The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster
This episode of The Y Files explores ancient apocalyptic stories of cosmic impacts — from Sodom to Nineveh — and connects them to modern scientific evidence of asteroid strikes, arguing that humanity has long recorded, and continues to face, existential threats from space. The host weav
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