Stone Age Apocalypse - pt1of5

Some 75,000 years ago a super-eruption from the site of Lake Toba in Sumatra blasted out more than two hundred cubic miles of ash over an area of over a million square miles. This program investigates the devastating aftermath of the most powerful volcano of the last twenty-five million years - including the theory that it triggered a human genetic bottleneck leaving a tiny band, as low as a few thousand survivors to preserve the human race - and looks at the threat of super-volcanoes in the 21st century.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• evolution
• creationism
• Toba
• eruption
• anthropology
• archaeology
• Naked
• Science

[Gforcebond]

it says on wiki that this volacnic eruption was the most powerful in the last 25 million years not just 2.

[SpeakerForrTheDead]

Yeah, that's right.

2.1 mya the explosion at what is now Island Park Caldera in Idaho, USA was close to, but still somewhat smaller than, the Toba event.

An explosive eruption in what is now Colorado 27.8 mya qualifies as the largest known super-eruption, & was probably the most energetic event in Earth's history since the terminal Cretaceous Chicxulub Impact.

I mentioned this months ago in a comment; then promptly forgot to correct my copy & paste vid descriptions;-)

Thanks for the correction.

[3rdAutisticCuckoo]

My theory is that 70,000 years ago 99% of the world's men grew mohawks with moustaches, thereby preventing any possibility of reproduction.

[SkyyCaptainn]

And the fun part is that one day there will be another eruption of similar scale.

[agonyflips]

I like to get all my science from guys with Mohawks.

Maybe NYU Prof. Todd Disotell has a side gig in punk band. I wonder what it's called?

[winterstellar]

@winterstellar One million years it was.

[winterstellar]

THe siberian traps were made by a huge eruption that lasted millions of years(one or two million yrs) That led to a mass extinction some 250 million years ago. Also very bad:(

[Iasamei]

the largest known eruption was the fish canyon eruption "or fish canyon tuff" on wikipedia. this eruption was dwarfed in comparison

[PrimitiveByNature]

@helenacan "the great flood" took place along the ocean coasts and rivers etc. It happened because of the end of the ice age. Your bible fairy tale is a story of a localized event that happened to the sumerians, that's where the story came from. Your story of noah's arc is just that, a story. Please read a book or something. There isn't even enough water on earth to flood the entire planet. How will mankind ever evolve if people like you insist your primitive fairy tales are fact?

[shinigami891]

wasn't that dna docter on monster quest?

[Fransik89]

@helenacan This is reality, we are not interested in those kind of tales. You disrespect Mother Nature, our true creator, everytime you put a fictional character named god or jesus over her.

[Strizz484]

@helenacan lolwut