Adults in Charge?: NASA #2 Lori Garver published Neo-Catastrophist!

April 26, 2010

The frequency of impacts of objects of various sizes is known only to limited precisions. In particular, objects up to several meters in diameter explode in the atmosphere without reaching the surface. Although the energy released in these explosions may be many times greater than that released by the Hiroshima bomb, they most frequently…

Smoke Linked to Gun: Napier upheld by Nesvorný and Jenniskens on Zodiacal Cloud and short-period Comets

April 25, 2010

Richard Kerr, the oldest rat in the barn over at Tusk competitor Science Magazine, has written a disturbingly matter-of-fact piece reporting the myth busting work of David Nesvorný and Peter Jenniskens (hereafter N&J) on the source of Interplanetary Dust and the Zodiacal Cloud. N&J are the same fellows who last month deduced massive ancient meteoritic airburts…

Creepy notes: E.P. Grondine fingers Obama Asteroid Mission as reaction to comet Schwassmann Wachmann’s next pass

April 25, 2010

I’ve asked Ed Grondine to put some more some flesh on these bones, but he recently sent me some notes with background on the lead up to Obama’s bold asteroid mission. One can devine his drift — but the Tusk needs more…. BTW, Ed’s “Dead Car Book Special” is still underway, I recommend his Man and…

Wisconsin fireball causes….fires?

April 20, 2010

Bob Kobres is a good friend and a peer when it comes to finding intellectually provocative information about strange things from space and posting or reposting the info and speculation regarding it on the Internet. In addition, Bob has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things bolide. Gene Shoemaker among others has appreciated Bob’s contributions to…

Obama whipsaws nation from Moon to Asteroid: Is he WISEing up?

April 18, 2010

You’ve got to wonder sometimes what could be going on behind the scenes. Could it be that the early results of the WISE mission and other disturbing government science projects are encouraging the bold (but not entirely unexpected) move of the White House to ditch the return to Moon in order to land on…

Oldie but Goodie: The 2350 BC Middle East Anomaly Evidenced By Micro-debris Fallout, Surface Combustion And Soil Explosion

April 13, 2010

Abstract of talk by Marie-Agnès Courty CNRS-CM. Lab. de Science des Sols et Hydrologic, INA P-G, 78850 Grignon, France. email: fedoroff[at]diamant.jouy.inra.dr Presented at the SIS Conference: Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilisations (11th-13th July 1997) Further investigations allow to re-examine the nature, age, causes and effects of the third millennium catastrophe identified from our…

Dutch spurns geology and challenges Firestone on his home turf — Isotopic Chemistry

April 13, 2010

Steve Dutch, a geologist and avocational skeptic, has gone from criticism of the Great Lakes as impacts craters (not a central claim of the YDB team, in any case) to taking on Rick Firestone and others in Isotopic Chemistry. The interdisciplinary nature of this debate is fun and healthy, but if were Dutch, I…

Heinrich and Dutch to Firestone: Hang it up on Great Lakes crater speculation

April 13, 2010

Dear Friends, Dr. Firestone wrote: “The other argument against the YD impact is that there is no crater near the Great Lakes. That is not necessarily true. The second deepest terrestrial place on earth is the Lake Superior basin and the basins of three other Great Lakes are deeper than Death Valley despite lying in the flat…

Tusk bullish on old Taurid Comet papers

April 12, 2010

Articles pertaining to the Taurid Complex: Title: Meteor observations in Japan: new implications for a Taurid meteoroid swarm Authors: ASHER, D. J.; IZUMI, K. Affiliation: AA(Communications Research Laboratory, 893-1, Hirai, Kashima-shi, Ibaraki-ken 314-0012, Japan), AB(Nippon Meteor Society, 812-8 Namiki-machi, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma-ken 377-0033, Japan) Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 297, Issue 1, pp. 23-27. (Journal…

Crater Hunter blog turns it up a notch

April 10, 2010

The Tusk recommends the blog Crater Hunter: A Catastrophe of Comets as another stop to study strange claims and the science that supports them. I think it is authored by Dennis Cox(?), but regardless, the author is clearly a brave and dedicated soul — and the writing ain’t half bad. The more I learn about…

Curious George

April 9, 2010

Whipple Watch

April 8, 2010

Days since NASA’s David Morrison and his “colleagues who do dynamics” have failed to answer Bill Napier’s simple query: 13 or so…

Napier invokes Whipple: Challenges NASA’s Morrison

April 8, 2010

[Whipple Obit] In an independent defense of David Morrison’s ham-handed screed in the (giggle) Skeptical Inquirer challenging the science of the YDB event, respected British astronomer Bill Napier invokes some greats of the past — in particular, Fred Whipple of Harvard, the grandfather of American comet science — in support of his central claim…

Napier telegraphs from Old Country: Eats lunch of NASA’s Morrison, USA

April 7, 2010

TEXT OF BILL NAPIER’S REPLY to the [Morrison paper in Skeptical Inquirer] forwarded by Leroy Ellenberger: “It is too late to add anything on Napier’s paper. My colleagues who do dynamics are unimpressed with this work, however, and they consider it to be almost as unreasonable as the original Firestone et al. impact hypothesis.”…

Citizen Catastrophist Burchard apologizes to NASA official Morrison

April 7, 2010

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: 4/6/2010 7:33:33 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time Subj: Re: No YDR? An Apology to Dave Morrison Dear David, Sorry to have used words that you find offensive and to which you object understandably. You have my sincere apology for having overstated things. My choice of words betrayed my own…

Morrison of NASA disputes Younger Dryas Impact Team — touts Tusk despite obscurity

April 7, 2010

Unfortunately, the overcrowded session ran late, and there was no time for discussion or questions. Even when their conclusions were challenged, most of the scientists in the audience chose not to respond. The result was a lost opportunity for real debate. Perhaps not surprisingly, the AGU session received very little press attention. Indeed, following the AGU and GSA meetings, the YD impact hypothesis seems…

Shrill and Hysterical: NASA official seeks personal apology from citizen Catastrophist

April 6, 2010

When I worked in politics, we won a primary — and knew we would beforehand — when the opponent became, as was noted in the newspaper, “Shrill and Hysterical.” To us, that meant we were doing something right because the opponent was losing her grip as the evidence of the pending loss mounted. We…

Astronomical model for YDB event gets big press….in Britain, Canada and France!

April 4, 2010

Bill Napier’s profound paper is big news everywhere but stateside. This continues a long tradition of intermittent and fickle coverage of the YDB science by the beleaguered U.S. Science press. A selection of articles: Massive comet shower may have caused cool-down era, Vancouver Sun Did comet smashup unleash Earth’s mini Ice Age? AFP – Paris…

“COMET THAT KILLED MAMMOTHS COULD STRIKE AGAIN” — Discovery News on Napier paper

April 1, 2010

http://news.discovery.com/earth/comet-that-killed-mammoths-could-strike-again.html…

Royal Astronomical Society touts new Napier paper

April 1, 2010

Napier paper: Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex When the story books are re-written, the increasing — but uncoordinated — coherence between the Brit Neo-Catastrophists and the American YDB team will make interesting study for students of science history. These two groups have no overlap but the facts are leading them to the…

Exploring abrupt climate change induced by comets and asteroids during human history

Adults in Charge?: NASA #2 Lori Garver published Neo-Catastrophist!

Smoke Linked to Gun: Napier upheld by Nesvorný and Jenniskens on Zodiacal Cloud and short-period Comets

Creepy notes: E.P. Grondine fingers Obama Asteroid Mission as reaction to comet Schwassmann Wachmann’s next pass

Wisconsin fireball causes….fires?

Obama whipsaws nation from Moon to Asteroid: Is he WISEing up?

Oldie but Goodie: The 2350 BC Middle East Anomaly Evidenced By Micro-debris Fallout, Surface Combustion And Soil Explosion

Dutch spurns geology and challenges Firestone on his home turf — Isotopic Chemistry

Heinrich and Dutch to Firestone: Hang it up on Great Lakes crater speculation

Tusk bullish on old Taurid Comet papers

Crater Hunter blog turns it up a notch

Curious George

Whipple Watch

Napier invokes Whipple: Challenges NASA’s Morrison

Napier telegraphs from Old Country: Eats lunch of NASA’s Morrison, USA

Citizen Catastrophist Burchard apologizes to NASA official Morrison

Morrison of NASA disputes Younger Dryas Impact Team — touts Tusk despite obscurity

Shrill and Hysterical: NASA official seeks personal apology from citizen Catastrophist

Astronomical model for YDB event gets big press….in Britain, Canada and France!

“COMET THAT KILLED MAMMOTHS COULD STRIKE AGAIN” — Discovery News on Napier paper

Royal Astronomical Society touts new Napier paper

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