Ancient airburst over Ohio

Critics split hairs over ~350 AD American catastrophe paper

July 20, 2022

Erudite Tusk commentor Stuart Hamish below refers accurately to this Neuheuser and Neuheuser paper responding to Tankersley et al., as “hair splitting.” I’d agree. …

American Airburst: Comet fragments destroy ancient Midwest culture

4th century AD impact would kill tens of millions today

February 4, 2022

Comet Research Group member Ken Tankersley et al. published an astonishing paper this week in Nature’s Science Reports providing hard data suggesting that the Native American “Hopewell Culture” witnessed and suffered terribly from a cosmic onslaught just 1700 years ago….

Deep Tusk Talk

Fascinating debate on the cause and timing of turbulent ancient periods

January 22, 2022

This post is for total nerds. Stop here if you have a social life….

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

November 30, 2021

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 little number from 2012. I post again to inspire some interest from readers….

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

Horrifying event witnessed by humans -- Brown University says desert glass is from space -- not "grass fires"

November 8, 2021

In 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,” creates a rebuttable presumption that horrific cosmic airbursts — without leaving craters — have indeed occurred in human history, a central contention here at the…

The ~335 AD Hopewell Airburst Event in Ohio

American cosmic airburst in late Roman times revealed by University of Cincinnati

October 18, 2021

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…

Cosmic airburst of biblical proportions revealed by Comet Research Group

Tusk leaves keyboard for unparalleled excavation in Hashemite Kingdom

September 20, 2021

This is an easy Monday post. The Tusk was a minor co-author of a paper with extraordinary implications to science and faith published today in Nature’s Scientific Reports. The lengthy journal article has been under development since 2014 when I first traveled to Jordan to join the wonderful Trinity Southwest University at Tall el-Hammam….

The Fall of Phaethon

Long published field evidence supports Bronze Age Bavarian impact

June 17, 2021

The Chiemgau impact in Bavarian Germany stands out as a particularly sympathetic “martyr” crater. The evidence for a Bronze Age euro-apocalypse is sincerely published and well established as a legitimate hypothesis based on decades of meticulous fieldwork, but entirely dismissed because the proponents believe the impact was relatively recent in geological terms. The authors…

Avi Loeb

Hmmm...

March 29, 2021

Avi Loeb is no household name, but he wants to be. The chairman of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard has appeared on more than 50 podcasts since the start of the year. Given a minimum of one hour per podcast, I’d ask for a week’s pay back if I were Harvard. The guy…

Recent Bolivian Airburst

Iturralde Crater may be not be an "impact" crater

February 19, 2020

…the impactor would have encountered the atmosphere at velocities of approximately 20-50 km/s, and the released energy of the airburst would have been comparable to or greater than any known nuclear explosion. From Wikipedia: The structure was identified on the basis of Landsat imagery in 1985.[2] It is located between the Manupari and Madidi…

Second suspected Greenland crater announced by NASA

Hat tip from Steve Garcia posted December 31st on the Tusk

February 11, 2019

Only at the Cosmic Tusk can you expect to see a major global announcement by NASA scooped by six weeks. Thanks to our blog’s most dedicated contributor, Steve Garcia: You heard it here first. See other, non-prescient, contemporaneous coverage here: NBC: Immense crater may have been found deep under Greenland’s ice sheet PhysOrg: NASA finds possible…

Mucked Up

A year later, not a word on Alaska paper in Nature with evidence for repeated cataclysm

December 3, 2018

It’s hard to be cynical enough in this game. I noted today that “Science Communicators,” a recently discussed poorly adapting subspecies, have yet to mention this blockbuster paper in Nature Reports one year ago. Specifically, there is credible preliminary evidence contained by the bucketful that there was a catastrophe prior to the Younger Dryas…

BioBang

Catastrophic panspermia induces 9 of 10 species within human history

June 5, 2018

Panspermia 2013 The Tusk recieved an extraordinary paper recently and immediately pinged our digital acquaintance for commentary, world treasure: Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe. “Chandra, I hope you are well. A friend of the Comet Research Group\YDB team just sent around an announcement of the following discovery: https://phys.org/news/2018-05-gene-survey-reveals-facets-evolution.html A large-scale genetic comparison has discovered that 90%…

Tusk on Seven Ages Podcast

Seven Ages Audio Journal

May 20, 2018

I had a blast last week joining the hosts of my favorite new podcast: Seven Ages Audio Journal. Like the Tusk, veteran podcaster Micah Hanks and his science bros Jason Pentrail and James Waldo attempt the difficult balance between hard science, responsible speculation and perhaps some entertainment. I think they recognized me as a…

An Astronomical Hypothesis for the Younger Dryas Impact Event

Ignored by The Bos

March 28, 2018

Paleolithic Extinctions and the Taurid Complex (2010) Centaurs as a Hazard to Civilization (2015) Excerpted from Page 11 Wolbach et. al Part One (2018) Astronomical Hypothesis for the YDB Impact Event Regarding the probability of a swarm of cometary fragments hitting the Earth, Boslough et al. (2013) claimed that the YDB event is…

Other Ancient Impacts

Critics split hairs over ~350 AD American catastrophe paper

4th century AD impact would kill tens of millions today

Fascinating debate on the cause and timing of turbulent ancient periods

Horrifying event witnessed by humans -- Brown University says desert glass is from space -- not "grass fires"

American cosmic airburst in late Roman times revealed by University of Cincinnati

Tusk leaves keyboard for unparalleled excavation in Hashemite Kingdom

Long published field evidence supports Bronze Age Bavarian impact

Hmmm...

Iturralde Crater may be not be an "impact" crater

Hat tip from Steve Garcia posted December 31st on the Tusk

A year later, not a word on Alaska paper in Nature with evidence for repeated cataclysm

Catastrophic panspermia induces 9 of 10 species within human history

Seven Ages Audio Journal

Ignored by The Bos

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