But why not France, Bos!?
The news release
Independent investigators have failed to confirm the reports of enhanced concentrations of spherules and platinum-group elements in YD boundary sediments.
Boslough, Surovell et al., January 30, 2013, Arguments and Evidence Against a Younger Dryas Impact Event
Interhemispheric evidence of a cosmic impact 12.9 ka is known now…
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Obviously, this whole “salting” thing from The Bos has got me hopping mad — and for good reason.
By implying that the sites were “salted,” The Bos raises the issue of fraud or conspiracy surrounding the modern date he got on his YDB carbon spherule from Gainey, Michigan. But there’s a problem with that accusation — the YDB group published a modern date of the same…
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Dear Mr. Singer:
Sandia Labs issued a news release on January 30, 2013, with a passage that requires a satisfactory explanation or I believe Sandia Labs has libeled myself [sic] and others researching the Younger Dryas Boundary Impact hypothesis. In the release, titled “Study rebuts hypothesis that comet attacks ended 13,000-year-old Clovis culture,” Sandia Labs published…
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This afternoon former NASA geochemist Ted Bunch dropped the Tusk the note below. It is thrilling to see a core YDB researcher with a five decade track record [and here] willing to stand up to his bullies in frank and personal terms, outside the stilted literature and self-serving press releases.
The recent Boslough et al. paper and coordinated press releases are insulting to Dr. Bunch.
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The Great Canadien Fireball Train of February 9, 1913 as painted by Gustav Hahn
See Tusk, December 2, 2010
Just sayin’:
“They all hail from the asteroid belt—but not from a single location in the asteroid belt,” he says. “There is no common source for these fireballs, which is puzzling.”…..
Brown explains: “Back in the 1960s and 70s, amateur astronomers…
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“I’m trying to piece together what happened from the videos. First of all, I do not think this is related in any way to the asteroid 2102 DA14! For one thing, this occurred about 16 hours before DA14 passes. At 8 kilometers per second that’s nearly half a million kilometers away from DA14. That puts it on a totally different orbit.”
— Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, February 15…
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The Bos!
Slow feed but great vids
Plugged!: Younger Dryas Impact Event
Feb Fireball Season
San Fran
Cuba and video
Japan
Miami
Brazil 2012
Iowa 1875 and here
1913
Fireball Hush-Up?
NASA Urges Vigilance for Weird Fireballs
NASA 2012 Press Release “The Fireballs of February”
Year of the Snake?
Black Swan
As readers know, the Tusk is generally uninterested in current events…
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Update: As published in PNAS in July, 2013
“The [Younger Dryas Boundary] theory has reached zombie status,” said Professor Andrew Scott from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway. “Whenever we are able to show flaws and think it is dead [!], it reappears with new, equally unsatisfactory, arguments. [Sniff!]
– “January 30, 2013, Royal Holloway Press…
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The banner image above is Comet 73/P Schwassman-Wachmann fragmenting in orbit
ABSTRACT
Intersection with the debris of a large (50-100 km) short-period comet during the Upper Palaeolithic provides a satisfactory explanation for the catastrophe of celestial origin which has been postulated to have occurred around 12900 BP, and which pre-saged a return to ice age conditions of duration 1300 years.
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