.7

disappearing at about the same time, but there is no real connection between the mammals

2:12.7

that disappeared and this event. That's way too soon and the hottest speculation would

2:17.9

just can't say that. After all, the humans were there. They didn't disappear either. We

2:23.3

know that things can survive. I think the real issue is what exactly happened. So,

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