❌ Claim
A continent-sized Herbig–Haro plasmoid destroyed an Ice Age civilization.
✅ Reality
None of the terms in that sentence connect in a way physics, astronomy, archaeology, or geology supports.
🧪 What a Herbig–Haro object actually is
- Herbig–Haro (HH) objects are small jets of ionized gas
- They’re ejected from newborn stars
- They exist inside star-forming nebulae
- Typical size: a few light-years long, but extremely diffuse
- Distance from Earth: hundreds to thousands of light-years
They are not solid, not coherent plasma “blobs”, and not capable of traveling through interstellar space intact.
🌍 Why the Earth-impact idea fails immediately
1. Wrong scale
- HH objects are millions of times less dense than Earth’s atmosphere
- A “continent-sized plasmoid” would disperse long before crossing space
2. Wrong location
- HH objects are tied to young stars
- The Sun is 4.6 billion years old
- No star-forming jets exist anywhere near Earth
3. Wrong physics
- Plasma jets don’t survive interstellar travel
- Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere would deflect and dissipate them
4. No geological evidence
If something continent-scale hit Earth:
- global impact layers
- shocked quartz
- iridium anomalies
- mass extinction markers
None exist for the Ice Age.
🏺 What actually ended Ice Age cultures
- Rapid climate shifts
- Ice sheet collapse
- Sea-level rise
- Ecosystem changes
- Human migration and adaptation
All well-documented. No cosmic plasma required.
🧠 Why this claim spreads anyway
This idea blends:
- real astronomical terms (Herbig–Haro)
- misunderstood plasma physics
- lost-civilization mythology
- YouTube-style catastrophism
It sounds scientific — but collapses under basic scrutiny.
🎯 Bottom line
No Herbig–Haro object has ever come near Earth.
No plasma phenomenon destroyed an Ice Age civilization.
This claim is scientifically impossible and unsupported by any physical evidence.