[FPSPACE] Dinosaur Demise by Chicxulub impact Challenged

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi Peter - 

You can expect a refutation of Keller's latest
to come along from skilled geologists shortly. 
Keller has mounted a new challenge to the KT impact
yearly, only to have it quickly shot down. But 
the refutations never get as much press play.

Your note on Bushworld and their view the we construct our 
own reality was quite insightful. Denial is not simply a
river in Egypt.

In point of fact, the infrared from the Chicxulub impact 
would have been enough to instantly set on fire 
everything in line of sight from the plume. Then
came blast effects, then a global rain of molten
impactites, enough to set the surface of the Earth 
on fire. Those KT spherules were very hot when they
landed.

If that were not enough, we simply don't know the 
relation between the Deccan traps themselves and 
impact. Period.

Good science always has to be able to bear review, 
but science does not come free, it takes money.
Note Keller's comment" None of the other great 
mass extinctions are associated with an impact, 
and no other large craters are known to have 
caused a significant extinction event."

After the KT impactite layer was demonstrated, 
it took something like 15 years to find the 
crater, and it was located by oil geologists, if
I remember correctly, and not by an organized 
search. 

While money is spent on impact denial, little 
money has been spent on impact research, certainly 
nothing organized.

Constructing rationalizations of Keller's type takes 
money though, and we see where it has come from: 
H. Richard Lane, program director in the
National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of 
Earth Sciences. 

Now tell me who in NSF sponsors impact researchers. 
The answer to my knowledge is no one.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas










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