Scientists find signs of 13,000-year-old extinction event

Chicago Tribune ^ | January 2, 2009 | Robert Mitchum

[SunkenCiv]

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[blam]

"Thanks for the link. Happy New Year!"

Happy New Year to you too.

[blam]

"Some of those Bays are lakes. Has anyone ever done any core sample drillings of the lake bottoms?"

See the links in post #40.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Only 20 days left to say “Bush’s Fault!”

Ya thunk? Why stop just because he's not there?

[Coyoteman]

Don't get too worked up about it. It's just a theory, like Darwin's. ;-)

Science is all about theories. There is no higher level of explanation. As Heinlein noted:

Piling up facts is not science--science is facts-and-theories. Facts alone have limited use and lack meaning: a valid theory organizes them into far greater usefulness.

A powerful theory not only embraces old facts and new but also discloses unsuspected facts [1980:480-182].

And don't cite "laws." Theories explain laws.

I am rather sensitive to this terminology because the "its just a theory" nonsense is generally promoted by those who have little interest in science, but a lot of interest in pushing their particular religious belief at the expense of science. If you do not fall into this category, then my apologies in advance.

But this particular archaeological discovery may just be the "smoking gun" to explain a lot of different things that have puzzled us for decades.

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[dominic flandry]

Y2K all over again!

[gleeaikin]

The Carolina Bays are discussed in considerable detail in Fireston’s fascinating book shown in Comment #37. The article also mentions signs of the comet having exploded over the Chicago area. Actually, Firestone’s book shows a view of Lake Michigan indicating that two objects may have crashed into the lake. After looking closely it seemed to me that there would have been 3 objects with the smaller one between to two larger ones. Look at a regular map and you can see the rounded edges. The alignment of many of the eliptical bays converge on that general area as well.

Happy New Year to all my fellow scientifically interested FReepers. It is a fascinating world out there.

[aruanan]

Researchers found the highest concentration of nanodiamonds at a site in eastern Michigan, which suggests the comet may have exploded somewhere over the Great Lakes, West said.

"We think that Chicago might well have been very near ground zero," West said. "If you'd been in Chicago back in that time, it would've been one very bad day."

13,000 years too soon.

[TXnMA]

IIRC, some investigators believe that there is a relationship between this microdiamond/carbon layer event and the formation of the

"Carolina Bays"

[TXnMA]

Were you in on the discussion that Blam and I had awhile back re the Carolina bays?

BTW, I was a K off -- these folks refer to "nano-" (not "micro-") diamonds... '-)

[Coyoteman]

Were you in on the discussion that Blam and I had awhile back re the Carolina bays?

No, I know very little about that area.

[TXnMA]

operative word, "may have"

More intellectually honest than, "'did'. ...because I say that is what the Bible says..."

[Names Ash Housewares]

Can’t be right. Man is blame for all things. Always.

And only Gore can save us.

[org.whodat]

LOL, I never discuss what the bible says, because it was another person's interpretation of what was said.

As to the big blast are what ever caused an extension event, I believe it to be BS and it is not supported by fossil records..

[TXnMA]

Thanks for the reference list, SunkenCiv! And

Happy New Year!!!

to you, blam, Coyoteman -- and all the rest of us folks who "dig this old stuff"...!

[blam]

Happy New Year to all you guys too.

[blam]

"Happy New Year to all my fellow scientifically interested FReepers. It is a fascinating world out there."

Happy New Year to you too.

[blam]

Carolina Bays

[txhurl]

Happy New Year, blam, how are the labs?

Inherited a 250lb English Mastiff, wow, what a dog.