Posted on 09/30/2007 10:14:28 AM PDT by baynut
Not this time if the "Ankle Goddess" is in charge! /s
Another repeat by The History Channel...
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True.. I’ve seen similar stuff on pbs and elsewhere as well..
ROTF!
You forgot "of color"...
Al Sharpton earned a free spat at you for that lack of compassion shown. ; )
It is He3, the same He3 some think they can mine profitably from the moon. Why bother with the moon when it's right here in the Carolina Bays?
Nat King Cole conveyed it best in song with his tune "Smile".
He must have been a conservative minded soul.
Explorer: Mammoth Mystery [TV-G]
Sunday, October 7, 2007, at 10P
Also airs: Monday, October 8, 1A Wednesday, October 10, 8P Scientists have long debated one of the greatest mysteries of science: What caused the sudden mass extinction of mammoths 13,000 years ago? Now, Explorer: Mammoth Mystery gathers a team of investigators who may have found clues to why the mammoths, which reigned over the landscapes of North America for more than 1 million years, suddenly vanished. Could the clues point to the biggest cosmic impact humans have ever witnessed? http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/popup/200710072200.html
I don't think so.
Also Jimmy Carter is old, I don't think he's THAT old.
I don't think so.
Although Jimmy Carter is old, I don't think he's THAT old.
Disregard #27, the fingers are faster than their promoter!
Yoda translates: “ Of extinct pleistocene megafauna the in situ bones, with clovis tool assemblages along, within or above it occur below this black layer but not. Hmmmmmm.”
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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Indeed it is a big deal. In geologic times, this happened yesterday! Some heavy hitters in the paleo business have gotten on board this train so look for the textbooks to be changing soon. VERY interesting stuff when you think about some of the ancient texts derived from oral "myths" possibly referencing some of these goings on.
Civ I don't know if you noticed, but the supernova/gamma ray burst/cosmic bombardment association seems to have disappeared -- or has it?
baynut, I ran through the article fairly quickly, so I many have missed something, but it still doesn't appear to shed any additional light on the origin of the Bays. I'll have to take another look at it this evening when I've got a little more time. Good post!
"After the year that has elapsed since the article was published, however, the authors no longer agree about the events theorized in their article. Firestone's reply is printed below. Topping declined to respond, pending new experimental data."
William Topping has responded, but not soon enough apparently to make the Mammoth Trumpet's cutoff, and if fact was never posted there. Found it HERE(much of his counter-rebuttal to Southon/Taylor's rebuttal has been included in the article this thread is based on).
I didn't read it closely enough to see where Firestone and Topping may have parted ways(if in fact they did); a little technical for an old salesman ;^)
Civ I don't know if you noticed, but the supernova/gamma ray burst/cosmic bombardment association seems to have disappeared -- or has it?Some years ago, there was a book in which the author put forward a model for K-T extinction due to supernova; I tried to get into it, but didn't find it compelling. I don't recall the author's name or the book's title, or anything that would be useful for this anecdote. Nuts.
Mark for later discussion.
The ORIGINAL ARTICLE(w/Topping) made several references to the liklihood(?) of a hit from a supernova. Conspicuously missing from the article cited for this thread along with another theory; that is, carbon dates, particularly associated with paleoindian dates, were quite possibly much too young -- by about 40,000 - 50,000 years. I gather that theory has been abandoned. Which MAY be why Topping is back in the references and cites in the article on THIS thread?
I was never very comfortable with that idea. I think they are on a better track with this current article. And, they seem to have some pretty good evidence.
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