The Thermonuclear Event

[uniface]

This simply won't go away. There's too much hard evidence for it to be sliced, diced and mis-characterised away.

Did A Massive Solar Proton Event Fry The Earth

[ghost recon]

The nano-diamonds and mesons don't lie, comet, solar event, supernova, 6400 yr cycle? Alot of people think that cycle coincides with 2012. Something besides sparse groups of paleomen wiped out the megafauna. Jmo.


Speaking of solar events , check out this huge x-flare from the sun yesterday, things are heating up.

[Mud Hawk]

Why do I want to stockpile cans of Spam and water after reading all of this!

[joshuaream]

Originally Posted by ghost recon

The nano-diamonds and mesons don't lie

Do you think SPF 50 sunblock will cut it?

[Mojave]

Originally Posted by ghost recon

The nano-diamonds...don't lie...

No but data is routinely misinterpreted.
An interesting subject. Something obviously happened. It is easy to come up with theories however. Critical thinking is required in physics.

Younger Dryas Boundary Sediments Contain No Nanodiamonds, Find Researchers

In the August 30 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists led by Tyrone Daulton, PhD, a research scientist in the physics department at Washington University in St. Louis, reported that they could find no diamonds in YD boundary layer material.

Daulton and his colleagues, including Nicholas Pinter, PhD, professor of geology at Southern Illinois University In Carbondale and Andrew C. Scott, PhD, professor of applied paleobotany of Royal Holloway University of London, show that the material reported as diamond is instead forms of carbon related to commonplace graphite, the material used for pencils.

The YD impact hypothesis was in trouble already before this latest finding. Many other lines of evidence — including: fullerenes, extraterrestrial forms of helium, purported spikes in radioactivity and iridium, and claims of unique spikes in magnetic meteorite particles — had already been discredited. According to Pinter, "nanodiamonds were the last man standing."

"We should always have a skeptical attitude to new theories and test them thoroughly," Scott says, "and if the evidence goes against them they should be abandoned."

[uniface]

Better Information :

The Cosmic Tusk

As in : greater detail, tighter analysis and better familiarity with what's involved.