The Cosmic Tusk

July 13, 2010

A Nickel Pickle Part C

A NICKEL PICKLE The Problems of Building High-Tech From a Meteoroid Wreck by Bob Kobres Part C The contemporary picture of pre-history has been pieced together with total disregard for the effects impact phenomena had on our ancestors. Obviously the image of our past will be much different when this newly discovered influence is factored in. As already mentioned, it is becoming clear that…

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July 9, 2010

A Nickel Pickle Part B

A NICKEL PICKLE The Problems of Building High-Tech From a Meteoroid Wreck by Bob Kobres Part B There is though, another agent which could destroy civilization and do great harm to the environment, a large consignment of elements from space. Such deliveries are not as uncommon as was previously thought, particularly during the past twelve thousand years. Much evidence suggests that humanity…

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July 7, 2010

A Nickel Pickle: The Problems of Building High Tech from a Meteoroid Wreck

A NICKEL PICKLE The Problems of Building High-Tech From a Meteoroid Wreck by Bob Kobres Part A ——————————————————————————– Though a nickel will not buy much today the element nickel is invaluable to our contemporary way of life. Without…

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July 6, 2010

The Square Bays of Bolivia

Some loyal Tuskamers are chatting in a comment thread regarding “paleo-lagoons” of South America and the American Southwest. I am not entirely convinced of an ET origin for such features (or even Carolina bays for that matter). Still, the chat had not specifically mentioned the odd bays of Bolivia, so I thought I would drop in a Google map box and show them off — whatever…

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June 29, 2010

NASA planetary protection chief admits: Impact estimates flawed

Donald Yeomans It takes Jupiter getting slapped three times [see Tusk post here], but NASAJPL is finally admitting (carefully in an house propaganda organ) that the estimates they regularly regurgitate to demonstrate things are fine — are false — by an order of magnitude. The Tusk is in New Orleans working to restore wetlands, so I do not have time to get much more deeply into this…

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June 26, 2010

NatGeo gets it wrong on Carbon Spherules and Nanodiamonds

Don’t get me wrong from the headline. I love National Geographic. I have received an issue every month of my entire life. But the reporter here, John Roach, made a critical mistake in his otherwise largely accurate report regarding Scott and Pinter’s work. Here is what he says: What’s more, those spherules are found alongside microscopic diamonds, or nanodiamonds, which often…

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June 24, 2010

Shhhhhh!

Fungi, Feces Show Comet Didn’t Kill Ice Age Mammals? Image courtesy AGU John Roach for National Geographic News Published June 22, 2010 Excerpted: What About the Nanodiamonds? In fact, most experts acknowledge that carbon spherules are found throughout the geological record, including biological forms associated with wildfires, said James Kennett, an emeritus geologist at the University of…

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June 23, 2010

Tusk Scrambled: Low probability, high consequence

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June 17, 2010

Pinter and Scott's Cheap Shot sweeps diamond evidence under rug in rush to undermine heresy

I’ve now had a quick read of the Pinter and Scott paper. They agree with a lot of what the YD team has published previously regarding carbon spherules, principally that Carbon Spherules of some type can occur in ordinary, modern forest fires – but unfortunately they do not tell us they are in agreement. See here from the 2007 paper that started all this from the original authors of…

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June 17, 2010

Breaking: Dirt balls -- not diamonds?

(Press Release, Royal Holloway, University of London) — A team of scientists – led by Professor Andrew C Scott of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London – have revealed that neither comet nor catastrophe were the cause for abrupt climate change some 12,900 years ago. Theories of impacts and their influence on animal extinctions and climate…

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A Nickel Pickle Part C

A Nickel Pickle Part B

A Nickel Pickle: The Problems of Building High Tech from a Meteoroid Wreck

The Square Bays of Bolivia

NASA planetary protection chief admits: Impact estimates flawed

NatGeo gets it wrong on Carbon Spherules and Nanodiamonds

Shhhhhh!

Tusk Scrambled: Low probability, high consequence

Pinter and Scott's Cheap Shot sweeps diamond evidence under rug in rush to undermine heresy

Breaking: Dirt balls -- not diamonds?

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