Comet Theory Comes Crashing to Earth

Miller-McCune ^ | 5-14-2011 | Rex Dalton

[Renfield]

A number of links are embedded as citations at the original article.

[Renfield]

Comet-Clovis-catastrophism ping.

[Talisker]

What a mixed-up mess of a report. Someone REALLY doesn’t want readers to be able to follow the logic of either side without a LOT of digging.

[GeronL]

I love it when theories fall

[Darksheare]

I can state with one hundred percent conviction that it was NOT me.

[BenLurkin]

More evidence — as if any were needed — why nobody should take this kind of “scientific theory” seriously.

[Quix]

SUNKEN PING

[count-your-change]

I know a Comet carried me to school one day but then a Falcon brought me home. Really “cutting edge and controversial” stuff!

[Let_It_Be_So]

...Yet, the scientists who described the alleged impact in a hallowed U.S. scientific journal refuse to consider the critics’ evidence — insisting they are correct, even though no one can replicate their work: the hallmark of credibility in the scientific world...

 

...“It does feed distrust in science,” says Wallace Broecker, a geochemist at Columbia University and an international dean of climate research. “Those who don’t believe in human-produced global warming grab onto it.”...

 

Amazing intellectual disconnect, aka cognitive dissonance.

[enduserindy]

I’m waiting for “Clovisgate.”

[Mike Darancette]

I read the book and it was more compelling than Obama's ghost written crap.

The fight over the impact theory of dinosaur extinction was really nasty.

[BwanaNdege]

Totally impossible for me to follow this argument, either PRO of CON. My brain just does not want to work that hard.

However, there are a whole bunch of craters in SE North Carolina, all with their elliptical axes aligned NW-SE. these are called the Carolina Bays. Most are estimated to be far older than the Clovis people.

http://cintos.org/SaginawManifold/Distal_Ejecta/CarolinaBays/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Bay

[blam]

Boy....

I sure liked the comet theory...it went well with some of my own ideas.

[SunkenCiv]

(check out the nice new cover art!)

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[SunkenCiv]

I was worried because we hadn't had the final, definitive refutation of this theory in over a month. [snicker] Thanks Renfield and Quix!

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[SunkenCiv]

Yes, exactly — this theory was and still is rejected was the global warming cult, but none of them belong in the sciences.

[SunkenCiv]

I think I've missed a few topics in the past, oh, six months or so. Anyway, the list thus far:

• What killed the mammoths and other behemoths?
• Ancient Atomic Warfare - Religious texts and geological evidence
• The Pleistocene Extinction
• Supernova debris found on Earth
• Deep freeze dealt death knell to bison (Ice Age)
• Humans to Blame for Ice Age Extinctions, Study Says
• Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths?
• Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths?
• Scientist: Comets Blasted Early Americans
• Native Americans Recorded Supernova Explosion
• Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Times
• Did comet start deadly cold snap?
• Diamonds tell tale of comet that killed off the cavemen
• Catastrophic Comet Chilled and Killed Ice Age Beasts (and Clovis people)
• Oregon Researchers Involved In New Clovis-Age Impact Theory (More)
• Comet May Have Doomed Mammoths
• Ice Age Ends Smashingly: Did A Comet Blow Up Over Eastern Canada? (More) (Carolina Bays)
• Climate alarmists lose another piece of evidence
• Comet Theory Collides With Clovis Research, May Explain Disappearance of Ancient People
• NSF Press Release: Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago
• Research Team Says Extraterrestrial Impact To Blame For Ice Age Extinctions (More)
• Cosmic blast may have killed off megafauna: Scientists say early humans doomed, too
• Cosmic blast may have killed off megafauna: Scientists say early humans doomed, too
• Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago
• Site Provides Evidence For Ancient Comet Explosion (Topper - SC)
• The End of Eden: The Comet That Changed Civilization
• Great beasts peppered from space
• Did Comets Cause Ancient American Extinctions?
• Al Goodyear And The Secrets Of Ancient Americans
• The mysterious forest rings of northern Ontario
• Life Survived Catastrophic Space Rock Impact [Chesapeake Bay area]
• Research Casts New Light On History Of North America
• Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana
• First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia....
• Diamonds Rained Down During Ice Age
• Diamonds Rained Down During Ice Age ($$$)
• First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia Over Bering Strait -
• Tracking down abrupt climate changes (Rapid natural climate change 12,700 years ago)
• Mammoth Mystery: The Beasts' Final Years
• Scientists find signs of 13,000-year-old extinction event
• Scientists say comet killed off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers
• Diamonds Linked to Quick Cooling Eons Ago
• Six North American sites hold 12,900-year-old nanodiamond-rich soil
• Did a Comet Hit Earth 12,000 Years Ago?
• Mammoths wiped out by 'perfect storm?'
• Laser mapping may help solve the mystery of the Mima Mounds
• Humans to Blame for Extinction? - Not Necessarily So ...
• Did a Comet Cause a North American Die-Off around 13,000 Years Ago?
• Carolina bays gouged into the ground at a magnetic reversal
• North America comet theory questioned
• Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months
• Car-Sized Creature Whacked with Tail's Sweet Spot (until 10,000 years ago)
• Starvation 'wiped out' giant deer
• Prehistoric man, giant animal coexisted
• Extinction of Giant Mammals Changed Landscape Dramatically
• Sophisticated hunters not to blame for driving mammoths to extinction
• Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months
• Kansas scientists probe mysterious possible comet strikes on Earth
• Explosive Nearby Star Could Threaten Earth
• T Pyxidis Soon To Be A Type Ia Supernova
• The Death Star (Supernova close to Earth - could wipe us out)
• Cave reveals Southwest's abrupt climate swings during Ice Age
• Musk Ox Population Decline Due to Climate, Not Humans, Study Finds
• Hour-long hailstorm may have caused 1,000-year freeze, say scientists
• Comet trail may have caused last ice age - UPI.com
• New Study Reveals Link Between 'Climate Footprints' and Mass Mammal Extinction
• As Mammoths Died Out, Earth Chilled (mammoth burp and fart levels dropped, contributing to cooling)
• Methane Extinctions - Could this Explain the Carolina Bays?
• Fungi, Feces Show Comet Didn't Kill Ice Age Mammals?
• Answer to what ended the last ice age may be blowing in the winds, paper says
• Los Angeles oil history runs deep
• Woolly mammoth extinction 'not linked to humans'
• True causes for extinction of cave bear revealed
• Mammoth-killing space blast 'off the hook'
• No evidence for Clovis comet catastrophe, archaeologists say
• Comet Theory Comes Crashing to Earth

[muawiyah]

Me, too. The comet theory definitely explained why gold in the Ohio Valley is on the hilltops and why it had all the characteristics of gold in Canada in the vicinity of the "splash down".

The folks challenging the theory have no way of explaining the gold ~ I would imagine they think it was rafted in on the glacial lobes that penetrated that area.

Alas, the hills involved were NEVER glaciated in the last 100,000 years.

[Quix]

THX THX.