Napier paper: Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex
When the story books are re-written, the increasing — but uncoordinated — coherence between the Brit Neo-Catastrophists and the American YDB team will make interesting study for students of science history. These two groups have no overlap but the facts are leading them to the same place. Ditto for the Holocene Impact…
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GIANT COMETS — MESSENGERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
William P. Napier
(Appeared in an anthology: “God, the universe and men – Why do we exist?”
(ed. Wabbel, T.D.), Patmos, Dusseldorf, 2003 (original in German).
A Neolithic comet
Comets are jokers in the celestial pack. They irrupt, usually without forewarning, into the orderly progression of the sky. They cross the celestial sphere in…
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Richard Muller and a Serpent
The Nemesis theory — that a dark, comet launching, orbital companion to our sun lurks between our star and others — seems to be gaining traction among those who matter. [Astropbiology Magazine Exclusive: Getting WISE about Nemesis]
As the Cosmic Tusk has revealed in earlier posts, NASA appears to be in an exceptionally enlightened mood since the the WISE…
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From Man and Impacts in the Americas by E.P. Grondine. See here for Ed’s Dead Car Special!
SOME OF FIRST PEOPLES’ ACCOUNTS OF THE YD IMPACTS
As far as the 10,900 BCE comet impact event, many of the peoples remembered it. I included some of them in my book “Man and Impact in the Americas”, though at that time (2005) I misdated them to the end paleo at 8,350 BCE, instead of…
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I am sorry to report that impact researcher, and friend to many on the internet, E.P. Grondine, has fallen on hard times. E.P. has had two calamities, a horrible stroke — and a career as a newspaper science writer. Which is not a popular vocation at the moment. If that’s not bad enough, his car “Betsy” has broken down and he is unable to repair it.
What E.P. can do…
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One of the original 2007 Acapulco AGU posters:
Recent evaluation by the author of the South Carolina Paleoindian point database indicates the substantial presence of a suspected Middle Paleoindian point historically known as Redstone (Cambron and Hulse, 1964; Mason, 1962; Perino, 1968; Williams and Stoltman, 1965). When compared with the known abundance of Clovis points in South Carolina, a…
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