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OUTLINE

00:00 - Malcolm Bendall's thunderstorm generator

03:37 - Carolina Bay craters

16:27 - LIDAR topography

23:10 - Evidence for cosmic impacts across America

32:23 - Younger dryas impact hypothesis

36:59 - 2012 Chelyabinsk meteor airburst

45:41 - When were the Carolina bays formed?

52:21 - Pleistocene transition tektites

57:41 - Hal Povenmire & tektites

01:02:37 - Underwater craters

01:20:20 - Academic response to Carolina Bays

01:36:06 - Using AI to analyze the past

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