Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag...
by koheripbal on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @10:54AM
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OP's analysis demonstrates that it's very possible to detect theses events 1000s of years later, if you examine areas near the explosion.
Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag...
by gota on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @12:36PM
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Yes, but they are testing the area because we know a settlement there was destroyed. We'd have to test random uninhabited (or at least currently uninhabited) areas for which there are no indications of anything special to get a better picture
And not even that guarantees a complete picture - what if a tsunami event erases or conceals the record of something like this? Volcanic activity? Desertification?
My point is that we can't reason about the rarity or uniqueness of these events as a main factor for accepting or refuting the hypothesis
An air burst impact that’s large enough to take out a city won’t leave a major impact crater. And back in the day it might even be the case of the perceived cause contributing more to the decline of a city or even an empire than the physical damage.
If a meteor hit blows up your town when you have no ability to comprehend what just happened other than god/gods are angry you gonna move to a less cursed place.
It can also cause social impacts such as the toppling of a given religious or leadership class because they angered the gods.