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The Tusk: Comments Better than Blog

The recent comments from Jonny on the Tusk are some of the most insightful internet analysis anywhere regarding the orbit of Comet ISON and somewhat related matters.  I recommend the developing thread to anyone who cares to stand in awe of intelligence beyond our own. The painting on the left, by the 17th century Dutch painter Atlas van Stolk, depicts the famous comet of 1680. The…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Skeptic Speaks: A Personal Essay from Vance Holliday on the Clovis Comet

Vance Holliday Vance Holliday was thoughtful to give the Tusk a heads up on his essay first published here at the Argonaut.  I have not read it throughly enough to respond myself right now, but I am certain of this: One or more of the dozen key researchers from the other side of the debate should write something similar.  His tender tale of woe and misunderstanding is exceeded only by their…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Face-off: PBS moderates on-line debate between proponents and detractors of Younger Dryas cosmic impact

From PBS’ NOVA site on the Clovis Comet: “THE ICE AGE EXTINCTION DEBATE (UPDATE) by Evan Hadingham, NOVA Senior Science Editor In Megabeasts’ Sudden Death, NOVA reported on a radical new theory that an extraterrestrial impact devastated North America and other regions at the end of the Ice Age. First aired at a conference in May 2007 by a team led by geological…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Blast from past: YD team member diciplined by Golden State geo board in 2002

I have nothing but an iPhone until later tomorrow. So this post is necessarily brief. Allen West has taken a hit to his credibility (and to some extent the Tusk’s) from charges by Younger Dryas Hypothesis critics ranging from professional misconduct to falsifying lab results. As an advocate of Allen’s and someone who has spent years watching him personally sacrifice with no financial…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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CCNet Reprint: Grondine Essay On Collapse of Roman Empire

empire CCNet ESSAY: IMPACT AND THE END OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST ————————————————————— By E.P. Grondine BARBARIANS, VOLCANO, PLAGUE, BARBARIANS, RESPITE; COMETS, FAMINES, PLAGUES, BARBARIANS, A SHORTER RESPITE; EARTHQUAKE, IMPACT, FATAL INFLUENZA, BARBARIANS…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Unclassified: Dr. Edward Teller and the anomalous nature of Green Fireballs

Dr. Edward Teller REPOSTED FROM:  http://www.project1947.com/gfb/cap21649.html [ – Blacked Out – ] UNCLASSIFIED CONFERENCE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA Held at 1300, 16 February 1949, in conference room P-162, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Present: 4th Army: Major Winn Major Godsoe Captain Neef AFSWP: Commander Mandelkorn University of New Mexico: Dr. LaPaz FBI…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Tusk Exclusive: Vance Holliday informal critique of the Younger Dryas Boundary theory

Vance Holliday and others in this email exchange have kindly allowed me to post their chatter to the Tusk. I will clean it up later. But for now – here you go….. On 9/24/2010 2:38 PM, Vance Holliday wrote: Richard: All I asked was why is it that when us skeptics can’t reproduce data or confirm hypothesis for The Impact Team we are accused of slipshod science or incompetence, yet…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Bob Kobres: Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse

Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse by Bob Kobres Original page here An earlier version of this article, without some of the illustrations, was published by the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies in the CHRONOLOGY AND CATASTROPHISM WORKSHOP 1992, number 1, pp.6-10, ISSN 0951-5984. This version is under GFDL . . . and from heaven a great star shall fall on the dread ocean and burn up the deep…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Article: Mini-Ice Age debate rocking geology world

Comets are believed by some experts to have wiped out megafauna species THE MONTREAL GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 Link here The normally peaceable world of geology is currently alive with a fiery debate over the theory that deadly space rocks slammed into Northern Canada about 13,000 years ago, triggering a mini-Ice Age and the eventual extinction of the woolly mammoth and a host of other…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question