Richard Stanley
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https://www.hulu.com/series/how-the-earth-works-b7440d5d-96dd-47a0-a912-a9427bb0a044
I've now watched 6 of the 8 episodes of a very interesting 2013 documentary series, How the Earth Works. It is both fascinating and sobering, even though I was already aware of the main thesis that such natural cataclysms are always lurking.
There is also a school of thought that the memory of such cataclysms are a major source that informs our religions, particularly their emphasis on employing Fear. Fear which defeats Reason via hijacking our brains' wiring. The oldest temple complex know to mankind, at Göbekli Tepe, shows interest in comets, as well as maintaining an ever shifting orientation to the precessional movement of the stars. It is so old it is not long after the impactor creating the so-called Carolina Bays and the end of the North American large primates.
One of the episodes is on asteroid impactors, and I would have liked to see it discuss the Carolina Bays and the Younger-Dryas period in addition to the Chicxulub impactor and crater. The series has a lot of fascinating details, like that I was not aware that the Mayan water holes, cenotes, were formed concentrically around the center of the impact site.

I've now watched 6 of the 8 episodes of a very interesting 2013 documentary series, How the Earth Works. It is both fascinating and sobering, even though I was already aware of the main thesis that such natural cataclysms are always lurking.
There is also a school of thought that the memory of such cataclysms are a major source that informs our religions, particularly their emphasis on employing Fear. Fear which defeats Reason via hijacking our brains' wiring. The oldest temple complex know to mankind, at Göbekli Tepe, shows interest in comets, as well as maintaining an ever shifting orientation to the precessional movement of the stars. It is so old it is not long after the impactor creating the so-called Carolina Bays and the end of the North American large primates.
One of the episodes is on asteroid impactors, and I would have liked to see it discuss the Carolina Bays and the Younger-Dryas period in addition to the Chicxulub impactor and crater. The series has a lot of fascinating details, like that I was not aware that the Mayan water holes, cenotes, were formed concentrically around the center of the impact site.
