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🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 150 minutes
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0:00.0 | So George Howard, thank you for coming, man. |
0:08.8 | How did you get into this amazing wild world of antiquity and ancient cataclysms and all this stuff? |
0:16.7 | It goes way back. |
0:18.1 | I was working in the U.S. Senate in the early 90s. |
0:23.6 | And my boss, a U.S. senator, |
0:32.0 | wanted me to get a map for him one day. He said, get me a U.S.GS 1 to 32,000 topo, which I didn't know at the time what it was, but standard map from the U.S. Geological Service. I said, yeah, |
0:36.4 | of my farm. He had a lot of |
0:38.4 | land in North Carolina. And so I called up the congressional liaison, told him this where I wanted |
0:43.5 | a map of, and they actually brought a rolled up map over the next day. We rolled it out on his |
0:49.8 | desk, and he was looking at something. And I looked over his shoulder, there's one after another, after another, |
0:57.1 | um, dashed line ellipses on his farm. Some of them were big, some of them were small. And I said, |
1:04.9 | what, what are those, boss? And he said, meteor holes. And being a science geek, I'm thinking to myself, I was like, meteor holes. |
1:15.2 | And being a science geek, I'm thinking to myself, I was like, meteor holes. |
1:16.3 | Well, he must mean craters. |
1:21.9 | And I had, and I said, well, Senator, you know, I'm a science geek. |
1:25.8 | And I've been since I was a kid, and I love space stuff, and I'm interested in impacts. |
1:28.0 | But North Carolina's never had an impact. |
1:29.8 | He said, the hell it hadn't. |
1:32.4 | This is the biggest thing in the world when I was a boy. |
1:35.3 | A comet slammed into the Carolinas. |
1:37.1 | And I said, really? |
1:40.4 | He said, yeah, did they call them Carolina Bays? |
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