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Are you maybe thinking of Ancient Aliens? I remember an episode like that, IIRC it also had some crazier claims like pyramid complexes resembling calculator ci
by dotnet00 3y ago
Are you maybe thinking of Ancient Aliens?
I remember an episode like that, IIRC it also had some crazier claims like pyramid complexes resembling calculator circuit boards.
- magicalhippo 3y agoCan't recall, though from what I recall it wasn't that out there. What I do recall was that the main point was that these monuments were linked to something astrological, be it stars, equinoxes or similar, "that the same time" some 12k years ago. That's why I thought of it in this context. If it were true, and the timing lining up with these big animals going away, did something big happen 12k years ago? Of course, not taking some random guy on Discovery's word for it. But fun coincidence to think about.
- ceejayoz 3y ago> If it were true, and the timing lining up with these big animals going away, did something big happen 12k years ago? An ice age ended, and humans invented agriculture. Combined, these are very big things for the world. Magic/aliens not required.
- magicalhippo 3y agoYeah wasn't suggesting aliens by any means.
- angiosperm 3y agoAbsolutely something big happened 12800 years ago: a massive comet strike that melted much of the North American ice sheet and started continent-wide wildfires. The record is seen unambiguously in a spike of massively elevated platinum dust, and sulfur from fires, frozen into a layer of polar ice. 30+ genera of, mostly, big mammals went extinct suddenly, along with the Clovis culture. The big remaining mystery is what happened 1200 years later to end the Younger Dryas cold spell.