Some days ago, there was an article by some researchers who swore, by God, we know what caused the Pleistocene Extinction and it was water, damn it. (Ithaka: Explaining Where the Mammoths Went - Science)
Some while before that, another group of researchers swore, by God, we know what caused the Pleistocene Extinction and it was a comet impact, damn it.
Today we see the Old Wizards told of a comet impact as well but do you think they're right. We ran the George Carlin bit with the previous article advising people to question everything and this is not a social network so we assume your attention span is longer than twenty-four hours.
Jay Stewart: Mrs Fenwinkle wants to take Door #2 on that; let's go with a comet strike.
Monte Hall: you look like kind of an Old Wizard yourself, Mrs Fenwinkle, and you're right. As today's lucky winner, you get your very own hamster habitat complete with free hamsters. Feel the love from "Let's Make a Deal."
Note: Monte Hall is still alive and is richer than Moses.
Ed: how rich was that?
Hey, simple chippies break the Internet but he broke the banks. You tell me which li'l piggy laughed all the way home.
Telegraph: Ancient stone carvings confirm how comet struck Earth in 10,950BC, sparking the rise of civilisations
The Vulture Stone from Gobekli Tepe (left) which recorded a devastating comet strike (right)
CREDIT: ALISTAIR COOMBS
Ancient stone carvings confirm that a comet struck the Earth around 11,000BC, a devastating event which wiped out woolly mammoths and sparked the rise of civilisations.
Experts at the University of Edinburgh analysed mysterious symbols carved onto stone pillars at Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey, to find out if they could be linked to constellations.
The markings suggest that a swarm of comet fragments hit Earth at the exact same time that a mini-ice age struck, changing the entire course of human history.
- Telegraph
Well, that was dramatic, wasn't it.
Ed: at least they didn't say, "They changed the 'very course of human history.'"
Fair enough as I would have walked away for that. Such people say 'as it were' a lot and are exceptionally annoying. William F. Buckley had a global mastery of the superior manner and those who try today only reveal themselves as poseurs. He was the King of Smuggery and cracking intelligent. (WIKI: William F. Buckley Jr.)
Buckley was the originator of one of my all-time favorites: "I eschew obfuscation."
He could be quite funny and he delighted in tormenting people with his exceptional vocabulary.
Dr Martin Sweatman, of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, who led the research, said: "I think this research, along with the recent finding of a widespread platinum anomaly across the North American continent virtually seal the case in favour of (a Younger Dryas comet impact).
"Our work serves to reinforce that physical evidence. What is happening here is the process of paradigm change.
- Telegraph
Ed: that crack about a 'paradigm change' finished it, doesn't it?
Yep, we want science not lingo. The interested student is invited to finish the job.
Ed: that comes from eating haggis
Probably
Some while before that, another group of researchers swore, by God, we know what caused the Pleistocene Extinction and it was a comet impact, damn it.
Today we see the Old Wizards told of a comet impact as well but do you think they're right. We ran the George Carlin bit with the previous article advising people to question everything and this is not a social network so we assume your attention span is longer than twenty-four hours.
Jay Stewart: Mrs Fenwinkle wants to take Door #2 on that; let's go with a comet strike.
Monte Hall: you look like kind of an Old Wizard yourself, Mrs Fenwinkle, and you're right. As today's lucky winner, you get your very own hamster habitat complete with free hamsters. Feel the love from "Let's Make a Deal."
Note: Monte Hall is still alive and is richer than Moses.
Ed: how rich was that?
Hey, simple chippies break the Internet but he broke the banks. You tell me which li'l piggy laughed all the way home.
Telegraph: Ancient stone carvings confirm how comet struck Earth in 10,950BC, sparking the rise of civilisations
The Vulture Stone from Gobekli Tepe (left) which recorded a devastating comet strike (right)
CREDIT: ALISTAIR COOMBS
Ancient stone carvings confirm that a comet struck the Earth around 11,000BC, a devastating event which wiped out woolly mammoths and sparked the rise of civilisations.
Experts at the University of Edinburgh analysed mysterious symbols carved onto stone pillars at Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey, to find out if they could be linked to constellations.
The markings suggest that a swarm of comet fragments hit Earth at the exact same time that a mini-ice age struck, changing the entire course of human history.
- Telegraph
Well, that was dramatic, wasn't it.
Ed: at least they didn't say, "They changed the 'very course of human history.'"
Fair enough as I would have walked away for that. Such people say 'as it were' a lot and are exceptionally annoying. William F. Buckley had a global mastery of the superior manner and those who try today only reveal themselves as poseurs. He was the King of Smuggery and cracking intelligent. (WIKI: William F. Buckley Jr.)
Buckley was the originator of one of my all-time favorites: "I eschew obfuscation."
He could be quite funny and he delighted in tormenting people with his exceptional vocabulary.
Dr Martin Sweatman, of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, who led the research, said: "I think this research, along with the recent finding of a widespread platinum anomaly across the North American continent virtually seal the case in favour of (a Younger Dryas comet impact).
"Our work serves to reinforce that physical evidence. What is happening here is the process of paradigm change.
- Telegraph
Ed: that crack about a 'paradigm change' finished it, doesn't it?
Yep, we want science not lingo. The interested student is invited to finish the job.
Ed: that comes from eating haggis
Probably
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