[meteorite-list] Crackpot impact theory

From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Sep 24 20:27:30 2005
Message-ID: <BAY104-F139A05DF2CE4CD22049D4BF8880_at_phx.gbl>

Greetings, all,

I find it curious you would condem a theory simply on a vague media
notification - that was released the day before the official announcement.
(Where did you dig up the contradictory evidence that a shotgun pellet
travelling at 1,000 kph WILL penetrate a mammoth tusk? I was unsuccessful.)

While critical thinking and skepticism are healthy in science, so is a
certain amount of objectivity.
The automatic rejection of new thoughts, especially the thoughts regarding
the cosmos, have left many regretful in the past. It wasn't all that long
ago that many scientists thought that most lunar craters were volcanic in
origin.

With the "Multiple Universes", and the "String Theory" still surviving
scrutiny (see current issue of "Astronomy"), I think I'll wait for a more
detailed paper before judging Mr Firestone's conclusions.

Keepin' it relative,
Cheers!
Pete




From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_charter.net>
Reply-To: cynapse_at_charter.net
To: Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Crackpot impact theory
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:35:51 -0400

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:04:26 -0400, "Pete Pete" <rsvp321_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>Why do you call this a "crackpot" theory?

Among other things, the idea that material from a supernova would condense
into a "comet like
object", that this 10-kilometer wide "comet like object" struck North
America 13,000 years ago. Two
absurdities right there. And that little iron particles would reach the
ground traveling at ten
thousand kilometers per second. And that little iron particles traveling at
10,000 kilometers per
second would just make tiny craters in something that they struck. And that
a shotgun pellet fired
at 1,000 kilometers per hour couldn't penetrate a piece of fossil ivory.
And I'm sure that there
are plenty of other idiotic parts to it if you dig down.
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