Randall Carlson

We'll put it on the shelf, and we'll get back to it.

Yeah, you're very close, actually, to what the scenario—

So I began looking at, you know, I encountered those papers in the 70s, probably a number of years after they were first published, and that just intrigued me to no end.

Like, okay, here's a mystery.

How did this happen so fast, both the onset of the Ice Age and the end of the Ice Age?

So by the time I would say one of the things that sort of triggered my interest in this was –

to my next level thinking on it was in the early 1980s when it first got proposed that the dinosaur extinction was triggered by an asteroid impact, which you're probably well aware of, you know, that was for sure posed.

It was a very controversial, uh,

proposition back in 1980, a lot of resistance to it, but it took about a decade.

And it was the discovery of the impact crater in the Yucatan that finally shifted the balance of scientific opinion to accepting it.

But it was probably a combination of the impact.

Actually, we could go a little further than that.

There was probably a cluster of impacts.

Around that time so that the station wasn't one fell swoop.

It may have been just like in a mixed martial arts fight, you know, somebody gets slugged, but they don't go down.

But, um, over a period of time, you know, they wear out and they, they get knocked out, you know, they might not get knocked out in the first round, but they get.

Right.

Feedbacks.

And that probably was an important component of the whole process.

Interesting, though, one of the great volcanic episodes in Earth history was happening simultaneous.