Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths?

Discovery News ^ | Sept. 28, 2005 | Jennifer Viegas

[Dr. I. C. Spots]

Actually the fossil record doesn't show anything because the dating techniques that are used are unreliable. There is a lot of ASSUME-ing going on these days and very little real science....just the FACTs please.

[I'm ALL Right!]

You beat me to it!

[manwiththehands]

This was the first test of the prototype Karl Rove/Halliburton Weather Machine.

[Ignatz]

Aldo Nova is responsible for my partial hearing loss.

Hopefully, you have fully recovered your sense of hearing...
and your sense of musical taste.

[fish hawk]

I just love it when scientist come up with a new "theory". Can anyone do that? If so, how 'bout my theory. There is a God and he created everything. Well, I can't disprove those two scientists but then, they can't disprove my theory either.

[Alas Babylon!]

No, but Adam West played Batman. Now there hasn't been any man-sized, crime-fighting bats on TV since the 1960s.....




Hey, you're on to something! Did we have any novas in the 60s?

[headsonpikes]

This is simply the way the world works.

One would have thought that this was obvious to any researcher, but I suppose the PC crowd wants to maintain their delusions regarding the Innocent Savages of North America.

M. Rousseau would be proud.

[Centurion2000]

cosmic shotgun fantasy bump.

If these retards found it in several hundred sets of mammoth tusks spread across the entire continent I might have a chance of believing it.

Also if this was true it would have wiped out all large animals at the same time across the planet. Humans included

Supernova debris does not spread out on a totally even wave front. Otherwise SN1987A would have been a giant flashbulb and burned out.At 250 light years there would have also been hard radiation shining well in excess of safe levels for more than o0n planetary roation as well.

[Fred Hayek]

but exactly 6214 miles per second

corresponds to 10,000 km/sec.

[Cvengr]

Here's one from '67...

[IrishCatholic]

cool find. thanks for posting. bookmark for later printing.

[Cvengr]

Didn't West have the theory critters lived in caves and underground?

[JimSEA]

Your human caused extinction would have the added support that extinctions of large animals occurred in Siberia, Northern Europe, and Madagascar as well as America. In fact, the only area protected from these large game extinctions is Africa where the tsetse fly prevented large human populations or the development of farming in large game areas. Thus, we have large game in abundance there.

The problem with the human hunter explanation can be found in Southern and Southeastern Asia where the elephant and tiger as well as large apes, etc. survive beside rather large and culturally highly developed human populations. Still questions. Personally, I doubt any one answer will suffice. Certainly climate change -- global warming without SUV's if you will -- is part of the answer in the Northern Hemisphere. That along with the spread of humans, that is.

[partyrepub]

JUST DAMNN!

[robertpaulsen]

And in a bizarre turn of events, a super-mammoth wiped out a Nova.

[ccmay]

6,214 miles a second: That would not impact a mastodon tusk - that would preferate the mastodon tusk.

Actually, anything large enough to strike at 6,214 miles per second, and yet reach the ground without burning up in the atmosphere, would not merely "impact" OR "perforate" a mammoth tusk. I tend to think it would vaporize the tusk, plus the other tusk, plus the rest of the mammoth, plus the whole remaining herd of mammoths, plus everything else including solid rock for a hemispherical radius of hundreds or thousands of feet.

-ccm

[Doc Savage]

Mammoths died out because they couldn't find anything in a 4,000 Long with 2 pairs of pants!

[going hot]

and not just the tusk, but the whole elephant, and everything else around. 6K miles per second is moving.

[pabianice]

So this is why Kenniwick Man went extinct and a later wave of Asian trespassers inherited America?

[Larry Lucido]

LOL!