Space Daily
Smithsonian
National Post
The Telegraph
Where Lies the Younger Dryas Boundary Smoking Gun?
Nice sum up from a creationist blog
U Cincinnati
U Santa Barbara
Program Note: BosloughLeCompte colloquy reposted and readable
Airbursts/impacts by a fragmented comet or asteroid have been proposed at the Younger Dryas onset (12.80 ± 0.15 ka) based on identification of an…
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Excerpts
I have a huge library of catastrophist books, both printed and now electronic. They range from horribly kooky and shallow to books that have millions of copies in their future. Dr. Jeffrey Goodman’s The Comets of God is closer to the latter. It will be read and re-read, particularly by Christians, and remembered as the best resolution of modern comet science and biblical text…
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Magnificent article from Tusk favorite Marie-Agnes Courty, and distinguished newcomer to catastrophist publications, Eric Coqueugniot.
I heard Courty hurl questions at San Francisco AGU in 2010 and only realized later who the thickly accented inquisitor was. Courty is French, very French. While I admire her style with translation and find it interesting, it can be a challenge to read at…
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Bunch
Boslough
It is telling to read competing journal articles regarding the Younger Dryas Boundary Event. For example below is the recent paper from The Bos, et al., and below that a publication from the YDB team the year before. (I was added as an author to that one based on some field work I did years before starting this blog).
There are a number of interesting observations that…
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Eye Candy
Earlier this week I purchased a wonderful device, the 3D Space Navigator Mouse from 3D Connexion. I am giving this cool tool Two Tusks Up and encourage any reader who works with 3D or Google Earth to purchase one post-haste. This sturdy little brick of a mouse has a foating head which provides complete control in three dimensional environments. It simply revolutionizes your…
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What’s up?
From Hermann Burchard:
George,
here is a simple model to explain the vapor trail’s observed symmetry:
Partial cloudlets each side, North & South,
have almost identical ones opposite.
1. The Bos’ blowtorch momentum sims and video blow-ups from Steve Garcia’s
posts indicate that the explosive ablations shoot debris ahead in the
direction…
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