Posted on 05/23/2011 5:43:19 PM PDT by Renfield
I kept thinking ‘Like Sands Through an Hourglass, These are these days of our life’, way to much Drama for a seemingly Scientific document
Why bother pinging me, if you're going to take over my duties before I get there?!? ;-')
Still a comet or some other major impact into the North
American ice sheet in the area near the Canadian Border might explain the fascinating Carolina Bays which all radiate from that area.
Indeed. There is a great deal of evidence for an impact that is either being ignored or downplayed for whatever reason.
It is hard to ignore the Carolina Bays. It is also important to note that if they are searching for impact evidence in Clovis, New Mexico then they are looking in the wrong place. Considering the “splash” pattern of ejecta, most of the evidence is along the eastern coastline. Normal jetstream patterns would push dust and other evidence into the Atlantic and onto Europe. Additionally, nanodiamond evidence was found in the Greenland ice sheet, east of the possible impact site.
Eh. Eliminate the impossible. Whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Hi:
I’ve been somewhat following this theory here on FR for the last few years and find it compelling. Anyways I think someone in some previous FR thread listed a website called The Cosmic Tusk. The url is
This website posts articles/reports/studies and such that are supportive of the cometary impact hypothesis. The miller-mccune article that is posted here was also posted on that website. Here is the url
http://cosmictusk.com/blast-from-past-yd-team-member-diciplined-by-goldeb-state-geo-board
It also has some comments at the end of it some of which are scathing criticisms of this article. You kind of have to wade through the comments a bit though.
Another interesting website that is linked to at the CosmicTusk is the following
http://craterhunter.wordpress.com
It has an article that I found to be really interesting called
“A Different Kind of Climate catastrophe”
Which can be found here
http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/a-different-kind-of-climate-catastrophe/
It presents an idea of how the cometary impact could have happened. The gist is that the comet broke up into a meteor stream and that the earth collided with it. The iceballs after they entered were converted to high temperature plasmas which scorched the ground like a blowtorch wiping out the North American Megafauna. This would explain the lack of an impact crater for the event. A very interesting read that I hope members will take a look at.
Anyways, I haven’t given up on the cometary impact hypothesis as the cause of the climate change of the Younger Dryas and the extinction of the megafauna.
As for myself i’m just a layman who has developed an interest in this type of stuff from the postings here on FR. To which I want to thank members who post this kind of stuff.
“I’m waiting for “Clovisgate.”
Really tired of “thisgate” and “thatgate,” especially when Watergate was such a transparent fraud.
Why not go back a little further, just for variety, and dub it “Clovis-pot Dome?”
Two different worlds! There's an enormous amount of evidence-gathering, research and non-ideological peer review to be done before any conclusions can be drawn about this.
:’)
Thanks, will check it out tomorrow.
{{{SNORT}}} From Firestone et al's book, best I recall is they were trying, amongst other things probably, to explain the disappearance of a species or two around the time period they were studying. I thought the book was fairly compelling, although it got a tad technical in places. In any case, after a quick read of this article I didn't notice any theories this group of skeptics offered by way of explanation. And their best refutation appeared to consist primarily of sour grapes...
It appears to be another in a series of repetitive hatchet jobs. Kudos to the various media nimrods who regurgitate the phony critiques. :’)
The embedded particles, black mat, and sudden extinction (which included the short-lived Clovis culture) are real. The researchers didn’t make ‘em up, or pull ‘em out of their nether regions. :’)
Stop typing on your keyboard, switch off your computer, and never again use teh product of modern technology. All modern devices with electronic circuits depend upon the scientific theory of bandgaps with conduction holes and electrons to operate.
Lots and lots of scientific theories are well established and help us get through our daily lives. Some ar bunk because they do not stand up to careful scrutiny when all the evidence is examined. That this theory may have been overhyped nonsense does not invalidate all scientific theory.
Sounds like a typical evolutionist.
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