Younger Dryas Impact Evidence

Younger Dryas Impact data integrated into Wikidata and Scholia

For geeks only The Tusk had one of those “Holy Moley!” moments with the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis this weekend. Not a new paper, or even an entire show on a global communication platform, but rather a massive compilation of hard publication and communication data on the YDIH — and associated analysis framework — rolled out to the world by an anonymous digital…
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Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

Alpine Younger Dryas Impact evidence

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Younger Dryas Impacts gain MORE global attention

Tusk travel buddy from the Egypt 2020 Expedition, Jimmy Corsetti of Bright Insight, appeared last week on The Joe Rogan Experience, the most popular conversation on planet earth. The Younger Dryas Impact was a frequent subject. This single clip was viewed by over 3 million people. Not to be outdone, Comet Research Group resident Neo-Catastrophist astronomer, and popular Scottish author, Dr. Bill…
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NYT: 6000 word Sunday feature article on the YDI and Comet Research Group

Video Round-up and the Foxhole

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Oldie but Goodie: Carolina coast and the UK catastrophically inundated by tsunami circa 1000 AD

It’s a little lazy, but not unknown in blogging circles, to cut yourself some slack and repost old material for new readers. When poking around for an “Oldie but Goodie” to repost, I came across this number from 2012. I post again to inspire some interest from readers — perhaps one of many well credentialed readers — to take a serious look at this…
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Key paper reveals the astonishing cosmic secret behind "Boneyard Alaska"

Ancient airburst over Ohio

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Art imitates Tusk

The cruel irony of this welcome movie should be apparent to Tusk regulars. A satirical blockbuster uses an impending comet impact as a plot device to communicate a deeper message to all humanity that no one listens to scientists who…warn us of climate change. The director reveals his narrative subtext in many interviews, and calls it here,“…the most thinly disguised metaphor in…
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NYT: 6000 word Sunday feature article on the YDI and Comet Research Group

Video Round-up and the Foxhole

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Ancient Traumas, Modern Hints

As the Taurid meteor season wanes on the approach of Thanksgiving, I thought it was relevant (and economical) to share a couple of recent videos which present the Taurid phenomena from different, but mutually informative contexts. The first is a ‘live shot,’ and the second is a ‘retrospective,’ if you will. Here is a scary cool mash-up of weather person Ashley Baylor…
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Video Round-up and the Foxhole

Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

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Comet fragment airburst melts, whips and freezes Chilean desert sands during Younger Dryas

Smithsonian The Independent CNN USA Today In the wake of Halloween last week a very, very scary scientific paper was published. “Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile,” Shultz et al.”(October, 2021) creates a rebuttable presumption that horrific cosmic airbursts — without leaving craters — have…
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Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

Key paper reveals the astonishing cosmic secret behind "Boneyard Alaska"

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RIP Charles Appleton

The trust-but-verify ancient history crowd was devastated last month by the passing of indefatigable YouTube science communicator Charles Appleton. I took it hard like many. But I feel particularly sorry upon his death, and a bit guilty. Not long before Chuck died, I responded to a tweet from LasVegApps with this: WTF?! Have you run out of mysteries or something? Good god man this is a lifelong…
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RIP: Theodore "Ted" Bunch of the Comet Research Group

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The ~335 AD Hopewell Airburst Event in Ohio

Meteorites, silicious vesicular melt glass, Fe and Si-rich magnetic spherules, positive Ir and Pt anomalies, and burned charcoal-rich Hopewell habitation surfaces demonstrate that a cosmic airburst event occurred over the Ohio River valley during the late Holocene. A comet-shaped earthwork was constructed near the airburst epicenter. Twenty-nine radiocarbon ages demonstrate that the event…
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Key paper reveals the astonishing cosmic secret behind "Boneyard Alaska"

Comet Research Group member Marc Young presents at Flinders U

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Smoking Gun: Fifty years of study by Bill Napier et al. vindicated in new paper

Napier on the Tusk 2010 Napier on The Bos 2013 Tusk Interviews Napier 2015 Napier on Orbital Fragmentation 2019 Daily Mail A comprehensive study of the Taurid meteor stream released last week confirms a central understanding of astronomer Dr. Bill Napier and the Comet Research Group, which was incorporated into the YDI hypothesis from the start in 2007. A large comet has been fragmenting in solar…
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NYT: 6000 word Sunday feature article on the YDI and Comet Research Group

Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

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#PebbleGate

#ImageForensics Some potential repetitive parts in the corner of Figure 15 of that recent @SciReports paper about an asteroid that destroyed Tall el-Hammam (biblical city of Sodom?).https://t.co/wtZbnXOTrH pic.twitter.com/qGHRwDzKjr — Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest) September 29, 2021 [pdfjs-viewer…
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Younger Dryas trigger: Cosmic Impacts or Volcanoes?