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The Big Bang
How about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs? That was a pretty big impact.
Yes, I'll get my coat!!!
Oh those Vikings...then they came back as the Normans and took it all.
You've been hanging around Terry far too much kid!
No. See post #19.Ahum....good people, fellow earthlings and space travellers, aren't we forgetting something....?
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The "invention" of BACON.
*Mike drop*
You keep dropping Mike. Get a better grip. Mike said he is getting tired of being dropped.No. See post #19.
Ahhh lunch.Ahum....good people, fellow earthlings and space travellers, aren't we forgetting something....?
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The first world event was the explosion of the Krakatoa volcano, measured and reported all over the globe within days.
Eh... Mike knows his place, he'll get drop kicked if he complains too much.You keep dropping Mike. Get a better grip. Mike said he is getting tired of being dropped.
The first world event was the explosion of the Krakatoa volcano, measured and reported all over the globe within days.
The fact that the K/T impact -- and other events -- weren't measured and recorded does not mean they didn't change things. Us mammals might still be scurrying little rodents were it not for the Chicxulub.
Krakatoa was, at best, the first natural event recorded worldwide in human history, and even that is arguable. It didn't have nearly the effect of the K/T comet/asteroid. We haven't even mentioned the impact that broke off a significant portion of the Earth to form the Moon, which I think is even more significant, and yet obviously not recorded by humans.
That was actually my point, of course many had greater significance but Krakatoa was the first to event recorded and reported all around the globe as it happened or as pressure sensors sensed it.
I didnt say it was a game changer, just that it was the first in human history to be an "event" a single recorded and reported event around the globe. Some asteroid hitting earth a long time ago had no effect on humanity.One volcano blowing up? Sure, sad for 36,000 people. but hardly the biggest game-changer the world has seen.
I didnt say it was a game changer, just that it was the first in human history to be an "event" a single recorded and reported event around the globe. Some asteroid hitting earth a long time ago had no effect on humanity.
Krakatoa doesn't have a seat at this table. It did nothing to change human life, aside from the people it killed.
The pressure wave went around the world 4 times in both directions!
Some eruptions have changed the climate for years. One of the outbreaks of The Plague in the 14th or 15th centuries may have been due to a volcanic eruption. The reduced temperatures allowed the Plague to take hold in Africa, which had been too warm for the Plague, after which it was transferred to Europe through trade.