[Vision2020] Stupity Reigns at Lawerence Livermore Labs

[Phil Nisbet]

Comets Hit Early Americans, Scientist Says By MEG KINNARD, Associated Press 
Writer
Sat Oct 29, 7:22 AM ET

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A supernova could be the "quick and dirty" explanation for 
what may have happened to an early North American culture, a nuclear 
scientist here said Thursday.

Richard Firestone said at the "Clovis in the Southeast" conference that he 
thinks "impact regions" on mammoth tusks found in Gainey, Mich., were caused 
by magnetic particles rich in elements like titanium and uranium. This 
composition, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist said, 
resembles rocks that were discovered on the moon and have also been found in 
lunar meteorites that fell to Earth about 10,000 years ago.

Firestone said that, based on his discovery of similar material at Clovis 
sites, he estimates that comets struck the solar system during the Clovis 
period, which was roughly 13,000 years ago. These comets would have hit the 
Earth at 1,000 kilometers an hour, he said, obliterating many life forms and 
causing mutations in others.

"I'm not going to tell you that there's Clovis people on the moon, or that 
they had a space program," Firestone said. But these particles look "very 
much like the material that comes from the moon, which is the only place 
we've found with this same high titanium concentration."

Amateur archaeologist Richard Callaway said he was surprised by Firestone's 
theory.

"I've always considered myself a pretty open-minded person," Callaway said, 
while browsing some of the artifacts on display at the conference. "And it's 
kind of shocking to hear that something from the solar system could have 
done something like this."

Callaway, an Episcopal priest from Atlanta, said that he and his wife have 
volunteered at the Topper site in Allendale County for the past two summers.

"To be a part of this ... and find something no human being has touched in 
15,000 years — that's something," Callaway said. "That's what I like about 
what we do. You don't find the next answer. You find the next question."

Earlier Thursday, University of South Carolina archaeologist Al Goodyear 
lectured on his discoveries at Topper, where he says he has found evidence 
that man existed in North America much earlier than previously thought. 
Goodyear showed slides of the many tools he has recovered from Topper, as 
well as a charcoal strip he discovered in soil two meters beneath a 
16,000-year-old level of the site.

"Topper's like a box of chocolates," Goodyear said. "Every time we dig a 
hole, something new comes up."

As the final event of the four-day conference, partially sponsored by USC, 
Goodyear will lead attendees on a visit to Topper on Saturday.

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All anybody has to do is read claptrap like this and realize why we are 
having debates about evolutionary science.  When the calibre of discussion 
of terrestial events in the geological past is consistantly wrong headed and 
literally loonie, how is it that people can have serious discussion of the 
science.

Statements like, only the moon has TiO2 concentrations as high as found in 
magnetic particles at a site in Colorado or New Mexico are flat out loony.  
The Colorado Plateau is heavy in TiO2 deposits, has roll font uranium 
deposits and has alkaline rocks similar to those found on the moon which are 
of standard terrestial origins.

This is not the first time that loonies from Lawernece Livermore Labs have 
taken the stage in astrobleme related insanity either.  The Asteriod that 
destroyed the globe is another example of the silliness these guys are prone 
to.  The first one was put out by a known Fraud and yet is accepted wisdom 
in a wide circle now.

Phil Nisbet

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