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Great, except cave art in the identical tradition, on Sulawesi, dates back 46,000 years and more. Conservative reasoning must assume, at least for now, that it spread west from there, reaching Europe many millennia later.

For most of the past 40,000 years, sea level was 400 feet lower. Probably most ancient cave paintings are now deep underwater, and we only find the ones made up in the hills.

So Sulawesi cave art long precedes the Adams Event. Maybe that was the trigger for it to begin to be carried west.




the entire purpose of the article is in the last sentence.

this is bad, but worse with climate change, so we must fix climate change before this happens again.


While quote "we must fix climate change" is true, you and I know that will never be "fixed". Luckily wind/solar in some regions is getting quite cheap.

But how about fixing the electric grid, we can all be on 100% renewals tomorrow, but if this event happens, no electricity anyway so it does not matter what the power source is.

Forcing companies to shield and get ready for massive failures for this and CMEs is rather doable, just costs money and is really not political. More likely a very large CME will occur before the flip, but both will end modern society rather quickly.




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