#Bestof2021: #HotelMars: 2/2: The glass-strewn Atacama Desert twelve millennia after a comet bolide. Peter Schultz, @BrownUniversity, @BrownAlumniMag. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/comet-exploded-over-atacama-desert-revealed-by-glass
1900 Chile
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| 0:00.0 | Oh great! The Guardian is now delivering newspapers all over the UK to places like Manchester, Edinburgh and many more. |
| 0:06.7 | But what about us dogs? More visits from that pesky postman? |
| 0:10.0 | And look at my parents, totally preoccupied. |
| 0:12.3 | Up to 25% off offer home delivery subscription for them, |
| 0:15.3 | but no belly rubs for me. |
| 0:16.8 | Check whether your area is eligible today and subscribe when you visit the Guardian. |
| 0:20.8 | Com slash autumn delivery. |
| 0:22.0 | offer ends December 3rd, 2023. Open to UK and N.I. Guardian. This is Hotel |
| 0:35.0 | on the world. I'm John Bachelor with David Livingston, Dr. Space. This is Hotel Mars and we're visiting with Professor Peter Schultz, who with his colleagues have in Geology magazine published the |
| 0:46.2 | evidence and the observation of what they've discovered in the high desert of Chile, the Atacama |
| 0:51.8 | Desert. Now the question is the day of the comet strikes, the bolide that never reached the earth, but it didn't vaporize, it glassize the surface. What was there before and with that amount of heat? What was the result? |
| 1:09.6 | Now Professor, there is speculation that there was megafauna here, human beings not living here, watching |
| 1:15.6 | this or surviving this. |
| 1:17.8 | Do you believe the heat from the comet or the |
| 1:25.0 | comment affected the climate of this region or affected fossilized the region for 12,000 years. |
| 1:28.0 | There was it already fossilized? |
| 1:30.0 | I think it was already fossilized. |
| 1:32.0 | I think it was already fossilized and you know this was a period of time to change and |
| 1:36.3 | mega mammals were disappearing at about the same time but there's no real connection |
| 1:41.1 | between the mammals that disappeared and this event. |
| 1:46.0 | That's way too soon and highly speculative. |
| 1:48.3 | We just can't say that. |
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