07-16-19 S Goodfellow - Greenland Hiawatha Impact crater and possible consequences

07/16/19

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Presentation

Stephen Goodfellow:

"What might the disappearance of Lake Agassiz, the Clovis Culture, the mega fauna and the beginning of the bitterly cold, Younger Dryas era all have in common? "

Presentation

David McClintock:

"Digital Cybernetic Design - aka the impossibility of predicting the impact of innovation from a new technology like the digital revolution."

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Links from this week:

Terra Mizwa's links:

"Brain Zap changes your love of music"

Nature Human Behavior:

doi.org/cgg9

"Fungi trade with plants like a stock market"

doi.org/c6xk

"US Police use a gun that binds a suspects limbs"

BoloWrap of Wrap Technologies

"A female fly can ruin your drink"

doi.org/10.1101/206375

"Slimy solution to a medical problem"

Advanced Functional Materials,

doi.org/c6x4

Ocean plastic found at every depth https://www.newscientist.com/article/2205751-plastic-pollution-found-at-every-depth-of-the-ocean-by-deep-sea-survey/

Ancient population uncovered in Siberia

https://www.livescience.com/65654-dna-ice-age-teeth-siberia.html

Stem cell patch could repair hearts

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2205241-stem-cell-patch-may-help-repair-damage-caused-by-heart-attacks/

Stephen Goodfellow's links:12-11-18, at this SciTechNature session we touched on the Mini Ice Ages, including the 1,500 year long Younger Dryas freeze. Since then, the Hiawatha impact crater Has come to light, and I thought it would be exciting to explore the implications of this further.

I find it is interesting that a mere 2000 years before the construction of the relatively recently discovered Göbekli Tepe site, there occurres the sudden Younger Dryas freeze, the Clovis Culture disappearance, the Lake Agassiz rupture, the mega fauna extinction, the South American Pilauco impact...AND possibly the recently discovered (2018) Hiawatha impact crater that all seem to roughly cluster around 12,000 years ago.

The Hiawatha crater (31 km in diameter,) hitherto undiscovered because of the Greenland ice pack, adds an intriguing possible explanation for a massive conflagration in the Americas at that time. If it turns out to be so, it would be a dramatic compelling argument that our civilization pour resources into closely watching out for, and mapping near Earth orbit asteroids.

Here are my research links:

Younger Dryas - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

Clovis culture - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture

The Megafaunal Extinction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRGW1tAEDMA

Lake Agassiz - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Agassiz

The Massive Flood That Triggered an Ice Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMVhR26NRsk

Younger Dryas impact hypothesis - Wikipedia