This interpretation is contrary to other research suggesting significant animal extinctions and genetic bottlenecks.
Perhaps Toba super-eruption didn’t create genetic bottleneck
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How exactly do ‘fossils’ create ‘fuel’?
“Methane is also commonly found on planets such as Saturn (and its moon Titan) where science has never recorded the presence of living plants or animals. How exactly do ‘fossils’ create ‘fuel’? By Jerome R. Corsi 17 Nov 05 – … Continue reading
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“X-woman” identified as new ancient human
25 Mar 10 – Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of ancient human – distinct from Neanderthals and modern humans – through DNA analysis from a finger bone unearthed in a Siberian cave.
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Strongest Geomagnetic Storm in 18 Months Hits Earth
13 Apr 10 – A sudden geomagnetic storm from the Sun increased from geomagnetic K-index 4 to a number 7 (out of a possible 10) in just three hours – the strongest such storm in the past 18 months.
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Our planet is corkscrewing through space – Video
Well, it’s not exactly corkscrewing, but if I had used the word “torus,” most people would have had no idea what I meant. This video will blow your mind.
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Do cosmic rays trigger evolutionary leaps?
“It’s completely accepted in science that cosmic rays can – and do – alter DNA,” says Andrew Collins in this short video.
Tiny mutation led to our ability to speak
11 Nov 09 – “Two minute changes in a gene that is otherwise identical in humans and chimps could explain why we have full-fledged power of speech while other primates can only grunt or screech,” says this article on Yahoo. … Continue reading
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“Hobbits” existed 120,000 years earlier than we thought
The first skeletal remains of “hobbits” – tiny hominids that stood only one meter (3.25 feet) tall and weighed 65 pounds – were discovered in 2003 on the Indonesian island of Flores.
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Moon created by nuclear explosion on Earth?
The Moon is virtually identical in composition to the Earth, leading these researchers to believe it was blasted out of the Earth by a nuclear explosion,
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Kimberlite pipes carved by electromagnetic forces
23 Jun 10 – Although kimberlite eruptions at the Earth’s surface have never been witnessed, we know they erupt catastrophically over a very short time, taking half-a-day from the initial melting in the mantle to eruption and solidification at the … Continue reading
Magnetic Fields Breakthrough
20 Aug 10 – (Excerpts) – Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic fields, which enhances our understanding of how stars, including the Sun, work.
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Lakes of oil on Saturn’s moon Titan
“It’s enough to make a Texas oil man drool.” “Saturn’s moon Titan has rain, lakes, and weather that shapes the moon’s surface as those same processes shape Earth’s,” says this article in the National Journal. “The main differences are that … Continue reading
Massive asphalt domes found on sea floor
Mysterious mounds as tall as a six-story building – The asphalt formed when petroleum flowed from the seafloor some 30,000 to 40,000 years ago.
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Neutron Repulsion in the Sun’s Core
26 Aug 10 – Here’s a paper for your Evolution site, it is a gem of info! It could also go on your ice-age site, because it says that “Changes in Earth’s climate are linked with highly variable solar magnetic … Continue reading
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US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth
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Lena Delta – Magnetic lines of force?
This article claims these, or at least many of them, are caused by methane emissions resulting from warming 40,000 years ago.”
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Ancient City in India Irradiated by Atomic Blast
Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating from 8,000 to 12,000 years ago,” says this article by Phillip Coppens. The blast “destroyed most of the buildings and probably a half-million people.”
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No magnetic reconnection?
10 Sep 09 – “This Magnetic Reconnection confusion has gone far enough,” says reader Dennis Cowdrick, who steered me to a paper by electrical engineer Donald E. Scott. (See my article Explosions in the sky – magnetic reconnection) “It is … Continue reading
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Explosions in the sky – magnetic reconnection
Magnetic tornadoes gouge Mercury’s surface
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Could magnetic twisters have created the Carolina Bays?
A MESSENGER flyby in 2008 revealed magnetic “tornadoes” – corkscrew-shaped twisted bundles of magnetic fields and plasma – forming in Mercury’s magnetic field.
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Plasma Bullets Trigger Northern Lights
Duck! Plasma bullets are zinging past Earth. That’s the conclusion of researchers studying data from NASA’s five THEMIS spacecraft.
Carolina Bays in Russia! Hundreds, if not thousands!
“The area is riddled with what look to be water-filled ellipsoidal depressions oriented on a NNE aspect,” says reader David Foley.
Carolina Bays in Alaska!
23 Oct 10 – Reader Robert Bixler found these oval depressions in the ground just south of the city of Barrow, Alaska, and realized that they look very similar to the Carolina Bays.
Nanodiamonds in Greenland Ice – Evidence of Explosions in the Sky at a Magnetic Reversal
15 Sep 10 — A layer of trillions of nanosize diamonds discovered in the Greenland ice sheet “adds credence to the hypothesis that fragments of a comet struck across North America and Europe about 12,900 years ago,”
Carolina Bays in Australia?
28 Sep 10 – A couple of days ago, one of my readers, Phil Peterson, was looking at a satellite photo of southwestern Australia when he saw a bunch of huge elliptical shapes punched into the landscape.
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Unicorn Cow Discovered in China
2 Dec 10 – “A farmer in China’s Hebei province is the proud owner of a unicorn cow.”
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Spacequakes Rumble Near Earth
Carolina Bays carved out by ball lightning?
I was wondering if these electrical explosions could be somehow related to the phenomenon called “Ball Lightning.” I know that the end result of ball lightning is a pop or small explosion.
Carbon rain – Stars reveal carbon ‘spaceballs’
22 Jul 10 – Scientists have detected carbon molecules known as buckyballs in a cloud of cosmic dust surrounding a distant star.
Electrostatic fields may trigger evolution
Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have found that the calmodulin protein molecule possesses an internal “jitter” that shakes it billions of times per second.”
Shifting magnetic north pole closes Tampa runway
Scientists say the Earth’s magnetic pole has been moving nearly 40 miles a year toward Russia because of magnetic changes in the core of the planet.
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Humans! Get Over Yourself!
You do not control the biosphere of life on Earth. You do not control its natural calamities. Your attempts at governance are fought with conflict, conquest, and oppression.
Carolina Bays – Reader thinks lightning created them
Full Moon Electrified by Earth’s Magnetic Tail
“When the moon is full, it develops a strong electric field near the surface as it swings through Earth’s magnetic tail,”
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Did a Giant Comet Kill the Mammoths?
1 Apr 10 — “Some 13,000 years ago the Earth was struck by thousands of Tunguska-sized cometary fragments over the course of an hour, leading to a dramatic cooling,”
Thunderstorms Create Antimatter – Videos
10 Jan 11 – Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before.
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Life probable on any wet rocky planet
The emergence of life is probable on any wet, rocky planet, says Nick Lane, Ph.D., of University College in London. More specifically, a wet rocky planet with hydrothermal vents.
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Magnetic Reversals – Number 3 on list of potential Armageddons
“The problem is not the poles flipping, but that the Earth’s magnetic field draws down solar radiation around its poles,” explains sci-fi author Walter Jon Williams. “So if one of the poles parks itself over, say, Chicago, a lot of … Continue reading
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Disputing Darwin
Even Darwin, had he ever known about magnetic reversals would have had to revise his theories.
Reader thinks Carolina Bays have glacial origin
Hello Robert, Here is my explanation for why the Carolina bays are oval and oriented all in the same general direction, and why I think they have a glacial origin:
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Honeybees may have lost their magnetic compasses and vanished
“Remember the three-foot, three-mile rule” when it comes to bees.” They LIVE BY it, or DIE by it.”
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Earless bunny born near Fukushima nuclear power plant
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Ancient Indian City Supposedly Irradiated by Atomic Blast
DISCLAIMER: Although I think this article is totally bogus, I’m posting it because it’s kind of fun.
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