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The recent Joe Rogan episode featuring John Reeves was a wild one for the Tusk. I was both cheering my fellow boner on, while at the same time pulling my hair out and trying to climb inside my car speakers to provide these two gentlemen with a critical piece of information.
Erudite Tusk commentor Stuart Hamish below refers accurately to this Neuheuser and Neuheuser paper responding to Tankersley et al., as "hair splitting." I'd agree.
Comet Research Group member Ken Tankersley et al. published an astonishing paper this week in Nature's Science Reports providing hard data suggesting that the Native American "Hopewell Culture" witnessed and suffered terribly from a cosmic onslaught just 1700 years ago.
This post is for total nerds. Stop here if you have a social life.
It's a little lazy, but not unknown in blogging circles, to cut yourself some slack and repost old material for new readers. When poking around for an "Oldie but Goodie" to repost, I came across this little number from 2012. I post again to inspire some interest from readers.
In wake of Halloween last week a very, very scary scientific paper was published. "Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile," creates a rebuttable presumption that horrific cosmic airbursts -- without leaving...
Meteorites, silicious vesicular melt glass, Fe and Si-rich magnetic spherules, positive Ir and Pt anomalies, and burned charcoal-rich Hopewell habitation surfaces demonstrate that a cosmic airburst event occurred over the Ohio River valley during...
This is an easy Monday post. The Tusk was a minor co-author of a paper with extraordinary implications to science and faith published today in Nature's Scientific Reports. The lengthy journal article has been under development since 2014 when I first traveled to Jordan to...
The Chiemgau impact in Bavarian Germany stands out as a particularly sympathetic “martyr” crater. The evidence for a Bronze Age euro-apocalypse is sincerely published and well established as a legitimate hypothesis based on decades of...
Avi Loeb is no household name, but he wants to be. The chairman of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard has appeared on more than 50 podcasts since the start of the year. Given a...
…the impactor would have encountered the atmosphere at velocities of approximately 20-50 km/s, and the released energy of the airburst would have been comparable to or greater than any known nuclear explosion. [wonderplugin_pdf...
Only at the Cosmic Tusk can you expect to see a major global announcement by NASA scooped by six weeks. Thanks to our blog’s most dedicated contributor, Steve Garcia: You heard it here first. See other,...
It’s hard to be cynical enough in this game. I noted today that “Science Communicators,” a recently discussed poorly adapting subspecies, have yet to mention this blockbuster paper in Nature Reports one year ago. Specifically,...
Panspermia 2013 The Tusk recieved an extraordinary paper recently and immediately pinged our digital acquaintance for commentary, world treasure: Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe. “Chandra, I hope you are well. A friend of the Comet Research GroupYDB...
I had a blast last week joining the hosts of my favorite new podcast: Seven Ages Audio Journal. Like the Tusk, veteran podcaster Micah Hanks and his science bros Jason Pentrail and James Waldo attempt the difficult balance between hard science, responsible speculation and...
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...
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