New evidence suggests a huge asteroid DID hit EARTH 12,800 years ago causing an ice age, wiping out dozens of species and decimating humans

Daily Mail UK ^ | October 8, 2019 | Milly Vincent

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!......................

[Dr. Thorne]

A huge asteroid may have hit the Earth 12,800 years ago causing global climate change and extinction, according to new evidence found in South Africa.

Or not.

[quantim]

This conflicts a wee bit with the Laurentide ice sheet.

[Carry_Okie]

As to whether humans alone or climate change caused the megafauna extinction, I'm an "all of the above" guy:

1. People were here feasting on large animals.
2. A comet hit, causing massive climate disruption.
3. Times were pretty desperate. People finished off the megafauna.

Humans can be amazing survivors.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I love how the Daily Mail has a couple artist renditions of how an asteroid could have smashed into Earth and a scary massive asteroid hurtling toward Earth.

[TexasFreeper2009]

if it hit in the ocean that might explain 40 days of rain and flooding that covered the mountains. *shrug*

[plain talk]

Randall Carlson is a big believer in this theory.

[The Louiswu]

12k years is virtually nothing in terms of time, the Earth could still be feeling long term effects from such a strike.

[Fai Mao]

It hit an ice sheet. That is why there is no crater

[pierrem15]

People were here feasting on large animals.

Human predation of large herbivores is actually worse for the species than other predators.

Why? Because unlike obligate carnivores, human metabolism cannot convert protein to sugars without also digesting our own muscle tissue. And we need a lot of calories, especially in a cold climate, because our brains use 25% of average caloric intake and our body shape and size means large heat loss. Inuit living a traditional lifestyle need 9,000 - 12,000 calories a day.

As a consequence, humans hunt large animals in their prime to get the fat, which more adversely affects the breeding population. So human predation pressure is actually greater per human on large animals than other predators.

[bigbob]

The Laurentide was present long before and after this event.

[texas booster]

A rocky comet hitting ice sheets seems to fit the facts well.

[null and void]

In our orbit around the galactic center we cross dust lanes about every 12,000 years.

They’re not just dust, they’re dust, gravel, rocks, boulders, and the occasional mountain.

Mostly we miss the mountains, they are few and far between.

Hopefully we’ll miss the boulders the next time...

[Dr. Franklin]

And the Sasquatch, with their warm fur, prospered through the ice age.

[null and void]

As did Neanderthals, probably for much the same reason...

[Pearls Before Swine]

Another form of “Global Reset.”

[SomeCallMeTim]

Interesting

[airborne]

I was watching a show about exoplanets, with scientists discussing whether or not an alien species might be looking at Earth and wondering if it is habitable for them.

One scientist commented that it’s possible, but they might likely pass on Earth because, with large quantities of ice at both poles, we would rightly be considered in an ice age!

I was both shocked and pleased by his honesty!

[T. Rustin Noone]

Wait.

What?

12,800 years ago we were emerging from the last Ice Age. Was
there another Ice Age that they did not tell us about during the Holocene Climate Optimum?