hi all. new here. just finished watching the netflix series- don’t know much about any of this, did a superficial internet search about the young dryas impact hypothesis and read about the ‘inconsistencies’ that fail to explain, for example, why species die-off was staggered across space and time (one would expect it to happen all at once if the instigating factor is ET impact). and then i thought about the last few years on planet earth… and again, disclaimer, i know nothing (less than nothing?!) about any of this, but it does seem to me that ‘when it rains, it pours’
in other words, isn’t it not only possible, but likely, that that the comet impacts and the subsequent ‘apocalypse’ would have released a (literal) viral event that would take time to spread from one land mass to another (given that unlike in our modern day pandemic, we used air travel to rapidly spread this virus around the globe, to every population). wouldn’t one have expected to see, way back then, that if there a virus had been released from the rapid glacial melt, heat, ice, etc. for it to spread slowly, over time (and land mass- space) to cause extinctions?
and this could apply not only to fauna (all animals, which obviously includes humans), but to flora as well (thereby impacting food sources, creating scarcity, which in turn would push more species to extinction in that same time period).
in other words, why seek one theory as the reason for the ‘ancient apocalypse’? isn’t it more likely that it was a confluence, a convergence, of multiple system failures that occurred in an unfolding chaotic synchronicity over a relatively short time period?
complex situations are rarely the result of one single event, or action.
complexity breeds complexity.
it seems to me that the young dryas impact theory is just one event (likely, the initial, instigating event) that, subsequently, unleashed multiple system ‘failures’
or, in this case, a confluence, or convergence, of shifts, alterations, modifications to the host environment (planet earth) that created an inhospitable environment- not only for our human ancestors- but for a good swath of life that had evolved to exist on earth until that massive shift changed the environment.
isn’t it not only possible, but likely, that the comet tail impacts, and the resulting climate and geological ‘apocalypse’ may have been the instigating factor for the creation of a highly hospitable environment for what may have been life-threatening bacterial, viral, and even fungal distribution- leading those things to become the next ‘finishing’ steps in what would have been a ripple effect following all that the impact(s) unleashed?
after all, when it rains, it pours
in other words, isn’t it not only possible, but likely, that that the comet impacts and the subsequent ‘apocalypse’ would have released a (literal) viral event that would take time to spread from one land mass to another (given that unlike in our modern day pandemic, we used air travel to rapidly spread this virus around the globe, to every population). wouldn’t one have expected to see, way back then, that if there a virus had been released from the rapid glacial melt, heat, ice, etc. for it to spread slowly, over time (and land mass- space) to cause extinctions?
and this could apply not only to fauna (all animals, which obviously includes humans), but to flora as well (thereby impacting food sources, creating scarcity, which in turn would push more species to extinction in that same time period).
in other words, why seek one theory as the reason for the ‘ancient apocalypse’? isn’t it more likely that it was a confluence, a convergence, of multiple system failures that occurred in an unfolding chaotic synchronicity over a relatively short time period?
complex situations are rarely the result of one single event, or action.
complexity breeds complexity.
it seems to me that the young dryas impact theory is just one event (likely, the initial, instigating event) that, subsequently, unleashed multiple system ‘failures’
or, in this case, a confluence, or convergence, of shifts, alterations, modifications to the host environment (planet earth) that created an inhospitable environment- not only for our human ancestors- but for a good swath of life that had evolved to exist on earth until that massive shift changed the environment.
isn’t it not only possible, but likely, that the comet tail impacts, and the resulting climate and geological ‘apocalypse’ may have been the instigating factor for the creation of a highly hospitable environment for what may have been life-threatening bacterial, viral, and even fungal distribution- leading those things to become the next ‘finishing’ steps in what would have been a ripple effect following all that the impact(s) unleashed?
after all, when it rains, it pours