Comment by ramraj07 | Hacker News Reader

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Humans could have lived nicely in harmony for hundreds of thousands of years in times of abundance, and when sudden cataclysms caused great famines or suffering they could have resorted to more drastic measures that caused large scale fires.

Doesn’t mean this is what I think happened, but sounds just as plausible as comets causing havoc to me.

In the end IMO this field has been greatly disserviced by Hancock. The yDIH just as well might have been the correct explanation but this guy won’t stop yapping about aliens alongside the same. So the “establishment” academics seem to be very wary of this hypothesis and being associated with him. Now it’s clear that’s dumb of the academics as well, they should be logical and choose the correct hypothesis no matter what flavor it associates them with. Sad that one of the likely most important times of human history has become so contentious due to human emotion and ego coming in the way of scientific rigor.

I agree with most of this. I would say Graham Hancock has some crazy ideas, but the Younger Dryas isn't crazy and his impact on the theory is minimal. If anything the fact that Joe Rogan had him and Randal Carlson as guests on JRE at the same time probably had more impact.

My current thoughts are that the true history of human civilization does go much further back than current narratives and "Experts" claim. Our current civilization has progressed and innovated so much in such a short amount time, it is not unreasonable to expect that humans have built and lost similar civilizations through catastrophes such as the YDB.

It may not have been aliens but I think it is probable that right around the time we started going into space, ancient human made satellites were discovered and brought back to earth. It could also be that Area 51 and other places were created not for Alien space craft crashes but ancient human satellites that were intentionally crashed.

I can only imagine how alien a TESLA found in space by the next civilization might seem!

Considering the way our government leaders and wealthy have historically conducted themselves, it's not hard to believe if they survived a cataclysm, they would be quite willing to be thought of as gods and horde any knowledge they have to themselves.

Fun subject to ponder in anycase!

Just for the record, Hancock has never promoted aliens. He's dead wrong a great deal, but not that wrong. His crime, though, is to have been annoyingly right too many times, for all the wrong reasons. YDIH is just one such case.

Hancock's great strength is that he actually goes to all the places he writes about, and his wife takes great pictures. I forgive all his maundering in exchange for the pics.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AtI1snsk2M0?feature=share This is the same person correct?

He is saying modern reports of aliens are equivalent to previous reports of fairies. It is not common to believe in fairies, even among loonies.

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