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[blam]

"They're smaller than the diameter of a human hair, less than 100 microns in size"

An average Caucasian hair is right at 100 microns in diameter. The hair of all other races are larger.

Now, Toba is a neat story and one fun to reckon with.

I've had my own doubts too when I first read about the Hobbits on Flores Island (very near to Toba) and their dating to 80,000+ years. They would have had to survive the Toba eruption too...so...

[djf]

I’m very skeptical that it didn’t happen.

I’ve seen LOTS of confirming evidence using different disciplines.

The volcanic glass sediments match the sea-floor core sample data (which is a wealth of info by itself).

Something happened about 75,000 years ago. And except for the very central tropics, worldwide temps fell by 10 degrees Celsius for almost a thousand years!