Understanding Earth’s 100,000-Year Ice Age Cycle
747K views · Feb 20, 2026 · Education
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@astrumspace · 7 months ago · pinned
Learn a new job in tech starting from $200/mo! Sign up for a FREE TripleTen career consultation with my link: <a href="https://get.tripleten.com/astrumspace">https://get.tripleten.com/astrumspace</a><br><br>This is a remastered version of our Ice Age video from July 2025. We've made a few changes, but apologies if you've watched the video already!
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@pallehansen1145 · 7 months ago
We all know that a squirrel chasing a nut was the cause of most, if not all, cataclysmic events during the ice age..
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@SaddestWizard · 7 months ago
The video seems to stray far from the describing the ice age cycle and in fact most of the video is just describing ice age animals. The ice age cycle is only the first 8 minutes of the video and not nearly enough detail to gain enough understanding about the ice age cycles. Current title at the time of this comment is "Understanding Earth’s 100,000-Year Ice Age Cycle". Title doesn't reflect the content of the video in my opinion.
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@owenlinton5647 · 7 months ago
Although the ancient creatures were cool, I came for the ice age cycle. I wanted to know where we are at in the various milankovich cycles. What happens when they are in sync, etc.
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@chrishawth1589 · 7 months ago
, technically we are currently in an ice age, specifically the Quaternary Glaciation, which began roughly 2.6 million years ago because Earth still has permanent ice sheets at the poles. We are currently in a warmer, temporary phase of this ice age known as an "interglacial" period, which began about 11,000 years ago
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@jedorr4500 · 7 months ago
He's done it again I'm off to sleep now thank you 💗
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@thomaspaaruppedersen6781 · 7 months ago
I'm wondering why a video about large animals and humanoids during the Pleistocene is titled 'Understanding Earth’s 100,000-Year Ice Age Cycle', implying something about the glacial cycles?
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@andymcrory5353 · 3 months ago
Astrum is one of the best, if not the best, Science series on YouTube.
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@Hydrosized · 7 months ago
Alex, your voice soothes and the information captivates. Go science!
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@danielandrassy407 · 7 months ago
Thanks for the video brother Alex and the ASTRUM TEAM!!!!!❤
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@shadetree_mechan1c · 6 months ago
I've missed these kinds of videos, I used to watch the history channel and the sci-fi channel all the time, thank you so much for this style of content! <3
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@dbkokinda · 7 months ago
I thought you said this video was going to be about an ice age returning???
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