Randall Carlson does a great job here explaining a really creepy but profound aspect of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. Halloween, like death festivals worldwide in late Octoberearly November, reflects the trauma inflicted by the Taurid Meteor stream on the ancients during recurring bombardments.
As Bill Napier described it once to me, Earth’s intersection with the Taurids in Late…
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Jim Teller, professor of geological sciences at the University of Manitoba on the shore of Lake Lindero in Winnipeg April 29 2004.
James T. Teller
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis achieved its first publishing “Three-Peet” of supportive papers this month. It started with the Thackeray paper the first week, then came the Moore paper in week two, and now at the end of October comes…
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See permanent page here
Readers may recall a few months ago the Tusk and Australian university student Marc Young compiled a bibliography and archive file of all the YDIH publications since the seminal PNAS publication in 2007. I have taken the files and given them a permanent home here.
The publication history of the subject is a long and complex one, but the arc of of the subject clearly bends…
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New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate change for Earth
The muck that’s been accumulating at the bottom of this lake for 20,000 years is like a climate time capsule.
Christopher R. Moore, University of South Carolina
What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?
In the space of just a couple of years, average…
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Martin Sweatman, when not writing a profound book, is building quite a nice catalog of videos concerning the YDIH and related subjects. This one is particularly welcome and represents the best walk-though of the debate, paper by paper, twist by turn, since Hancock’s careful narration here. This is invaluable science communication and should be viewed by anyone interested in the subject, pro…
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Tusk video from Tall el-Hammam
Ben at UnchartedX continues to produce excellent videos concerning the Younger Dryas Cataclysm and related subjects. Just recently he posted this superbly produced review of religious and mythical information and how it perfectly matches the hard science of impacts.
Warning: This stuff is heavy, and as Ben points out, it may offend your spiritual sensibilities to…
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NY Post
Gizmodo
Quartz
Francis Thackeray
This confirmation of a South African platinum layer from the Younger Dryas Impact was particularly welcome for several reasons. First, it is another confirmation of evidence for the impact in the Southern Hemisphere, following the Pilauco paper from Chile in March of this year.
Second, the lead author, Francis Thackeray, is no light weight, as…
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Want to know a sure-fire formula to get long time internet friends together in person — and even outdoors on a blazing August day? Dig up a perfectly featured Carolina Bay.
Long time Carolina bay enthusiasts, digital buddies of the Tusk, and curious citizens, Chris Cotrell, Antonio Zamora, Michael Davias, Micah Hanks and Jason Pentrail met up recently to — literally — get to the…
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