Panspermia

Q&A on Coronavirus and disease from space

Update: Tusk sends protest letter to Space.com Hello readers new and old. Below is the 3rd in a series of communications from Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe regarding panspermia and the COVID-19 Coronavirus. Please refer to two recent Tusk posts, one concerning Dr. Wickramasinghe’s recent communication to The Lancet, and an earlier post concerning Dr. C’s challenging career. Opinions vary…
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The Wickramsinghe Affair: Letter of Inquiry

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Africa

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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New Russian Study Extends the Younger Dryas “Black Mat” to Russia — A Global Cataclysm Confirmed

🚨 Major Younger Dryas Impact Evidence Discovered in Louisiana: Shallow Airburst Crater Identified

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The bibliography of the subject alone refutes Vance Holliday’s absolute and categorical rejection of all evidence for the YDIH in a recent lecture. There are simply too many groups publishing too many papers for all of the evidence to be entirely rejected by anyone, even a persistent critic like Holliday. For gosh sake, the world’s leading climate scientist (who sadly passed just last…
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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

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Always a bride's maid...

Seriously, it is really cool to see Science Magazine name Hiawatha Crater as 2018 breakthrough story runner up — and with due reference to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. The crater will be an intellectual gift that keeps on giving, and its better days are ahead. So I will go ahead and nominate the article “Hiawatha crater dates to start of the Younger Dryas” as THE Science…
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NYT: 6000 word Sunday feature article on the YDI and Comet Research Group

Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

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First Younger Dryas Impact Crater Found: Greenland

Bos Bet… Voosen article in Science Magazine Seven Ages Daily Mail National Geographic BBC NYT MSN Oh, happy day! The Tusk heard about this discovery confidentially in March but the following nine months were characterized by an uncertain confidence this day would truly come. We had published evidence for a decade, and knew a climate changing Younger Dryas Impact had occurred during human…
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New Russian Study Extends the Younger Dryas “Black Mat” to Russia — A Global Cataclysm Confirmed

🚨 Major Younger Dryas Impact Evidence Discovered in Louisiana: Shallow Airburst Crater Identified

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Science News questions science

I was about ten when my mom bought a Science News subscription for the Tusk. Week after week the thin, frequent, small format publication filled my desk, and ultimately the floor of my room. The rush of science coverage came so quickly I sometimes felt guilty as a little guy for not reading every article. So, to an old fan, this recent exploration of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) by…
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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

NYT: 6000 word Sunday feature article on the YDI and Comet Research Group

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An Astronomical Hypothesis for the Younger Dryas Impact Event

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 “statistically and physically impossible,” whereas Napier…
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New Russian Study Extends the Younger Dryas “Black Mat” to Russia — A Global Cataclysm Confirmed

🚨 Major Younger Dryas Impact Evidence Discovered in Louisiana: Shallow Airburst Crater Identified

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Open Letter: Napier on Defant and the Joe Rogan podcast

Bill Napier sent the Tusk a note regarding Joe Rogan’s unforgettable debate-style podcast on the Younger Dryas Boundary Hypothesis. Bill’s message is posted below my rant here. His informed correction of Marc Defant’s self-styled skeptical authority on comets is priceless and instructive. A cultural genre of all-purpose professional “skeptics,” like Defant and…
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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

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The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis since 2007

I recently discovered an essay from Graham Hancock that manages to convey both the profound intellectual significance — and petty scholastic drama — of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis since 2007. Hancock doesn’t note his good timing, but as he writes in 2017 it is the 10th anniversary of the Comet Research Group’s Acapulco AGU presentations introducing the YDIH. This…
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Knock Out

Almost 24 hours later and I am still catching my breath. Last night’s Joe Rogan Experience podcast was pure heaven for the Tusk. As folks might have noted, the world’s most popular interview podcast has taken a long-standing interest in our subject. Graham Hancock has appeared on Rogan six times in recent years, I believe, each visit breaking new viewership records for the show and…
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