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Which makes me wonder in line with that thought, whether the alien star in question from this article caused any serious asteroid strikes on earth circa 70,000 years ago.



I don't think it's very likely, but it might be possible a comet caused the theorized human population bottleneck around 70,000 years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory


The article itself mentions that the start is too small to cause any such thin.




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