[blam]

GGG Ping.

[ClearCase_guy]

The research team believes the detonations destabilized a vast ice sheet, known as the Laurentide Ice Sheet, that covered most of what was then Canada and the northern United States. Heat from the detonation and firestorms would have melted much of the ice sheet, releasing water vapor into the atmosphere.

“The result was rapid cooling of about eight degrees over the next 100 years,” Bunch said. The melting of the ice sheet and subsequent climate change would explain the water-based nature of the black mat.

The Laurentide Ice Sheet, IIRC, was about a mile thick. The heat from the detonation and the firestorms were sufficient to melt this? Really?

And then the temperature dropped eight degrees over the next 100 years? Which resulted in a lot of water, but did not contribute to a recovery of the Ice Sheet?

[Paul Ross]

Bump for later.

[pyx]

Ted Bunch of the Northern Arizona University geology department is a member of an international team that has found evidence of an extraterrestrial impact that may have wiped out the...

...or may not have ...

[tumblindice]

Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

[Red Badger]

“A hydrogen bomb is the equivalent of about 100 to 1,000 megatons,” Bunch said. “The detonations we’re talking about would be about 10 million megatons. That’s larger than the simultaneous detonation of all the world’s nuclear bombs past and present.”

and we're worried about global warming.....................

[COUNTrecount]

Come home to mama.

[lilylangtree]

A bout of global warming killed the little beasties. :)

[penowa]

Oh, no, maybe they were nuked by the Martians! /s

[17th Miss Regt]

“A hydrogen bomb is the equivalent of about 100 to 1,000 megatons,”

Ignoramus. Nobody builds 'em bigger than about 20 and most are smaller than about 1.

[crazyhorse691]

Interesting hypothesis...still some holes that need to be filled with something else other than speculation.

[Dumpster Baby]

It's a cookbook!!

[WayneS]

You mean it’s not George Bush’s fault?

[Dark Wing]

FYI

[Thudd]

What caused the extinction of mammoths and the decline of Stone Age people about 13,000 years ago remains hotly debated

Wasn't there some speculation a while ago that sperm samples from frozen mammoths could impregnate a female elephant? Now there's a good use for science. I say bring back the mammoths!

[djf]

This is getting to be a more and more plausible theory.

The best evidence of catastrophe comes from the gold mining fields of Alaska.

Huge deposits of “muck” have been found, a mixture of mud, forest debris,and millions upon millions of bones - not skeletons, like an animal lied down on the beach and died, but smashed bones, crushed and pulverized and blended, of known and unknown species.

None of the current known geologic theories of whats going on on Earth can explain these finds. It was a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.

[TexasCajun]

Tom Cruise, John Travolta and their Scientology cloaked spaceships are causing Global Warming!

[#1CTYankee]

"A colorized scanning electron microscope image of a glassy carbon sphere that contains evidence of extraterrestrial impact. The sphere measures about .012 inches in width."

Twelve Thousandths of an inch? must have been a heck of an impact. ;-D

[SunkenCiv]

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[SunkenCiv]

Cosmic blast may have killed off megafauna Scientists say early humans doomed, too
Boston Globe | September 27, 2007 | Colin Nickerson
Posted on 09/25/2007 9:45:11 PM EDT by baynut
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1902154/posts