Ancient civilization 'predicted' killer asteroid would hit Earth 12,000 years ago using 'warning system'
Topics: Science, Space, World News
Mia Williams
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Topics: Science, Space, World News
A historian has claimed that structures like Stonehenge were designed as ‘early-warning’ systems by ancient civilizations for asteroid strikes.
Randall Carlson, a ‘renegade scholar’, has said that a large extraterrestrial object hit the Earth around 12,000 years ago, and wiped out a huge number of land animals.
He has also claimed that the humans who existed at the time ‘knew it was coming’ due to structures like Stonehenge.
So, let’s break this down…
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Talking to podcaster Shawn Ryan on the Shawn Ryan Show, he explained how impacts from these extraterrestrial objects leave craters that can be counted up by geologists.
But it’s also true that other objects could make their way into the atmosphere, and cause widespread devastation without a single trace.
Carlson brought up an example from 1908, which was an event known as Tunguska.
This saw a comet fragment explode over northern Siberia. It flattened hundreds of trees, killed wildlife, but left almost no geological footprint.
On the podcast, Carlson said: “If you have an event like Tunguska, a hundred years from now there won't be any trace of it.
“The trees that were knocked down will all have rotted away and there's new forest growing there.
“We wouldn't even know about it right, whereas the Arizona meteor crater that happened some 50,000 years ago, that big hole in the ground is still there.”
“It exploded five miles up in the atmosphere with the force of about a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb.
“The largest hydrogen bomb ever tested by the US, back in the1950s was called Bravo.
“It was 20 megatons – so this is almost in the range of the biggest hydrogen bomb that the US Department of Defence ever tested.
“As a result of that explosion over 820 square miles of old growth taiga forest was just utterly obliterated and flattened under the epicentre of that explosion.
“About 200 square miles was just incinerated to nothing.”
He also believes that the mass extinction of mammoths which was previously blamed on the Stone Age hunters, was due to a catastrophe.
His theory is that the ancient civilization had seen these massive impacts before and learned to predict them.
“The pyramids and a lot of these ‘mysteries of the world’ – Stonehenge, Easter Island, Machu Picchu all seem to line up with the stars,” Carlson explained.
According to Carlson, it explains why ‘ancient peoples all over the world were such obsessive sky-watchers’.