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WikiLies: Skeptical Raptor squelches science

The accuracy of information concerning the YDB event on the Wikipedia has always suffered from the dominance of a moderator describing himself as “Skeptical Raptor.” Watching the Raptor do his wiki-work has taught the Tusk that cynicism has few bounds — and the truth has few friends (that stay up that late at night). The Raptor constantly cleanses the public’s Wiki of any…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Beautiful Blog: Naturalis Historia unpacks the science behind the YDB hypothesis

The YDB Event: The Most Recent Global Catastrophe in Human History? MAY 24, 2013 BY NATURAL HISTORIAN  The Chelyabinsk meteor explosion as recorded  by a dash-cam of  a truck.. Remember the meteor that exploded over Russia earlier this year?  A 50 foot diameter object exploded 14 miles above the surface of the earth and created a shock wave that injured 1500 people and damaged more than…
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Charles Appleton Day

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But seriously, folks: Harvard bangs a big fat Platinum nail in YDB critic coffin

BBC The Mail  Phys.org Crickets Stein B. Jacobsen? and here and here Program Note: More recent posts can be found below Large Pt anomaly in the Greenland ice core points to a cataclysm at the onset of Younger Dryas The impact hypothesis (11), once declared dead (12, 13), recently gained new support from the discovery of siliceous scoria-like objects (SLOs) with global distribution, which…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Mahaney & Keiser 2013

The breakup in space of a comet or asteroid prior to impact could produce a surface or oceanic impact by the largest object, and hundreds of smaller fragments could create air-bursts affecting an entire hemisphere (Bunch et al. 2012). Approximately 90% of all ejecta from the main impact would fall within five crater radii, although fine material is expected to be random distributed over a much…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Scammed!: Harvard publishes salted samples [Sarcasm]

Large Pt anomaly in the Greenland ice core points to a cataclysm at the onset of Younger Dryas  [wonderplugin_pdf src=”https://cosmictusk.com/wp-content/uploads/Large-Pt-anomaly-in-the-Greenland-ice-core-points-to-a-cataclysm-at-the-onset-of-Younger-Dryas.pdf” width=”100%” height=”1024px” style=”border:0;”] In yet another scurrilous feat of…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Touchdown!: YDB team publishes best paper yet in PNAS

  Space Daily Smithsonian National Post The Telegraph Where Lies the Younger Dryas Boundary Smoking Gun? Nice sum up from a creationist blog U Cincinnati U Santa Barbara Program Note: BosloughLeCompte colloquy reposted and readable     Airbursts/impacts by a fragmented comet or asteroid have been proposed at the Younger Dryas onset (12.80 ± 0.15 ka) based on identification of an…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Courty 2013

Magnificent article from Tusk favorite Marie-Agnes Courty, and distinguished newcomer to catastrophist publications, Eric Coqueugniot. I heard Courty hurl questions at San Francisco AGU in 2010 and only realized later who the thickly accented inquisitor was. Courty is French, very French. While I admire her style with translation and find it interesting, it can be a challenge to read at…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Separated at Birth? Worldwide Dragon Myths and Meteor T(r)ails

  What’s up? From Hermann Burchard: George, here is  a simple model to explain the vapor trail’s observed symmetry: Partial cloudlets each side, North & South, have almost identical ones opposite. 1.  The Bos’ blowtorch momentum sims and video blow-ups from Steve Garcia’s posts indicate that the explosive ablations shoot debris ahead in the direction…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Dear Mr. Singer: An Open Letter to Sandia Labs

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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Charles Appleton Day

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Bolide Shockwave Injures 1000+ in Russia: Black Swan -- or I Told You So?

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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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question