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What If Humanity Forgot an Entire Civilization? #jre #joerogan #podcast
TL;DR
Claims about a prehistoric advanced civilization destroyed by a comet-linked catastrophe remain speculative and are not supported by mainstream scientific consensus.
KEY POINTS
Taurid Meteor Stream and Impact Concerns
The Taurid meteor stream, associated with Comet Encke, contains hundreds of ज्ञ near-Earth objects, some exceeding 1 kilometer in diameter. Earth passes through this debris field twice annually, producing visible fireballs. While most are small, proponents argue that larger, less visible objects in the same orbit could pose an impact risk.
Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
Some researchers link these objects to a proposed cosmic event around 12,800 years ago, at the onset of the Younger Dryas, a sudden return to near-glacial conditions. The hypothesis suggests fragments of a disintegrating comet struck Earth, triggering widespread environmental disruption, wildfires, and rapid climate change.
Claims of a Lost Civilization
The impact theory is often paired with the idea that an advanced human civilization existed before recorded history and was largely erased by this catastrophe. Advocates argue that such an event could explain gaps in archaeological records and sudden cultural shifts in early human societies.
Changing Ice Age Landscapes
During the last Ice Age, global geography differed significantly. The Sahara was wetter and vegetated, while lower sea levels exposed vast coastal plains. At the end of the Ice Age, sea levels rose by about 120 meters (roughly 400 feet), submerging an estimated 27 million square kilometers of land that may have been habitable.
Hidden Archaeological Potential
Dense environments such as the Amazon rainforest and submerged continental shelves remain largely unexplored. Technologies like lidar have revealed large, previously unknown structures beneath forest canopies, fueling speculation that more undiscovered sites could exist in currently inaccessible regions.
Scientific Skepticism
Most archaeologists and geologists do not support the idea of a lost advanced civilization or a global cataclysm wiping it out. Evidence for the Younger Dryas impact remains debated, with many scientists attributing climate changes to natural variability rather than extraterrestrial causes. No confirmed archaeological record demonstrates the existence of a technologically advanced society predating known civilizations.
CONCLUSION
While the Taurid meteor stream and ancient climate shifts are active areas of research, the notion of a vanished advanced civilization destroyed by a comet impact remains unproven and outside mainstream scientific agreement.
Full transcript
What if an advanced civilization had existed before recorded history and was completely wiped out by a global catastrophe? >> NASA has a a search for near-Earth asteroids, but weirdly they're not paying any attention to the Taurid meteor stream. We know that there's 200 objects in the Taurid meteor stream that are a kilometer or more in diameter. Comet Encke, which is the at the heart of the stream, is is almost 5 km in diameter. Uh it's all part of the it's all of these are all fragments of that original giant comet that began to disintegrate 12,800 years ago and that the Earth that the Earth ran into. >> So, is this what are you showing me, Jimmy? >> This is our video on Twitter of the Taurid meteor stream. >> That's a great time to see shooting stars. >> fireball pop up. Yeah. Bam. >> There they go. >> That's exactly what happens. We're we're we're in that we're in that time period now. Unfortunately, most of those those fireballs are caused by little objects. Maybe the size of your fist, maybe just the size of a fingertip, maybe just a speck of dust burning up into the atmosphere, but they are shrouding very large objects that are on that same orbital trajectory which the Earth crosses twice a year and we should be paying attention to those large objects because we can actually do something about them and the evidence shows that they did something terrible to the Earth 12,800 years ago and they changed everything. Changed everything. >> And that is what this Netflix series is all about. >> That's what Ancient Apocalypse is all about. It's why it's called Ancient Apocalypse because that's what it ultimately comes down to. Now, there's masses of material in the series about the possibility of a lost civilization and presenting the evidence for a lost civilization. Um but but ultimately, when you talk of a lost civilization, how did it become lost? What happened that took it away that obliterated it from human memory? And this apocalyptic episode called the Younger Dryas is the answer to that. The point I often make, which I think is worth making again and again, is how different the world was during the Ice Age. >> Mhm. >> The Sahara Desert was green. It was a fertile place. Nobody's doing much archaeology in the Sahara Desert today. The Amazon rainforest, 5 million plus square kilometers under deep canopy, hardly any archaeology's been done there. And yet we know from lidar surveys that there are enormous structures under that canopy. And then what about sea level rise? 400 ft sea level rise at the end of the Ice Age. The prime real estate on Earth, 27 million square kilometers, it's about 10 million square miles, were submerged by rising sea levels at the end of the at the end of the Ice Age. And again, archaeology there is marine archaeology, but they're not really looking very