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Russian Lake: More Evidence for Recent Cosmic Impacts

Paper: Abbott, D.H., McCafferty, P., et al. (2025). “New Data from a Round, Deep Basin in the Russian Heartland: The Smerdyachee Basin as a Prospective Impact Crater.” Airbursts and Cratering Impacts Link: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14293/ACI.2025.0002 The standard model for cosmic impact frequency suggests European Russia should experience one 500-meter crater…
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International Scientists Announce Vast Underground Structures Beneath Giza — Unveiled at Cosmic Summit 2025

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The Real Deal on Cosmic Summit

We wrapped up Cosmic Summit 2025 five weeks ago and I’m still stunned. It was a wonderful event. For me, it exceeded ‘23 and ‘24 and matured once again exponentially as a intellectual force. More than ever, it fulfilled a central aspiration of the Summit: the cross-pollination and amplification of extraordinary but little heard global perspectives—made possible when digital friends…
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Russian Lake: More Evidence for Recent Cosmic Impacts

International Scientists Announce Vast Underground Structures Beneath Giza — Unveiled at Cosmic Summit 2025

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International Scientists Announce Vast Underground Structures Beneath Giza — Unveiled at Cosmic Summit 2025

Daily Mail Spotlights Groundbreaking Giza Discovery — Revealed at Cosmic Summit 2025 This week, the Daily Mail published a remarkable article that has begun to shake the foundations of Egyptology. The piece, authored by science editor Stacy Liberatore after her in-depth attendance at Cosmic Summit 2025, reports on a major scientific discovery: a vast and likely interconnected system of…
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It's a wrap: Cosmic Summit 2023

Whew. The Tusk is relieved to have my first ever stage production/lecture series/brain party/mass sleepover/international fly-in/livestream/video-on-demand/plus five meals for hundreds completed. I’ve been to plenty of public gatherings, but I have never, ever organized such a thing myself. So it is with wonderful relief and many thanks to hundreds that I report Cosmic Summit 2023 was, by…
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Disclosure at the Summit

Tusk buddy Micah Hanks is the opening speaker eleven days from now at the Cosmic Summit 2023, at 8:15 AM eastern, Saturday, June 17th. Micah is also the Co-Founding Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief of The Debrief.  Yesterday, The Debrief scooped humanity with the publication of this jaw-dropping story authored by two former New York Times reporters. A companion backstory was also published…
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Marc Young: The world's first Geo-cosmic archaeologist

Update Jan 20th 2025: Marc Young does not and has never called himself a “Cosmoarchaeologist”. He coined the term “Geo-cosmic Archaeologist” in this 2022 essay published in the Flinders University Archaeology and History Society’s journal as the preferred name for his area of study. The term “Cosmoarchaeologist” was coined by George Howard and is not…
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Cosmic Summit speaker videos

With the Cosmic Summit close to a month away, I thought it would be fun to post a bit about a speaker or two. Dr. Andrew MT Moore and Ben van Kerkwyk are first up. Ben has been the tour leader for my trips to Egypt and recently Turkey. He is also an extraordinarily skilled YouTube science and data communicator. His three recent videos on scans he inspired of ‘pre-dynastic’ Egyptian…
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The Hancock Corsetti Affair: A Detailed Explanation

Hello old friends, new friends and others. As some are aware, the event I have been planning for a year, the Cosmic Summit 2023, has had a sudden and disappointing setback. Two of the lead speakers, Graham Hancock and Jimmy Corsetti, will not be joining us in Asheville. Fortunately and graciously, within 72 hours of the schedule change last Thursday, TV host Scott Wolter, ancient history…
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The Cosmic Tusk Open Access PowerPoint

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Grabbag

Hello, Cosmic Tusk, good to be here and sorry to be AWOL. One good thing about having a blog for thirteen years is that readers, I trust, know that I am not going anywhere and I’m likely expressing my interest in our subjects in other ways. But there is never an excuse not to blog, so off we go… ____________________________ My first update would concern the Tusk sponsored Cosmic Summit…
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Tusk Party

After 28 years of fascination, I’ve now completely lost my mind and gone all in. The Tusk is sponsoring a speculative ancient history — and hard science — gathering June 16 – 18, 2023, in Asheville, North Carolina. The Cosmic Summit 2023 will feature controversial authors, speculative internet personalities, and hard nosed Phd’s from the Comet Research Group. As…
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