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What if Earth didn’t get hit by one single impact… but by a storm of fragments?
In this clip, Randall Carlson explores the idea that catastrophic events can cluster in time. There may be as many as six craters now associated with the extinction of the dinosaurs, supporting the possibility of multiple impacts or closely timed events rather than one isolated strike. The core idea: a disintegrating comet can create long streams of debris, turning a “beautiful” sky into a dangerous one.
As these nuclei break up, they leave trails packed with secondary material. Carlson points out that each breakup can produce thousands and thousands of Tunguska-sized objects. That means Earth may not even need to hit the main nuclei that appear in the sky—the real damage could come from the swarm of fragments created during disintegration, greatly increasing the odds of widespread impacts and cascading environmental consequences.
He also connects this concept to later Earth history, suggesting it’s possible our ancestors witnessed skies like this, and that similar clustered encounters with debris streams may relate to the onset of Ice Age cycles around 2.3 million years ago.
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