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[–]Vigte[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Some more discussion than usual and slightly more upvoted than during the 16/17 slump.

... it looks like this happened at least 20 different times during the last ice age. They are are called Heinrich events and no we did not get hit by global killer comets every 5,000 years.

Pick out the Younger Dryas (and the Older Dryas and the Oldest Dryas) from these Greenland ice core records.

http://www.ice-age-ahead-iaa.ca/ice_age_canada/DO-Ice-core-isotope_1.jpg

Right, so this is the new argument they have I suppose. The reply to which is:

TIL Heinrich Events burned down an entire continent, leaving nanodiamonds and traces of platinum. Those must have been some crazy ice bergs.

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The hardest words to say by man are the also the wisest words ever said by man. "I don't know".

So it seems this person stood corrected and apologised, well done [deleted]! At least there are some people willing to admit if they are wrong.

The rest of the comments have nothing really of substance other than "Archeologists don't like this theory!" "yeah, Im an archaeologist and I don't like it!"

Are we witnessing the breakdown of the combat between main-stream and new ideas?