Scientists say comet killed off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers

www.physorg.com ^ | 02 JAN 2009 | By Robert Mitchum

[Red Badger]

SNorting it will kill you...........damn! 3 posts in a row!......

[Vaquero]

I saw numerous shows on Science channel/ Discovery etc. where they went over this... and the reason they said there was no crater as a smoking gun was because it hit the ice age canadian shield which had miles thick ice on it.....

pretty cool....

[Tribune7]

Once the mammoth were gone there was nothing for the tigers to eat.

I guess the point Mitchum was trying to make was: Mammoth. It's what's for dinner.

[pepsionice]

There are several things that we might want to absorb. First...”Comet Warming” destroyed a huge portion of life in North America...and basically formed the Mississippi River and probably over two hundred other rivers. Second...the vast amount of man in North America died, so Man version 2.0...basically came over AFTER 12,900. So we might have had several vast societies in existence. Third and final....we aren’t just talking about just a dozen or two dozen species of life that disappeared here....but we could be talking about a thousand different types of species that disappeared (so that the environmental guys don’t readily blame us for everything).

[Alter Kaker]

The world continues to find every reason under the sun EXCEPT for the Flood in Noah’s days to explain why the animals all died off.

That's because there's zero evidence to support a worldwide flood at any point in the last 3 billion years. Also, my Bible reading may be off, but I only recall one Flood. The Holocene extinction, which saw the end of the saber tooth cat and the woolly mammoth, was fully 65 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs. How many floods were there?

[DevNet]

Perhaps you should stop getting your science from the new media?

[Vigilanteman]

Three in 30 seconds. What can I say? Great minds think alike.

[Charles Martel]

That would be the Ledbetters of Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi.

Ah, of course. Marcel, Raynelle, Eudelle, W.L., Lynelle, Nuegene, Claude and Clovis. Oh, and Aunt Pet and Uncle Versie, too. Surprisingly enough, Clovis has gone and got hisself a Facebook page. HAWWW!

[Red Badger]

Which, when it melted when the comet hit would have caused a sudden rise in sea level.....

[Scythian]

You mean like the story on this thread?

[onedoug]

...a similar extinction much more recently: just 13,000 years ago....

Then how come there were mammoths, sabertooths and humans in Los Angeles some 9,000 years ago?

[SoftwareEngineer]

I was never fond of the theory that man hunted the mammoth to extinction.

I agree. Not that man is not capable of driving animals to extinction (the Romans proved that with their games), but the Mammoths were scattered over too wild a territory to be successfully hunted to extinction by cavemen. Now, by 2000 BC, yes, Man could have hunted them down but not at the level man was at 10,000 to 13,000 BC

[Justa]

"The world continues to find every reason under the sun EXCEPT for the Flood in Noah’s days to explain why the animals all died off."

Please explain how The Flood could account for the layer of nano-diamonds and soot extending throughout N. America, coinciding with the demise of large mammals.

[JasonC]

Xactly.

[Red Badger]

Then how come there were mammoths, sabertooths and humans in Los Angeles some 9,000 years ago?

Illegal aliens?.........

[JasonC]

I'm a big fan of science. This isn't science. It is fantasy novel-writing.