Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Times

Mammoth Trumpet ^ | March 2001 | Firestone/Topping

[ForGod'sSake]

Rebuttal and Counter-Rebuttal to this article.

What appears to be a companion article:

Scientist: Comets Blasted Early Americans

Also, the most recent date of global disruption(Pleistocene - Holocene) was not lost on George Howard who has been studying the Carolina Bays' formation for 20+ years: Is this event connected with the Carolina Bays?

IOW, the culprit that formed to Carolina Bays may have also been the Pleistocene/Holocene event.

One interesting side note(that may or may not be relevent): The Great Lakes area is roughly the extrapolated source(the point of origin) of the axes of the Carolina Bays.

[ForGod'sSake]

~FYI~

[AntiGuv]

"Electronic Evidence of Psychotic Delusion Induced by Freebased "Crack" Cocaine Inhalation"

;^)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ForGod'sSake. Definitely a fringe topic, and I kinda love those. Will appear in the Digest 106 under "Oh So Mysteriouso".

This is also a Catastrophism topic, so that list gets a ping as well.

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[SunkenCiv]

[Brad from Tennessee]

Scientific American had a paper a year or so ago about natural nuclear reactors I think in what is now Turkey. These burned out thousands of years ago but existed because uranium and some other element occurred in the same geology close together and formed a pile.

[Brad from Tennessee]

There's a number of links on these "natural reactors." Here's the briefest one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

[bruinbirdman]

He lost me at 12,000 BP. I know the athiests insist on BCE (before common era?) for Before Christ. But what the heck is B.P.?

yitbos - "Those who control language control minds. " - Ayn Rand

[ForGod'sSake]

Fersher. We are talking Berzerkly though...

[gleeaikin]

BP contrary to ignorant belief is not an oil company. It means Before the Present. I think it is calibrated to 1950 because of some problem related to Carbon 14 dating, possible after the nuclear age. Perhaps someone else can clarify that.

[Tax Government]

BP - before present

[ForGod'sSake]

Scientific American had a paper a year or so ago about natural nuclear reactors...

I think I recall that. How's about The Nuclear Heart of the Earth?

[CobaltBlue]

"Before Present" doesn't seem terribly scientific, since "today" rapidly becomes yesterday.

I don't care whether they pick the alleged year of the alleged birth of Jesus of Nazareth as a fixed point or something else, but they ought to pick something.

[ModelBreaker]

"Electronic Evidence of Psychotic Delusion Induced by Freebased "Crack" Cocaine Inhalation"

My first reaction too. But this is published by a research center at Texas A&M.

I don't see any journal citations to this article, tho. So it may not have been peer reviewed?

[sourcery]

A little radiation never hurt anybody...

[happygrl]

There is also evidence of a nuclear event in India.

In addition, I have read that there is evidence for a sudden rush of fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico which occured at the approximate end of the last ice age.

This was not a slow stream, but a sudden outpouring of water. An event heating the atmosphere over the Great Lakes could have caused this.

[AntiGuv]

The authors themselves state this in their above linked 'counter-rebuttal': "Southon and Taylor correctly point out that the event as published was too extreme to be reasonable."

[RWR8189]

 Before Present

[MadJack]

Wow. For a few minutes it felt like I was reading Emmanuel Velakovsky again to please my geology teacher.
Now I have to lay down for awhile.

[RWR8189]

See post 18.