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13,000 Years Ago, a Firestorm Covered 10% of Earth’s Surface, Triggering an Ice Age

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13,000 Years Ago, a Firestorm Covered 10% of Earth’s Surface, Triggering an Ice Age

13,000 years ago, a fire covered 10% of the Earth’s surface, triggering an ice age
As dust clouds enveloped the planet, they started a mini ice age, keeping the planet cool for another thousand years, just as it emerged from the 100,000 years covered by glaciers. Once the fire is out, life can start all over again.

“The hypothesis is that a large comet broke up and hit Earth, causing the catastrophe,” said Adrian Melott of the University of Kansas, who co-authored a 2018 study detailing This catastrophic event is presented.

“Many different chemical signatures — carbon dioxide, nitrates, ammonia and others — seem to indicate that 10 percent of Earth’s land surface, or about 10 million square kilometers (3.86 million square miles), was consumed by fires.”

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To review the burning flames and shockwaves of this major event, a team of 24 scientists measured numerous geochemical and isotopic signatures from more than 170 locations around the world.

One analysis was conducted on patterns of pollen levels, which showed that pine forests were suddenly burned and replaced by poplars – a species that specializes in covering barren land, like your planet being hit by a series of giant fireballs.

In fact, parts of comets that disintegrate in space may still be floating around our solar system 13,000 years from now.

The samples the researchers analyzed also found high concentrations of platinum (often found in asteroids and comets) and dust, as well as increased concentrations of combustion aerosols, and if a lot of biomass is burning, you’ll find: ammonium, Nitrates, and others.

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Plants died, food sources became scarce, and the previously retreating glaciers began to advance again, the team noted. Human cultures would have to adapt to harsher conditions, and as a result population declines.

“Calculations suggest that this effect depletes the ozone layer, leading to an increase in skin cancer and other negative health effects,” Melott said.

The team hypothesized that such a widespread impact of cometary debris, and the storms that followed, was responsible for the extra cooling known as the Young Andromeda period. This relatively brief change in Earth’s temperature is sometimes attributed to changes in ocean currents.

However, comet impacts are not an entirely new idea, although this recent study went a long way in trying to find evidence for it. Scientists have debated for years whether the comet impact sparked the Younger Dryas event.

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Not everyone agrees that the data points to a cometary impact, but this comprehensive work lends more support to the hypothesis, like ancient carvings discovered in Turkey in 2017 that depict devastating impacts from interstellar objects .

“The impact hypothesis is still a hypothesis, but this study provides a wealth of evidence that we think can only be explained by significant cosmic impacts,” Melott said.

The research has been published here and here in the Journal of Geology.

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HT Rewind 2024: Teja Sajja says HanuMan kicking off the year in style is the moment he’d been ‘waiting for’ | Exclusive

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HT Rewind 2024: Teja Sajja says HanuMan kicking off the year in style is the moment he’d been ‘waiting for’ | Exclusive

In conversation with Hindustan Times, Teja Sajja decodes the success of HanuMan and other Telugu films, talks about his upcoming projects, and more.
When Prasanth Varma’s superhero film HanuMan, starring Teja Sajja, was announced to be released alongside big films like Mahesh Babu’s Guntur Kaaram, Venkatesh’s Saindhav and Nagarjuna’s Naa Saami Ranga in January this year, no one expected the underdog to emerge on top. And yet, the film, made on a budget of under ₹50 crore, managed to collect over ₹300 crore at the box office worldwide in 25 days, becoming one of the highest-grossing Indian films for the year. (Also Read: Ranveer Singh met HanuMan actor Teja Sajja, complimented him even after his Prasanth Varma film Rakshas got shelved)

Ask Teja about the moment he realised his film had not just fought against the tide but also risen to the top; he tells Hindustan Times in an exclusive conversation, “Since I returned to acting (as a lead actor after being a child artiste since 1998), this is the moment I’ve been waiting for. When everything from the HanuMan teaser to the songs was grabbing attention, we knew we had hit a gold mine. But I don’t think we imagined it would cross the ₹300 crore threshold. We were so satisfied with the opening numbers; everything else was a bonus.”

‘Success has given me fear of disappointing people’

Teja acted in Zombie Reddy, Ishq and Adbhutham before HanuMan, but they are what you would call ‘critical successes’, adding to his repertoire as an actor who can perform. But things have changed for him now, says Teja, who is being picky about the roles he says yes to. “Success either makes you overconfident or gives you the fear of disappointing people; I have the latter,” he explains.

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Teja admits he wants to chart out his career in Hrithik Roshan’s footsteps, but not in the way you think. “I have such a fondness for Hrithik due to Koi Mil Gaya and Krrish. No matter how well he performed after that, these left a lasting impression on me; I’m sure 90s kids will agree,” he says, adding, “Similarly, I’ve realised that I have an audience in children now. I want to be conscious of that when I pick roles. I want to make films families can enjoy together.”

But despite people in places like Mumbai or Delhi recognising him, Teja says he’s clear that he wants to cater to the Telugu audience first. “I am conscious that I am making films for my playground – the Telugu states. This is the sensibility I have grown up with, and I don’t know if I can cater to everyone else. Will I promote my films in other languages? Sure. But I also can’t be part of films that aren’t authentic to what I know or understand,” he explains.

‘Rootedness has put us on the world map’

And authenticity seems to be the need of the hour. Be it Baahubali and RRR or the recently released Pushpa 2: The Rule, Kalki 2898 AD and Devara: Part 1, certain kind of stories seem to be finding success. “Rootedness and going local is proving to be such a boon for us, be it in Devara or Pushpa or HanuMan. Kalki 2898 AD was our version of a Hollywood film (the sci-fi concept) with actors from across languages in predominant roles; it put us on the world map,” reflects Teja.

However, the actor admits Tollywood went through a phase of Bollywood-inspired rom-coms and family dramas that worked in their favour for a while. “That wasn’t easy to replicate either, but it’s just that these local stories are what the audience seems most interested in now. It can’t just be chalked up to religion, too. It’s about the morals these films are hinged on, the fighting for righteousness, and how an underdog can find their strength. Introducing Mahabharata or Ramayana to a new audience in a cool way is just a perk,” he says.

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And it’s this rootedness that Teja says his next films, Mirai and Jai Hanuman (the sequel to HanuMan), will also have ample of. “Mirai is also a superhero film that caters to kids, but it’s not an origin story like HanuMan. It has a pan-Asian and Buddhist touch because the story is based on King Ashoka’s ideologies. I hope that I will get to deliver something new to the audience again. I will only feel like I’ve arrived if Mirai is equally, if not more, successful,” says Teja.

Rishab Shetty will headline Jai Hanuman, but Teja also looks forward to shooting that. “I can’t wait to be on that set; it’ll be exciting. Now that we know India is ready to watch our films, I want to step it up. I want to shift gears and shoot for at least two films in 2025,” he says. As for what he will do next, Teja says he wants to up the ante. “When I got a SIIMA award for Zombie Reddy as a debutant, I remember telling Prasanth this would be the last award I get. But now that I won a Radio City Cine Award for Best Actor, I hope more awards will follow,” he signs off cheekily.

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