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There are changes in the geological record that are still unexplained, these could be signs of an older civilization.ld

"The Younger Dryas was a period of rapid cooling in the late Pleistocene 12,800 to 11,500 calendar years ago. It followed closely on the heels of a dramatically abrupt warming that brought the last Ice Age to a close (17,500 calendar years ago), lasted for about 1,300 years, then ended as abruptly as it started. The cause of these remarkably sudden climate changes has puzzled geologists and climatologists for decades and despite much effort to find the answer, can still only be considered enigmatic."

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/19/the-intriguing-proble...


You are posting a climate-change denying site as your source for this? Consider me incredulous.

Edit: From my quick perusal, the warming for the Younger Dryas period is not mysterious at all. The main theory is that there was a sudden cooling due to the failure of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation around 12,900 BC. This cooling was then rapidly reversed back to the median warming trend about 11,700BC.


You have just pushed the mystery back a step. What caused the failure of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation? What reversed the failure 1200-odd years later?

Evidence for a bolide strike producing a huge meltwater pulse, to start the process, is accumulating, coinciding with extinction of 30+ genera and the sudden end of the Clovis culture. Another strike at the Holocene boundary is less well supported; but we do need a cause.


That's not right. 87.8 + 12.2% = 100% of insufficient etc. Active case = not dead


Thank you, I was confused by the term "active cases".


Interested in thoughts on this.

R1b European populations appear to have higher COVID-19 deaths, while R1a appear less affected.

This is controlled for different start time of the epidemic by counting deaths at 28 days past the date of 1000 cases (the last country is therefore Greece, that reached 1000 cases on March 29th, deaths counted on April 26th).

All countries had isolation measures - except Sweden which is excluded.

If this correlation is correct, all countries <0.8 R1b could relax isolation measures with minimal adverse effects (Sweden levels).

Similar populations should have similar death rates. Looking at UK (>300/Million) vs. Australia (3/Million), this possibly indicates Vitamin D plays a role. Australia was in summer, with vit. D generated from UV exposure in skin. UK was in the middle of winter.

This implies COVID-19 should wane during the summer in the northern hemisphere, and come back in late winter when Vit. D levels fall in general population.


All countries may have had isolation measures, but those were implemented at a significantly different time. PL and CZ were among the first countries to implement lovkdowns, and they did those when the number of cases was 10-100 less than the other countries.

Not mentioning that is in my opinion scientifically dishonest.

Other arguments: - the correlation between a stop of disease growth and the implementation of containment measures is very clear now

- I don’t know about CZ, but in Poland we have a high death rate compared to the number of found cases, even though we test more samples than Germany to find one case. If anything, it would actually suggest that the death rates are higher here than in DE, not the other way around.

The concept of haplogroups affecting covid is not new. The critique is also there - posting a new chart about the subject and not mentioning of critique is dishonest as well, imho.


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