Research Team Says Extraterrestrial Impact To Blame For Ice Age Extinctions (More)

Eureka Alert ^ | Northern Arizona University - Lisa Nelson

[WoofDog123]

“Interesting hypothesis...still some holes that need to be filled with something else other than speculation.”

Regarding whether there was an event (comet, or other airburst event), or whether this caused the depopulation found in the sediment and fossil record?

[Dark Wing]

FYI

[johnny7]

and we're worried about global warming.....................

The audacity of mere mortals is immeasurable...

[wastedyears]

Is that Chelsea?

[willgolfforfood]

Which department of the government is tasked with enforcing this?

What is the min/max penalty if found guilty of breaking this law?

Also, can you imagine the 17 ring CIRCUS that occur around the trial of someone accused of violating this law would become?

[WoofDog123]

I read that this had been repealed about 15 years ago.

[crazyhorse691]

Research grants?

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I didn’t want to come right out and accuse the researchers of prostituting themselves, but, if National Geographic is already interested, the demand for free money for research certainly can’t be far behind.

[Thudd]

What caused the extinction of mammoths and the decline of Stone Age people about 13,000 years ago remains hotly debated

Wasn't there some speculation a while ago that sperm samples from frozen mammoths could impregnate a female elephant? Now there's a good use for science. I say bring back the mammoths!

[SlowBoat407]

Mmm, mammoth meat...

[WayneS]

Yes...

A mammoth makes a FINE meal....

[djf]

This is getting to be a more and more plausible theory.

The best evidence of catastrophe comes from the gold mining fields of Alaska.

Huge deposits of “muck” have been found, a mixture of mud, forest debris,and millions upon millions of bones - not skeletons, like an animal lied down on the beach and died, but smashed bones, crushed and pulverized and blended, of known and unknown species.

None of the current known geologic theories of whats going on on Earth can explain these finds. It was a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.

[snowsislander]

Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

Snopes has a page on this.

[RightWhale]

• It was a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.

  Probably not. Velikovsky was guessing and guessed wrong. He knew little of the action of permafrost.

[crazyhorse691]

Regarding whether there was an event (comet, or other airburst event), or whether this caused the depopulation found in the sediment and fossil record.

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From the information in the article I can’t say that they have proved the existence of a single event that caused the mega fauna die off. Now my curiosity is going to make me track down their paper.

[Turbopilot]

No, it doesn't.

[TexasCajun]

Tom Cruise, John Travolta and their Scientology cloaked spaceships are causing Global Warming!

[#1CTYankee]

"A colorized scanning electron microscope image of a glassy carbon sphere that contains evidence of extraterrestrial impact. The sphere measures about .012 inches in width."

Twelve Thousandths of an inch? must have been a heck of an impact. ;-D

[Thud]

The gentleman has issues with decimal points.

"The detonations we’re talking about would be about 10 million megatons."

[SunkenCiv]

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[SunkenCiv]

Cosmic blast may have killed off megafauna Scientists say early humans doomed, too
Boston Globe | September 27, 2007 | Colin Nickerson
Posted on 09/25/2007 9:45:11 PM EDT by baynut
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