JRE Brought me here!

This is the best visual l've seen of the Potholes Cataract and surrounding terrain. It really shows the enormity of the feature and how it relates to the water flow coming off the land and into the river. It absolutely dwarfs Dry Falls' visible portion. THAT might be a good photo slide to add to your talk. Niagara super imposed on Dry Falls cataract then super imposed on to Potholes cataract.

Randall Carlson brought me here.

The immensity of the features is amazing enough. To understand the forces and processes that formed these features is a wonder in itself. Knowing something and applying that knowledge are two different things. NASA chooses visiting two asteroids over a Skywatch system. There's dysfunction for you.

👀 Should've shown it on JRE.. Can't get any more convincing than this. Case closed. This was so massive!! It's hard to comprehend the immensity of this impact. That kind of tsunami can easily devastate half a continent. Anything on its path that isn't a cleverly built megalithic structure would disappear as soon as the edge of the wave hit it.. Certainly even a cleverly built megalithic structure could easily disappear against those kinds of odds. Very impressive. Randall, you're a legend!

@GeoCosmicREX

7 жыл бұрын

The dispute is not over whether or not there was a flood across this territory -- the controversy concerns the source of the water...

@alexandrehermano1610

7 жыл бұрын

Right, I heard you and Graham on Joe.. Thank you for your work, sir

@Magnacorpanicous

7 жыл бұрын

Would finding the meteors that hit the ice be proof? wouldn't they be pretty in tact, vs a meteor that hit land? Maybe they washed out to sea.. but.. maybe they are buried, and can be found using a giant metal detector :)

@alexandrehermano1610

7 жыл бұрын

.+DPW Walendziewicz www.askamathematician.com/2012/07/q-why-is-hitting-water-from-a-great-height-like-hitting-concrete/ That kind of mass (larger piece) at high velocity would disintegrate itself and all the ice covering a huge amount of land. There would be debris from both atmosphere and ice impact around the area, good part of the ice would melt and carry chunks of icebergs of all sizes. Larger ones carrying inside them gigantic rocks. A good amount of that ice turned into vapor with the heat generated at impact which turned into several days of heavy rain and no sun, adding more water gradually after that enormous tsunami of molten ice and sealevel rise on every coast on earth... Its a lot more complex than using a giant metal detector. Although the amount of evidence Randall and others have gathered are enough proof to support their theory. All we need is to academia take them seriously and join reality

@Magnacorpanicous

7 жыл бұрын

the impact was into ice.. but, I'm sure that would be just about as harsh...

JRE Brought me here! too

J. Harlen Bretz would get such a rush seeing this. He must have gotten to fly over the area of the floods at some point.(d. 1981)

Stunning, beautiful arial photography. Well done. Thank you for helping the viewer grasp the incredible landscape left to us by sheets of basalt from volcano activities and glaciers that ground down from the North. This excellent video helps people to see the vast and incredible movements of this earth beautifully.

@andy.connor.e8853

4 жыл бұрын

This isnt arial photography. Its a google earth flyover.

We used to take vacations in this area when I was a kid. Looking at it in a whole new way now. I'm reminded of the lack of vegetation in the areas where flood waters changed the landscape, seeing the area in person reveals dry grasses but an overall lack of greenery. Would an event that long ago have caused this type ecology to remain present, or would it be more reliant on the overall weather conditions in that area which tend to be dryer and warmer than on the west side of the Cascades?

@GeoCosmicREX

7 жыл бұрын

The entirety of the Columbia Basalt Plateau is basically a desert, defined by the amount of yearly rainfall it receives. So yes, the proximity directly to the east of the Cascades Range maintains this situation, because the mountains squeeze out all the rain as it crosses the increasing elevations before reaching the 'Scablands'

@skysurfer

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that explanation. I can't emphasize enough how amazing it is to hear you present these theories, myself living in Washington my whole life and being essentially clueless of how the land was formed.

Oh my God...

damn, a lot of sod farms

And then there are those who insist man is up to terra forming the planet.

Amazing