Mark Hempsell, discussing the Köfels event, said: “Another conclusion can be made from the trajectory. The back plume from the explosion (the mushroom cloud) would be bent over the Mediterranean Sea re-entering the atmosphere over the Levant, Sinai, and Northern Egypt.

“The ground heating though very short would be enough to ignite any flammable material – including human hair and clothes. It is probable more people died under the plume than in the Alps due to the impact blast.”

Yeah i’d probably readily believe any tale spun by the next prophet that rolled through town after hearing about this in 3100BC

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Seems like the Köfels impact event isn't generally accepted amongst the community. Current interpretation is that it was a landslide.

I would expect whether something is a landslide or an asteroid impact to be a solved problem by the geology community.

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Alps would fuck up any evidence easily accessible and it's very expensive to confirm if it did land there, even if it was to land in a spot that had less erosion

Maybe you could prospect out of the way of the Alps, to see if there's any strange deposits down stream or other sedimentary locations

I can only assume this was in fact done, and since there was no record of anything strange, a landslide was assumed as the closest alternative (?)

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

This tablet has been around for decades and is basically the only alleged hard piece of evidence for the Köfels Impact. After that you get into Austrian biblical psuedo-historians looking for Sodom and Gomorrah.

I'm pretty comfortable putting this whole thing in the bunk bin. The article's host site is also full of archeological sensationalism.