Scientists say comet killed off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers

www.physorg.com ^ | 02 JAN 2009 | By Robert Mitchum

[Red Badger]

Ping!..........

[qam1]

Considering that mammoths went extinct 11500 to 11000 years ago, sabertooth cats 10,000 years ago, and Megatherium 8,000 years ago. A comet killing them off over a period of 2,000 - 5,000 after it hit while leaving all other animals intact would be a good trick.

Plus it's amazing how Alligators are always near ground zero for these Asteroid/Comet hits, yet they always manage to survive unscathed.

[Red Badger]

They go on long vacations:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7805080.stm

[Yollopoliuhqui]

This IS the flood of Noah. Read Velikovsky seminal trilogy: Worlds In Collision, Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos. Then: Ignatius Donneley- Ragnarok, and Vine Deloria- Red Earth, White Lies. This event is recorded in the myths of ancient people the world over. www.kronia.com.

[xcamel]

There seems to be plenty of evidence of an air blast, or direct hit on the NA ice sheet that ended the last ice age. It also ended the migration from Europe to NA across the ice.

[kennedy]

I blame Bush.

It's Bush's fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.

Women and minorities hardest hit.

[Red Badger]

It also ended the migration from Europe to NA across the ice.

Yeah, a big fireball and a flaming hole in the ground the size of Texas would tend to do that.....

[Red Badger]

Ping!............

[hgro]

I for one am getting a bit tired of “scientists say”. Lets face it, Al Gore says we have global warming and is backed up by “scientists” and I am still shoveling Gore’s global warming in the form of the heaviest snowfall for many years.

Old honest Al is making a monetary killing on the ignorant citizens of the world.

[Red Badger]

I was raised not far from there.....8^)

[Red Badger]

oops! Wrong end of state!.....

[dfwgator]

Comet.
It will make your teeth turn green.

Comet.
It tastes like gasoline.

Comet.
It will make you vomit.

So try some Comet and vomit today.

[xcamel]

Not a hole in the ground per se, but a mile thick sheet of ice gone in a big hurry - all that water vapor would have caused a huge global warm-up.

[Red Badger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_comet

[count-your-change]

A comet that wipes out all the big mammals but one, humans?

Of course.

“The idea that a comet may have caused catastrophic climate change and extinction relatively recently in Earth’s long history suggests scientists shouldn’t dismiss the possibility of it happening again, Wolbach said.”

The History Channel has it covered.....over and overandover....

[Red Badger]

...all that water vapor would have caused a huge global warm-up.

And all the huge forest fires..........

[Red Badger]

Humans were fairly well spread out across the globe, so it would not have killed off all of us...............

[Cheesel]

Mexico gets it 65 mil years ago, Chicago gets it 13k years ago... Geez, God has the New World in his crosshairs! Why us??

[count-your-change]

That’s too small a Comet, you’d need at least a four-door with a V-8!

[kidd]

You are quite correct that there is a lot of bad science out there. The procedure for distributing public money for science grants has evolved into a system that fosters bad science.

If it doesn't grab a headline, confirm a pre-established political bias, or have some global implication, it doesn't get funded.

Private industry funded science only gets exposure when a company is seeking investors, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry.