Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "maaaaybe the oldest stories in the world" video.

 @cacogenicist I would not be surprised if some oral histories/legends about floods can be traced to either sea level rise or floods related to melt water release as the ice sheets retreated.
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 @StonedtotheBones13 Some are. And some likely aren't.
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The Biblical flood story IMO can be traced to either the flooding of the current Persian Gulf or the Black Sea. The basic event. Not the embellishments.
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@OpenMicRejects Astronomical Events? Observed supernova? Possible Lunar or Earth impact events? There appear to be trace evidence of an impact event that happened in the Gulf of Carpinteria in the form of Chevron Dunes. Curiously these dunes do not appear in what should have been the 'shadow' created by islands in the gulf itself.
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@zachjohnson6672 Likely the first human complaint about passing gas happened after dogs were domesticated. Dogs are much worse. And the are all SBDs. PS When everyone stinks. Nobody notices
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@jrrarglblarg9241 The Pole Star not only changes through the Processional Cycle (1) but also due to changes over time in the distances and viewing relationships between the Sun and neighboring stars due to stellar motion. All the stars in the galaxy are orbiting the central black hole. While currently Alfa Centari is the closest star (2) this will change due the motion of the Sun and its neighbors. If a star passes close enough, say 1.5 LY or less, this can cause comet orbits in a small region if the Ort Cloud to be perturbed. This can cause comets to possibly leave the Sun's Ort Cloud for the passing star's Ort Cloud. Leave the Ort Cloud and not be bound to orbit any star. Or to loose enough orbital velocity that its orbit then takes it into the Solar System proper.
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@eroelser If you are refering to the Missoula Floods at the end of the last Glacial Advance there were other massive flood events. But some of these floods did not have the massive errosional effects of the Missoula Flood events due in part to the gradient, confinement of flood waters etc.the flood events that released water impounded around or under the Laurentide Ice Sheet were larger but spread over a far wider area. Massive flood events also are associated with the Finno-Scandanavian and Tibetan Ice Sheets. The English Channel was formed due Glacial Mega Floods. The largest known flood event to have taken place on Earth is the flooding of the Mediterranean Basin 6Ma. Mars in the distant past also suffered massive flood events.
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@awolffromamongus875 If Burkle happened. Unless there has been confirmation of the impact event it's all based on inferred evidence. Primarily the presence of Chevron Dune structures on Madagascar and in Western Australia. There is one oral tradition about a boulder on a mountain on Sri Lanka at around 4500 ft/1,365M that was left there by a massive wave. Logically the vast majority of impact events should happen in the ocean basins simply because they are so much of the Earths surface. There was an atmospheric detonation of an object over the Bearing Sea a couple of years ago that went unnoticed due to cloud cover and time of year. It was only discovered when somebody examined photos from a weather satellite and found the debris trail from its passage through the atmosphere. Data from early warning satellites has shown that atmospheric detonations of objects is far more common than previously thought.
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@AtomicDoorknob Most of the oral traditions about a flood covering the whole world likely date to the end of the last Glacial Advance. Probably associated with two seperate pulses of melt water entering the World Ocean causing massive rises in sea levels. Or the floods of the melt water.
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It's one thing to not discount them. It is another thing to accept all of them as literal truth. Myths IMO either have a basis in a historical event. Or an attempt to explain things beyond the human experience.
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