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Colbert: Debunked! Michael Flynn's Vaccine Salad Dressing Theory Gets Off at Disinformation Station

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Dr Lizardo9/24/2021 11:15:08 am PDT

re: #25 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Little wonder that in more primitive time, when we had less understanding of the forces of nature, the locals would see that and start looking for the prettiest girl in the village to toss her in there to appease whatever god (or demon) was causing that.

Much like how there’s now mounting evidence that the ancient site of Tall el-Hammam was hit by a low-altitude bolide airburst in the Middle Bronze Age - an apocalyptic event that might have been remembered and ultimately becomes the tale of the destruction of Sodom. People back then would’ve interpreted such a catastrophe as nothing less than some species of divine wrath, and then retconned a story to explain the event.

If it was something on the magnitude of the 1908 Tunguska Event, you’d be looking at an explosion equivalent to a 12 megaton nuke.

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