Randall Carlson
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And in fact, it's been now, uh, modeled.
It's been, uh,
measured up in Texas.
I don't know if it's up where you're at in Austin, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
But I mean, it's like a half a mile under 66 million years of accumulated sediment.
But there's a giant tsunami deposit that's dated precisely at
that epoch 66 million years ago.
Well, that's a good line of thinking to start.
But here's the primary problem with that is that in order to create the Ice Age, which basically is characterized by this huge volume of glacial ice,
you have to have a hell of a lot of snowfall.
In order to get the snowfall, you have to have evaporation of ocean water on a very large scale into the atmosphere.
That has to be transported.
It will either precipitate back out as rainfall in the lower latitudes and snowfall in the higher latitudes.
But see, the problem here is that we have to come up with some kind of a mechanism that can simultaneously
inject a very large amount of water vapor into the atmosphere, then it needs to precipitate out as snow in an environment that does not warm up enough that that snow melts.
Like if we go into Canada now, obviously every year we get many feet of snow, and that snow will accumulate.
And if we didn't have summer, next year another layer of snow would come down, and if there was no summer after that, it would just continue to accumulate.
until it was a mile and a half or more thick, and that's what happened over Canada.
All right, I got two theories here for you.
Well, being consistent with Occam's razor, we better go with theory one.