re: Netflix movie "Don't look up"

quote:

---

Meryl Streep, that's all you need to know not to watch it

---

quote:

---

Meryl Streep

---

quote:

---

DID A COMET EXPLODE OVER SOUTH AMERICA 12,000 YEARS AGO?
BY: THOMAS A. DOBBINS NOVEMBER 15, 2021

---

quote:

---

The elongated shape of the glass field may be the result of a single cometary body with a grazing trajectory or a cluster of comet fragments that entered the atmosphere at a higher angle, like the collision of tidally disrupted Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in 1994. According to Schultz, the energy of the airburst over Chile dwarfed the 12-megaton Tunguska Event that felled 80 million trees in a remote Siberian wilderness in 1908.

The age of the Atacama Desert glass coincides with the re-advance of glaciers in the Andes and the sudden disappearance of more than 80% of the large mammals in South America. Schultz doesn’t claim a direct causal link to these climate and extinction events, but he does find the timing intriguing.

---

quote:

---

An Ancient Disaster
Researchers present evidence that a cosmic impact destroyed a biblical city in the Jordan Valley
By Sonia Fernandez
Monday, September 20, 2021 - 02:00 Santa Barbara, CA

---

quote:

---

Salt and Bone

“There’s evidence of a large cosmic airburst, close to this city called Tall el-Hammam,” Kennett said of an explosion similar to the Tunguska Event, a roughly 12-megaton airburst that occurred in 1908, when a 56-60-meter meteor pierced the Earth’s atmosphere over the Eastern Siberian Taiga. The shock of the explosion over Tall el-Hammam was enough to level the city, flattening the palace and surrounding walls and mudbrick structures, according to the paper. The distribution of bones indicated “extreme disarticulation and skeletal fragmentation in nearby humans.”

---

quote:

---

The airburst, according to the paper, may also explain the “anomalously high concentrations of salt” found in the destruction layer — an average of 4% in the sediment and as high as 25% in some samples. “The salt was thrown up due to the high impact pressures,” Kennett said of the meteor that likely fragmented upon contact with the Earth’s atmosphere. “And it may be that the impact partially hit the Dead Sea, which is rich in salt.” The local shores of the Dead Sea are also salt-rich, so the impact may have redistributed those salt crystals far and wide — not just at Tall el-Hammam, but also nearby Tell es-Sultan (proposed as the biblical Jericho, which also underwent violent destruction at the same time) and Tall-Nimrin (also then destroyed). The high-salinity soil could have been responsible for the so-called “Late Bronze Age Gap,” the researchers say, in which cities along the lower Jordan Valley were abandoned, dropping the population from tens of thousands to maybe a few hundred nomads. Nothing could grow in these formerly fertile grounds, forcing people to leave the area for centuries. Evidence for resettlement of Tall el-Hammam and nearby communities appears again in the Iron Age, roughly 600 years after the cities’ sudden devastation in the Bronze Age.

---

quote:

---

Fire and Brimstone

Tall el-Hamman has been the focus of an ongoing debate as to whether it could be the biblical city of Sodom, one of the two cities in the Old Testament Book of Genesis that were destroyed by God for how wicked they and their inhabitants had become. One denizen, Lot, is saved by two angels who instruct him not to look behind as they flee. Lot’s wife, however, lingers and is turned into a pillar of salt. Meanwhile, fire and brimstone fell from the sky; multiple cities were destroyed; thick smoke rose from the fires; city inhabitants were killed and area crops were destroyed in what sounds like an eyewitness account of a cosmic impact event. It’s a satisfying connection to make. “All the observations stated in Genesis are consistent with a cosmic airburst,” Kennett said, “but there’s no scientific proof that this destroyed city is indeed the Sodom of the Old Testament.” However, the researchers said, the disaster could have generated an oral tradition that may have served as the inspiration for the written account in the book of Genesis, as well as the biblical account of the burning of Jericho in the Old Testament Book of Joshua.

---

quote:

---

Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed 23 As the sun rose over the earth, Lot arrived in Zoar; 24 and the Lord rained down burning asphalt from the skies onto Sodom and Gomorrah. 25 The Lord destroyed these cities, the entire valley, everyone who lived in the cities, and all of the fertile land’s vegetation. 26 When Lot’s wife looked back, she turned into a pillar of salt. 27 Abraham set out early for the place where he had stood with the Lord, 28 and looked out over Sodom and Gomorrah and over all the land of the valley. He saw the smoke from the land rise like the smoke from a kiln.

---

quote:

---

Ancient Stone Carvings-Comet(s) Hitting Earth app.10,950 BC (p14, Shermer concedes...)Posted on 4/22/17 at 9:48 pm

---

quote:

---

I thought it looked like a funny take on our government being a piece of shite covering stuff up.

---

quote:

---

he dumb arse corrupt president involved with the global tech companies in movie is the republican side and the truth seekers are the democrat liberals in movie.

---

quote:

---

Movie is pretty great. If your pissed that the President is a Republican, you are missing the entire point. Either party would fit the movie’s plot. Both parties are bought and paid for with a bunch of idiots in control who are only concerned about themselves and the short term future.

---