[meteorite-list] YD impact "debate"

From: Richard Montgomery <rickmont_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:03:06 -0700
Message-ID: <1AED4ACD8C6140BB94460387A6B0855B_at_bosoheadPC>

Impact history is almost entirely unknown to the public in general. I
suspect that the denial of such effects on speciization theory is
conveniently being ignored by the scientific community whose funding is
derived by political motive. Who with knowledge of impact history has taken
the opportunity to go on record with the Nobel Prize committee, for example.

I, for one, consider the ommission of impact history an abomination (yet
when their consideration for a Prize winner gives more weight to political
impacts by a human-created spray-cans vs. meteoritic, astronomic and real
data, who can doubt the motive.)


----- Original Message -----
From: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:41 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] YD impact "debate"


> Hi Paul, all -
>
> Go to http://cosmictusk.com
>
> This "debate" is pretty much all over, though we can expect denial to
> continue for the next 30 years or so, based on our experience with the KT
> impacts. All that that denial did was to retard research for much of that
> time, and I expect that the same thing may happen with this impact.
>
> I also think this denial may have to do with the inability of some people
> to accept that impacts pose a threat, or to give up their earlier
> explanations for the observed data, or because they view research into
> impact as a threat to the funding of research more personally important to
> them.
>
> E.P. Grondine
> Man and Impact in the Americas
>
>
>
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