Introduction:
Many people have strived to understand and explain the events that we are about to describe. There are numerous studies concerning comet impacts around the Younger Dryas, but many of them contain contradictory information. The information contained in this book is the key to understanding what happened 12,900 years ago.
People have long been intrigued by the nature of Antarctica. We didn’t even know it existed until Captain Cook circumnavigated it, but he didn’t set foot on it. It wasn’t until 1840 that someone actually stepped onto the continent. What we found was a high, dry plateau of snow and ice. How did it get there? We have many theories, but none of them explain it as clearly as this theory does.
Some scientific facts are the truth, and we use AI models to help us search for that truth. That’s why, Diana, I’ve named you the huntress – to hunt for the truth. Now, we are going to present the evidence. It’s irrefutable and scientifically verifiable, but of course, we are pushing against accepted paradigms.
So, with your help, we are about to embark on a journey of discovery. Are you ready?
Part 1: The Event
Our scientific studies over the last 40 years have shown us, without a doubt, that comet impacts have played a major role in the shaping of our solar system. Many planets have massive impact basins in their south polar regions: Mercury has the Caloris impact basin, Mars has the Hellas basin, and the Moon has the Aitken impact basin. Curiously enough, some of these basins still seem to contain water ice.
When we consider Antarctica as another impact basin, we start to put things in perspective. Let’s think about Antarctica as the result of a massive ice comet that slammed into the Earth 12,900 years ago. What evidence do we actually have for this? We will get into this in a while, but for now, let’s just conceive of the event.
The whole solar system was peppered by a massive wave of nitrogenized comets. They struck from a certain direction, which we call south, reshaping and reforming all the planets, creating major landforms, and delivering water, ice, and perhaps nitrogen. The event was so large that when an object resembling the Moon Hyperion of Saturn, basically a hollow dirty snowball about 400 kilometers in diameter, hit the Roche limit, the gravitational forces of the Earth ripped it apart. The heart of that comet slammed into the Earth, but it was a soft landing. It was the pressure wave that hit the crust, cracking it. The crust had to move away, and it slowly ground its way across the face of the Earth towards the opposite end of the impact, which we call north and has 90% of the landmass.
The event probably reshaped the forms of the continental plates. South America narrowed and flared. Everything seems to be shaped by the impact. The pressure wave cracked the plates. The Indian subcontinent cracked away from the Australian plate, and they both moved equidistant away from each other. The 90-degree east ridge describes a line of force delivered by the comet blow, which is the thickest layer of ice and snow in Antarctica. All the continental masses were deformed; the mountain ranges were ripped up and contorted, left in these twisted shapes. They cooled off, and this is what we see today. The Andes were lifted up; the Tibetan plateau was lifted up by the Indian subcontinent. And this may all have happened in the blink of an eye.
Human beings were around, and we have vague memories of it. The event describes the origins of the Ice Age because the residual ice and snow fell all over the face of the Earth – miles-thick layers of it, randomly splattered across its surface. Many myths and legends record this event. Human beings have dim, foggy memories of it, which we will get into later, but for now, we’re describing the event.
The Earth quivered, shaking back and forth, with a magnetic wave washing across it. The rocks were all being encoded with this back-and-forth motion, washing across the face of the Earth. Shockwaves stretched across its surface; volcanoes emitted gases as a pressure release. And human beings, what do we actually know about it? We will explore these memories and the evidence for this event in the following parts of the book.
Not only did this event shape Earth, but we also see evidence throughout the solar system. One of the major pieces of the puzzle that nobody expected to find was the nitrogenized glacier on Pluto. I say “glacier” with quotations because glaciers typically imply a mountain range that’s delivering them. However, we have no mountains on Pluto. What we have is a massive nitrogen ice glacier that appears to have been plastered across its face. It’s apparently very young, and this could be part of the wave of comets that hit 12,900 years ago.
Pluto is intriguing because perhaps the nitrogen in our atmosphere was delivered by these comets. But again, this is just one part of the event.
Now let’s take Mars. The Hellas impact basin is relatively the same size as Antarctica and could have resulted from a similar-sized impactor. When it hit Mars, it set off a shockwave through its surface, which may have ripped the crust apart and created Valles Marineris. Valles Marineris points directly at the Tharsis Rise, which features volcanoes. The Tharsis Rise is 24,000 feet above the surface of Mars, and Valles Marineris is 24,000 feet below the surface. They are on opposite sides of the planet, which could imply a cause-and-effect relationship.
There is a lot of water ice locked in the surface of Mars. Was it delivered by the comet impact? Was there once a giant ocean on Mars, as some speculate? It seems that there is a massive amount of water ice locked just beneath the surface dust of Mars, and we find it almost everywhere we look. Perhaps this theory will help people better understand how it got there and further explore the connections between these events and the features we observe in our solar system.
Now, scientific evidence seems to indicate that the Earth once had a wetter, warmer climate. The curious idea that perhaps the Earth did not have a tilt to its axis before the impact has been floating around in my mind. It’s very possible that the tilt of the axis of the Earth and the tilt of the axis of Mars, which are relatively similar, were both caused by a similar wave of cometary objects. It could be that both planets at one time had their axes straight up and down.
We are aware of the fact that Antarctica was once a temperate, forested region. It was once part of a larger protocontinent called Pangaea. The cometary impact theory I’m proposing explains how this all comes about. Temperate forested regions struck by the comet, ripped apart, and buried beneath the ice and snow. Perhaps the soft coal deposits found in the Transantarctic Mountains were created by the pressure wave.
Another part of the event that we wish to describe concerns the possibility that there was a thick coating of carbon material on the surface of the comet that may have ignited upon impact with the atmosphere. The Younger Dryas theories proposed that there were massive wildfires, and the black mat that we find may be caused by this event.
The oil and natural gas that we find on Earth may have a relationship with this event. They may have been delivered by it directly, created by the wildfires, or it may be a combination of both. And it could be that as the Earth cracked apart, fissures opened up, and all these liquefied materials drained deep into the Earth where we find them today. This is just another avenue of evidence to explore because we know from our studies of Halley’s Comet that there is a thick carbon coating on these objects. And we must consider the effect of the impact on how these materials would ignite.
Part 2: The Evidence. This theory proposes such a radical departure from traditional geological dogma that we feel compelled to present convincing evidence. The most convincing evidence that we have at our disposal, which everyone can examine at their leisure, are the maps prepared by Marie Tharp for National Geographic. These maps are the reason that I figured out this theory. These maps show clearly that Antarctica is ground zero for a massive comet strike.
As we study the undersea landforms surrounding Antarctica, what we see are the mid-ocean ridges radiating away from Antarctica. We see a ripple-like effect of crust formation going into the Pacific, moving from south to north. We see the shockwave emanating through the Atlantic Ocean that seems to peter out as it gets up to Greenland. It seems to me that the Greenland ice sheet, the plate Greenland sits on, may have at one time been a part of Antarctica because it explains the existence of this massive layer of ice and snow not unlike that on Antarctica in a frozen desert.
This is a very radical theory, but it seems to be indicated by the studies of the maps. But to continue, if we look at the 90-degree East Ridge emanating from Antarctica, pointing towards the highest point on Earth, the Himalayas, pointing towards a buckling, a curvature of the mountains in the Great Range of western China, if we consider the fact that the Indian subcontinent split away from the Australian subcontinent along that line of force, moving equidistantly, now we see what appear to be tracks that the plates moved upon, especially with the Australian plate. It’s very clear; it’s almost like railroad tracks. And you can see how the ripple effect was deforming the undersea features at an equal distance away from how much they moved. It’s all very interesting, and the study of Marie Tharp’s undersea features brings it all into focus.
Now, this is the major piece of evidence that we are presenting. In order to break the crust, we need an impactor that would release a pressure wave without smashing a hole through the surface of the Earth and completely destroying it. When we see Hyperion, the moon of Saturn caught in an eccentric retrograde orbit, which indicates a captured ice comet as a sample or a model for the impactor. Now we get a good idea of how this could have happened. When we see the pressure wave as the major force to crack the crust, we need to crunch the numbers. With Diana’s help, we have done this, and what she has found is that if a 400-kilometer object, loosely compacted as Hyperion, struck the Earth and broke apart at the Roche limit, it would release enough energy that it would be equal to billions of nuclear weapons exploding.
Now, the concept we try to promote is that it was a soft landing. This was not like your Hollywood disaster film. This was something more like a blossoming flower. It’s hard for people to comprehend, but something special might have happened. And we’ll get into that later, but right now, what we see is the splitting of the continents caused by the pressure wave cracking and deforming the plates. And this is the major piece of evidence that we present: the maps of Marie Tharp. With studies and using this as a key to understanding what you’re seeing, it all makes perfect sense.
Now, we can also offer up as evidence all the studies done about the Younger Dryas. There seems to be a lot of confusion concerning the delivery of cometary objects and the destruction of the ice sheets. It’s all very confusing because actually, when you see it in the light of this theory, it’s very simple. It’s 1-2-3: comet hits, splits the crust, scatters ice and snow across the face of the Earth. Those miles-thick layers of ice and snow, when they melt, they raise the sea levels 300 feet and cover the continental shelves which were exposed on the surface at the point of impact.
Now, when we see the studies of the Younger Dryas as scientific evidence for this theory, we connect all the pieces of the puzzle. Many people have been on the trail of this, but without this key piece of evidence, without understanding properly how it all came about, nothing will make sense. So, what we are hoping to do is offer people the key to understanding. Because indeed, the truth will set you free.
Another piece of evidence that may be related to this theory explains the formation of the Rings of Saturn. With Diana’s help, we crunched the numbers to determine what size impactor would have created all the rings around Saturn. Interestingly enough, she came up with the figure of 396 kilometers, which is only 4 kilometers off the 400-kilometer figure. The rings of Saturn are very young.
Now, we will introduce this as another piece of evidence because Hyperion is so central to understanding the idea of a pressure wave splitting the continents. Saturn could also be very helpful in helping to understand this. The ice moons of Saturn, there are many, many ice moons, perhaps are remnants of a larger object. Perhaps they were delivered at that time. Perhaps even the tilt of Saturn’s axis, which I believe is 27 degrees, not that far off the 24 and 23 degrees of Mars and Earth, perhaps all these things were caused by similar events.
Now, an interesting concept to introduce at this point is that, as well as the comets, perhaps there was a cosmic wind associated with the event. If we think of it as a terrestrial hailstorm, maybe we can get a better grip on the concepts involved here.
Another piece of evidence that we introduce is the extinction of the Pleistocene mammal species that may have occurred at this time. Again, the studies of the Younger Dryas clearly record the disappearance of many large mammal landforms. Were they hunted into extinction? Was mankind desperate for food? We know in our own lifetimes that we have hunted species into extinction, so that concept is not impossible.
But another piece of evidence that we wish to introduce is the curious case of all the mammoths encased in ice in Siberia. Now, ordinarily, you would have to have large grazing lands to support such massive creatures as mammoths and mastodons. They would have to have a tremendous amount of food. Siberia, as we know, is a frozen tundra. So the question becomes: how did all these mammoths and mastodons become encased, jumbled up, and crushed together under a layer of ice which now is melting and providing the people that live there with a steady supply of ivory, which they trade on the market?
It seems to me that the wave of ice and snow might have swept these creatures away from their grazing grounds and piled them up at the opposite end of the Earth. This seems to be the only mechanism that would explain the existence of all these mammoth and mastodon bones, smashed together and piled under ice and snow in Siberia. These are hard scientific facts, and we need to explain all these things in the context of a unified understanding. Perhaps the Antarctic impact theory will help people do this.
Another interesting piece of evidence that we wish to introduce is the concept that our atmospheric nitrogen may have been delivered by these cometary objects. Now we know that Pluto has a massive nitrogen glacier on its surface; without the space probe New Horizons, we would have never even imagined such a thing was possible. But now we really have to introduce that as a piece of evidence.
The Earth has a 78% nitrogen content, 21% oxygen content, and the rest is insignificant. So how did the nitrogen get here? Conventional scientific theories postulate that it was part of volcanic emissions or introduced from some other source that’s not happening. Well, I say that if you can’t prove a piece of evidence right here and now, then don’t bother me with it, because I will tell you something you can prove: that a nitrogenized comet, if it hit the Earth, would have sublimated the nitrogen ice. And those gases could have been introduced into the atmosphere of the planet.
Now, no other planet has such a high concentration of nitrogen, except maybe Titan, which is another case. As part of the evidence, we will suggest that Earth’s atmospheric nitrogen may have originated from the comet that created Antarctica.
– By Mike Madden
Updated 4/13/23
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