More Evidence For a Clovis-Killer Comet

fortapocalypse sends word that a new paper was published today in the journal Science on the hypothesis that a comet impact wiped out the Clovis people 12,900 years ago. (We discussed this hypothesis last year when it was put forth.) The new evidence is a layer of nanodiamonds at locations all across North America, at a depth corresponding to 12,900 years ago, none earlier or later. The researchers hypothesize that the comet that initiated the Younger Dryas, reversing the warming from the previous ice age, fragmented and exploded in a continent-wide conflagration that produced a layer of diamond from carbon on the surface. While disputing the current hypothesis, NASA's David Morrison allows, "They may have discovered something absolutely marvelous and unexplained."

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12,900 years ago?

[grub]

12,900 years ago? That's over twice the age of the Earth, you heathens!

Re:12,900 years ago?

[larry bagina]

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Re:12,900 years ago?

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:12,900 years ago?

[Hognoxious]

You need to retake you statistics class again. And for religious zealotry it usually falls along the normal distribution curve.

Interesting. What's the SI unit of religious zealotry, and what type of apparatus is used to measure it?

Re:12,900 years ago?

[_ivy_ivy_]

Interesting. What's the SI unit of religious zealotry, and what type of apparatus is used to measure it?

The Jihadi. It is nominally defined as the rate at which the zealot can destroy knowledge.

1 Jihadi = 1 Burning Library of Congress (BLoC) per fortnight.

Re:12,900 years ago?

[Qzukk]

How many Burning Libraries of Alexandria are there in a Burning Library of Congress?

Re:12,900 years ago?

[anethema]

You're replying to a guy named "bigblacknigger". I wouldnt get too worked up.

Re:12,900 years ago?

[powerlord]

Interesting. What's the SI unit of religious zealotry, and what type of apparatus is used to measure it?

The Jihadi. It is nominally defined as the rate at which the zealot can destroy knowledge.

1 Jihadi = 1 Burning Library of Congress (BLoC) per fortnight.

Would that make the Crusade the Imperial unit? And if so, what's the conversion equation?

Yes, the Crusade is the Imperial Unit. Of course like most other Imperial Units it is out of favor world-wide except in the US.

As for conversion, they both start out from the same reference point, such that zero Jihads= 0 Crusades, and 1 Jihad = 1 Crusade.

After that the a conversion factor is needed since Crusades scale as per the number of vassals you have available and the number of Knights they are required to send forth, while Jihads are a direct correlation with relevant population as divided by the number of Zealots/Million.

In general the first follows a more linear progression, while the latter falls more into a Geometric progression (often offset by future population to the detriment of the involved).

[/humor]

So I can tell the girlfriend...

[kaizendojo]

"Those aren't diamond chips, Baby...they're NANODIAMONDS!" Makes me sound less cheap.

Re:oldest event preserved in history?

[Hognoxious]

What do you think cave paintings represent?

Need new club? Go to Ug! Only one bearskin. Bad credit no problem, one egg now, one each moon change one hand fingers times.

(YMMV, Where taboo, no go)

If it Reverses Global Warming...

[sycodon]

...then hell, why not?

Re:The solutrean hypothesis

[chill]

You know, I first read that as based on the striking resemblance of their stone tools and that of those found from the Soul Train. and went WTF is he talking about? Picks and platform shoes?

Enough with the Area 51 crap, guys

[RobertB-DC]

Ok, I'm not from New Mexico myself, but what is it about the southeastern part of the state that attracts these crazy theories? Roswell, Area 51, aliens, and now you say a killer comet is going to take out Clovis. Geez, can't the state get a break? Sure, it's rugged and arid, but can't people just drive through there without making up some sort of crazy story? Or is there something about those hundred-mile drives with nothing on either side of the road but yucca and cactus that messes with peoples' heads?

Killer comet in Clovis. Next, you'll be telling me you've got a bottle of White Sand from Alamogordo on your shelf, and it's grown by an eighth of an inch just since you came back.