Let’s give a big shoutout to Mother Nature for making sure almost everyone got to see the eclipse. Truly a miracle given the bleak forecasts a week leading up to 4/8/24. With the exception of Deep South TX and west New York (sorry guys) it cleared up in time for almost EVERYONE. Just look at close up satellite images of the umbra moving across the US: TX, Arkansas, OK, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Vermont, Maine all CLEAR. And then just hours later ridiculous rain and hail storms swept through the south. I’m not religious but I swear there was some divine intervention going on. Had the weather swung just an hour or two in either direction the great miracle of 2024 would have been the great heartbreaker.

One plus side of moving to Florida is that, in light of sea level rise running at the rate that it is, this means that in a few years the ocean will be coming to you rather than the other way round! Personally I am planning to get around all this by learning to sail as I want to retire onto a live-aboard boat that I can travel around the world on. Maybe in 20 years I'll be able to dock in your backyard lol One thing we do seem to take for granted is that we treat the ocean floor as if it is completely lifeless. We need to fund more expeditions to explore the deeper seas so that we can learn more about the life that exists there. We, as a species, are so focussed on being able to mine or scrape the ocean floor for minerals and ores that we simply aren't taking a full look at what impact this could actually have. All it takes is us inadvertently poisoning a huge area for plankton and suddenly much of the ecosystem will die. Kill the plankton and you can say bye to much of the fish life that relies on this. Did the sealife centre get the dolphins to do shows? There are some centres across the world that train the dolphins to "perform" and they use this to highlight the dangers that can befall these amazing animals. Anecdote time ... Back in 2016 my ex-wife and I took our kids to Valencia in Spain where we took them to the Oceanagrafica sea-life centre (google it, the venue is incredible - set on the bed of an old river that used to run through the city). A couple of times a day they run dolphin shows and we made it to the last show of the day. The finale of the show was a beautiful display set to Christina Perri's 'A Thousand Years' (from the Twilight saga Breaking Dawn). My youngest was in tears bless him (he was about 8 at the time (although tbh we all were really and I would dare you to not cry either lol) and now he's an advocate for dolphins and protecting their environment! Just shows the good work that these places do with their shows and education programs.

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Scientists very grudgingly accept up-ending evidence...if ever.

I've got the world's biggest bayleaf on my property in SoHum, only 5 people know where it is and I'm not showing anyone but family where it is.

im wrong for this but ima say it anyways, i feel like since they made it illegal to even go near the tree it's created almost a worse atmosphere for what you could do to the tree. this video is so well edited btw thought i was watching a NBC news story on it

How many previous discoveries, dated prior to the clovis people, were dismissed out of hand and discarded?

I guess if some people had their way we’d all be under house arrest. Nothing like mass punishment all in the name of nature or whatever the cause Du Jour.

And to answer your question; Human exploration is fine to a degree, but if a random person can get somewhere "remote" with their 4x4 then perhaps there needs to be additional protections for habitations which would struggle with regular visits from humans (especially lazy ones who drop trash and litter the place). I think we've "explored" most of our planets surface. If we want to truly explore then we need to promote space tourism so that we can send the adventurers and the foolish away from our own beautiful planet! And FYI, maybe I ought to consider myself as part of the 'explorers' or 'foolish' categories as, if Elon offered spots to go colonise Mars then I would jump at the opportunity to make it a place suitable for more humans. Hopefully we would be more aware of how stupid we are and so put strict rules in place so that we made less of a mess of Mars than we've done already with Earth.

If I ever make it to the States, I solemnly promise to not look at any trees; just in case I happen to find I've glanced at the world's tallest. Glad to read that the authorities have made it illegal to go near Hyperion. If there's one thing us humans are excellent at doing, it's destroying things through tourism. Considering also the vast numbers of stupid people that exist (you only have to watch that idiot woman who decided to test out the boiling and acidic waters at Yellowstone with her hand as perfect evidence of why people should be banned from most places lol) the it's vital that things like this must be protected. On a side note, speaking as a concerned citizen and also knowing that you've recently moved to Florida; I sincerely hope that you are in a safe space along with your loved ones. Bet you didn't have "hurricane" on your bingo card when you moved eh!

Isn’t that mammoth butchering site in California dated to 130,000 years old?

I knew giant sloths were around..yeesh and the mighty mammoth.

"Stunning and white and gypsum" this is comedy, right?

No mention of the footprints in this video? Gypsum is what kill the dinosaurs 66 million years ago when the Chicxulub meteor struck just offshore from the Yucatan peninsula. All the gypsum was vaporized into sulfuric dioxide, and the ash cloud kept the planet in a nuclear-style winter for decades, killing off most of the animal life. Another strike hit in central Ukraine, and tow more were known to have hit Doggerland (the area east of Britain above sea level), and a fourth hitting the ocean west of India. These strikes are what killed nearly all of the reptiles, leaving only a small population of birds living in norther Siberia (which at that time, was isolated marshland).

The problem is when evidence challenges the "accepted" hypothesis, the general community would attack the evidence and then, like sharks, attack the reputations and character of the proponents that question assumptions. For decades, many Native American tribes thought the Beriginan migration around 13,000 years ago was arrogant and argued it didn't agree with their own traditions. The other alternative was being ignored by the academic community entirely. Archeologist Tom Dillehay worked for decades at a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Repeatedly, he would get dates saying the finds were from 18,000 years ago. He was ignored because it would bring into question the "official" hypothesis of 13,000 years ago for humans entering North America. Many scientists will assert they aren't religious, but if their Ph.D. is somehow tied to that model now being questioned, they will attack it like zealots. Once the footprints at White Sands, NM became known, they were scrutinized repeatedly, and again, the footprints came back as between 21-23,000 years ago. And suddenly, Dillehay's important work in Chile and his 18,000 years ago dates no longer challenged the status quo. Dillehay remarked that it felt good to finally get some recognition in North America, but he also said there was 8another site nearby that had dates from 32,000 years ago*, but he didn't have the time or the funding to explore further. Think of that! Dates ten thousand years earlier than those footprints, in Chile! The 13,000 years ago migration also flew in the face of evidence of an asteroid(s) impact (probably several) that hit North America and left a carbon layer from all the many burns, from the eastern shores and westward to the Rockies. This was documented by PBS NOVA Season 36: Episode 7, (which aired March 31, 2009) entitled "The Last Extinction". This episode provided proof of at least one asteroid impact hitting North America around 13,000 years ago, leading to the death of the megafauna. There's a burn layer in the soil, in some places over an inch thick. Below the layer are megafauna fossils. Above the burn layer, no megafauna fossils. The pushback was so fierce that PBS NOVA bowed to pressure and renamed it "Death of the Megafauna," because extinction was considered too incendiary, too controversial. It was further stated that major glaciers in Canada were in retreat, but that the impact forced the Pleistocene lake, Lake Aggasiz to overflow its banks, leading to a scouring of the St Lawrence Seaway, and that sudden rush of freshwater disrupted the Gulf Stream, instigating the Younger Dryas. Lake Aggasiz was huge. It had more freshwater than all the other great lakes combined! The volcano Locher Zee (Germany) erupted either near that same time or within a century, further disrupting the world's climate. It's speculation, but it's possible the volcano reactd to the tectonic bounce from the asteroid impacts. Geologist Dr. Antonio Zamora found evidence of an impact crater in south Saginaw Bay, and based on his estimates, the fireball it created would have instantly incinerated all animal life in a 1200-kilometer radius. His video is here: Younger Dryas Extinction, Apr 9, 2018 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-npXY8mu2hhU.html One of the things these footprints challenge is the "man the mighty hunter" idea, which has been thrown around for decades as the cause of the megafauna extinction. By the earlier model, humans arrived around 13.000 years ago, and suddenly all the big animals died off. Must have been humans, right? But with the footprints, it is plain that humans arrived, and the humans and megafauna reached an equilibrium and did so for thousands of years. Humans slowly expanded, yet megafauna continued to co-exist. Sea travel has been known to Paleolithic tribes for about 50,000 years - at least that can be proven. Yet we also know the Aborigines initially arrived in Australia 62,000 years ago. The issue with that is that at no time during the last few hundred thousand years was Australia-New Guinea connected with the southeastern land peninsula that makes up modern-day Indonesia. The distances were too great. The Aborigines HAD to have come to Australia by boat. This means boat technology is older than we thought and have evidence for. It is also possible that other Asian humans had access to the same technology. Another ignored issue with the Beringia migration hypothesis was the lack of available food in that narrow pathway from Beringia to below the Launentide glacier covering nearly all of Canada. Humans were supposed to have traveled for a few hundred miles with no water and no food; the migrants would have had to have carried everything with them. But introduce boat technology, and the necessity of the Beringia as the sole means of egress into North America becomes moot. No habitable land? Keep fishing, hug the coast, and keep going south. So while the footprints are incredible and remarkable, I think that Tom Dillehay is right, that if humans were in Chile 32,000 years ago, they were in North America much earlier. Those hundreds of footprints have broken the academic inertia. Suddenly, Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Pennsylvania dates of being used since 19,000 years ago is no longer "preposterous," and claims that the dating was contaminated by coal deposits can now be seen as part of that academic zealotry (third party testing showed NO groundwater contamination as claimed by the critics of dates earlier than 13,000 years). According to the Wikipedia article on the Meadowcroft site, in 2013 only 38% of archeologists accepted a date older than 13,000 years ago, and 20% flatly refused to accept anything older than 13,000 years ago. While the footprints are a big deal, the evidence of the asteroid(s) impacting and killing both the humans and the megafauna in a continental firestorm would have done much to wipe away a lot of surface habitation sites. Indeed, many Paleo-related websites including from museums, ignore the PBS NOVA evidence and haven't gotten around to considering what those footprints mean to their own articles and exhibits. Max Planck said that science advances one grave at a time. There is evidence of Polynesian sea travel centuries earlier than ever believed possible. Most textbooks say Polynesians didn't move out to Hawaii until around 600 CE. Yet there's a tribe in the central Amazon (east of the Andes!) that has strands of distinctly Polynesian DNA. There's another tribe in Ecuador on the coast that similarly has Polynesian DNA strands, and their neighboring tribes do not. Based on DNA, that second encounter took place 900 years ago, hundreds of years before the "great eastward" migration. For that to happen, there had to have been repeated contact with Polynesian sailors. Check out Stefan Milo, another RU-vidr; he does a lot of interesting Paleo-prehistory videos. Thank you for your enthusiastic video. Those footprints are indeed important. The US Park Service notes that their exposure to the surface is eroding them quickly and that in a few years, they will be gone. While they are being studied,, they must also be preserved or they will vanish from the fossil record.

Science is at its best when its breaking our preconceptions and old notions. Attempting to maintain old models at the cost of progress is a zero sum game. One big part of the problem is that some dislike when their discoveries are challenged, effectively gatekeeping and blocking attempts to re-examine subjects that are already "settled", because they feel it diminishes their standing in the community. This is more often seen from "older" scholars but not limited to them, and they use their higher standing and connections to control the narratives that substantiate their theories.

Love channels like these! keep it up sis, luv from England x

A theory is based on the latest version of science as yet unproven. It is then upto the next discovery to substantiat or disprove the theory. Given the fact that man perhaps knows about 1% of the history of his ancestors, the planet and the universe everything we know from the beginnings of man to the 'big bang' is all theory.

this is still mainstream. humans were in the Americas a lot earlier.

How stupid to imagine that ancient people just magically appeared at 23k years ago, how long where they there before their footprints? If you were to make a footprint today, and a 100,000 year from now would other people say you arrived 100,000 years ago?

Maybe the count discrepancy is a good excuse for you to take a holiday in Europe? That way you can make a definitive count to correct internet errors 😉 I'm not sure that the cause was weather related as otherwise I'm guessing that more trees in the vicinity would've been equally affected. My suspicion is that this is more likely to be man-made in nature but the exact reason has been lost due to the events of WW2 which, very sadly, will have impacted on many lives in Poland. Quite whether it is down to the wood being "trained" to make it boat-friendly is something which we can only guess at. It sounds plausible, just sadly is something for which we will never know for certain (or at least until new evidence comes to light which proves / disproves this particular theory). I did love that the pine tree you featured has the incredible quirk of pointing towards the equator. Astoundingly, this is something which I did not actually know about! So thank you for educating me on this fact 😎

That’s why I bristled recently when people kept chanting the mantra, “believe the science“. No, you should always question the science, (especially when “the science” is just speculation) because that’s how real science advances.

It's a fun place to sled on the dunes. Just know you will be covered in sand when you go. From a distance the sand looks like snow which is cool. Do we have any theories as to who left these footprints. Are they connected to later tribes in the area? Where did they come from?

Different migration, different path, and more than likely different peoples. Possibly, the Caucasian peoples know as Solutreans that originated from the region of france.

Iirc we had a similar discovery here in Australia on a sand flat (I think it was only transitory too, and was only uncovered for a short time before being covered over again by drifting sands or similar). It was of a group chasing prey, including a one-legged man, running at Olympic athlete speeds (ascertained by distance between the prints, etc). They were followed by a group of women and children, with the kids literally running in circles around the adults.....much like modern people. I can't remember where and when exactly, but it was definitely here in Australia and was from a decade or 2 ago....I think. I remember being gobsmacked that a one-legged man was hunting with everyone else and keep8ng up with them all, too. (I honestly believe that 21st-century humans grossly underestimate the ridiculous levels of fitness, intelligence and general capability of our recent ancestors. I honestly think we are a far inferior physical example compared to pre-civilisation humans).

Ive always wondered how big ancient man could build skin boats when all the mega creatures existed and what that extinct leather was like

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WHY the misleading thumbnail??!? Now that's infuriating!

Good video for preteens. Unfortunately I am an adult.

We tend to become overconfident and ego eccentric😂😂

Stick a Boeing label on the side of your plastic spacesuit helmet and NASA will give you a multi-billion dollar contract lol Anyways, space-related content! Yayy! I enjoy all things space related (if we can all just hurry up and get to the Star Trek utopia please that will be very nice thank you very much) and so a combination of funky rocks and rockets is good with me.

oh but we evolved to be plant based eaters.

What I find more intriguing and something many people don't think about is the location of the footprints and what that means. For instance, White Sands is a long ways from an ocean and a long ways from Alaska. If these footprints are 23k years old, that's significant because it would take awhile for people to migrate that far inland with any significant population. This would mean that people were in the America's for even longer than 23k years, and perhaps a lot longer. In other words, if a few people made it to the America's either by walking or more likely by boat from Asia/Russia more than 23k years ago, they would most likely stick close to the ocean or major rivers until their population was sufficient enough to expand to other areas inland. This takes time. Also, when these people were walking, they stepped on plant seeds and pollen pushing them into the ground. This is what the scientists radiocarbon tested and had fairly consistent results, time after time. I do believe that these footprints are indeed 23k years old. Oh, one more thing, the footprints were found in the same strata or depth as extinct animal bones that were also radiocarbon tested to the same period. How much more proof do people need?

During the last ice age sea levels were as low as 122 meters lower than today. It has ***never*** seemed to me that the notion of humans walking places along the shore was "absurd" or even the tiniest bit odd. It did seem to me that ignoring this fact for so many years was a level of stubbornness by anthropologists that bordered on hubris. "There is just no way a human would walk hundreds of miles along shores that were available then. That is just silly. They would obviously had to wait for dry paths miles and miles inland to travel." Honestly it never seemed a reasonable exclusion.

I agree, volcanoes are "sick" 😎

We should follow the footprints to find out where they went.

"Trust the science bro" "Scientific consensus bro" "I am the science" Remember that when the government says anything

Your channel has outdoors in the title but you’re amazed that someone could walk a whole mile without collapsing. LOL

in australia we have found camp sites and fires that are 100 000 + yrs old so who knows how long people have been traversing the globe.

Yeah, that poor guy in the thumbnail is roasting his hands on a fire...

You're asuming that humans all migrated from one place. My question is, how did they get to this "one place". Another scientific theory.

Title is click bait. It didn't shatter anything, just added additional information.

The first question that came to my mind was, how did they date the foot prints? I guess they can date the calcification in the fossil, but I'm curious.

History is actually very misunderstood by most people as what happened. Actually it is what someone wrote doen about what happened. With whatever biases they had. Some intentional, some not. The venerable Bede as an example wrote to extol the virtues of his Anglo/Saxon contemporaries with similar world views. He wasn't, I think, trying to tell the story, but a story that fit his goals.

Hyperbole will not help your channel. This discovery does nothing to disprove all the human history that came before. So, really not all of human history. We also knew that humans hunted megafauna as the last ice age came to an end..

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We keep digging deeper and finding more stuff! Shall we keep going? NO WE WON'T KEEP GOING. Umm okay, chill why not... We might find som...... NO THE ESTABLISHED MODELS BLUH BLUH BLUH. - Archaeology of the Americas

Nothing new about this.

Scientists is a blanket term this would fall in the archeologist realm that use science to back-up theories or hypotheses.