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Ben van Kerkwyk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3884 total appearances

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

Something like 75% of the megafaunal species in South America went extinct.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

Although you are up in the Andes, they may have been more protected from the...

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

The full extent, who knows though, fires and smoke, they would have had the blackening of the skies and all the rest of it that would have happened during that Younger Dryas extinction event.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

But yeah, something happened.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

I mean, again, there's been, I think there's been a cycle of...

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

glaciation and deglaciation in the Andes that's affected the lake and a lot of the stuff up there in particular, just because we know that there are structures, get this, there are structures beneath the waters of Lake Titicaca today made from red sandstone that match the oldest layers at Tiwanaku.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

So they might have been made- Beneath the waters.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

So the lake level must have been lower.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

And then something happened where a lot of water got added and then... Temple found on Lake Titicaca, and this is in 2000.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

Yeah, 660 foot long.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

Something like that.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

Oh, it's got to be.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

I'm sure it exists somewhere, but I have to find it.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

So it said it's made over 200 dives into water 65 to 100 feet deep.